Directions for preparing aerated medicinal waters, by means of the improved glass machines made at Leith Glass-Works.

Date:
1787
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Directions for preparing aerated medicinal waters, by means of the improved glass machines made at Leith Glass-Works. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ( « ) V At the end of the fix hours, loofen and raife the top-*lafs a little from the middle one, without taking them afunder, but fo far that the end of the crooked pipe be raifed a little above the water ; thus the water will run down from the top intoate middle glafs, and fill it quite full as at firft, then fix the top-glafs again, and (hake the machine gently, in the fame manner as in Article IV. until the air begin to eleape into the upper glafs j after which the ma- chine muft be left again at reft fix hours, and then the water let down again from the top-glafs into the middle one, as abote dire&ed* This {baking ofthe machine, and fubfe- J i«».g a.». ‘i 1 v mn niece into the middle one, is from the top-piece ini —ih', ««u.i chalk, which 1 ^ the cha)kj iQ the {baking and uirring p end