Tragacanthum, commonly called Gum Traganth, and Gum Dragon, helps coughs, hoarseness, and distillations on the lungs.
The powder mixed with pure honey is no less available for all sorts of coughs or colds, wheesing, or shortness of breath, distillations of thin rheum upon the lungs, which causes consumptions.
It helps also to stay thin, hot, sharp, salt distillations from the head upon the lungs, causing a consumption.
In such distillations it is of consequence to keep constantly cooling the head of the alembic, by frequency renewing the water in the refrigeratory, in order to facilitate the condensation of the oily particles.
The reverberating furnace is one of those that are most employed in Chymistry: it is proper for distillations by the retort, and should be constructed in the following manner.
In this place I shall only examine what passes in the repeated distillations they are here made to undergo.
Repeated distillations will deprive it of a much greater quantity thereof, and so reduce it into an Oil that will always remain clear and fluid.
Perhaps also such a great number of cohobations and distillations would not have been necessary to decompose the Spirit of Wine totally by this method; especially if he had employed a greater quantity of Alkali in each operation.
This Butter of Antimony by repeated distillations acquires a considerable degree of fluidity and limpidness.
Hence distillations and separations of substances are effected by burying them in horse dung, and heat is excited in lime by sprinkling it with water (as has been before observed).
It is also conspicuous in distillations per descensum, which men are wont to employ with delicate flowers, whose scent easily evaporates.
If in such distillations too much water be added, no oil will be obtained, because it is partially soluble in water; and thus merely an aromatic water is produced.
Many distillations with various reagents have led me to this practical conclusion.
For dry distillations the retorts are generally horizontal cylinders, the bottom or lower surface being sometimes flattened.
On distilling such a mixture pure A will come over first, followed by mixtures in which the quantity of B continually increases; consequently by a sufficient number of distillations A and B can be completely separated.
Instead of resorting to repeated distillations for effecting the purification of spirits, Mr. Schaeffer proposes the use of a filter.
The first distillates from each of the five distillationsare mixed, and the layer of mesitylene is separated from the water.
The total amount of original reaction mixture requires five distillations similar to the one just described.
Alembics are not commonly made of glass, like this, which is applicable only todistillations upon a very small scale.
In some simple distillations it is necessary to interpose an adopter between the retort and receiver, as shown Pl.
The one represented in the plate is furnished with two worms, one of them being particularly appropriated to distillations of odoriferous substances.
He describes an apparatus for the purpose, and gives several examples of such distillations in his writings.
These distillations were made in a glazed earthen vessel with a glass top and helm.
One of them said he had a still used only for distilling water, and that one day, by chance, the bottoms of a series of distillations boiled to dryness.
It infected, he said, the produce of many distillations afterwards.
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