Fermented liquors : a treatise on brewing, distilling, rectifying, and manufacturing of sugars, wines, spirits, and all known liquors, including cider and vinegar. Also, hundreds of valuable directions in medicine, metallurgy, pyrotechny, and the arts in general / by Lewis Feuchtwanger.

  • Feuchtwanger, Lewis, 1805-1876.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Fermented liquors : a treatise on brewing, distilling, rectifying, and manufacturing of sugars, wines, spirits, and all known liquors, including cider and vinegar. Also, hundreds of valuable directions in medicine, metallurgy, pyrotechny, and the arts in general / by Lewis Feuchtwanger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The experience of thirty years' active life in his profession, of a Practical Chemist—his desire to keep pace with the advancement of science, and to manu- facture all the new productions used of late years in medicine and the arts, have given him many advan- tages; and he thought it advisable to communicate these stores of information to the public. Part II. treats on Hygeine, relating to health, enumerating the most common diseases, their reme- dies, and medical cases, for family use ; also describing hundreds of nostrums got up by empirics for the sake of gain. Part III. is the Polytechnic and concluding part. It comprises many new alloys employed in metal- lurgy, chemicals used in ambrotyping, artificial guano or fertilizers, artificial gum arable, and a description of all the artificial gems, and how to imitate them ; on bleaching of shellac and wax; on cleaning, clearing, and cleansing mixtures; on ce- ments, from that for filling cavities of teeth to that of an iron I'etort; on colored fires, a part of pyrotech- nics, giving many new mixtures for colors which are cheap; many new prescriptions in cosmetics, such as soaps, Cologne and other perfumed essences; dentifri- ces, hair-dyes and invigorators; on ink and varnishes, and many other preparations highly useful to the druggist, chemist, perfumer, and the mechanic. All these prescriptions will be of considerable benefit;