The diversitie of salts and spirits mantained. Or, The imaginary volatility of some salts and non-entity of the alcali, before cremation, and identity of all alcalies, all volatil salts, and all vinous spirits, by an onely lamp-furnace resolved into real improbability. By way of animadversions, upon Dr. D C. his 3 papers, communicated to the R.S. and insert in the 9. vol. of the P.T. Together, with a new system, of the order and gradation, in the worlds creation. As also, Scurvie alchymie discovered. /
Mackaile, Matthew,active 1657-1696.
Mackaile, Matthew,active 1657-1696,inscriber.StEdNL: RB.l.7(3)
Aberdeen : Printed by Iohn Forbes, printer to town,
anno Dom. 1683.
"Scurvie alchymie discovered." has separate dated title page on leaf O2r; pagination and register are continuous.
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Tipped in after the sole page that consist the volume, is a bifolium entitled "Operationum Chymicarum Synopsis", with inscriptions in a late 17th-century hand which list chemical reactions. It was written probably for Matthew Mackaile, whose name is written next to the title. A note on Mackaile's graduation as M.D. in 1696 is written on the following flyleaf.
Ammonium salts
Scurvy