An account of a useful discovery to distill double the usual quantity of sea-water, by blowing showers of air up through the distilling liquor
Subtitle: and also to have the distilled water perfectly fresh and good by means of a little chalk. And an account of the great benefit of ventilators in many instances, in preserving the health and lives of people, in slave and other transport ships; which were read before the Royal Society. Also an account of the good effect of blowing showers of air up through milk, thereby to cure the ill taste which is occasioned by some kinds of food of cows
By: By Stephen Hales, D.D. F.R.S. Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and clerk of the closet to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
Contributors: Goethe, G., doctor
Publisher: Printed for Richard Manby, in the Old-Bailey, near Ludgate-Hill
Published: 1756
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Booksellers' catalogs; Aeration; Ships; Heating and ventilation; Distillation; Water; Seawater; Milk hygiene; Naval hygiene
Notes: A second edition with identical imprint published with reissue of sheets, with cancel title page and added appendix.

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁴ E²

Error in paging: p. 47 misnumbered 45.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [1], 2nd count.

Engraved plate bound to face p. 59, which has printed explanation of the illustration.

Wellcome cat. of printed books III:195.

Adams & Waters. English maritime books, 1937.

English short title catalogue T106858.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary calf with cloth boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Brewington Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: "Entlichen oder gestohlen bei Dr. R. Goethe": book stamp on recto on front flyleaf.