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1. How much heavier 'tis than brandy ?
2. How much common water will extinguish its tast ?
3. What quantity of salt upon its evaporation ?
4. How much sugar, allum, vitriol, nitre, will dissolve in a pint of
it ?
5. Whether any animalcule will breed in it, and in how long time ?
6. Whether fish, viz. trout, eeles, &c. will live in it, and how long?
7. Whether 'twill hinder or promote the curdling of milk, and
fermentation ?
8. Whether soape will mingle with it ?
9. Whether 'twill extract the dissolvable parts of herbes, rootes,
seedes, &c. more or less than other waters; (i. e.) whether it be a
more powerful menstruum ?
10. How galles will change its colour ?
11. How 'twill change the colour of syrup of violets ?
12. How it differs from other waters in receiving colours, cochineel,
saffron, violets &c.?
13. How it boyles dry pease?
14. How it colours fresh beefe, or other flesh in boyling ?
15. How it washes hands, beards, linnen, SEC. ?
16. How it extracts mault in brewing ?
17. How it quenches thirst, with meat or otherwise ?
8. Whether it purges; in what quantity, time, and with what symptomes?
19. Whether it promotes urine, sweat, or sleep ?
20. In what time it passeth, and how afterwards ?
21. Whether it sharpens or flattens the appetite to meate ?
22. Whether it vomits, causes coughs, &c. ?
23. Whether it swell the belly, legges; and how, in what time, and
quantity &c. ?
24. How it affects sucking children, and (if tryed) foetus in the
wombe ?
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