C 23^ ] 



[For the larudable endeavours of Mr. Stevens to afcertain 

 the important point which had excited his attention, and ' 

 for his polite manner of addreffing the Bath Society, the 

 thanks of a General Meeting were voted to him.— Several 

 Members of the Society were requeued to take famples of 

 the Uquor fent— make experiments upon it, and report their 

 opinion of its wholefomencfs — as alfo on the Nature and 

 EfFcfls of Cyder, as commonly made and ufed. — The fol- 

 lowing paper being prefented to the Society, in confequence, 

 by Dr. Anthony Pother gill^ is here inferted.] 



Article XXXIII. 



'Experiments and Obfervations on Cyder-WinCy 

 with Remarks on Fruit Liquors^ and Hints 

 for their Improvement. 



[By A. FoTHERGiLL, M. D. F.R.S. Bath.] 



Vinum tot veneficiis placere cogitur; 



Et mirainur noxium efle. 



Plin. lib. 14. 



PURSUANT to the Society's requell, I have 

 ^ examined the cyder-wine prepared after the 

 method communicated by Dr. Rufh, as pradifed 

 in America, viz. by evaporating in a brewing coppr 

 the frelh apple-juice till half of it be confiimed. 

 The remainder is then immediately conveyed into a 

 wooden cooler, and afterwards is put into a proper 



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