Experiments on the Spirit m fermented Liquors. 441 



for the last two years, but early in life he had debilitated his 

 constitution by excess in venery, so that, from the age of 

 thirty_ to the lime of his decease, mmqumn ernt emissio 

 seminis in co/ii/, though his animal propensities were strong. 

 He was employed in a brewery, and had frequent access to 

 malt liquor. About two years ago he was confined some 

 weeks with pain in the region of the right kichiev, and 

 had a discharge of a whitish, thick, and smDetimes bloody 

 urine, which mdicated ihat suppuration had taken place ei- 

 ther in the kidney or coats of the bladder. At intervals from 

 that period the urine assumed this morbid appearance. Is 

 it not highly probable, that when the communication be- 

 tween the kidney and the bladder was cut off by the in- 

 flammation and obliteration of the canal of the ureter, the 

 formation of the tumour commenced in the loins to form 

 an outlet for the matter from the kidney ? Is it not also pro- 

 bable that the ulceration in the bladder was subsequent to 

 the suppuration in the kidney? and that the ureter, which 

 was diseased in its whole course, was the medium of morbid 

 communication ? 



I was not aware of any impediment having existed in the 

 discharge of the seiiiinal fluid, till some daj's after the ex- 

 aminHMoi;, or I should have paid particular attention to the 

 state of the testes and vasa defcrentia through their whole 

 course; the latter tubes were completrly obstructed for two 

 inches bcfc^re their ttrmination. The vesicul^ scminales 

 were 7'erTf small, hardly so large as the terminaiion of the 

 vasa deferentia. 'Hiere was not any flurd contained: in- 

 deed the cells of the vesiculas appeared to be nearly obli- 

 terated. JoiiN Taunton. 



21, Grevilie-Etreet, !-I.\tton-g:\; Jt)i,Dec. 17, ISll. 



LXXXIF. Experiments to ascertui?/ the State in which 

 Spirit exists in fermented Liquors : with, a Talle exhibit- 

 ing the relative Praportion of pure Alcohol contained in 

 several Kinds of IVine and some other Liquors. By 

 William Thomas Buandh, Esq. F.R.S.* 



Section I. 



It has been a commonly received opinion, that the alcohol 

 obtained by the distillation of wine does not exist ready 

 formed in the liquor, but that it is principally a product oV 

 the operation arising out of a new arrangement of its ulli- 

 ;iiaLe elements. 



* Fjom the Philosophical Transactions for 1811, pyrt ij. 



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