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Danger, that one of three or four fliould be 

 deprived of its Natural Quality, than one of 

 two 



What Nature thefe two Juices are of, I do 

 not pretend pofitively to determine \ but fb 

 far as I have been able to make my Conje- 

 ctures about it from Experiments, I ' do think 

 one of them to be an acid Juice; the other an 

 oleaginous Liquor, fbmething like Oil of Tur- 

 pentine. For amongft the many Experiments 

 I have made, there was no one that gave me 

 fb much Satisfaction, as that which I made 

 with Oil of Turpentine, and Oil of Vitriol, 

 though I try'd feveral other things, that will 

 produce a Fermentation upon their Mixture. 

 And it was for this Reafora, that t made the 

 Experiment with Oil of Turpentine and the 

 other Oil. 



I took a piece of raw Flefii, and having cut 

 it into pieces, but much larger than what our 

 more (olid Food is reduc'd to by due Maftica- 

 tion, I mix'd (bme Cruras of Bread with it, 

 then I pour'd in the Oil of Turpentine to 

 them, and upon that the Oil of Vitriol ; and 

 having (hak'd them together, I digefted them 

 about four Hours in Balneo Maria, and then 

 fliaking them again in the Glaft, I found the 

 Meat diflblv'd, and they all became a thickifli 

 Pulp. I could not but take notice, that Oil 

 of Camphire ( though it does not otherwtfe 

 leem much different in its Nature from Oi! of 

 Turpentine) and Oil of Vitriol, which upon mix- 

 ture will produce an Effervefcence as well as 

 the Oil of Turpentine and Oil of Vitriol, yet 

 did not touch the Meat, upon which I poured 

 them, fo as in the lead to diffolve them. I 

 M % cannot 



