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Dr. Alfton’s experiment was made with fifh, and 
Dr. Pringle’s with flefh ; which has made the former 
fay, that lime-water withftood corruption ftrongly j 
and the latter, that it did it but weakly, if at all. 
Edinburgh, April 6, 1753. 
I LATELY repeated the experiment more fully, 
and with the fame fuccefs. On the 26 of March 
I put a haddock into a pot of common water. I did 
the fame to a piece of beef : the water was changed 
every day. At the fame time I put a haddock into 
a pot of lime-water, and did the fame with a piece 
of beef : at the fame time I hung a fifh and a bit 
of flefh in the air. On the fecond of April the fifh 
and flefh in the air were a little corrupted and dried j 
the flefh and fifh in common water fmelt ftrong ; the 
fifh in the lime-water was fweet, and the lime-water 
good, and are fo at prefent ; but the flefh fmelt ra- 
ther worfe than that in common water changed every 
day, and the corruption had quite overpower’d the 
fmell of the lime-water. 
All this you have my leave to fhew, as a confirma- 
tion of the former experiment. 
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