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of them in Gallypots, I cover’d one with Saw-dud, 
and the other with Bran : But the third Piece being 
Brew’d with Salt of Hartfhorn powder'd I put into 
a four Ounce Phial which had a glafs Stopper. They 
were all three placed in the Outfide of a Window 
expofed to the Sun; and the Weather being warm, 
on the third Day the Flefh in the Gallypots began 
to fmell; on the fourth were putrid. Next Day the 
Phial was examined; when the Flefh was wafhed 
from the Salt, and found quite fweet. It was then 
dry’d and falted again with Hartfhorn; and having 
flood in the Houfe fome Weeks longer in fultry 
Weather, it was look’d at a fecond time, and ob- 
ferved to be as found as before; neither was the 
Subfiance at all diflolved, but was of fuch a Conflu- 
ence as might be expc&ed from common Brine*. 
And left it might be fufpe&ed, that the Flefh in the 
Gallypots, by being more expofed to the Air than 
that in the Phial, became fooner putrid, I have fmce 
inclofed Flefh in Phials, as that with the Hartfhorn 
and found the Confinement rather haften the Putre- 
faction. 
Now, by thefe and many other Experiments of 
the kind, finding volatile alcaline Salts not only 
do not difpofe animal Subftanccs to Putrefa&ion out 
of the Body, but even prevent it, and that more 
powerfully than common Sea-Salt, we may prefume 
that the fame taken by way of Medicine, will, 
cateris paribus , prove antifeptic; at leaf! we can- 
not juftly fuppofe them Corrupters of the Humours 
more than fermented Spirits or Sea-Salt; which 
Q_qq 2 taken 
* The fame Piece has been fmce kept dry a Twelvemonth, and is 
ftill untainced, and as firm as at firfh 
