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taken in immoderate Quantities may raife a Fever, and 
thereby accidentally be the Occafion of Corruption. 
4. I have likewile made feveral Experiments with 
the fixed alcalinc Salts, which have no lefs antifeptic 
Power than the volatile. The Trials were made 
both with the Lye of Tartar and Salt of Wormwood. 
But here we mud not confound a difagreeable Smell 
of fuch Mixtures with one that is really putrid 5 nor 
the Power tliole Lixi vials have of diflolving animal 
Subftanccs with Putrc'fa&ion. 
y. From thefe Experiments it was natural to 
tonclude, fince Acids bv thcmfelves were amongft 
the mod 'powerful Anrilcptics, and the alcaline Salts 
were likewife of that Clafs, that the Mixtures of the 
two to Saturation would relift: Putrefaction little lefs 
than the Add alone. But in the Trials I have made 
upon Flefh with a Spirit us Minder eri compofed of 
Vinegar faturated with Salt ofHartfhorn, and alfo with 
the Juice of Lemons faturated with the Salt of Worm- 
wood, I found the antifeptic Virtue confiderably lefs 
than when cither the Adds orAlcali s were ufed fingly. 
6. As for the comparative Virtues of thefe Salts 
upon Flefh, I found half an Ounce of Lemon-juice 
faturated with a Scruple of the Salt of Wormwood 
refilled Putrefadion nearly as much as fifteen Grains 
of Nitre ■, but, when the Trial was made with Ox’s 
Gall, two Drachms of this Mixture were more anti- 
feptic than a Scruple of that Salt. Again, Nitre com- 
par’d with the dry neutral Salts, Weight for Weight, 
is- more ’antifepti'e than any ill prde-rvin'g Flefh I have 
yet tried. Crude CW ammoniac, came next to it, 
and even exceeded it in the Experiment with Ox’s Gall. 
After thefe the Sal diureticus , Tartarus folubilis , 
and 
