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Hour or two longer the Flefh with the leaft Salt 
was tainted ; but that which had moft, remained 
fweet above 30 Hours after Infufton. This Expcri- 
ment was often repeated with the fame RcfuK, making 
Allowance for Variations of the Degree of Hear. 
The life of this Experiment was for making 
Standards, ^hereby to judge of the feptic or auti- 
feptic Strength of Bodies. Thus, if Water with any 
Ingredient preferred Fiefh better than without it, or 
better than with the Additions of the Salt, that in- 
gredient. miaht be faid to refill Putrefaction more 
than Water alone, or with 30 or 60 Grains of Sea- 
Salt. But if, on the other hand, Water, with any 
Addition, promoted Corruption more than when 
pure, the Subltance added was to be reckoned a 
Septic, or Haftener of Pinrefa&ion. 
The following Experiments were therefore all 
made in the fame Degree of Heat with the Quantity 
of Flefh, Water, and Air, as above ipecified 5 toge- 
ther with fuch feptic or antifeptic Subltances, as 
ifhall be afterwards mention’d, and were all com- 
pared with the Standards. ’But whereas the leaft 
Quantity of Salt preferred Flefh little longer than 
plain Water, I fhall always compare the feveral an- 
tifeptic Bodies with the greateft Quantity of Salt j 
fo that whenever any Subltance is faid to oppofe 
Putrefaction more than the Standard, I mean, more 
than 60 Grains of Sea-Salt. 
2. 1 began with examining other Salts, and com- 
pared them in the fame Quantity with the Standard 5 
whieh being of all the weakeft, I flrali fuppofe if 
equal to Unity, and exprefs the proportional Strength 
of the reft in higher Numbers in the following Table.. 
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