Identifier: naturalhistoryof00hugh (find matches)
Title: The natural history of Barbados : in ten books
Year: 1750 (1750s)
Authors: Hughes, Griffith, b. 1706 or 7 Mynda, engraver Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770, engraver Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, engraver Austen, engraver Erbets, engraver Larkin, Edmund, former owner
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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with Water; yet they maybe brought to mingle with it in the Form of Cream. For Inftance ; Let any Quantity of Coco Nut-kernel be pounded in aMortar, with a Quantity of Water fufficient to penetrate into the brokenInterftices of the Kernel : This, being again mixed with a great Quantityof Water, and fuffered to fettle for a few Hours, will neceflary contracta white creamy Subftance upon the Surface, in which Form the Oil thenappears. Its Parts, by being thus pounded, and abforbed in the branny Subftanceof the Kernel, and mixt with Water, are rendered too fmall to cohere,and to form vifible Drops. On the other hand, if the Oil, drawn from the Kernel by Expreftion,be fhaken ever fo much in Water, it will almoft inftantaneoufly colled itsfeparated Parts, and form itfelf into its genuine tenacious oily Drops:Which Oil, when firft exprefled, is very mild, and of an infipid Tafte ; butin a few Days, unlefs kept very cool, which is fcarce practicable in hotCHmates, it will become rancid. The
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Book IV. IJland 0/ B A R B A D O S. 107 The great Boerhaave obfcrvcs, that the frefh Oil of Swect-Almonds,taken in a Li72uius, proves an excellent Emollient, where the Fauces aregrown rough with an ylngijta : And yet, if the fame fhould be taken bya Perfon in Health, after it had ftood in the Heat of a Summers Day, itwould corrode and inflame them. Add to this, that the fweeter thefeOils are, when frefh, the more acrid they are, when they are old and rancid. Hence the fame ingenious Author obferves, how abominable areAlmonds, Walnuts, and Piftach-nuts, when they once become rancid ;and how eaflly they will caufe an Angi?ia^ and raife a Fever, by inflame-ing the Throat, Oefophagus, Stomach, and Inteftines. How inexcufable therefore muft thofe Practitioners in Phyfic here be,who for the above Purpofes ufe the rancid Oil of Almonds, when theymight every Day extract the beft and fweetefl of Oils from the CocoNut-kernel! From this fceming Digrefllon, concerning the Nature of Oils, we maypr

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