1868 The complete Practical Distiller

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of the growth of these articles, and their products duly estimated. Besides, as physicians often recommend distilled waters, sometimes not to be had, some ounces were now obtained in an hour. Further, in any course of chemistry this little alembic could be mounted upon a table in an in- stant, around which the professors might be sitting, and easily afford its products in the course of a lecture, besides serving as a kind of demonstrator with the greatest de- spatch. This apparatus in miniature, being constructed of the best tin, is of an agreeable form, and unites in itself all the facilities for the operation for which it is intended. It requires no wrapping in paper, no luting, &c. ; all the joints, though, are very exactly closed, and few in- struments are better adapted. Young persons who may have very little instruction may now indulge the wish to study the arts of distillation, perfuming, or the making of sweet waters, and of chemistry in general. Nearly the whole of the parts may be enveloped in linen cloth, in which they may be rolled up in a minute with as much ease as safety in securing them from coming in contact with each other. They are frequently enclosed in an oblong sack, which in its turn is put into a cylindrical tin box, sixteen inches long and about three and a half in diameter. Even the cover of this box is an essential part of the whole apparatus. The weight of the apparatus is not more than six pounds and a half, including a tin vessel full of alcohol.