Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor by Robert Boyle.

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Title: Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor by Robert Boyle.
Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication: London :: Printed for Samuel Smith,; 1683/4.
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Subject terms: Blood -- Early works to 1800.
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Experiment VII.

UPon the Powder of dry'd Hu∣mane Blood we put (in a small Vial) some of the rectify'd Spirit of Humane Blood, which quickly dissolv'd part of it, and acqui∣red a deep and pleasant Colour. But highly rectified Spirit of Wine, be∣ing put upon some of the same Pow∣der in a like glass, did not in many hours acquire any manifest Tincture, and got but a pale Yellow one, even after having been for a longer time kept in a moderate heat. And yet Common water, being put upon another portion of the same Pow∣der, did quickly enough appear, by the Colour it acquir'd, to have dis∣solv'd a pretty deal of it.