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Title: A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors; with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Morewood, Samuel
Subjects: Liquors Distillation Opium
Publisher: Dublin, W. Curry, jun. and company, and W. Carson (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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ible. The ingenuity of the French chemists and the unlimited meanswhich they have had for the exercise of their talents, have enabledthem to effect improvements in the construction of stills and of distillingmachinery, which have considerably facilitated the progress of thisbranch of business; and a still has been lately employed by M. CharlesDerosne, so contrived that it has the advantage of continuous distilla-tion, without being attended with extraordinary expense in fuel, or anyof the disadvantages of the ordinary stills. A description of thisapparatus appeared of such importance, that I procured, through afriend at Paris, a copy of the original design as engraved by Bernardand Delarue. The conception of this still originated with M. CellierBlumenthal, who, in 1819, assigned it to M. Derosne, by whom, in animproved state, it was exhibited in October, 1827, at Paris, before theSociety for the promotion of French industry, when, from its superi-ority, he obtained the gold medal. 394
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395 An apparatus of this description on the largest scale can distil from10 to 12,000 litres of wine, (each 2,113 pints) in twenty-four hours,and produce from 1,500 to 1,600 litres of alcohol, or from 21 to2,400 litres of brandy, 22 degrees over proof. One of the greatbenefits of this still is, that of requiring no water for condensation, thewine itself serving that purpose,, and its bringing over, without inter-ruption, a continued stream of spirit of sufficient strength for market-able purposes. The body consists of a boiler, or still A, (sometimes two areemployed as in the engraving,) surmounted by a large cylinder, B,which is divided into compartments by a number of copper shelvesperforated with holes. Through these the vapour rises, and, in itsascent, comes in contact with the wine to be distilled, descendingthrough the same perforations, so that both are retarded in their pro-gress and blended together; the lighter material still continuing torise through C, till at length it ga

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