The component parts of the fungi are either perfectly indifferent, mucous or gelatinoid matter; or they are of an alcaline nature, being acrid, poisonous, and such like.
It must here be observed, that both the acid and the alcaline solution, or common salt and water, and even water alone, in these experiments much erodes the plates of zinc, and somewhat tarnishes those of silver.
Use of the volatilealcaline Salts, in Fevers of the putrid, pestilential, or petechial kind, as being apt to heat too much, and to hasten the Dissolution and consequent Putrefaction of the Blood.
The alcaline silicate of the glass frit acts upon the copper, which slowly combines with the glass, giving it a deep blue colour.
This shews why a succession of acid and of alcaline caustics sooner destroys a part, than either of them applied separately.
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