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Paper regarding a method of extracting volatile salt and liquid from vegetables through distilling or fermenting rotten leaves. Coxe reports his observations on the quality of the volatile salt and liquid from various plants and herbs.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A way of extracting a volatil salt and spirit out of vegetables; intimated in numb. 100. p. 7002; experimented, and imparted by the learned and intelligent Dr. Daniel Coxe, Fellow of the R. Society'.

Read to the Royal Society on 21 January 1674.

Reference number
CLP/11i/15
Earliest possible date
1674
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Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
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Manuscript

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Daniel Coxe

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Daniel Coxe, Paper, 'Severall ways of analyzing vegetables together with reflections and conclusions' by Dr [Daniel] Cox [Coxe], 1674, CLP/11i/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_11i_15/paper-severall-ways-of-analyzing-vegetables-together-with-reflections-and-conclusions-by-dr-daniel-cox-coxe, accessed on 12 December 2025

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