Paper, 'Of fermentation in generall [sic]' by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/14ii/49
Date: 17th century
Description
The author shares a paper describing fermentation as 'motion observable in all compound or mixed bodies'. The author suggests that 'health itself is maintained by a due and sutable [sic] fermentation of the humours of our bodyes'. The paper concludes with a section on the relation between air quality and health.
Subject: Health / Humours
- Reference number
- CLP/14ii/49
- Earliest possible date
- 17th century
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 34 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Of fermentation in generall [sic]' by unknown author, 17th century, CLP/14ii/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_49/paper-of-fermentation-in-generall-sic-by-unknown-author, accessed on 09 July 2025
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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