Note 78 — Chapter XXIV

Our learned Author, or his medical Editor at Lyons, observes here, ‘that in the Edition of this Treatise at Paris, there was an essential Mistake, by making Boerhaave recommend the Addition of Brandy, Eau de vie, instead of stumming or sulphurizing it,’ for which this Note, and the Text too use the Verb branter, which Word we do not find in any Dictionary. We are told however, it means to impregnate the Casks in which the Water is reserved, with the Vapour of Sulphur, and then stopping them; in the same Manner that Vessels are in some Countries, for the keeping of Wine. He observes the Purpose of this is to oppose Corruption by the acid Steams of the Sulphur. K.