ELEMENTS
OF THE
PRACTICE of CHYMISTRY;
WHEREIN
The Fundamental Operations are described, and illustrated by Observations on each Process.
ELEMENTS
OF THE
PRACTICE OF CHYMISTRY.
[INTRODUCTION.]
As the Elements of the Theory of Chymistry, delivered in the former part of this work, were intended for the use of persons supposed to be altogether unacquainted with the art, they could not properly admit of any thing more than fundamental principles, so disposed as constantly to lead from the simple to the compound, from things known to things unknown: for which reason I could not therein observe the usual order of Chymical Decomposition, which is not susceptible of such a method. I therefore supposed all the analyses made, and bodies reduced to their simplest principles; to the end that, by observing the chief properties of those primary elements, we might be enabled to trace them through their several combinations, and to form some sort of judgment a priori of the qualities of such compounds as may result from their junctions.