The Early History of Distillation

Abstract

Ho was sorry that more of the historical side of various questions was not found very much in our toxt-books of the various sciences, and he thought if such notes on histoiical and archaeological matters were introduced it would make a dry text-book much moro interesting reading. It was a curious thing how the prefix " al" occurred in con nection with distilling in the words "alcohol" and "alembic." He