# An account of a useful discovery to distill double the usual quantity of sea-water, by blowing showers of air up through the distilling liquor

Author: Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761

Genre: Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71081

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## Summary

An Account of the great Benefit of Ventilators in many Instances, in preserving the Health and Lives of People, in Slave and other Transport Ships, which were read before the _Royal Society_.

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-account-of-a-useful-discovery-to-distill-double-the-usual-qu-f03c3a7f/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-account-of-a-useful-discovery-to-distill-double-the-usual-qu-f03c3a7f/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-account-of-a-useful-discovery-to-distill-double-the-usual-qu-f03c3a7f/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-account-of-a-useful-discovery-to-distill-double-the-usual-qu-f03c3a7f/chapters/4/index.md)