PART I.

Explanation of technical terms, 1

SECTION I.

Of Fire, 13

SECTION II.

Of Air, 19

SECTION III.

Of Water, 24

SECTION IV.

Of Earth, 33

SECTION. V.

Of Menstruums or Dissolvents, 34

SECTION VI.

Of the Thermometer, 39

SECTION VII.

Of the Vine, its fruits, and juices, 50

SECTION VIII.

Of fermentation in general, 66

SECTION IX.

Of artificial fermentation, 80

SECTION X.

Of the nature of Barley, 89

SECTION XI.

Of Malting, 94

SECTION XII.

Of the different Properties of Malt, and of the number of its fermentable Parts, 113

SECTION XIII.

Observations on defective Malts, 131