A Lecture on the Preservation of Timber by Kyan's Patent for Preventing Dry Rot: Delivered by Doctor Birkbeck, at the Society of Arts, Adelphi; December 9, 1834; With an Appendix, &C (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Preservation of Timber by Kyan's Patent for Preventing Dry Rot: Delivered by Doctor Birkbeck, at the Society of Arts, Adelphi; December 9, 1834; With an Appendix, &C

Employed. The' Hibiscus Esculentus yields it'in considerable abundance: it is a West Indian plant, which Dr. Clarke mentions as adopted, in Demerara, for the same purpose, as, in the other Islands, the white of eggs and blood are employed in the process of clarifying sugar; The Ficus Indica, also, if divided at the stem, will exude' a considerable quantity of this matter. If the solution of'the Bichloride of Mercury, (which is the agent adopted by Mr. Kyan,) is added to the vegetable matter, Albumen, it will be found, when they come in contact, that decomposition occurs.

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