Ordinary vinegar is dilute acetic acid obtained from the oxidation of alcoholic liquids, and it was probably in this form that it was known from the earliest times. Vinegar was mentioned in three books of the Old Testament and Hippocrates is reported to have prescribed it as a medicine for his patients. Livy, the Latin prose writer, reported in his book No. XXI that Hannibal overcame the difficulty offered to the passage of his army in crossing the rocks or the Alps by dissolving the rocks with vinegar so that a pathway could be made. Thus, vinegar was known for a long time.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111537 |
| Date | January 1958 |
| Creators | Walke, Lacey. |
| Contributors | Blackwood, A. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Agriculture.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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