This process is spoken of as Coction, and is the sign of returning health, as preparing the way for the expulsion of the morbid matters-a state described as the crisis.
"Fathers of Biology"
Charles McRae
As the critical days answer to the periods of the process of Coction, they are to be watched with anxiety, and the actual condition of the patient at these times is to be compared with the state which it was expected he ought to show.
"Fathers of Biology"
Charles McRae
Fourthly and lastly, That the degrees of Coction and other Circumstances may so vary the Colour produc'd in the same mass, that in a Crucible that was not great I have had fragments of the same Mass, in some of which perhaps not so big as a Hazel-Nut, you may discern four distinct Colours.
"Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)"
Robert Boyle