Observations on some of the physical, chemical, physiological and pathological phenomena of malarial fever / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
1859
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    discoveries of Oersted, Davy, Arago, and Schweigger, demonstrated the identity of the chemical, electrical, and magnetic forces, and led this great philosopher to advance the idea that the so-called im- ponderable bodies are merely the exponents of different forms of force. The researches of Petit,1 in 1722, on the effect of light upon the crystallization of saltpetre and sal-ammoniac, and the analysis of the action and demonstration of the chemical influences of the rays of light, by Charles William Scheele,2 confirmed and extended by the researches of Senebier,3 Count Rumford,4 Meese,5 Priestley,6 of Magneto-Electric Induction, Bakerian Lecture, Jan. 12, 1831. Identity of Electricities derived from different Sources ; Relation by Measure of Common and Voltaic Electricity, 1833. Electro-Chemical Decomposition, 1833 and 1834. Na- ture of the Electric Force or Forces ; Relation of the Electric and Magnetic' Forces ; the Current its Forces, 1838. On the Source of Power in the Voltaic Pile, 1840. On the Electricity Evolved by the Friction of Water and Steam against other Bodies, 1840. On the Magnetization of Light and the Illumination of Magnetic Lines of Force, 1845. On New Magnetic Actions, and on the Magnetic Condition of all Mat- ter, 1845. On the Crystalline Polarity of Bismuth (and other bodies), and on its relation to the Magnetic form of Force, 1850. On the possible relation of Gravity and Electricity, 1850. On the Magnetic and Diamagnetic Condition of Bodies, 1850. For these and many other papers by Professor Michael Faraday, see Philoso- phical Transactions for 1831—1852. These papers have been collected and pub- lished in three volumes—vol. i., 1849, sec. ed. ; vol. ii., 1844, first ed. ; vol. iii., 1855. In his Bakerian Lecture for 1845, Professor Farraday stated his views of the relations of the forms of force, thus :— I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent that they are convertible, as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents of power in their action. In modern times the proofs of their convertibility have been accumulated to a very consider- able extent, and a commencement made of the determination of the equivalent forces. 1 Sur la Vegetation des Sels, Mem. de Paris, 1722. 2 Scheele, Traite de l'Air et du Feu. 3 Senebier sur la Lumiere, torn. iii. p. 199. 4 On the Propagation of Heat in Fluids, Phil. Trans. An Inquiry concerning the Chemical Properties that have been attributed to Light, Phil. Trans., 1798. 5 B. C. Meese, in 1775, first published experiments upon the influence of lio-ht on plants. 6 In 1779, Dr. Priestley determined the problem of vegetable respiration, and showed that carbonic acid was absorbed by the plant, that under the influence of light it was decomposed and its oxygen liberated. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Airs and other Branches of Natural Philosophy, Birmingham 1790. See also Senebier, Experiences sur l'Action de la Lumiere Solaire dans la Vegetation, Paris, 1788.