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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    a most profound, elaborate, and philosophic memoir on the Con- servation of Force, based upon two maxims:— 1. That it is not possible, by any conditions whatever of natural bodies, to derive an unlimited amount of mechanical force. 2. All actions in nature can be ultimately referred to alter- nate attractive or repulsive forces, the intensity of which depends solely upon the distances between the points by which the forces are exerted. In this valuable memoir, Dr. Helmholtz refers natural phenomena back to unchangeable attractive and repulsive forces, whose inten- sity depends solely upon the distance; and establishes, by copious illustrations and mathematical demonstrations, the interaction and indestructibility of the forces of nature.1 Organized animated bodies are composed of inorganic elements, and are governed by all the laws and phenomena of inorganic bodies, and are absolutely dependent2 for their existence upon in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. vi. pp. 114—162. On the Interaction of Natural Forces, by H. Helmholtz, Professor in the University of Bonn, translated by John Tyndall, Phil. Mag., fourth series, vol. ii. p. 487. See also the American Journal of Science and Art, vol. xxiv., September, 1857, pp. 189—216. 1 See also Observations and Experiments on the Theory of the Identity of the Agents which produce Light and Radiant Heat, by M. Melloni, Annales de Chimie et de Physique, vol. i. p. 418. Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. i. p. 388. On the Chemical Effects of Electric Currents of Low Degree in Crystallization, by M. Becquerel, Becquerel's Traite de Electricite et du Magnetisme, vol. iii. p. 287. On the Application of Electro-Magnetism to the Movement of Machines, by M. H. Jacobi, Potsdam, 1835, Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. i. p. 503; vol. ii. p. 1. Experiments of Joule determining the Relations of Heat and Electricity, Phil. Mag., vol. xix. p. 275 ; to Chemical Affinity, vol. xx. p. Ill; vol. xxiii. p. 441. The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically, by Dr. G. S. Ohm, Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 401. General Propositions relating to Attractive and Repulsive Forces acting in Inverse Ratio of the Square of the Distance, by C. F. Gauss, trans, in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 153. On the Relation of Magnetism to Diamagnetism, by M. Plucker, Poggen. Ann., Oct., 1847 ; trans. in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. v. p. 376. On the Measurement of Electro- Dynamic Forces, by W. Weber, Poggen. Ann., January, 1848 ; Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. v. p. 489. On the Mechanical Equivalent of an Electric Discharge, and the Heating of the Conducting Wire which accompanies it, by R. Clausius, Pogg. Ann., 1852; Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. vi. p. 1. On the Work per- formed and the Heat generated in a Conductor by a Stationary Current, by R. Clausius, Pog. An., vol. lxxxvii. p. 415 ; Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, vol. vi. p. 200. Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature, by Z. Allen, New York, 1852. 2 Inorganic bodies are wholly independent of the organic, are less complex in structure, their phenomena are more simple, and the laws of their existence more universal. Thus, the bodies oxygen and carbon are widely diffused throughout nature, and their existence is wholly independent of that of any other bodies.