Acid rain and the rise of the environmental chemist in nineteenth-century Britain / Peter Reed.

  • Reed, Peter, 1942-
Date:
2014
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Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2014.

Physical description

xv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Short biography and emergence of the civil scientist -- The influence of Graham, Playfair and Liebig on Robert Angus Smith -- Robert Angus Smith's Manchester -- Sanitary science, disinfectants and "acid rain" -- Nuisance vapours, their legal challenge, "the monster nuisance of all" -- The "civil scientist" in action -- Extension of regulation from the 1870s and the increasing health concerns -- Robert Angus Smith's legacy -- The epilogue -- Appendix 1: Robert Angus Smith bibliography.

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    History of Medicine
    JCI.41.AA8
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  • 9781409457756
  • 1409457753