An Harveian oration and other remains of John Johnstone.

  • Johnstone, John, 1768-1836.
Date:
1837
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Credit: An Harveian oration and other remains of John Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    One of Dr. John Johnstone’s earliest publications was a vindication of his Fa- ther’s claim to the discovery of the dis- infecting powers of the muriatic acid gas, which was disputed by a rival claimant, with what justice we will not attempt to decide, though it is but fair to add, that the reward was assigned to Dr. Carmichael Smyth. Certain it is that two men of talent may make the same discovery, and have their sufficient reasons for concealment of it, and we need not remind our readers how often it has happened that these discoveries were contemporaneous because the causes which led to them were so. It is however proper to state, that the following facts were clearly established by Dr. John John- stone, that the first public mention of the respirable mineral acid gasses, as correctors of putrefaction was made by his Father Dr. James Johnstone sen. in 1/58; that the second mention of them was made by M. Guyton de Morveau, 1773> that in 1779 Dr