Medical extracts : on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / by a friend to improvements.

Date:
1796-1797
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Credit: Medical extracts : on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / by a friend to improvements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    PAGE •^The Origin of Acids, x]v \ Why Acids have common Properties, - - ib. Method of Invejligation, j]-, c The Advance made with refpedt to our Know- l lege of different Acids, ------ xlvj | Why Acids are differently charaHerifed, - ib. j^Of the common Principle and Base, - - ib. {Thefe are dij,'criminated by different Terms in the new System, ------- xivi Metals decompofe Water, - - . - . ^ f Sulphurous Acid promotes tlie Decompofuion of Water, - - - I ^Sometimes Acids are alfo decompofed, - - - ib. {The different Affinities which Metals have for Oxygen, xlviii ^The die dud ion of Metals, - - - . _ ib. {The Progrefs of the New or Antiphlogis- tic Chemistry, xlix f The Confutation of the Old, or Phlogistic, *- Doctrine, ......... jb. {The Conver/ion of Drs. Black and Kir- wan to the JS e'iu Syjlem of Chemijlry, - li