Practical information on the malignant scarlet fever and sore throat : in which a new mode of treatment is freely communicated / By E. Peart.

  • Peart, E. (Edward), 1756?-1824.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Practical information on the malignant scarlet fever and sore throat : in which a new mode of treatment is freely communicated / By E. Peart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if you will give me leave, I will lay before you the fird which come to hand. As oxygen is a leading feature in almod every experiment which occurs, nothing more readily catches the eye than it. Let me then for a mo¬ ment attend to what every body fays, and every body believes, and every body is ready to main¬ tain (except when they meet with arguments which may prove troublefome) concerning the principle called oxygen. Oxygen is a fimple principle, according to the French fchool, which pofledfes very dngular pro¬ perties. Sometimes it forms by combination with bland and mild principles, the mod: acrid com¬ pounds: as, for example, when by combination with azote > it forms nitrous acid. Sometimes it combines with other mild fub- dances, without aiiy acrimony ; as when with hy- drogen it forms water: and fometimes with the mojl acrid, penetrating, and corrofive of all things, it forms a mild compound of the mod grateful and H falutary