Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood].

  • Wood, Loftus
Date:
1780
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Credit: Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A variety of experiments have been made by philofophers to overcome this difficulty, altho* Dr. Priejiley has been able to produce this air from a number of different fubftances, yet in too inconfiderable a quantity for the patient to * breath in. Dr. Ingenhoufz^ in a curious book lately publifhed, ffiews a new mode of obtain- ing this air from the green leaves and branches of trees and plants, what is very lingular, this air cannot be produced without the leaves arc expofed to the light, on the contrary, an air of a noxious quality is generated from them in a dark place. I have obtained fo much of this air as to prove its powerful effedls in diforders of the lungs, and by a method of filtering and in fome mgafure dephlogifticating the common air of the atmofphere, making it pafs through certain cal- carious fubftances, which abforbs a confiderable quantity of its phloglfton ; in fome meafure make a fubftitute for dephlogifticated air. The purity of this air is determined by its de- gree of diminution when mixed with nitrous air, by the vivid rapidity with which a lighted torch burns in it, ^c. B3 Dephlo-