The Edinburgh new dispensatory : with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. ; and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis.

  • Lewis, William, 1708-1781.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The Edinburgh new dispensatory : with the additions of the most approved formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations ; and enriched with the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions of antimonial and mercurial preparations, &c. ; and several copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement of the New dispensatory by Dr. Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Lavoisier begins with explaining his idea£ Concerning the conduction of elaitic aeriform Cuius or gaffes, fhewing, or at lead giving ftrong arguments to prove, that they confift of a folid bafis, combined with the matter of heat, called in the new nomencla- ture, Calork. He founds this hypothecs en the ob- ierved general effects of increafed temperature in bod- ies ; but more efpecially that conftant effect of their being augmented in their dimenfions in every direc- tion in confequence of an increafed temperate;'?. And he concludes from analogy, that all bodies are either folid, fluid, or aeriform, according to the pro- portions which exiit between the attractive forces in- herent in their particles, and the repulfive power which caloric exerts to feparate them. It follows from this theory, that all bodies are naturally folid, if heat, or caloric the caufe of heat, were abftrafted ; and confequently, that all liquids and aeriform fluids confift of a peculiar naturally folid bafis, or zprincip- ium proprium, the particles of which are prevented from obeying the general law of attraction by their being combined with caloric, as a principium commune. By this hypothecs, and by the obferved fact of the abforption of vital air, he explains the appearance of heat in combuilion; (hewing that vital air which he calls oxvgen gas, being compofed of a folid balls, viz. oxygen,' united with caloric, rauft neceffarily depolit its caloric, when it quits the form of air to combine with a folid corrrbuftible body, or to change from a more rare to a more denie ftate of aggregation ; and confequently, that thefe phenomena depend on the various elective attractions of caloric, as far as heat is q concerned.