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:
MDCCXCVI [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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    obferved general effects of increafed temperature in bodies; but more efpecially that conftant effect of their being augmented in their dimenfions in every direction in cenfequence of an increafed temperature. And he concludes from analogy, that all bodies are either folid, fluid, or aeriform, according to the pro- portions which exift 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 abftracted ; and confequently, that all liquids and aeriform fluids confift of a peculiar naturally folid bafis, or a princi- pium proprium, the particles of which are prevented from obeying the general law of attraction by their being combined with caloric, asaprincipium commune. By this hypothecs, and by the obferved fact of the abforption of vital air, he explains the appearance of heat in combuftion ; mewing that vital air which he call: oxygen gas, being compofed of a folid bafis, viz. oxygen, united with caloric, muff neceffarily depo- fit its caloric, when it quits the form of air to com- bine with a folid combuftible body, or to change from a more rare to a more denfe (late of aggrega- tion ; and confequently, that tbefe phenomena de- pend on the various eledive attradions of caloric, as far as heat is concerned. That caloric when chemi- cally combined with any body, alters the aggregation of that body to a more rare ftate, either from folid to liquid, or from liquid to aeriform, according to the exiitmg proportions; and that when fct free from combination, it produces increafe of temperature, ac- companied with light, or fire, in proportion to its degree of concentration. TilEPwE