Considerations on the medicinal use and on the production of factitious airs / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. : part II ; by James Watt, engineer .... ; to which are added communications from Doctors Carmichael, Darwin, Ewart, ... and others.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use and on the production of factitious airs / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. : part II ; by James Watt, engineer .... ; to which are added communications from Doctors Carmichael, Darwin, Ewart, ... and others. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    chemical experiments, clearness has been aimed at, even ai the hazard of prolixity. Though the Author wishes to shun the imputation of neologism, ^el to avoid circumlocuti- ons, he has found himself obliged to form some new words, such as the Martial, Zincic, and Carbonic Inflammable Airs, which latter he has also called Hydro Carbonate.— He has indifferently made use of the terms of the old and new Chemical Nomenclature, wishing merely to be under, stood, and not intending to enter into discussions upon theories in a treatise, the objeBs of which are fads. The purchasers of the first edition, it is hoped, will not deem any apology necessary. It contained all the Author then thought worthy the notice ofi the Public, as this con_ tains all he now deems essential to the right use of the Apparatus, which probably from the progressive advance- ment ofi Pneumatic Chemistry, will soon receive great ad- ditions. At the time of the former publication, few prifessional men having considered the subjed, the Author ventured to give his opinion in some letters to Dr. Beddoes, on the airs ■which he thought the most likely to be of use in diseases of the lungs, and he esteemed it a duty to relate thefew phy- siological observations he had made in the course of his chemical experiments to produce the airs; but he now thinks it would be improper to swell his pamphlet by a re- publication of those letters, as the subjed is taken up by per. sons who are better able to judge in such matters. For what has yet been done in the application of the air to medicinal purposes, the Reader is referred to the publications of Dr. Beddoes and Dr. Eiuart upon this subjed. Several