Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration / By Humphry Davy.

  • Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration / By Humphry Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gi gjuwniT’,.r!ltB= INTRODUCTION. In confequence of the difcovery of the rel- pirability and extraordinary effects of nitrous oxide, or the dephlogifticated nitrous gas of Dr. Priedley, made in April 1799, a matiner to be particularly defcribcd hereafter, * I was induced to carry on the following invedigation concerning its coropofition, properties, combi- nations, and mode of operation on living beings. In thecourfe of this invedigation, I have met with many difficulties ; fome arifing from the novel and obfeure nature of the fubjedi, and * A lliort account of this difcovery has been given in Dr. Beddoes’s Notice of fome Obfervations made at the Pneu- matic Inftitution, and in Mr. Nicholfon’s Phil. Journal for May and December l/QQ. I