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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    an inveftigation of the changes eft*e(5le'd in it by refpiration. In'the fourth Refearch the hiftory of the V refpirability and extraordinary effects of nitrous oxide is given, with details of experiments on its powers made by different individuals. I cannot clofe this introdudlion, without acknowledging my obligations to Dr. Beddoes. In the conception of many of the following experiments, I have been aided by his conver- fation and advice. They were executed in an Inftitution which owes its exiftence to his benevolent and philofophic exertions. Dowry-Square, Dotwelh, Brijiol. • June 25th, 1800.