A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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    in this point of view may be compared with that of water fimply impregnated with Fix- ible Air, I have formed the foregoing com- parative table of their effects refpectively. The difference in their folvent powersis in- | confiderable; whilft the operation of the alkaline faturated folution is much milder, and, as I think, of a different kind from that of the fimple impregnation of water + with Fixed Air. | From examination of the effects of the two menftrua, it fhould feem that the ac- tion of the latter was principally upon the animal gluten or mucus that connected the - -fandy particles, which it gradually difunited, until they fell into powder; whereas from the corroded and worm-eaten appearance of the calculi immerfed in the alkaline folu- tion, the fandy particles themfelves feem to have been atted upon. How this is brought about, is matter of difficult in- veftigation. | From Bergman’s experiments, it appears, that the acid of fugar and calcareous earth, which probably form the ftony part of the calculus,