Observations on the nature and properties of fixible air : and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris, in preserving health, and preventing diseases : to which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic, pointing out the causes which greatly obstruct the improvement of the healing art / By John Melvill.

  • Melvill, John.
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[1787]
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Credit: Observations on the nature and properties of fixible air : and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris, in preserving health, and preventing diseases : to which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic, pointing out the causes which greatly obstruct the improvement of the healing art / By John Melvill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TNTRODUCTlOIsf Page i to 8 _ Obfervdtions on the nature and properties of Fixible Air g to 2Z, Of the ufe of the Aqua Salubris as ^ necefjhiy^'^of life, in prcferving health, and preven ting difeafes i6 to 23 Motives wBic-h induced the invefiiga- tion of the properties, and led to the difcovery of the virtues of the Aqua Salubris - - , ibid, Procefs of preparing the Aqua Salu- bris -r - - 22 to 2^ Of the v^^^ious combinat'iojis of the Aqua Salubris with uoine and Other liquors, and the method of ufing it as a necefj'ary of life 29 to 32 S(itisfa3lory reafons adduced, to prove that elementary Fixible Air, is un- der various jnodif cations and com- binations, the mofi general remedy 34 to 3^ Strictures on the prefent praSiice of phyfic, fating the caufes which greatly obJiruB the improvement of the healing art - ^ 39 Of \
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