An inaugural dissertation on the chemical and medical history of septon, azote, or nitrogene : and its combination with the matter of heat and the principle of acidity ; submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College in the state of New-York ; William Samuel Johnson, LL.D president : for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the third day of May, 1796 / by Winthrop Saltonstall, citizen of the state of Connecticut.

  • Saltonstall, Winthrop, 1775-1802.
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1796
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the chemical and medical history of septon, azote, or nitrogene : and its combination with the matter of heat and the principle of acidity ; submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College in the state of New-York ; William Samuel Johnson, LL.D president : for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the third day of May, 1796 / by Winthrop Saltonstall, citizen of the state of Connecticut. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vegetable alkali, and that only, is nitre formed. Hence, then, we aflurne the word fepton, to exprefs the radical of this compound, and derive it from w»% putrifacio, whence comes septon, putridum. Thus the combina- tions formed from this bafe of the nitrous acid may have new terms in the nomenclature, and be arranged in the following order:— Septon, for azote or nitrogene. Septous gas, for azotic gas, or atmofpherical mephitis. Gafeous oxyd of fepton, for dephlogifticated nitrous air. Septic gas, for nitrous gas. Septous acid, for nitrous acid. Septic acid, for nitric acid. Septate, feptite, for nitrate, nitrite, &c. I think it proper here to premife the liberal ufe I have made of the publifhed fentiments of my friend and inftructor, Profeflbr Mitchill •, the attendance on whofe valuable lectures, in the College of New-York, has afforded me a large fhare of materials for the pre- fent differtation •, and who firft: fuggefted this alteration of the nomenclature. CONTENTS.