A medical commentary on fixed air ... / [Matthew Dobson].

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1779
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / [Matthew Dobson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Confidered as a fubjedt of Medical Philofophy, Fixed Air appears likewife to be of extenfive importance. If we attend to the ftate of the animal oeco- nomy in health, we find it prefent in the ftomach and inteftines, as developed by the procefs of digeftion 3 and we find alfo, from the experiments of Dr. Hales* Sir John Pringle, Dr. Macbride, and others, that Fixed Air enters very uni- verfally into the compofition of animal fubfiances. It’s prefence and effefts are no lefs obvious in the difeafed ftate of the animal ©economy 3 where the fto- mach is weak, and the digeftion confe- quently imperfeft, it is exerted in a troublefome and oppreffive flatulence, which fometimes degenerates into a confirmed Tympany. When combined with an animal earth, it forms the ftone. and gfavel: and in mortifica¬ tions, it is the fame fluid, which raifes the cuticle in velications, and encreafes
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