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

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1779
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    this procefs may be feen at large in two memoirs read before the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1750, and publifhed in the fecond volume of Memoires prefenth par ies Scavans etrangers. Or in Mr. Henry’s tranflation of M, Lavoifier’s Effays Phyfical and Chemical, The nature of this volatile principle in mineral waters, and the artificial means of impregnating common water with Fixed Air, fo as to imitate thefe mineral waters, form a curious and en¬ tertaining fubjeft, which has been gra¬ dually unfolded and explained, by Van Helmont, Hoffman, Hales, Seyp, Ve- nel, Brownrigg, Black, Cavendifh, Lane, Prieftley, Bewly, &c. A diftinguifh’d modern chemift, the tranflator and improver of Macquers Chemical Dictionary, obferves, that Van Helmont long - ago afcribed the acidu¬ lous tafte and the folution of iron, in mineral
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