Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood].
- Wood, Loftus
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on a new and easy method of curing disorders, by factitious air, without the use of drugs. Also, an enquiry into the medical properties of positive and negative electricity / [Loftus Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ <8 ] air among the powerful antifeptics, encouraged me to try it in putrid cafes, which anfwered my moft fanguine expectations ; I gave water ^ faturated with this air to the patient, firft in very fmall quantities, and encreafed the dofe as i found the ftomach would bear it j I alfo made ufe of it as a corroborant and aftringent medi- cine, with good fuccefs, this air I took from folution of iron in the nitrous acid ; but I have not had fufficient time to make experir ments in order to^afeertain all the efFeCts of this medicine. Inflammable air has been fuppofed to poflels medical properties fimilar to the former, but the great difficulty of mixing it with water, the . taile of which did not fecni altered after it had •been abforbed, prevented me from ufing it. Air is faid to be unfit for refpiration, when it is faturated with a redundant quantity of phlo- gifton, for which reafon inflammable, mephetic, iixed air, are noxious, in a certain degree, ■when taken into the lungs: Nitrous air, or the flame of a candle introduced into this phlogif- ticated air, are Creterions by which we judge of jts purity or impurity, thefe methods the reader will find tully explained by the Authors already](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28759114_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
