An inaugural dissertation on the chemical properties of atmospheric air : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania : for a degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the twelfth day of May, 1791 / by William R. Cozens, of New-Jersey, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.
- Cozens, William R., -1819
- Date:
- MDCCXCI [1791]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the chemical properties of atmospheric air : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania : for a degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the twelfth day of May, 1791 / by William R. Cozens, of New-Jersey, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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