Carbonic acid in medicine / by Achilles Rose, M.D. ; with the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley and Lavoisier.

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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Credit: Carbonic acid in medicine / by Achilles Rose, M.D. ; with the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley and Lavoisier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would color certain vegetable matters red, he judged that it was a feeble acid. Joseph Black (1728-99) was another great promoter of the study of chemistry. His im- portant experiments with carbonic acid demon- strated its combination with alkalies. He as- sumed that it existed in solid form in alkalies, and called it fixed air. He supposed that it was produced by the act of respiration, proved that it is absorbed by caustic alkalies, and dis- engaged again under effervescence when acid is made to act upon the combination. Joseph Priestley, born March 13, 1733, edu- cated for the Christian ministry and became a minister in the year 1755, had been a great theo- logian, entangled a good deal in sectarian polem- ics. A study of his life gives an idea to what ex- tent human passion was excited in England on account of difference of opinion in religious ques- tions anr* what cruel prejudices existed. While prominent as a theologian he was more notably a man of science, and chiefly notable as a chemist and the discoverer of oxygen. His fuller interest in science dates from 1758, [32]