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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    when he bought a few scientific books, a small air-pump, an electric machine, and other in- struments, with the help of which he made ex- periments for his pupils at Nantwich as well as for his own amusement and that of his friends. During his visit to London, in January, 1766, he met Richard Price, Sir William Watson, John Canton, and Benjamin Franklin. Frank- lin encouraged him to undertake the History of Electricity. The book drew him into a large field of original experiments. Franklin and Canton corrected the proofs and it was published in 1767. Priestley's electrical work shows him at his best, altho the discoveries contained therein are of less importance in the history of science than his later discoveries in chemistry. After 1770 he practically abandoned the study of electricity for that of chemistry, to which he had been led incidentally. He had attended a course of chemical lectures given in Warington Academy by Dr. Turner, of Liver- pool. He admitted that he knew very little of chemistry at the time when he began his exper- 2 [ 33 ]