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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    iments; he was possessed of no apparatus, and had scarcely the means of procuring any, but he attributed his success to the ignorance which forced him to devise apparatus and proc- esses of his own. In his memoirs he says: If I had been previously accustomed to the usual chemical processes I should not have so easily thought of any other, and without new modes of operation I should hardly have dis- covered anything materially new/* One of the earliest pieces of apparatus which Priestley devised is the well-known pneumatic trough—a simple enough piece of chemical fur- niture certainly, but one that required a consid- erable amount of experimenting. He began his chemical work by attacking the problem of combustion, the solution of which created the science of modern chemistry. He was led to study gases by watching the process of fermen- tation in a brewery next to his house; and in March, 1772, he read his first paper, On Different Kinds of Air. This paper, inspired by the work of Stephen Hales, of Joseph Black, and of Cavendish, marked an epoch in [34]