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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    as a distinct species. Priestley noted, without comment, that he had produced two other gases, which were subsequently recognized as car- bonic oxid and nitrous oxid, and that he had disengaged from niter a gas which was later on recognized as oxygen. The paper received the Copley medal of the Royal Society (November 30, 1773), and was at once abstracted at length by Lavoisier and criticized by him. Hence- forth Lavoisier acted as a sieve to separate the inaccurate work and conclusions of Priestley from the accurate. From 1774 to 1786 Priestley published six successive volumes of researches on air. The first volume records the discovery of alkaline air (ammonia gas) and dephlogisticated nitrous air (nitrous oxid), and the synthesis of sal-ammo- niae, as well as his first general view of the current hypothesis of Becker and Stahl—that fire is decomposition, in which phlogiston is separated from all burning bodies. At various periods Priestley identified phlogiston with electricity and with hydrogen. But his whole scientific energies from this time forward were [36]