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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    Stahl, according to which one and the same inflammable matter existed in all combustibles. He promulgated his theory of the admission of oxygen during combustion, and thereby began a new era in chemistry. He opened the way for the understanding of processes in the or- ganic and inorganic worlds by his discovery of the law of the conservation of matter. He developed the discoveries of Black and Priest- ley, analyzed the atmospheric air, studied the process of respiration, of fermentation, and found that carbonic acid was a compound of oxygen and carbon. Based on Priestley's dis- covery, he showed the composition of acids, and demonstrated that the diamond really could be burned. With Cavendish he shares the honor to have demonstrated nitrogen and oxy- gen and the composition of water. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, born in Paris in the year 1743, received an excellent education. V^ery soon his interest in the study of natural sciences developed. As early as 1764 he dis- tinguished himself through scientific investi- gations, when he won a prize offered by the [43]