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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    On April i8, 1787, Lavoisier presented, at a public session of the Royal Academy of Sci- ences, a memoir on the necessity of a reform of chemical nomenclature, which reform he wished to be considered as a national work. He rea- soned as follows: Onomatology furnishes the real instruments for the operation of the mind; it is important that these instruments should be of the best kind, and it is indeed working in the interest of science—it is for the progress of science when we exert ourselves to improve our onomatology. Referring to the manner by which we acquire knowledge in general, he points out the importance of a perfect onoma- tology for those who begin to devote them- selves to the study of science. The logic of science essentially adheres to scientific lan- guage. Science can not teach anything which is confessedly unscientific and false. In sci- ence we have to distinguish three things: the series of facts which constitute the science, the ideas which recall the facts, and the words to express the ideas. The word has to develop the idea, the idea has to embrace the fact; [45]