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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    these are three impressions with the same seal. Since the words preserve the ideas and transmit them, perfection in science is impossible with- out perfection in language. However true the facts may be, however correct the ideas devel- oped by facts, only wrong impressions will be transmitted as long as the expressions by which they are communicated are not exact. The reform of language effected by Lavoi- sier, in conjunction with Guyton de Morveau, Berthollet, and Fourcroy, was an indispensable prelude to the reform of thought. With the current alchemistic jargon, science, properly so called, could have no fellowship. By creating a scientific botanical nomenclature Linne has created scientific botany, and Lavoisier, by his scientific chemical nomenclature, scientific chemistry. Bergman, the great scientist, the pupil of Linne, who died in the year 1784, wrote during the last days of his life to M. de Morveau, one of Lavoisier's cooperators: '^ Do not spare one single improper term. All Lavoisier's chemi- cal works distinguish themselves by precision [46]