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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    of observation, masterly description of facts, and clear deduction of conclusions. Ingenious in the selection of requirements for his investi- gations, inventive in construction of new appara- tus, persevering in all his researches, Lavoisier succeeded in demonstrating new arrangements of facts in chemistry and in establishing new truths of great importance to science. With productive originality Lavoisier united profound knowledge of all that had been accomplished already in chemistry. His influence on chem- istry has been immeasurable. All his merit as patriot, his fame as reform- ator of science, did not save him in the reign of terror, during which Robespierre had every man of true merit condemned to the guillotine, every one who was not insignificant enough to escape the suspicion of the tyrant. Upon a frivolous accusation that he had practised extor- tions while fermier general and had added water and injurious ingredients to tobacco while manager of the tobacco traffic, he was indicted in 1794. Indictment at that time meant sen- tenced to be guillotined. The courage of a [47]