Volume 1
An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology, intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners. Together with detached essays on the study of physic, on classification, on chemical affinities, on animal chemistry, on the blood, on the medical effects of climates, on the circulation, and on palpitation. / By Thomas Young.
- Thomas Young
- Date:
- 1823
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology, intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners. Together with detached essays on the study of physic, on classification, on chemical affinities, on animal chemistry, on the blood, on the medical effects of climates, on the circulation, and on palpitation. / By Thomas Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PROPERTIES OF PARTICULAR SUBSTANCES. Classification. CLASS I. ELEMENTS. Simple Substances. ORDER I. EMPYREAL. Negatively electrical, and supporting combustion with substances positively electrical. Specific gravity. Weight combining, 1. Ox'ygen .00138 W. 16 Hydr. _—_ [8] Colourless. When fixed, about 2 W. 2. ¢ Chlorine” Davy. .00302 W, 36 H. [36] Green. [?. Fluorine. 23 | [2. Iodine. 01047 W, 125 H. 125] ORDER II. METALLIC. _ Positively electrical; having, when coherent, a high degree of lustre and opacity. (With their oxyds, or combinations with oxygen.) 2. Hydrogen Unknown in a Sp. gr. .00009W, Wt. comb. 1 state of cohesion Water. Wt. comb. [9.] H. Hydrets, as sulfurets, not * hydrates.” 3. Nitrogen, or Unknown in a Azote —_ .00117 W, 14 H__—‘[14] state of cohesion 4. Potas'sium 85 W , [40] 5. Sodium 94 [24] 6. Barit'tum or Barium, about 4.? [70] 7. Chromium 5.9 [28] 8. Telldrium 6.1 [32] (6°74. D.) 9. Uranium 6.5 [125]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33091730_0001_0087.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)