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
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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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    Pe iaes Maie eORe ORDER Ht. PYROPHORIC. “Poalibvely electrical; combustible with oxygen: void of metallic lustre. 42. Carbon. Wt. comb. [6]. Black. ‘‘ Carbureted hydrogen,” or stagnal gas, sp. gr. 8H, contains I Car- bon, 6, and II hydrogen, 2, making 8; it affords its volume of carbonic acid. ‘¢ Supercarbureted hydrogen,” or olefient gas, sp. gr. 13 H, contains I carbon, I hy- drogen, making 7, and affords twice its volume of carbonic acid. 43. Boracium, or . Boron — Wt. comb. [7] Grey. 44. Fluatium? or Fludrium. [See Fluorine. | 45. Phos'phorus [12] Combustible at common tem- peratures. 46. Sulfur [16] Yellow, incombustible at common pie aa ig ORDER IV. INDETERMINATE. 47? Muriatium? . The supposed basis imagined to unite with oxygen, and form muriatic acid. [See Chlorine. ] CLASS II. ALKALIS. Positively electrical: capable of making vegetable blues green, reds blue, and yellows brown. They may be distinguished by their elective attractions. ORDER I. SIMPLE. 1. Pot'ass Wt. comb. [48] 2. Soda ; [32] 3. Barita. Must be written with an zif accented | barita, which is the most correct, the stone being called barites: the termination a distinguishing the pure earth. Wt. comb. [78]