Illustrations of a novel and successful treatment of psoriasis / by James Adams.

  • James Maxwell Adams
Date:
1878
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Credit: Illustrations of a novel and successful treatment of psoriasis / by James Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On Improvements in Gas Stoves. By James Adams, M.D., L.KC.S.E., F.F.P.S.G., Late Examiner in Chemistry, Fac. Phys. and Surg., Glasg., Late President of the Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society, &c., &c., &c. [Read before the Society, March 17, 1880.] Twenty-five years ago I read to the Glasgow Medical Society a communication on heating by gas, and exhibited a stove made to my design. In my belief that stove sur2:)assed anything since open \ to public observation. But it was liable to drawbacks, which I then failed in overcoming, and I put aside my conception. I re- tained, nevertheless, the desire to see it realized, being sensible that I had made a substantial step in advance, and I have kept myself informed, and noted with interest all that has since been done in this connection. About eighteen months ago I re-entered with zest upon a practical investigation, feeling assured that the principles were sound that I had assumed for my guidance, and had practically embodied in my infant conception. I will now bring under your consideration a practical illustration of those principles. Coal gas is not of uniform composition. It is a mixture of gases and of vapours, the number, qualities, and proportions of which vary in every locality where coal gas is manufactured for public use. Its most abundant constituents are compounds of carbon and hydrogen—the latter forming the bulk of the mixture. However carefully manufactured, impurities are always present, which, together with the gaseous waste products of combustion, should never be permitted to accumulate in the air of dwelling apartments. When coal gas is burned its constituents are trans- formed into other gases and vapours. On this point there is much popular ignorance. Because no smoke, and no marked odour may be perceptible, it is assumed that the combustion has left behind it nothing injurious. There is a hazy conception that perfect combustion means something like practical annihilation. But in point of fact, the invisible, mal-odorous, inflammable gas, has been merely transformed into invisible, non-odorous, non-inflammable