Remarks on Mr. Robert Dossie's Institutes of experimental chemistry.

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1760
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Credit: Remarks on Mr. Robert Dossie's Institutes of experimental chemistry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nitrous and marine ; greater to fixt alkalies than to lime or metal?, and greater to phlo- gifton than to any other of the bodies enume¬ rated, both which are true or falfe according to the circumftances of application. Even the deflagration of nitre with inflammable fubftances, than which nothing feems to bid fairer for a general principle, is, in our author’s fenfe, by no means luch : For if the nitre be melted, and a certain proportion of lome inflammable matters, as antimony freed from a part of its fulphur, be immerfed in it, no deflagration will enfue, Our author, difre- garding fuch particular circumflances, and depending on the univerfaliry cf the principle, aflerts falfly, that nitre cannot be melted in veffels made of the deflagrable metals, and that the empyrical fever powder is the fame with diaphoretic antimony ; * the contrary cf which is obvious from common experience, the fever powder proving generally purgative or emetic, which diaphoretic antimrny is never obferved to do. Nothing can be more dangerous in chemiftry than this fpirit cf generalizing. * Vol. i. Page 241. B a Thi
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