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

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

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    The author prefume^ that hthas gone much farther in the inveftigation of the general principles, on which nature conducts her opera¬ tions in the minuter parts of the Jyflemjhan any . writings already puhlifhed lead\ He feems heie to have an eye to the theories, or rather reveries, about animals and vegetable?; as that of putrid ferments in the blood ; of vital ferments transfufed from birds to the - . v f ' V * • ’ ‘ , |V.‘ j f vt egg, and there lying inveloped in particular veffels ; and the projed of explaining the phenomena of the animal and vegetable ceconomy>from the water, fait, phlogifton and earth, into which the parts of animals and vegetables are refolved by putrefadion and by fire. The author himfelf admits, that by this ultimate refolution or deftrudior), nearly all the diffeient parts of all animals and vegetables are reduced into the fame principles : How then can we deduce, from thole principles, even their obvious grofs dif¬ ferences from one another? much lefs their different adions in the body of the living fubjed. The fame heat which liquifies the glutinous matter of the animal folids, coagu¬ lates that of the fluids ; and what water, fait.
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