. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. < OQDCU mO. ( 67 ) and Hooke and Mayow had looked still further forward into futurity with propheticglances, which seem to have been soon lost and forgotten by the inattention or want ofcandour of their successors. Hales had made many experiments on gases, but withoutsufficiently distinguishing their different kinds or even being fully aware that fixed airwas essentially different from the common atmosphere.
. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. < OQDCU mO. ( 67 ) and Hooke and Mayow had looked still further forward into futurity with propheticglances, which seem to have been soon lost and forgotten by the inattention or want ofcandour of their successors. Hales had made many experiments on gases, but withoutsufficiently distinguishing their different kinds or even being fully aware that fixed airwas essentially different from the common atmosphere. . Dr. Seip had suggestedthat the gas which stagnated in some caverns near Pyrmont was the cause of the brisk-ness of the water. . Dr. Black in 1755 had explained the operation of this liquidin rendering the earths and alkalies mild. Such was the state of pneumatic chemistrywhen Mr. Cavendish began these experimental researches. His paper (Experiments onAir, Phil Trans. 1784, p. 119), contains an account of two of the greatest discoveries inchemistry that have ever yet been made public—the composition of water and that ofnitric acid, and in that of 1785 (p. 372), he showed that nearl
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