. 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. guished chemists of Great Britain have sprung fromthe middle or lower ranks of the people, but two of the most famous of them, the Boyle and the Hon. Henry Cavendish, were men of illustrious lineage, andCavendish was much the more high-born of the two. Twelve years after the publication of Blacks paper, in 1766, Cavendish pub-lished the first essay on Factitious Airs. He took up the investigation of
. 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. guished chemists of Great Britain have sprung fromthe middle or lower ranks of the people, but two of the most famous of them, the Boyle and the Hon. Henry Cavendish, were men of illustrious lineage, andCavendish was much the more high-born of the two. Twelve years after the publication of Blacks paper, in 1766, Cavendish pub-lished the first essay on Factitious Airs. He took up the investigation of fixed airwhere Black and his pupils had left it, and examined in particular its properties when free,on which Black had published scarcely anything. The operations of his intellectual powers exhibit a degree of caution—carendo tutusis the motto of the family—almost unparalleled in the annals of science, for there isscarcely a single instance in which he had occasion to retrace his steps or to recall hisopinions. (Three Papers containing Experiments on Factitious Air, Phil. Trans. 1766,p. 141.) It had been observed by Boyle, that some kinds of air were unfit for respiration :. < OQDCU mO
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