Author: DOBSON (Matthew)
Title: A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air: Particularly, I. On the different methods of procuring and administring fixed air. II. On its sensible effects in health, taken internally. III. On its effects in diseases of the putrid class. IV. On putresaction, the putrid effluvium, and the means of correcting the putrid effluvium. V. On the effects of fixed air, on the putrefactive process, and on the putrid effluvium. VI. On the use of fixed air in cachexies and phagedenic ulcers. VII. In some diseases of the stomach. VIII. In the stone and gravel. IX. On the disposition to the stone in the cyder counties, compared with some other parts of England. X. On the noxious effects of fixed air.
Description: Chester: Printed by J. Monk, 1779. First edition, [6], 198pp., with half-title, faint stamp to title-page, recent half-calf, marbled boards, spine decorated in blind with red morocco title label lettered in gilt. "As indicated by the title, the first section deals with the preparation of fixed air and the methods used to impregnate water with it. The properties of fixed air are found in references scattered throughout the text. The works of Black, Priestly, Cavendish, Brownrigg and others are cited."—Cole. Cole, Chemical Literature 1700-1860, 374; Partington, History of Chemistry, Vol. III, p. 689; Duveen, pp. 175-76.

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