Experimental essays on medical and philosophical subjects : particularly, I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures, and digestion of the food. II. On the nature and properties of fixed air. III. On the respective powers, and manner of acting, of the different kinds of antiseptics. IV. On the scurvy ; with a proposal for trying new methods to prevent or cure the same, at sea. V. On the dissolvent power of quick-lime ; and a further investigation of the properties of fixed air / by David Macbride, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macbride, David, 1726-1778.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fermentation.

Carbon dioxide.

Antiseptics.

Scurvy.

Lime.

Physical Description:

viii, 218 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 8 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of folded plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The second edition, enlarged and cor.

Other Title:

Experimental essays on the following subjects

Place of Publication:

Dublin : T. Ewing, [1767]

Notes:

First published in 1764 as 'Experimental essays on the following subjects'.

The postscript has separate pagination.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Cited in:

ESTC T121337

OCLC:

29169171