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. The second edition, enlarged and corrected. Illustrated with copper-plates. By David Macbride, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacBride, David, 1726-1778.

Standardized Title:

Experimental essays on the following subjects

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiseptics--Early works to 1800.

Antiseptics.

Carbon dioxide--Early works to 1800.

Carbon dioxide.

Fermentation--Early works to 1800.

Fermentation.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,218,[4],8p.,tables,plates )

Other Title:

Experimental essays on medical and philosophical subjects

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed for Thomas Ewing In Dame-Street, M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]

Notes:

The postscript has separate pagination.

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

Braces in imprint.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T121337.

OCLC:

642324915