Medical and chemical essays : Containing: Additional observations on scurvy, with cases and miscellaneous facts in reply to Dr. Beddoes, and others ... Communications from New South Wales, on scurvy and other intereting subjects. The case of a blue boy belonging to His Majesty's ship London ... Thoughts on the decomposition of water, and a method of preserving it pure and sweet in long voyages ... / by Thomas Trotter.

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1795
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Credit: Medical and chemical essays : Containing: Additional observations on scurvy, with cases and miscellaneous facts in reply to Dr. Beddoes, and others ... Communications from New South Wales, on scurvy and other intereting subjects. The case of a blue boy belonging to His Majesty's ship London ... Thoughts on the decomposition of water, and a method of preserving it pure and sweet in long voyages ... / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the new doCtrines of chemiftry, fo as to en- able me to apply them with exaCtnefs to the difeafe on which I was treating. There were, moreover, none of my acquaintance on the fpot, that troubled themfelves with the difcoveries of the French chemifts, fo that from this quarter I was to receive no afiiltance. Under thefe difadvantages, and from the work itfelf being hurried through the prefs, in a few weeks from the time, I firft began to compile it, fome miftakes had crept in, that were foon detected by myfelf, and did not efcape Dr. Beddoes, and others. This is particularly the cafe, where I men- tion the attraction of oxygene for the dif- ferent radicals; and thus, I certainly mif- underflood the table in the Methods hJo?ncn- clature Chemique. My knowledge of the French language is very imperfeCt ; but the overfight jult noticed, had little to do in lupport of my general opinions. I Dr.