Volume 2

Elements of chemistry / By M.I.A. Chaptal ; translated from the French [by W. Nicholson] In three volumes.

  • Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude, 1756-1832.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Elements of chemistry / By M.I.A. Chaptal ; translated from the French [by W. Nicholson] In three volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * not noxious; and it has fuch an analogy with our organs, that it appears to conftitute one of the elements of the human frame. Its efte&s in general confift in firengthening the ftomach; and it appears to poffefs the property of palling in the circulation under the form of æthiops. The valuable experiments of Mr. Menghini, publifhed in the Memoirs of the Inftitute of Bologna, have proved that the blood of per- fons who take martial remedies is thicker, and contains more iron. Mr. Lorry obfcrved that the urine of a lick perfon, to whom he admi- niftered iron in a (fate of extreme division, was manifcftly coloured with the nut-gaii. / A ~ ~ ^ — CHAP. XL Concerning Copper. ? COPPER is a reddifh metal, hard, elas- tic, fonorous, and affording a difagreeable fmcll by friefion. Its taffe is ifyptic, and nau- feous. One cubic foot of copper weighs five hundred and forty-five pounds. The fpecific gravity