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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation, Shewing in What Manner Pestilential Vapours Acquire Their Acid Quality, and How This Is Neutralized and Destroyed by Alkalies: Submitted to the Public Examination of the Faculty of Physic, Under the Authority of the Trustees of Columbia College, in the State of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL. D. President, for the Degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 2d Day of May, 1798
The products which obtain, on the decompofi tion of vegetables, are nearly the fame with thofe of animals; except that the compounds, into which fepton, fulphur, and phofphorus enter, are not (0 often formed; nor are the feptic compounds pro duced in lo great ple ty, owing to a lefs quantity of fepton in the latte than in the former fubftan ces; - the greater part of vegetables containing little or none, though others are furnifhed plenti fully with it. Vegetable fubf'tances, though liable to undergo diforganization, are not fo much (0 as animal 3 their order of compofition being lofs com plex: neither do they afford fo much feptous gas when aéted upon by the feptic acid, nor contribute in fo eminent a degree to the formation of this acid. Thefe different appearances between the two fub Frances, and the more rapid decay of animal bodies, feem todepend on the prefence of one elementary principle only, namely, fepton, being in a greater(6)
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