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Excerpt from Inhalation, Its Therapeutics and Practice: A Treatise on the Inhalation of Gases, Vapors, Nebulized Fluids, and Powders; Including a Description of the Apparatus Employed, and a Record of Numerous Experiments, Physiological and Pathological, With Cases
Thus the discovery of oxygen by Priestly and Scheele in the middle of the last century, led to experiments upon the economy with different kinds of air, and atmospheres noxious and innocuous were pressed into the service of therapeutics.
Then, early In the present century, the discovery Of the peculiar properties of chlorine and iodine, led anew to examination of the physical properties of volatile substances; and the inhalations of resinous materials, of narcotics, &c., were again brought into medical requisition.
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