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Excerpt from Remarks on the Gaseous Oxyd of Azote or of Nitrogene, and on the Effects It Produces When Generated in the Stomach, Inhaled Into the Lungs, and Applied to the Skin: Being an Attempt to Ascertain the True Nature of Contagion, and to Explain Thereupon the Phenomena of Fever
In the fecond number of the Recberclzes Pby fico C/zymigues, publifhed at Amfierdam, an ac count is given, which confirms the faéts related by Prieflley. For this gafeous oxyd was oh tained by expofing nitrous gas for three days over water to the afiion of wetted iron filings; by the fubtraé'tion of part ofthe oxygene of mi trous gas; by the moifiened fulphures of pot afb and foda; by the muriate of tin; and by ammoniac with a bit of copper in it: it is relat ed alfo, that folutions of iron and tin in ex tremely diluted nitric acid, afford this gafeous oxyd, and that the nitrate of ammoniac heated after mixture with three times it quantity of (and, gives toward the end of the operation a large quantity of it.
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