A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and ... use / [Thomas Garnett].

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802
Date:
1822
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Credit: A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and ... use / [Thomas Garnett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with water inverted into the well, with a fun- nel in it’s mouth to catch the bubbles as they rise. I found that this air exactly correspond- ed in it’s properties, with that which I pro- cured from the drinking sulphur well. From the wells in the bog L afterwards collected a Jarge quantity of this gas, and made a num- ber of experiments with it, which though made some time after these I have just related, and those which will soon follow, yet will, per- haps, be best introduced here. Exper. IX. Aboat forty cubic inches of this gas were put into a wide-mouthed jar, anda sparrow introduced; it immediately showed signs of great uneasiness, in less than a minute was seized with convulsions, and expired in little more than two minutes. A- nother sparrow was allowed to remain in the same quantity of common air for 10 min- utes, without showing any signs of un- easiness. Exper. X. Four cubic inches of this gas were mixed with two of nitrous gas, in a gra- duated tube, but though they stood mixed bo)