 | 1926 - 640 pages
...salutary to the lungs in certain cases ; it might be a very useful medicine. . . . Although we might live out too fast and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air." Once more oxyge.n had been discovered physiologically, and for the second time it had been given an... | |
 | Robert Hill (SC.D.) - 1970 - 278 pages
...from oxide of mercury. He realized that the common air was less pure. Partington (1957) quotes him: 'the air which Nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve'. Later, Priestley showed, by using his 'nitrous air' (nitric oxide), how to determine the amount of... | |
 | Bernard Jaffe - 1976 - 388 pages
..."For as a candle burns out much faster in this air than in common air, so we might live out too fast. A moralist at least may say that the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." Priestley kept testing the purity of his newly discovered gas. He found it to be "even between five... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham, Roger French - 1990 - 346 pages
...dephlogisticated air might be very useful as a medicine', even if too powerful in common measure: 'a moralist may say that the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve.'" This mixture of utility, technology and pneumatics won adherents. Magellan told Priestley that the... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1990 - 512 pages
...dephlogisticated air might be very useful as a medicine," even if too powerful in common measure: "a moralist may say that the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." 39 (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1980), 62-91; for the "aerial economy," see H. Laboucheix,... | |
 | Dipak K. Das - 1992 - 534 pages
...candle burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as might be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air." Bert, in 1874, was the first to scientifically document the toxicity of oxygen. It has been well documented... | |
 | S. Tsuyoshi Ohnishi, Tomoko Ohnishi - 1995 - 610 pages
...1995a). W. HBO THERAPY The philosophical and moral point view of Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen, was that "the air which nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve" (Gilbert, 1981). The 19th and 20th century biologist ignored "nature morality" and tried to apply artificial... | |
 | Tomris Özben - 1998 - 416 pages
...much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air. so we might. as may be said. live out too fasr. and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air" (Priestly. 19061. It was not until 1954 (Gerschman et al.. 1954; Gerschman. 19S1l that it was proposed... | |
 | Joe Schwarcz - 2005 - 291 pages
...candle burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air." Today we realize that oxygen of course is necessary for life, but inhaling it also results in the production... | |
 | Daniel Mathieu - 2006 - 846 pages
...candle burns out much faster in dephogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted...nature has provided for us is as good as we deserve." The awareness to the toxicity of oxygen had fully emerged with the widespread use of high oxygen pressure... | |
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... it might not be so proper for us in the usual healthy state of the body : for, as a candle burns out much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in... 
