Article ID: CBB000932258

His Majesty's Subjects: From Laboratory to Human Experiment in Pneumatic Chemistry (2009)

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Stewart, Larry R. (Author)


Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 63
Pages: 231--245


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue.
Language: English

Experiments in pneumatic chemistry paved the way for medical innovation in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Thomas Beddoes and James Watt were instrumental in the spread of the use of new gas chemistry in pneumatic therapy, but they were far from alone. There was no shortage of experimental subjects, as the practice was quickly taken up by medics throughout Britain.

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Authors & Contributors
Levere, Trevor H.
Torrens, Hugh S.
Tomory, Leslie
Stewart, Larry R.
Chalmers, Alan Francis
Wachelder, Joseph
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Chemical Heritage
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Thoemmes
Routledge
Johns Hopkins University
House of Stratus
Concepts
Chemistry
Medicine
Pneumatic chemistry
Biographies
Human experimentation
Science and politics
People
Beddoes, Thomas
Davy, Humphry
Moritz Karl Philipp
Brownrigg. William
Watt, James
Priestley, Joseph
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Bristol (England)
Bath (England)
Italy
Germany
France
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Bristol Pneumatic Institute
Lunar Society of Birmingham (England)
Oxford University
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