 | Arabella Burton Buckley - 1893 - 548 pagini
...breathed it also into his own chest he felt singularly light and easy for some time afterwards. f ' 'Who can tell,' he writes, 'whether this pure air...Mayow had, for he had collected it separately, had shown that it is the gas which supports combustion, and had breathed it without other air being mixed... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1894 - 406 pagini
...afterwards. Who can tell but that in time this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it. ... But, perhaps, we may also infer from these experiments, that though pure dephlogisticated air might... | |
 | William Ramsay - 1896 - 274 pagini
...afterwards. Who can tell but that in time this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury ? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." 1 It will be seen from this account that Priestley's work was to some extent that of an amateur. He... | |
 | 1900 - 1072 pagini
...singularly light and easy for some time after. "Who can tell," he writes, "whether this pure air may not become a fashionable luxury. As yet, only two mice...and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." It is only of recent years that the great value of the inhalation of oxygen gas has been recognized... | |
 | William Stirling - 1902 - 210 pagini
...Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury ? Hitherto, only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." S There is another historical investigation of Priestley's, and a very practical — at least extensively... | |
 | Ronald Campbell Macfie - 1909 - 364 pagini
...afterwards. Who can tell but that in time this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto, only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Scheele was a greater chemist than Priestley, and had obtained oxygen a year earlier than this English... | |
 | Forris Jewett Moore - 1918 - 356 pagini
...Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." We have seen that Priestley called the gas he had discovered dephlogisticated air, his idea being that... | |
 | Walter Libby - 1922 - 466 pagini
...can tell," he writes, "but in time this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Before the end of the century the investigations of Priestley, Scheele, and others inspired Dr. Thomas... | |
 | 1922 - 1022 pagini
...afterward. Who can tell but that in time this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury ? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Fig. 2. Priestle'y. From an engraving of a portrait by Gilbert Stuart. pired air thus : "It will follow... | |
 | Joseph Mayer - 1927 - 540 pagini
...afterwards. Who can tell but that in time this pure air may become a fashionable article of luxury? Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it." Fortunately oxygen has not become a luxury for the rich. Its administration in cases of extreme exhaustion... | |
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The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air ; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in... 
