Davy H. Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or dephlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration, 1800.

Catalog Record: Davy H. Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or dephlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration, 1800.

Title: Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or dephlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration / by Humphry Davy.

AccessKey: advo

Author: Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Author: Lowry, Wilson, 1762-1824, illustrator.

WLM Call Number: QD 3 D268r 1800 RB

Accession NO.: Copy 1, RB7812 ; Copy 2, RB9045

Publisher: London : Printed for J. Johnson … by Biggs and Cottle, 1800.

Physical Description: xvi, 580 p. : 1 leaf of plate ; 22 cm.

Provenance: Inscribed on title page of copy 1, “Charles G. Noel, 1835.” ; Copy 2
with bookplates of Ralph M. Waters, Stodart, and John Farquhar Fulton.

Subject: Nitrous Oxide.

Type of Trace: Alt. Title
Title: Research I concerning the analysis of nitric acid and nitrous gas, and
the production of nitrous oxide.

Abstract: “Davy discovered the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide and
suggested its use during surgical operations …”–Garrison-Morton.

General Notes: This work comprises volume III of “The Collected works of Sir Humphry
Davy, Bart.” See call number QD 3 D268 1839 RB v.3.

General Notes: Engraved plate of scientific apparatus by [Wilson] Lowry.

General Notes: With a final page of errata and advertisements.

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics November 30, 2011. c.1

General Notes: Half title: Research I concerning the analysis of nitric acid and
nitrous gas, and the production of nitrous oxide.

General Notes: Copy 1 donated to the Wood Library Museum by Dr. Charles C. Tandy, M.D.,
Dallas, Texas, 12/20/1978. Copy 2 donated to the Wood Library Museum
by Darwin D. Waters, MD, 6/26/1990.

Note Bib: Footnotes.