THE CONTENTS.
The INTRODUCTION.
Section I. A general view of preceding Discoveries relating to Air Page [1]
Sect. II. An Account of the Apparatus with which the following Experiments were made [6]
PART I.
Experiments and Observations made in, and before the Year 1772. [23]
Sect. I. Of Fixed Air [25]
Sect. II. Of Air in which a Candle, or Brimstone, has burned out [43]
Sect. III. Of inflammable Air [55]
Sect. IV. Of Air infected with Animal Respiration, or Putrefaction [70]
Sect. V. Of Air in which a mixture of Brimstone and Filings of Iron has stood [105]
Sect. VI. Of Nitrous Air [108]
Sect. VII. Of Air infected with the fumes of burning Charcoal [129]
Sect. VIII. Of the effect of the calcination of Metals, and of the effluvia of Paint made with White-Lead and Oil, on Air [133]
Sect. IX. Of Marine Acid Air [143]
Sect. X. Miscellaneous Observations [154]
PART II.
Experiments and Observations made in the Year 1773, and the Beginning of 1774.
Sect. I. Observations on Alkaline Air [163]
Sect. II. Of common Air diminished, and made noxious by various processes [177]
Sect. III. Of Nitrous Air [203]
Sect. IV. Of Marine Acid Air [229]
Sect. V. Of Inflammable Air [242]
Sect. VI. Of Fixed Air [248]
Sect. VII. Miscellaneous Experiments [252]
Sect. VIII. Queries, Speculations, and Hints [258]
The APPENDIX.
Number I. Experiments made by Mr. Hey to prove that there is no Oil of Vitriol in water impregnated with Fixed Air [288]
Number II. A Letter from Mr. Hey to Dr. Priestley, concerning the effects of fixed Air applied by way of Clyster [292]
Number III. Observations on the Medicinal Uses of Fixed Air. By Thomas Percival, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries in London [300]
Number IV. Extract of a Letter from William Falconer, M. D. of Bath [314]
Number V. Extract of a Letter from Mr. William Bewley, of Great Massingham, Norfolk [317]
Num. VI. A Letter from Dr. Franklin [321]
Number VII. Extract of Letter from Mr. Henry of Manchester [323]