[16] Memoirs of the Academy for 1729.
[17] Mr. Rouelle, whom I have had occasion to mention several times in this work with the honour which he deserves, and with whom I went through a course of Chymistry, when I was a Student in Medicine. It must be observed, to the praise of this ingenious Artist, that he is the first Frenchman that ever gave Courses of Chymistry. In these he explains the operations according to the true and sound Theory of the Science, drawn from the writings of Beccher, Stahl, Juncker, Boyle, Boerhaave, Hoffman, and many other excellent Chymists, whom it would be tedious to mention here, as well as from the Memoirs of the most celebrated Academies, particularly those of the Academy of Sciences at Paris.
[18] Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences for 1712.
Transcriber's Notes
Obvious typographical errors, including missing punctuation have been corrected and hyphenation has been standardised, but variations in spelling in the original have been retained.
Chap. II., Part II., Section I. is wrongly headed Chap. I. in the text. This has been corrected.
A reference to Mr. Fifes, on page 518, could possibly be Mr. Fises.
On page 547 "fit for the use of Surgeons, who apply it to eat away callosities and excrescences, and to open issues." issues has been changed to tissues.
Colophony, 462 has been placed in correct alphabetical order in the index.
Illustrations and Index have been added to the Table of Contents.