Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de humore acido a cibis orto, et magnesia alba... Bound as the third item in a sammelband with eight other medical dissertations listed below

by Joseph Black

$185,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh: G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1754. First edition of one of the greatest rarities in the history of science, the discovery of carbon dioxide and the foundation work of quantitative chemical analysis. “There is perhaps no other instance of a graduation thesis so weighted with significant novelty as Black’s ‘De humore acido a cibis orto, et magnesia alba’ presented to the Faculty, 11 June, 1754”

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