Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 701.5

GEORG ERNST STAHL (1660-1734) Opusculum chymico-physico-medicum. typis & impensis O. Trophei 1715 1st edition. 4 p. l., 3-856, [38] p. front. (port.). 22 cm.

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“This work includes the Zymotechnia Fundamentalis, in which is to be found the first statement of the phlogiston theory and also Stahl’s theory of fermentation.” (Duveen, 559-560). Stahl’s phlogiston theory became a generally accepted chemical doctrine until its overthrow by Lavoisier. His ideas on fermentation appear again and again in subsequent works on fermentation and resemble the theory of Liebig which prevailed in the 19th century. This collection also contains Stahl’s important writings on assaying.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.