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A Letter to Thomas Trotter, M.D., Occasioned by his Proposal for Destroying the Fire and Choak Damps of Coal Mines; Containing Chemical and General Strictures on that Work.


Book Description
[ii], 53, [1]pp., disbound.
Dealer Notes
Henry Dewar, physician to the Manchester Infirmary, critical attack of Thomas Trotter’s pamphlet which addressed the issue of coal miners dying underground and assessed ways of improving ventilation. Demar states “It might however be expected that any author who undertook the task should previously inform himself respecting the present state of coal mines, and collect the various effects relating to the formation and accumulation of noxious airs. It might also be expected that he should be fully acquainted with those parts of chemical and general science which are connected with his subject.”
Author
DEWAR (Henry)
Date
1805
Publisher
Manchester: Printed by C. Wheeler and Son,
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