Das Lachgas: eine chemisch-kultur-historische Studie

Abstract

HABITUES of the Royal Institution, and especially those who have interested themselves in its early history, are aware of the existence of a characteristically coarse caricature of Gillray's entitled “Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! Or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air,” which first appeared in 1802, and is stated by Wright and Evans, who published in 1851 a descriptive account of Gillray's cartoons, to represent Dr. Garnett, the first professor of chemistry in the Royal Institution, administering, with the aid of his assistant, Humphry Davy, what is presumably laughing-gas to Sir John C. Hippesley, a noted patron of the Institution and prominent as a manager, with results disquieting to his “interpal economy,” and disastrous to “That garment there rude to do more than allude to,” as Thomas Ingoldsby says.

Das Lachgas: eine chemisch-kultur-historische Studie.

By Prof. Ernst Cohen. Pp. iv + 99. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907.) Price 3.60 mark