Year: 1869
Type: editorial
Abstract: We published, in No. 3 (Feb.1st.) of the Journal, a translation of the splendid generalization of Dr. Rabuteau, termed, by him, the Thermic Law, and its application to the biatomic metalloids.Dr. Rabuteau has extended his investi gations upon this subject to \he monoatomic metalloids.This law, as applied by Dr. Rabuteau to the former group of bodies, and determining for them a therapeutic activity in direct ratio to their atomic weights, or, what is the same thing, in the inverse ratio to their specific heat, had been already applied to certain of the latter, by Bouchardat and Stuart Cooper, who discovered that chlorine is more active than bromine, and the latter than iodine.M. Rabuteau has demonstrated that fluorine satisfies this law, for the flu orides are the most active of all the monoatomic metalloid compounds.He has determined, moreover, that the fluor * Etude experimentatale sur les effets physiolo composes metalliques en general.Paris, 1857.-'
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Language: Spanish
Subfield: Physiology (medical)
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
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