LIEBIG, JUSTUS von. - THE ETHER THEORY OF LIEBIG.

Ueber die Constitution des Aethers und seiner Verbindungen.

Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1834. Without wrappers as issued in "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg.von Poggendorff", 1. Bd. (31. Bd. der Reihe), No. 21, 22 a. 23. Pp. 321-368. Liebig's paper: Titlepage to 1. Bd. pp. 321-360. Clean and fine.

First appearance - the paper was published at the same time in "Annalen der Pharmacie" - of an importent paper on Radicals in which he regards alcohol as a hydrate of the ethyl radical and ether as the oxide of the ethyl radical. The paper is also relevant for the discovery and development of ether as an anaesthesia.

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