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for nearly a hundred years, and Mayow's true explanation 

 was forgotten till the eighteenth century, when fresh experi- 

 ments proved Stahl's theory to be false. 



Chief Works consulted. Brande's 'Manual of Chemistry' Intro- 

 duction ; Rodwell's ' Birth of Chemistry ; ' Yeats ' On Claims of 

 Moderns to discoveries in Chemistry and Physiology,' 1798; Birch's 

 ' Life of Boyle,' 1744 ; Shaw's ' Philosophical Works of Boyle,' 1725. 



