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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. 



CJiief Works consulted. — Brand e's 'Manual of Chemistry' — Intro- 

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

 Jiloderns to discoveries in Chemistry and Physiology,' 1 798 ; Birch's 

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



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