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EPFfiCT OF THK NITROUS OXIDE. 



1il«rary and other fubjefls, lo be depofited as the property, 

 or, entered into the books of the fociety ; and afterwards 

 publifljed in fach manner as the fociety may diredl. 



Should any of the friends of fcience in Invernefs, Banff, 

 Peterhead, or other places, be defirous of eftabliftiing fimilaf 

 inftitutions, we will moft chearfully furnifii them with a copy 

 of our plan and regulations. 



We have a fincere wilh to fee every encouragement given 

 to undertakings fo laudable and beneficial, and have with this 

 view made the prefent communication, to give publicity to 

 ours through the medium of your excellent Journal. The in- 

 fertion of the above will oblige, Sir, 

 With refpea. 



Your humble fervant, 



ALEX. CROMBIE, Pre*. 

 Aberdeen, Januarj/ 2, 1 80G. 



XIV. 



Letter from Mr. James Stodart, in Anfvser to a ^uefiion 

 concerning the Effect of the Nitrous Oxide, propojed by Dr. 

 Btddoes, 



To Mr. NICHOLSON, 

 Dear Sib, 



A-JR. Beddoe*:, in a paper on the medical effecl of refpiring Qiir y^^^l^??' 



the nitrous oxide, publiflied in the lall number of your Jour-j^g^^Q^ji jj-^.^. 



nal, refers to an account I formerly gave of fome unpleafanted previous to 



and rather alarming fenfalions experienced after inhaling that ^" f'^^wJ"" 

 " • " convenience 



gas. He attributes the whole to hyfteria or nervous afieclion; from rtitrous 

 at the fame time fignifying a wilh that I would fiate whether °*"^^* 

 or not that was really the cafe. In anfwer to this I have only Reply- ttiat 

 to obferve, that if any fuch predifpofition tohyfteria did exift, 

 it was wholly unknown to me. My general ftale of health 

 was as ufual ; nor had any thing occurred particularly to affeft ^ ' 

 the mind. I had often inhaled the nitrous oxide under cir- -oi n.-sjai^c^ 

 cumftances in every refpeft fimilar (at lead as far a? I can ar^J*K«i»-. 

 judge) and till thai time, fo far from experiencing any thing 



like 



