Mayow Tractatus Quinque Medico-Physici

Phlogiston, he says. New heading, Emilie. Today we will replicate Mayow s experiment with gases as described in the Tractatus Quinque Medico-Physici His voice, like everything else about him, is worn thin. I spring into action, though I am still hurt about the owl. 

People turned their heads and looked at me with a mix of astonishment and annoyance. I am impressed, said Wepfer, that you have read a digest of Mayow s Tractatus Quinque Medico-Physici, but my dear lady. I m afraid it never does to believe that just because one has understood a particular detail everything else will be equally clear. Behind the most simple explanation is a world of experience, a lifetime s reading, not just a wet afternoon curled up with the latest journal. Laughter. The Archaeus, madam, is a much more plausible theory than that of Mayow, who believed that the invisible air around us could be divided into various parts. And he turned to the next questioner. 

John Mayow and Thomas Beddoes, Extracts from Tractatus quinque medico-physici... Studio Johannis Mayow Oxford, 1674, trans. anded. by Thomas Beddoes (Oxford and London, 1790) The Chemical Essays of Charles- William Scheele. Translatedfrom the Transactions of the Academy of Science at Stockholm, with additions by T. Beddoes London, 1786). 

In 1668 Mayow published two tracts dealing with respiration and rickets. These were revised in 1674 and published with three additional tracts to constitute the Tractatus Quinque MedicO Physici... P It is in this work that Mayow... 

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