CHEMICAL FORMULAE. “Fourcroy was insistent that “Almost all vegetable substances are composed of three primitive principles known as hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. It’s by the diverse proportions of these three principles that the various plant materials differ.” The goal of the new pharmacy was to place vegetable chemistry on the same footing as mineral chemistry by accounting for its materials in terms of their elemental composition.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2020.1867786
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022