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Picture No 10190119
Date 1577 - 1644
Description J B VAN HELMONT
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JEAN BAPTISTE van HELMONT Belgian medical, chemist who innovated the word 'gas' for something which is like air but is more ghostlike (gas and ghost are much the same word)
Source engraving by an unnamed artist reproduced in 'Apostles of physiology' page 58
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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