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    John Mayow FRS (1641–1679) was a chemist, physician, and physiologist who is remembered today for conducting early research into respiration and the nature...
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  • Mayow may refer to: Mayow Park in Sydenham, London, England John Mayow (1641–1679), British chemist, physician, and physiologist William Mayow, 16th century...
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    impossible. In 1670, English scientist John Mayow came up with the idea of external negative pressure ventilation. Mayow built a model consisting of bellows...
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    Robert Boyle proved that air is necessary for combustion. English chemist John Mayow (1641–1679) refined this work by showing that fire requires only a part...
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  • others, a group of chemists at Oxford, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke and John Mayow began to reshape the old alchemical traditions into a scientific discipline...
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  • philosopher Albertus Magnus near the year 1250. Later, those as Robert Boyle, John Mayow, Johann Glauber, Isaac Newton, and Georg Stahl put forward ideas on elective...
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    institution in London and included such scientists as John Wallis, William Brouncker, Thomas Sydenham, John Mayow, and Christopher Wren (who contributed not only...
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    These included Christopher Brookes (mathematician and instrument-maker), John Mayow (a distinguished chemist and physician), Lawrence Rooke (later astronomy...
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    the first Dutch book on child medicine. Blankaart translated works of John Mayow. Blankaart was the son of Nicolaas Blankaart, a professor in Greek and...
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  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is granted a royal charter. John Mayow gives the first known description of mitral stenosis. May 15 – The Canal...
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    painter. Algernon Talmage was born in Fifield, Oxfordshire, the son of Rev. John Mayow Talmage, a clergyman of Cornish stock. During his childhood, Talmage got...
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  • Grosses et Accouchées in Paris, a key text in scientific obstetrics. John Mayow publishes a tract on respiration in Oxford, recognising "spiritus nitro-aereus"...
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  • Benjamin Silliman, Robert Boyle, Girolamo Fracastoro, Richard Lower, John Mayow, Kenelm Digby, and Joseph Priestley.: 562  Fulton also discovered early...
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    Festival". BMJ. 1 (2006): 1432–1433. 1899. PMC 2462689. PMID 20758531. "Dr. John Mayow : the Harveian oration for 1899". Archive.org. 2023. Retrieved 4 December...
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    Rashleigh, wife of William Martin of Totnes in Devon Joan Rashleigh, wife of John Mayow of Looe, Cornwall Avis Rashleigh, wife of James Kestell Joan Rashleigh...
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  • Andrews P. J. Marshall, historian of the British empire in the 18th century John Mayow, chemist, physician, and physiologist Alister McGrath, Christian apologist...
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  • played for and managed Cornish teams John Mayow (1641–1679), physiologist Rory McGrath (born 1956), comedian John Drew Mackenzie (1861–1918), painter and...
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  • blood transfusion pioneer John Mayow, physiologist William Noye of Paul, entomologist Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist John Ralfs, botanist Edward...
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  • physiology and medicine. In his ‘Animal Heat’ Peart revives the idea of John Mayow that animal combustion takes place in the substance of the muscle and...
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  • Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) the Swiss mathematician and physician, John Mayow (1641–79), who had devised the 'gunpowder theory' of muscle function....
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  • presence of common salt in blood, and supported to some extent the views of John Mayow and Richard Lower on the change of colour of blood in air. He repeated...
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    vicar of St Michael's, Southampton, and Elizabeth Ursula, daughter of Mayow Wynell-Mayow, rector of Southam, Warwickshire, and head of a Cornwall landed gentry...
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    higher medical degree, and his ideas were later taken up, by Boyle and John Mayow. On the English Restoration in 1660, he reverted to a career in the church...
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    dass Johann Mayow von hundert Jahren den Grund zur antiphlogistischen Chemie und Physiologie gelegt hat, 1793 – Evidence that John Mayow had laid the...
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  • had settled at Bedford. In it he called attention to the experiments of John Mayow, whose merits Thomas Beddoes had discovered two years before. It was uncritical...
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  • 26 July 1994 Thomas Mayo 1835-06-04 24 January 1790 – 13 January 1871 John Mayow 1678-11-30 24 May 1640 – October 1679 Guillaume Mazeas 1752-05-28 2 August...
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  • list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in its 19th year, 1678. John Mayow (1640–1679) David Hannisius (d. 1681) Joseph Moxon (1627–1691) Walter...
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    Beddoes (1760–1808), a fellow medical student who dedicated his book of John Mayow’s (1640–1679) work on air and respiration to Goodwyn. Goodwyn dedicated...
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  • September – John Mayow, chemist and physiologist (born 1643) 2 September – Thomas Modyford, colonial governor (born c. 1620) 29 September – John Manners,...
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    St Johns is a district around the station of the same name in south-east London. It lies within the Borough of Lewisham and borders the Royal Borough...
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