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Previous | Home | NextWe are promised medical benefits! In the early 1720s, a famous spa doctor Johann Philip Seip built vaults where people could sit and enjoy the "curative" effects of the carbon dioxide gas. He was careful to instruct the patients to keep their heads up in fresh air (he noticed that animals died if they crawled into the vaults). He thought the vapors were "sulfur vapors" but with the study of "fixed air" by Joseph Black of Edinburgh it became apparent what the true nature of the gas was.
