The Elements of Medical Chemistry: Embracing Only Those Branches of Chemical Science which are Calculated to Illustrate Or Explain the Different Objects of Medicine, and to Furnish a Chemical Grammar to the Author's Pharmacologia |
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Page iii - Alas ! What an inconsiderable creature am I in this prodigious ocean of waters ! My existence is of no concern to the universe ; I am reduced to a kind of nothing, and am less than the least of the works of God.
Page 126 - ... till it crystallizes on cooling. Alter the position of every crystal, once at least every day, with a glass rod, that all the faces may be alternately exposed to the action of the liquid ; for the face on which the crystal rests never receives any increase.
Page 125 - The salt to be crystallized is to be dissolved in water, and evaporated to such a consistency that it shall crystallize on cooling. Set it by, and when quite cold pour the liquid part off the mass of crystals at the bottom, and put it into a flat-bottomed vessel.
Page 212 - I / vapour playing on the bottom of the capsules heats them to any required temperature ; and being itself continually condensed, it runs back into the kettle to be raised again in ceaseless cohobation. With a shade above to screen the vapour chest from soot, the kettle may be placed over a common fire. The orifices not in use are closed with tin lids. In drying precipitates, the tube of a glass funnel may be corked and placed with its filter directly into the opening of a proper size.
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Page 373 - ... instantly ; and its deadly agency is rapidly exerted when put in contact with any of the tissues of the body, through which it penetrates with astonishing rapidity. Even when mixed with a portion of air, it has proved immediately destructive. Dr. Paris refers to the case of a chemist of his acquaintance, who was suddenly deprived of sense as he stood over a pneumatic trough in which he was collecting this gas. From the experiments of Dupuytren and Thenard, air that contains a thousandth part...
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| Title | The Elements of Medical Chemistry: Embracing Only Those Branches of Chemical Science which are Calculated to Illustrate Or Explain the Different Objects of Medicine, and to Furnish a Chemical Grammar to the Author's Pharmacologia |
| Author | John Ayrton Paris |
| Publisher | Collins & Hannay, 1825 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 471 pages |
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