Handbook of modern chemistry, inorganic and organic : for the use of students / by Charles Meymott Tidy.

  • Tidy, Charles Meymott, 1843-1892.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Handbook of modern chemistry, inorganic and organic : for the use of students / by Charles Meymott Tidy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    considered in detail. Thus, for example, under hydrogen (the last of the non-metals discussed), I have described all the com- pounds that it forms with the non-metals. ******** As regards notation, although I recognise great advantages in that suggested by Dr. Frankland, I am by no means prepared to abandon the old formulae. Under these circumstances I have, in the inorganic portion of the work, stated equations in both molecular and constitutional formula.* In the case of each metal I have drawn up a table of its most important compounds, their formulas, and such tabulated information respecting them as I thought might prove useful to the student. My first object in ^this book is that it should serve as a manual for students. As a medical man and a professor in a medical school, I have always made a special point of noting in my lectures the bearing of chemical science on medicine. This will account to the general student of chemistry for my discussing certain subjects in greater detail than is usual in similar works. Further, bearing in mind the special knowledge required of medical officers of health in dealing with nuisances arising from various trade operations, I have given the outlines (limited of course to the strictly scientific details) of most manufacturing processes, and the chemical reactions involved in the same. To cure a nuisance is more scientific than to annihilate a manu- factory, and to suggest the cure we must accurately understand the case. * In this edition, as stated in the Dedication, the constitutional formulsa have been omitted.