Notes on essential oils : with special reference to their use, composition, chemistry, and analysis / by T.H.W. Idris.

  • Idris, T. H. W.
Date:
[1900?]
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Credit: Notes on essential oils : with special reference to their use, composition, chemistry, and analysis / by T.H.W. Idris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PKEFACE The accompanying notes on Essential Oils are, as was pointed out in the first edition, in no sense intended as a Text Book on the subject. They are merely intended as a laboratory note-book, the utility of which has been demonstrated in the author’s laboratory. Should they be found as useful elsewhere, as the cordial reception met with by the first edition indicates, the author will con- sider his trouble well repaid. Since the appear- ance of the first edition three comprehensive text- books on this subject have appeared, one very able work in English by E. J. Parry, one in German by Guildemeister and Hoffmann, and one in French by Charabot, Dupont and Fillet. To these works the reader is referred for fuller infor- mation on the subject. The author takes this op-