Chemistry : general, medical, and pharmaceutical, including the chemistry of the British pharmacopœia a manual on the general principles of the science, and their applications to medicine and pharmacy / by John Attfield.

  • Attfield, John, 1835-1911.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Chemistry : general, medical, and pharmaceutical, including the chemistry of the British pharmacopœia a manual on the general principles of the science, and their applications to medicine and pharmacy / by John Attfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will fit the work for after-consultation in the course of business or professional practice. From other chemical text-books it differs in three particulars :—first_, in the exclusion of matter relating to compounds which at present are only of interest to the scientific chemist; secondly^ in containing more or less of the chemistry of every substance recognized officially^ or in general practice^ as a remedial agent; thirdly^ in the paragraphs being so cast that the volume may be used as a guide in studying the science experimentally. The order of subjects is that which^ in the author^s opinion^ best meets the requirements of medical and phar- maceutical students in Great Britain, Ireland, America, and the English Colonies. Introductory pages are devoted to a few leading properties of the elements. A review of the facts thus unfolded affords opportunity for stating the views of philosophers respecting the manner in which these elements influence each other as components of terrestrial matter. The consideration in detail of the relations of the elementary and compound radicals follows, synthetical and analytical bearings being pointed out, and attention frequently directed to connecting or underlying truths or general principles. The chemistry of substances naturally associated in vegetables and animals is next considered. Practical toxicology and the chemical as well as microscopical characters of morbid urine, urinary sediments, and calculi are then given. The concluding sections form a laboratory-guide to the chemical and physical study of quantitative analysis. In the appendix is a long table of tests for impurities in medicinal pre- parations—also a short one of the saturating-powers of acids and alkalies, designed for use in prescribing and dispensing.