The properties and uses of pure glycerin / by M.D., M.R.C.S.

Date:
[1898?]
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Credit: The properties and uses of pure glycerin / by M.D., M.R.C.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. A c\ \ It is rather more than thirty years ago since, at the request of Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited, a monograph was issued upon the properties and uses of pure Glycerin. The advancement made during the last thirty years in medicine, surgery, pharmacy, and what may be termed economic science, led Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited, who have always been pioneers in all that concerns pure Glycerin, to request the author to re-write this monograph. The result is contained in the following pages. In writing them, the author has endeavoured at least not to omit matter of importance. The necessity, however, of being brief has led him, when controversial matter was being discussed, to give the reference to the original articles rather than enter fully into the discussion. By this means those who are interested in the subject can sift the matter out for themselves. This has also been his object in appending a somewhat copious bibliography. In conclusion, the author would wish to express his indebtedness to the following Encyclopoedic articles on Glycerin: Eulenberg’s Real Encyclopcedia, Dujardin Beaumetz’s Dictionaire Therapeutique, Dechambre’s Dictionaire Encyclopasdique des Sciences Mddicales, Thorpe’s Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, and Watts’ Dictionary of Chemistry. To Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited, he is also indebted for having afforded him every possible facility in the preparation of the booklet. THE AUTHOR. July, 1898.