Science papersMacmillan, 1876 - 543 pages |
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Page 106 - Cradled in snow and fanned by arctic air, Shines, gentle Barometz! thy golden hair; Rooted in earth each cloven hoof descends, And round and round her flexile neck she bends ; Crops the gray coral moss, and hoary thyme, Or laps with rosy tongue the melting rime. Eyes with mute tenderness her distant dam, Or seems to bleat, a vegetable lamb.
Page 378 - Columbia will ever supersede America. In our science, the names established throughout the works of Linnaeus are become current coin, nor can they be altered without great inconvenience. Perhaps, if he had foreseen the future authority and popularity of his writings, he might himself have improved upon many which he adopted out of deference to his predecessors, and it is, in some cases, to be regretted that he has not sufficiently done so.
Page 159 - Koch, a large umbelliferous plant, native of the south of Europe, and of Asia Minor. There is no modern account of the collection of this drug, nor is its place of production ascertained. RHUBARB. — Determine the true source of the various sorts of medicinal rhubarb, especially of the Chinese rhubarb sold at Kiachta to the Russians, and of that exported from Canton. Strange to say, we are still in the dark respecting the real origin of this most valuable drug ! In this and all such cases the drug...
Page 78 - This compound does not crystallize, and could not be obtained in a state of purity. Nitric acid oxidizes Rottlerine, forming at first a yellow resinous matter, and by longer continued action a quantity of oxalic acid. Concentrated sulphuric acid in the cold dissolves it with a yellow colour, which, on the application of a gentle heat, becomes first red, and finally very dark, sulphurous acid being evolved. Heated on platinum it...
Page 352 - The gum exudes from the stem in consequence of the puncture of [a beetle, and falling to the ground becomes contaminated with earth, for which reason it does not suit the London market ; but it is used in all parts of the country for cataplasms and fumigations. Lindley, from the examination of specimens sent to England from Tangier in 1839, determined the plant affording African ammoniacum to be the Ferula...
Page 349 - Let me say a few words regarding the uses of galangal. As a medicine, the manifold virtues formerly ascribed to it must be ignored ; the drug is an aromatic stimulant, and might take the place of ginger, as indeed it does in some countries. That it is still in use...
Page 100 - It is found necessary, every 3 or 4 weeks, to cut off the old charred surfaces and burn it afresh ; in large healthy trees abounding in balsam, they even cut a second notch in some other part of the tree, and char it as the first. ' These operations are performed during the months of November, December, January and February. Should any of the trees appear sickly the following season, one or more years
Page 338 - Italia, published at Bologna in 1550, mentions manna as found in Calabria.3 Garcia d'Orta (1563)4and Christopher Acosta (1574)5 describe different kinds of Oriental manna, contrasting them with that of Calabria. Still more significant is the fact that Fazelli, a well-known writer on Sicily (1558), in a chapter on the productiveness of the island boasts of its wine, oil, sugar, honey, fruits and saffron, but says not one word of manna or the...
Page 461 - Ib. of p'is candell' for to light when the king's highness and goode grace on a nyght come unto his said grete wardrobe, and at other divers tymes.
Page 205 - After repeated crystallizations from alcohol, xanthoxylin may be obtained in a state of purity, and then presents the form of large crystals of a fine silky lustre, insoluble in water, but readily soluble in alcohol or ether. It has a very slight odour of stearine, and a slightly aromatic taste. It distils unchanged, its fusing point before and after distillation remaining the same, namely 176° F., and its solidifying point 172.4° F. Its composition is C(0 Us O«.