"As a result of the whole tendency of this period pharmaceutical chemistry developed in the course of it to a marked e…"

"If a vessel so prepared be filled with a solution of sugar and be then placed in water the water is found to pass thr…"

"He Raymond Lully] was acquainted with nitric acid which he obtained by distilling a mixture of saltpetre and green vi…"

"The word nitre had been applied by the ancients to carbonate of soda, a production of Egypt, where it is still formed…"

"If a quantity of saltpetre be put into a crucible and raised to such a temperature as shall not merely melt it, but o…"

"The theory of combustion advanced by Dr. Hook, in 1665, in his Micrographia, approaches still nearer to that of Lavoi…"

"France... had been in the habit of importing her saltpetre, and her iron, and many other necessary implements of war:…"

"During the year 1796 he Smithson Tennant] made his experiments to prove that the diamond is pure carbon. His method w…"

"The Arabians possessed a very considerable knowledge of the acids, in comparison with that of the Ancients, who were …"

"The important salts saltpetre, salmiac, and carbonate of ammonia, first became known and used for chemical purposes i…"