Excerpt from A Text-Book of Chemistry: For Students of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry The present volume has been built up from lectures for ten years in medical and dental schools. The author has tried to make facts clear and simple, and has utilized topic gen eralizations as much as practicable. The free use of formulas in the text is intended to familiarize students with chemic nomenclature and notation. It is hoped that the book will be a help to students of medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.