Excerpt from An Introduction to Pharmaceutical Chemistry This book is intended as a guide to the student in acquiring a practical knowledge of chemistry, chiefly by means of personal experiment. He is recommended to read the first three pages, and then to commence work by preparing oxygen. The various paragraphs are printed in differently spaced type: those in the wider direct a student in his operations; those in the closer con tain explanations of each operation, and are to be carefully read before proceeding to the experiments. 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.