Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings, Volumen14

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J. Churchill, 1855
 

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Página 432 - ... a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.
Página 432 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Página 264 - Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as He loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi haud facilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Página 238 - Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication, but as a guaranty of good faith. We do not hold ourselves responsible for any view or ooinions expressed in the communications of our correspondents. Attention is called to the "Wants
Página 239 - GENERAL' RECEIPT-BOOK : comprising a copious Veterinary Formulary and Table of Veterinary Materia Medica ; Patent and Proprietary Medicines, Druggists
Página 130 - This is mixed with a solution of muriate of lime, of 1'200 sp. gr., in the proportion of two parts of the former to one of the latter...
Página 36 - ... was found to acquire greatly increased activity, and also to act with much greater regularity when first divested of its outer muscular coat. Cotton calico also impregnated with liquid albumen and afterwards exposed to heat so as to coagulate that substance, was sufficiently impervious, and formed an excellent septum, resembling membrane in every respect. The osmometer was of the usual bulbform, but the membrane was supported by a plate of perforated zinc, and the instrument provided with a tube...
Página 264 - In opening this session of the North British Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain...
Página 432 - ... rendered existent without action or without its equivalent action. The conservation of power is now a thought deeply impressed upon the minds of philosophic men ; and I think that, as a body, they admit that the creation or annihilation of force is equally impossible with the creation or annihilation of matter. But if we conceive the sun existing alone in space, exerting no force of gravitation exterior to it; and then conceive another sphere in space having like conditions, and that the two...
Página 35 - ... chlorous radical, while the whole remaining atoms together are constituted into a positive or basylous radical, which last will contain an unbalanced equivalent of hydrogen, giving the molecule basicity, as in the great proportion of organic radicals. Now, it is this voluminous basylous radical which travels in the electrical decomposition of pure water, and resolves itself into hydrogen gas and water at the negative pole, causing the accumulation of water observed there, while the oxygen alone...

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