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The Living Age Volume 43. Eliakim Littell

The Living Age Volume 43
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Author: Eliakim Littell
Number of Pages: 584 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d20eq91zdmkqd.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/1309/9781130999983.jpg
ISBN: 9781130682533
File size: 23 Mb
File Name: The.Living.Age.Volume.43.pdf
Download Link: The Living Age Volume 43
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... was present in our atmosphere--could be admitted. The author had found a trace of iodine in 100 gallons of water used for domestic purposes in Edinburgh, so also in about 69 land plants, some of which were edible, such as potatoes, wheat, barley, oats, beans, peas, pears, apples, and gooseberries. The presence of iodine in the food of animals necessitated its introduction into the system of the animal, and for a time at least its retention there, and he accordingly found iodine in the cat, the dog, the pig, the cow, the horse, and man. No direct experiments had been made on soils, but considering that iodine was uniformly a constituent of lime-stone rocks, and that these were always present in and applied to soils, he believed that the latter must, to a greater or less extent, contain iodine. A second paper read by Dr. Macadam was on the presence of load in hydrochloric and nitric acids. He had, in the course of some analyses, made with the view of determining, if possible, the presence of lead in animal organisms, seen reason to suspect that the acids employed by him might contain lead. On testing these, which were the purest to be purchased of the manufacturers, small but very distinct indications of lead were obtained. In commercial or impure specimens of hydrolic and nitric acids, the lead was much more abundant. The importance of such a discovery in reference to searching for metallic poisons in organized tissues was so great, that he cautioned analytical chemists against the use of the acids for such purposes without previously testing them for lead. After the reading of this paper, an interesting conversation ensued, in the course of which it was stated that a considerable portion of lead had been detected in snuff and curry, and one or two cases we...

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