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SCHOOL OF GENERAL AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY.
Prof. Mallet.
In this School there are two classes:
I. The class in general Chemistry hears three lectures each week
throughout the session. The fundamental ideas of chemical science,
the relations of Chemistry to Physics, the laws regulating chemical
combination by weight and by volume, the atomic theory as at
present viewed in connection with Chemistry, the chemical nomenclature
and symbols now in use, and a general survey of the descriptive
chemistry of the elements and their compounds inorganic and
organic, are brought forward in order, with incidental allusion to the
applications in medicine, the arts and manufactures, of the facts mentioned.
The attention of medical students is particularly drawn to the
physiological, medical and sanitary relations of the subject—the
chemical nature and properties of poisons, methods of detecting them
and of counteracting their effects, &c.
Text-Book—Fones' Chemistry, last edition. Recommended for
de Chimie fondéc sur les théories modernes.
Lectures on Pharmacy are given to the students of medicine, this
special course beginning soon after the intermediate examinations.
Text-Book—Parrish's Pharmacy.
II The class in Industrial Chemistry, to which class also three lectures
a week are delivered, studies in detail the chemical principles
and processes specially concerned in the more important arts and
manufactures, upon which in large measure depends the development
of the natural resources of the country: the opportunity being thus
presented of preparation for such positions as those of the miner and
metallurgist, the chemical manufacturer, the dyer, bleacher, tanner,
sugar retiner, &c.
Amongst the more important subjects discussed are: The production
of materials of very general application, including the metallurgy
of iron copper, lead, zinc, tin, silver, gold &c.: the preparation and
properties of alloys, and the processes of electro-metallurgy, the
manufacture upon the large scale of acids aikalies, salts, glass, porcelain
and earthenware: the production and preservation of food,
including the processes of bread-making, wine-making, brewing and
distilling, the manufacture of sugar and vinegar, the curing of meat,
the examination and purification of drinking water, &c; chemical
arts relating to clothing, such as bleaching, dyeing, calico printing,
tanning, and the preparation of indian rubber; the chemistry of those
arts which afford us shelter, embracing the examination of building
materials, lime-burning, the manufacture of mortar and cements, the
explosive agents used in blasting, as gunpowder, gun cotton, nitroglycerine,
paints and varnishes, disinfecting materials, &c.; heating
and ventilation, the different kinds of fuel and modes of burning
them: illumination by artificial means, candles, lamps, the preparation
of petroleum, the manufacture of illuminating gas, matches;
the chemistry of ashing, the preparation of soap, starch and perfumes:
the chemical relations of printing and writing, the manufacture
of paper, ink, artists' colors, photographic materials, &c.
Text Book— Wagner's Chemical Technology, translated by Crookes.
For reference—Richardson and Watt's Chemical Technology; Muspratt's
Chemistry as Applied to Arts and Manufactures: Ure's Dictionary
of Arts and Manufactures; Dumas—Traité de Chimie appliqe
aux Arts; Percy's Metallurgy, &c.
The lectures to both these classes are illustrated by suitable experiments,
subjects require. The collections of the University in illustration of
the processes and products of industrial chemistry have been procured
with much expense and pains in this country. England, France,
and Germany, and are unusually extensive and good—amongst the
best, if not the best, on this side of the Atlantic.
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