Lead poisoning and lead absorption: The symptoms, pathology and prevention, with special reference to their industrial origin, and an account of the principal processes involving risk

An Elementary Study of Chemistry

McPherson, William; Henderson, William Edwards

An Elementary Study of Chemistry is a textbook‑style treatise that begins by grounding the reader in the…

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle’s *The Sceptical Chymist* is a seventeenth‑century scientific tract that reads more like a…

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry

Thomas Anderson

Thomas Anderson’s *Elements of Agricultural Chemistry* is a concise, elementary guide aimed at farmers who…

Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.

Basilius Valentinus

The work is a sprawling alchemical treatise in which Basilius Valentinus sets out to explain how the visible…

The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock

Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

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The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student

Franklin Beech

The work is a technical handbook aimed at bleachers, textile colourists and manufacturers, opening with a…