Download or read book A Compend of Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic Including Urinary Analysis written by Henry Leffmann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Compend of Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic Including Urinary Analysis In preparing a third edition of the Compend of Chemistry, I have endeavored simply to bring the book up to date, as far as concerns the general applications of Chemistry to Medicine and Dentistry. More space has been given to explanations of the nature and functions of acids and radicles, and the organic substitution compounds have been treated more at length. The general arrangement and classification agree essentially with that of the former edition. Books of this class do not always meet with favor at the hands of reviewers; but any one who has had experience in teaching at American Medical Colleges knows that as long as the present methods continue some such assistance is absolutely essential. It affords to the student an opportunity to keep up with the lectures, and obviates the necessity of taking voluminous notes, in which serious errors are liable to occur. Such books, of course, cannot claim any originality; their merit lies in their accuracy, perspicuity and judicious selection of facts. I am indebted to Mr. William Beam, for aid in the preparation of the work. 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.