The Arkansas banner., 1843-12-09
MISCEL.LANEOU 5.
From tae Southern Literary Messenger. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
BY soLoN BoRLAND, M. D.
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nv soLoN BoRLAND, M. D.
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 YnI or ORGANIC CHEMISTRY has, hi- to been, comparatively, an obscure ane considered province of natural science [dug. it was supposed, but little scope te geniius of investigations, and tempting to nlmre with meagre rewards and empty DTS.
 he recent and remarkable work of Pro- pr IlEBIG. of Geissen, has, however, shed w and dazzling light upon this terra a'l- in, a light, whether of novelty, of ge- .or of truth, may not, yet, be determined ; which has proven powerfully, and pearly }. attractive to the butterflies of fancy, the
 of dullness, and the eagles of science. hat the general reader-he who, until
 has been occupied with works which ed but to warm his feelings and amuse ancy, should find interest in subject so |rllse as this, although unusual, may not rohdered at, when the popular style, and sible simplicity of portion, of Professor Big's book, are considered; especially In these are connected with the circum- lee of its seeking the popular eye through Iannel so unusual to works even remote llied to science-a channel, hitherto, pe- hrly, if not exclusively, appropriated to ordinary popular novels and tales of the To the man of science, on the other 3d,-to him whose life is dedicated.to the Eeh after truth, amid the 'arcana of nature, fers a natural and resistless attraction, in importance of even the minor principles lved in its discussion-in the paramount rest of the great ultimate truth sought, even claimed, to be evolved by its solu- discussing, as it does, the phenomena laws ofyitality, and claiming, not indeed the dreaming adopts of ancient Alchemy, lave attained the power of perpetuating hly existence, but to have gone, at once, he fountain head of all things, and, there, lave discovered, handled, weighed, and Fured the very nature and essence of Hfe pch are the lofty pretensions of animal nistry, as put forth by Prof. Liebig-if Tn so many words, yet, certainly, in sub ce, as may be verified by reference to his And, if valid, they are worthy of all fptatlon. But are they valid-does the oihesls, upon which they rest, serve to aln all the phenomena whose origin and E 1t claims to have determined--is this othesis' sustained by facts These are Eaons whose force and import the super inquirer may overlook or disregard; but sh are ever present, and guiding, to the \ ol him who looks deeper than the sur whose business is with nature as she IS, not as he might like her to be-whose IS truth, and not brilliant hypothesis.
 he disciples of Prof Liebig have ample e to be satisfied with the almost univer- feadIng, and great publicity, his book has lned' It is but natural and right, then, others, who are not his disciples-who not satisfied of the soundness and suffi- ny of his doctrines, should desire to see Pmt, and generally difused, some of the fons Tor which they question them. Par @'ng In that desire, and finding no one engaged Tn its qualification, Ipropose, in paper, not, indeed, to discuss, at length, 'aemlcal Hypothesis of vital phenomena, 'na, would require book, and must be 'o older and abler hands, but merely to ts' III brlet, what l understand to be the aamsnfal ,h positions of Liebig's hypothesis, ue one hand, and, on the other hand, to ,a p'e lew facts which are believed to mi |rL M agalnst those positions.
 fan1, s a,oliowlng, though few in number, are a'uanental-cardinal positions of Lie bpol bpo winch his whole hypothesis rests, n 1'ss' w"s, and turns, and as nearly in his
 TITUS Tp as summary abstract will allow. n-aa me saal force is peculiar independ- ,e' : z he source of growth and reproduc- |,m \ ;ofce '; Tn state of rest, (static equili- N of plant. " '' "''''''i' anu Ill '''e s 'ile same ln animals and in vegeta- hon oe sa'ic equilibrium is disturbed by the h. ths a eA'ernal inhuences-as impregna- |disn.lp [ presence of air and moisture and. |ton 'oea' this force enters into state of Ia sa,;a anu exhibits itself in the production les dsnss % growth and development of vege- Icb spena ;S on the elimination of orygea, It's of ,h Ie 'ara'ed from the other component 5 Th " 'nelr GIT nourishment.
 con,;e ae ne Of the animal exhibits itself in and haal ils a absorption of the orygem of the 1t Darts oe seoiloustion 7, with certain compo- } }. iaa's aaa;, ol the animal body.
 '''iia'ion goes on in the same way 'cations 10 peh's''y, phy or Oganic Chemistry in its
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