The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-09-28
Ladies Department.,
Chemistry Cor Girls.
BY L THOMPSON, NJ. q,

SOMETHING THAT EVERY WOMAN
SHOULD READ.
This is properly styled uli'ilarian age,
for The inquiry, Wha, prcf r meets US
every where. Il has entered the temples
of learning, and attempted to thrus, Gu. lG0.
portant studies because their immeda,e con.
necilon With hard money profits caunol be
demonstrated. There is one SCOT, however,
INTO hich il has not so generally inlruded
lself-ihc female academy -the last refuge
Of the fine arts and fine foIies. Thlher
young lodes are too frequently sent, merely
TO learn how 10 dress asielully and walk
gracefully, play, write Freucb, and make
waxen Pumes and siIken splteIs--alI pref!
=, but why not inquire what profit y
take my pen, no, to u,ieF dissertation
on female education, but to insist that young
ladies' be taught chemistry. They will
thereby be better qualified 10 superincnd
domestic alflIfs, guard against many acct.
dents 10 which households ATE subject, and
perhaps be Instrumental 10 saving lie
We Illustrate the las, remark by reference
merely 10 tcsicology.
The strong acids, such as nitric, mutt
attic and uphurlc, are virulenI poisous,
yet frequently used ia medicine, and the
mechanic arts. Suppose child, IN bis
rambios among the neishbors, shoGld enter
cabinet shop, and hGd q saucer Of cqua
for'i, (nitric ecid) upon the work bench,
and, in his sport, seize and drink a portion
oft. lie isconvey ed home 10 ,eat agony.
The physician is sent for but ere be arrives,
the child is a corpse. Now as the mother
presses the cold clay 10 her breast and lips
for the last time, bow will her anguish be
aggravated 10 ,.1ow that in her medicine
chest, or drawer, was some cacined mag.
nesia, which, if timely administered, would
have saved her lovely, Perchance her first
aud only boy. o, what are all the boque's
aDd 6ue dresses in the world 10 her, com.
pared with such knowledge
Take another case. A husband return
ing home, on summer afternoon, desires
some acdulous dsiuk. Opening a cup.
board he sees small sox, labelled " salts
OF lemon" aud making a solution Of this,
he drinks il freely. Presently, be feels dis
tiess, sends for his wife, and ascettains that
he has drank solution Of oxabc acid which /,
she had procured to take stains from linen !
The physic is sent ior but the unayoid. /
able delay attending his arrival is fatal |
When be arrives, perhaps he sees upon the I
very table on which the weeping widow
bows her head piece of chalk, which, if |
given ID time, would have certainly proven.
Ted any mischief from the poison.
CorrosiY2 sutlimale is the article gener.
ally used to destroy the sernin which some
lines in est our coUches. 4 solution o! II
IS laid upon The floor in q lea.cup, when the
lomestlcs 70 down 10 dine, leaving the chill.
iren up stairs to play, the infant ctawls to
he Ies.cup and drinks. Now what think
you would be the mothers joy, if having
studied chemistry, she Instantly called TO
recollection the well asceflained fact, that
here is in the hens rest an antidote TO this
POISON. She sends for some eggs, and .
lteaklng them, administers The whites
Ter child RECEIVERS, aud she weeps for joy.
Talk 10 her of uovols-one little book Of ,
aIural science has been worth, 10 her, more
han all the novels in the world. {
Physicians 10 The country rarely carry j
Gales with them 10 weigh their prescup. I
ons. They administer medicines by
uess, from a teaspoon or the point oil q
nfe. Suppose a common case. A ply
cian III hurry leaves an overdose OF tar I
lr.emelic, generally the first prescription
! cases Of bilious fever) and 2ursues his
ay TO another patient, ten miles distant
he medicine is duly administered, and the
IAN is poisoned. When the case becomes r
farming, one messenger is despatched for II
lie doctor, and smother TO call IN the neigh. 0
ors to see the sufferer die. Now there is. fl
canister in The cupboard, and on tree
lat grows by the door, remedy for this Fl
stress aud alarm--a sure means of saving {,
.e sick man from threatened death. A i
rong decocIion Of young Tyson tea, oak
lrk, or any other astringent vegetable,
i'll change tarlar.emetic into a harmless &c
,mpcurd. u
Vessels OF copper often give rise 10 poi. h
ming. Though this metal undsrgoes but a
tie change in dry atmosphere, it is rust
If moisture be present, and its surface h
comes covered with green substance Ii
rbcna,e or the proxide of copper, poi.
nous compound. 1t has sometimes hap.
ned, that mother has, for want of know. ="
dye, poisoned her family. Sour krout, "
hen permitted to stand for some time in
copper vessel. has produced death IN "