Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-05-06
Chemistry for the Girls.


 take my pen in hand, not to utter dissertation female education, but to insist that young ladies be taught chemistry. They will thereby be better qualified to SIpern,end domestic affairs. guard araust many accidents to which households are subject, and perhaps De instrumental in saving life wl illustrate tLe last remark by reference mere iy b toxleology.
 The strong acids, such as nitric, muriatic, and sulphlre, are yrulent pes0nS, yet frequently used n medicine and the mechanic arts. Suppose a chld n hls rambleS among the neighbors enters a caoaet shop and finds saucer of aquforts (nitric aet upon the workbench, and in his sport seizes and drinks portion of 1t. He is conveyed home ia gIeat agony the physician IS sent for, but ere he aruYes, the child IS a corpse. Now as the mother pFeSeS the cold clay to her breast and lips f0r the last time how will her anguish be agra yaed to know that in her medicine drawer was some calcned magnesia, which, If timely admins teted, would surely have saved her lovely child petcAanee her first boy! Oh, what are all the bo- quets and fine dresses in the world 10 her, compar- cd with such knowledgel
 Take another case; husband returning home some summer afternoon, desires some ihcldiouS dnnk Opening a cupboard, he sees small box labelled salts of leFn1n," and making solution Of thS, he drinks freely. Presently he feels dis ueS. sends for hls wife, and aScsrtaining that he has dTnns solution of oXalic acid, which she has procured to take stains from linen the phys ican IS sent for but the unavoidable delay at tending hIs arrval, IS fatal so the patient The d9ct1. arrves, an1 perhaps sees on the very table on winch the widow bows her head, piece of ea-lA' which, f 1t had been given in time, would have prevented any mischief from the poison.
 Cl'r.Siye sgbllmate IS an article generally used Dj d1mesilcS to destroy the vernin which some umS aies, our couches. X solution of il is left upon 'he chamber floor in q teaeup, when the do- A S.icS % to dinner, leaving the children at play -ihe alant erawls to the cup and drinks. Now what do you think would be the mothers joy, fl, A"ih2 studded chemistry, she instantly called to te'liection the well ascertaned fact that there IS 1a 'he hens nest an antifote to this poscn She ~tis ior some eggs, and breaking them administers 'A' wai1e laloumen.l Her child reeoYerS and she 5S TOT loy. Talk not to her of novels--one t''.'c oook oit itnatdFal science has been worth to lcf more than all the novels m the world.
 fAYs'sianS m the country rarely carry scales Wi'h them to weigh the,r prcscriptioast They ad- munster medicines by guess. from ateaSnoon or the ponI of knife Suppose common case. A pnySiclan, m harry leaves an oyerJos. of tartar eneuc, seneraIly the first prescription in cases of DllaS ieVer,l and paFsaes his way to see another piueht len lnileS distant The medicine is duly administered, and the man IS poisoned. When the SAs oec1es alarming. one messenger is despatch he'd ~. nr aoctof, and another to call in the neighbors " 'e1 me sufferer die. Now, here is the canister ~ l'dt euDpafd. and on tree that grows bv the -'' remedy for this distress and alarm-a sure OiN ei saving the sick man from the threatened N-a strong decoetion of young hyson tea ,lA Ya'N " any stringent vegetable, will change
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