North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-26

CHEMISTRY GIRLS I take my pen in hand.
a dissertation female education, but to
insist that young ladies be taught chemistry. They
will thereby be better qualified to supernend dom
este affairs, guard against many accidents to which
households are subject, and perhaps be instrumental
in saving life. | will illustrate the last remark by
reference merely to toxicology.
The strong acids, such nitric, muriatc and sui
phuric, viruent polsons, yet frequently used in
medicine and the mechanic arts. Suppose child
in his rambes among the neighbors, enters abnet
shop, and finds of acquaforsis, (nitrc acid
upon the workbench, and in his sport seizes and
drinks portion of it. He is conveyed home in great
agony the physician is sent for, but he arrives,
the child is a corpse. Now, the mother presses
the cold clay her breast and lips for The last time,
how her anguish will be aggravated to know that
in her medicine drawer some cacined marne-
sIa, which, if timely administered, would have
y saved her lovely child perchance her first and only
boy Oh, what are all the bouquets and fine dresses
in world 10 her, compared with such know ledge
Take another case A husband returning home
summer afternoon, desires some acidulous drink.
Opening a cupboard, he small box labelled
salt of emon,'' and making a solution of this, he
drinks it freely Presently he feels his Distress sends
for his wife, and ascertans that he has drunk solu
tion OF oxac acid, which she has procured to take
stains from linen The physician is sent for but the
delay attending his arrival, is fatal the patient The
doctor arrives, and sees the very table which
the widow bows her head, piece Of chalk, which,
if it had been given in time, would have prevented
any mischief frotD the poison.
Corrosive sublimae is article generally used by
donestics to destroy the vernn which sometimes in
fest couches. A solution of it is left upon the
chamber floor in teacup, when the domestic goes
to dinner leaving the children at play-the infant
crawls to the cup and drinks. Now what do you
think would be the mothers joy, if, having studied
chemistry, she instantly called to recollection the
well ascerained fact that there is in the hens nest
an antdote this poison She sends for some eggs,
and breaking them administers the white (albumen)
Her child RECEIVERS and she weeps for Joy. Talk not
her of novels-one little book of natural science
has been worth to her, than all the novels in
the world.
Physicians in the country rarely carry scales with
them to weigh their prescriptions. They administer
medicines by guess, from teaspoon the point of
a knife. Suppose common case: physician, in a
hurry leaves overdose of tartar emetic (generaly
the first prescription in of bilious fever,) and
pursues his way to another patient miles dis
tant. The medicine is duly administered and the
man poisoned When the case becomes alarming,
messenger is despatched after the DOCTOR and an
other call in the neighbors the sufferer die
Now here is, in the canister of your cupboard and
the tree that grows by your door, remedy for this
distress and alarm sure means of saving the sick
man from the threatened death. strong decoction
of young hyson tea, oak bark, any stringent vege-
table, will change tartar emetc into innocent
pound.