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A PHYSICIAN'S MEMORANDA. 47
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offer them as a sort of basis of understanding _between ourselves selves and our when readers we were ; they asked are the to contribute thoughts which our quota first to obtruded the _English
them-Woman ' s _Joitenai , and which , to our own mind , serve as an apology for venturing in any way to trespass on the patience of its
readers . It is not our intention habitually to lecture or to dogmatise , nor
is it within the scope of such papers as this one to offer any systematic instruction ; it is our wish rather to bring under the
notice of our readers such topics as offer matter for interesting and possibl v which alue y a Shoul amusing physician dby reflection 's a op sli inion , of which may the pen every be supposed or -day by life the to suggests oversi have g , some ht and of upon little the
. , p , reader of the press , a too professional word meet your eye , your famildoctor will be at hand to give you its sense and etymology ,
and we y once for all make our most sincere apology . Numerous topics present themselves before our mind , upon which _,
we should be happy to touch at once ; but as the space at our ject disposal swe w prefer ould onl requestin y permit the an att aphoristic ention of treatment our readers of several to-day onl sub y -
to one , which involves various g considerationsnot without importance , , for all ministers of our ( domestic ) interior ; we allude to
PAEAITINE . which Among hav the e a many most matters importan connected t bearing upon with the domestic health arrangements comfort , and
, occupation of all classes , the subject of light—we are now speaking invention of artificial or lig discovery hting—occup which ies a promises very prominent greater place facilities . Every in new the
illumination of public buildings or private dwellings , is certain to meet with supportAlthough we have made great advances
since-. the time of William the Thirdwhen a row of oil lanterns , put up only during the dark season of , the year , faintly indicated the road
leading from having from realized Kensington a perfect House of artificial to certain Westminster li colors ght . , which Our we illuminatin are materiall still far g media have a preponderance y
, alter the hues of objects seen by them ; while , instead of imparting the stimulus which the sun ' s so beneficially shed over our ,
g atm lobe o , here they from almost which without they exception draw rays one of impair the elements the qualit essential y of the ta
combustion sp but equally essential to respiration , while their pro-, ducts A new are positivel material y has injurious of late . years been introduced into commerce
as . an illuminating agent , termed chemist paraffine of the . This of eup Reichenbach honious term to
was a substance applied which by a German he discovered in wood nam tar e some ten or twelve
years by distillin ago . g It vegetable is , in fact substances , one of the . When numerous pure products it is a obtained white ,
A Physician's Memoranda. 47
A PHYSICIAN ' S MEMORANDA . 47
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/47/
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