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    48 A PHYSICIANS MEMORANDA.

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    odourless and tasteless crystalline substance , resembling spermaceti , that and having of water a specific Its name gravity was of contrived 0 . 87 , or — - considerabl scarcelywe y less tnink than in

    . ,, , accordance with the laws that Max Miiller has shown to regulate the development of not entering of language into , — definite to designate chemical its chemical combination idiosyn with

    crasy any therefore any other bod belongs y . * ' Its to ultim the large ate elements class of are substances hydrogen termed and carbon hydro ; it

    carbonsto which all our ordinary illuminating media belong . Some , of our readers may remember that not many years ago it

    ohemical was covered alleged the mani mean that pulators the s of peat converting , - inasmuch bogs of peat Ireland as into these would parafline gentlemen ' prove . gold But had althoug mines dis to h -

    nerative peat is cheap as was , the antici process pated is . not Even sufficientl . under y so skilful to render management it as remu , a -

    ton affine of peat There yields is no however more than a natural from nine source to of twelve paraifine pounds , for in of

    many par parts . of the , globe it , is found to issue spontaneously from the earthin the form of what is known as petroleum , rock oil ,

    li B Colebrookdale quid avaria bitumen , , Galici , and a or , B oil aku other of near Petre parts the . of Thus Casp Eng ian it land occurs sea . , This in in ] Rangoon _STorth oil is America a , B variable urmah , in ,

    the oil comp to paraffine ound a certain of , and volatile process the latter oils the volatile and may paraffine be princi isolated . ples By in can submitting the be form separated of the a clear from rock ,

    prepared light , aromatic by distillation , oily liquid from . We the localities have seen in that which paraffine the rock was oil first is found ; there can be no doubt that it manufacturer is also a produ of ct the of li

    sub-Paraffine terranean now distillation largely ; emp in loyed fact , the as a chief light , has demonstrated this quid by the ingenious manner in which he arrived at his mode of obtaining

    _« it arth . Having on his first land prep in one ared of it the from coal the districts rock oil of which central issued Eng from land , the he

    was spring thrown he argued upon his that own the resources rock oil was when a product he had resulting exhausted from his

    the operation ; of subterannean heat upon coal , and after numerous experiments succeeded in obtaining it by distilling the boghead coal

    of his district . The name of this gentleman is Young . We have thus cursorily sketched the birth and childhood of

    paraffine itfalls . For Its scarcel manhood have seems our to be been threatened delihted with with snares its clear and g

    white p . flameand _jxrovident y houseke eyes epers rejoiced at the cleanly , , that manageable a boy , of , and eleven economical has been light killed which and it affords a man , before very seriousl we read y

    injured , in Camden Town , by an exp , losion caused by paraffine igniting while it was being poured from one vessel into another ,

    < substance * From the that Latin has w no affinities parum . , too little , and affinis _, cognate or related , — a

    48 A Physicians Memoranda.

    48 A _PHYSICIANS MEMORANDA .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/48/