Johnston, James F.W. / Church, Arthur Herbert,

The Chemistry of Common Life,

a new edition revised, and brought down to the present time, New York, Appleton and Company, 1880, 8°, 592 S. mit 102 s/w-Illustr. im Text sowie Register, Sprache: Englisch, grüner original Leineneinband mit goldener Rückenbeschriftung, zeitgen. Besitzervermerk auf vorderem Innendeckel und auf der Vorsatzseite, sonst altersgemäß schönes, sauberes und stabiles Exemplar (good to very good and clean copy) (prez) (Nr. 2302BB)

Contains: The air we breathe / The water we drink / The soil we cultivate / The plant we rear / The bread we eat / The beef we cook / The beverages we infuse: The teas, The coffees, The cocoas / The sweets we extrakt: The grape and cane sugars, The manna and milk sugars / The liquors we ferment: The beers, The wines, The brandies / The narcotics we indulge in: Tobacco, The hop and its substitutes, The poppy and the lettuce, indian hemp, The betel-nut and the pepperworts, coca, The thorn-apples, The siberian fungus and the minor narcotics, General Considerations / The poisons we select / The odours we enjoy: Volatile oils and fragrant resins, The volatile ethers and animal odours / The smells we dislike: Natural smells, Smells produced by chemical art, The prevention and removal of smells / The colours we admire / What we breathe and breathe for / What, how and why we digest, The body we cherish, The circulation of matter – a recapitulation /