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matorial facts. While ancient CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
0.8 argued to the philosophers nature of the universe and of matter, the chemists were bending over their smoky fires and watching their retorta. The philosophers called them, "Sooty emperics," but they got results. They did not despise the philosophical chair but The Steamship, they pinced it in the Inhoratory.
tive tartarle nelda, he was urged to
"BENLAWERS” atudy the chemistry of fermenta- tion, a process which loomed so
Painstaking Work,
Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- largely in the industry of his native study of
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During the search for the Philo-formed that all Goods oro being
at landed
hazardous ferments and yeast he went on to that of. bacteria, and the discovery sopher's Stone which was to con- of their pathogente offects was vert base metal into gold, and the hazardous and/or extra
resulta Pasteur's
Elixir of Life, which was to pro- Godowns of The Hongkong and Kow wharves from the whence and/or aroused the interest of Lister, and long life indefinitely, careful paina- loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., No claims will be admitted after the development, first of antiseptic taking work was done resulting delvery may be obtained. and inter of aseptic surgery, result-in a wealth of chemical discoveries.
Nearly all the present-day products the Goods have loft the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered Organic Chemistry.
of the heavy chemical industry auch
sulphuric acid, nitric acid, after the 22nd April, 1932, will be
Rodium car- subject to rent. Through the growth of organic na chemistry during the latter part of hydrochloric neid, the 19th century, chemists were bonate, and caustic soda were dis- more and covered during that period and contribute enabled to
For centuries the chief contribu- more to an accurate knowledge of turned into serious industrial use. physiological processes which, in
casentially tion of chemistry to industry was in their nature,
work of the the discovery of new substances, use of accurate chemical ones.
Emil but with tho chemist grent German Fischer, on the molecular structure quantitative methods and advanced of the sugars, paved the way for theory during the 10th century, a beginning to be made into the chemistry began to take a hand in proper understanding of carbo-the control of industry. Manu-
facturers wanted to know hydrate metabolism in the body.
la provided for Round Tripa to Japan, on Company's Calcutta Line: Stanmora, at the specially reduced faro of $250. These return tickets
a to available for three months."
aro The
processes
why went methods The work of another German manufacturing
Rule-of-thumb chemist, Paul Erlich, and his ap-wrong. plication of the dye cosin to the might give reasonably good results staining of tissue, led to the de- nine times out of ten, but, with velopment of the trineid stain, growing competition, a ten per cent a boon to his-loss was too great to be permitted. which has been
This demand involved the work- tologists. His etaining methods laid the foundation of haematology ing out of the complete chemistry And thus enabled the detection of of the processes used and this was, im- blood parasites, like that of malaria, in many cases, a long weary busi- to be made possible. Erlich's most noss, but the resulta were
was his paina-mediately seen. Wasteful methods monumental work
the were eliminated, ingredients were into taking investigation synthesis of all organic arsenical mixed in proper proportions, raw compounds, which resulted in the materials were examined for harm- and ful Impurities, temperatares and salvaresn discovery
most successful pressures were measured and con- eosalvarsan, the
structing the plant was overhauled drugs for the treatment of syphilis trolled, the material used for con- navold metallic contamination. waste by-products were converted New Branch Developed.
into useful substances and purer During the past twenty years, anal products were obtained.
branch of chemistry, Under exact chemical control, Biochemistry,
not only were the final products Workers in biochemistry are apply-purer but much more uniform, a ing to physiological processes the point of very great importance methods and data obtained in in when the Anal product of one in- organie, organie, physical and dustry becomes the raw material colloid chemistry. Its greatest con-of another. tribution lies in its application of mathematical chemical theory to bodily processes.
and yaws.
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developed, hag
to
The Valueless Made Valuable, Further, by improved processes, To denl with biological in-it was found possible to make use vestigations, where, very frequent-of raw materials which had pre- small amounts ofviously been looked upon as value- ly. only material are available, suitable less owing to the presence of some
Impurity difficult analytical methods have been work-serious eal out. For example, the deter-eliminate. For years, iron ores con- mination of the sugar in blood is taining phosphorus were regarded highly important in many cases.ns useless to the steel industry. The amount usually present is ap-Then Chemists found that by cent. Using lining the Bessemer Converter proximately one per
dolomite lining 21 busie dern methods, it is possible to with make a fairly accurate determina-instead of with an neid silica one. tion of the sugar in a single drop that these cheap phosphoric iron development of ores could be converted into good of blood. The similar decurate chemical methods steel, and, furthermore, that the for the determination of the non-slag from the converter, containing
31 market as
valuable protein nitrogen, the creatinine and nearly all the phosphorus, could the uric acid in the blood, has led find to a far better understanding of fertiliser, renal disease.
New Drugs.
ile may
Synthetic Indigo.
With the development of organic chemistry, and increasing know-- ledge of the atomic structure of Chemistry is constantly provid- many organic substances, camo up these build to medical attempta ing now drugs for the practitioner. Instead of the old molecules, leading to the success- extracts #f uncertain fal synthesis of many substances from plant strength, the pure alkaloid or other previously obtained only aetive principle is now available for animal and vegetable sources. him; a substance of known strength and chemical purity and of known
The classical example is that of physiological activity.
giving indigo. Indigo, which is closely now know exactly what he his patient. The large chemical reinted to the wond of the ancient firms are pouring out such a stream Britons, was, until fifty years ago, of new synthetic drugs on to the obtained only from the indigo plant market that, at the present time, and the bulk of it was produced in chemistry has the supply certainly exceeds the de- India. To-day, mand. Still, they are all useful transferred that industry to Ger- additions to the available equip-many.
After Von Bayer, in a series of Turning from matters of health masterly researches, had worked ment for the fight against disease. to matters of business, we find that out the structure of the indigo the connexion between chemistry molecule, fifteen years of patient and industry is older than that be- work were put in by the research tween chemistry and medicine. chemists of the Badische Aniline From the earliest Ulmes, chemical und Soda Fabrica, with the object producing the substance discovery has led to industrial de-of
method A velopment. Chemists, as a scienti- synthetically.
WAS
fle group, can claim that although found for producing it from the they have been intensely interested substance toluene, a substance oc- in the theoretical side of their work curring in coal-tar, and closely re-
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