Report of twenty cases of malignant cholera that occured in the seamen's hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837 / by George Budd... and George Busk.

  • Budd, George, 1808-1882.
Date:
1838
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Credit: Report of twenty cases of malignant cholera that occured in the seamen's hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837 / by George Budd... and George Busk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Each student provides himself, from a stock kept by the servant, and sold at prime cost, with a certain quan- tity of apparatus, such as a spirit lamp, test tubes, com- bustion tubes for analysis, precipitating jars, evaporating basins, funnels, &c. These articles belong to himself ex- clusively, and remain at that part of the table which is marked off for him. The tables are furnished, at fre- quent intervals, with complete sets of bottles, labelled in enamel, containing all the necessary re-agents: these belong to the laboratory. When a student's course is finished, he either takes with him the apparatus he has purchased, or disposes of it to a new-comer. Many of the students take home wdth them complete sets of portable apparatus, of which they have learned the use. The fee above mentioned, and the small apparatus, constitute the whole of the necessary charge to the stu- dent, and the latter is a very trifling item in Germany. In this country, glass and porcelain, for chemical pur- poses, are considerably dearer, besides being of very inferior quality ; but if the excise laws, in regard to glass, -Were so modified as to allow good glass, for chemical purposes, to be made at home, or if the duty on foreign glass and por- celain, imported for scientific purposes, were remitted, as it ought to be, such apparatus might be as cheap in this country as it has long, to the great benefit of science, been on the continent. The heavy duty (or rather duties, for there are two, amounting to about 50 or 60 per cent.) on foreign glass is a most serious obstacle to the cultiva- tion of chemistry in this country. The student, having previously attended lectures on chemistry, is first carried through a course of qualitative analysis, till he is thoroughly acquainted with the cha-