Educational Essays Author:Edward Thomson, Davis Wasgatt Clark Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: corpse. Now, as the mother presses the cold clay to her breast and lips for the last time, how will her anguish be aggravated to know that in her medicine- chest... more », or drawer, was some calcined magnesia, which, if timely administered, would have surely saved her lovely, perchance her first and only boy. O, what are all the bouquets and fine dresses in the world to her, compared with such knowledge ! Take another case. A husband returning home one summer afternoon, desires some acidulous drink. Opening a cupboard, he sees a small box labeled "salts of lemon," and making a solution of this, he drinks it freely. Presently he feels distress, sends for his wife, and ascertains that he has drunk a solution of oxalio acid, which she has procured to take stains from linen. The physician is sent for; but the unavoidable delay attending his arrival is fatal. When he arrives, perhaps he sees upon the very table on which the weeping widow bows her head, a piece of chalk,")" which, if given in time, would have certainly prevented any mischief from the poison. Corrosive sublimate is the article generally used by domestics to destroy the vermin which sometimes infest our couches. A solution of it is left upon the chamber floor in the teacup, when the domestics go down to dine, leaving the children up stairs at play: the infant crawls to the teacup and drinks. Now, what think you would be the mother's joy, if, having studied chemistry, she instantly called to recollection the well-ascertained fact,that there is in the hen's nest an antidote to this poison ? She sends for some eggs, and breaking them, administers the whites—albumen. Her child recovers, and she weeps for joy. Talk not to her of novels. One little book of natural science has been worth to her more than all the novels in the worl...« less