Excerpt from An Introduction to Pharmaceutical and Medical Chemistry: Arranged on the Principle of the Course of Lectures on Chemistry, as Delivered at the South London School of PharmacyThere are certain general properties which all matter shares In common.Mansion - By this we mean that every body occupies a certain bulk, or that it must have a certain degi'ee of length, breadth, and thickness, irrespective of its form or of how that form may be changed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.