The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
1879
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Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on. It is very rapid when fire is produced; that is to say, a great deal of Oxygen combines with some other elements in a very short time. Bemember, then, that the quicker the oxidation, the greater the heat. Although the three elements, Carbon, Hydro- gen, and Oxygen, combined together in different quantities, form a great many things, there are more than sixty other elements, or kinds of matter, which unite to make many more sub- stances. But these three, Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen, with one other, called Nitrogen* are the most common. If to these four you add Phosphorus * and Sulphur * you may say that all the things which we eat or drink are chiefly made of two, three, four, five, or all of these six elements combined together in dif- ferent quantities and different ways. [The symbol of Nitrogen is N; of Phos- phorus, P; and of Sulphur, or brimstone, S.] You -were told that fat and sugar only contain Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen; the lean part