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WE have received a copy of a pamphlet entitled “Safeguards in the Laboratory”, together with a notice suitable for exhibition in the laboratory, both of which are obtainable, price 6d. post free, from Kirkiand, The King's School, Ely. The pamphlet contains a number of very useful hints for first aid in the laboratory, which have been compiled fc tiie Science Masters' Association and the Association of Women Science Teatjhers, and it should be v £ry useful in the school laboratory. It should be noted, however, that the administration of an emetic, particularly salt solution, as stated, is not advisable in the case of mercuric chloride without first giving immediately white of egg: the section on poisons is not sufficiently detailed to be of much real value. The statement that “the naphtha used for storing sodium should be of the native rock-oil variety” is rather obscure.
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First Aid in the Laboratory. Nature 133, 253–254 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133253d0
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