The geology of St. Jago is very striking, yet simple; a stream of lava formerly flowed over the bed of the sea, formed of triturated recent shells and corals, which it has baked into a hard white rock.
The surrounding ashes do not contain any carbonate of lime; hence the concretions have probably been formed, as is so often the case, by the aggregation of this substance.
It is probable that these upper beds remained long in an unconsolidated form, during which time, these terrestrial productions were embedded.
The supernatant alcohol is to be distilled off, the residuum is to be evaporated to the consistence of an extract, and triturated with water till this liquid will dissolve no more.
If linseed oil and ground manganese be triturated together, the soft lump so formed will speedily become firm, and ere long take fire.
Skim-milk cheese, boiled for some time in water, and then triturated into paste with fresh-slaked lime, forms also a good lute.
These compositions are not fritted; but are employed after being simply triturated with water into a thin paste.
The materials having been carefully sifted, a little of the clay is to be mixed with the plumbago, and the mixture is to be triturated with water into a perfectly uniform paste.
The whole must be carefully triturated upon a porphyry slab; the soda with the soap in the same manner as colours are ground, mixing in gradually the eggs and the ox-gall previously beat together.
Ammoniacal alum is easily distinguished from the other by the smell of ammonia which it exhales when triturated with quicklime.
The whole is to be triturated with the flour of mustard till the mixture becomes uniform.
When finely trituratedweigh off one or two pounds, place in a black iron pan (it must not be tinned), with 4 ozs.
The triturated seeds may be given internally in doses of 1-2 grams with milk or molasses to expel lumbricoids.
They are used in the form of an electuary triturated to the proper consistency with honey or syrup.
When triturated with water they yield a milky, turbid fluid, and dissolve only partially in alcohol.
The carmine is rubbed fine in a porcelain mortar and then triturated with water[25] in the same mortar until no more specks of carmine are visible.
The carmine is triturated by itself and in small portions added to the talc.
Also, if diamond powder be triturated with vitriolic acid, it turns it black, which is another proof of its containing phlogiston.
He discovered that lime triturated with resinous gums, promotes their dissolution in water; which, he thinks, is thus enabled to take up the same parts of these substances, as are soluble in spirit of wine.
Jalap being triturated in the same proportions, Number 1 dark brown; taste of the jalap strong.
Five grains of opium triturated in the same manner, yielded a transparent tincture, of as deep a colour as the tinctura Thebaica of the London Dispensatory, and tasting strongly of the opium.
Two drachms of Columbo being triturated in the same manner, Number 1, dark brown tincture; tastes much of the Columbo.
Three drachms of the same galls, and two scruples of quick-lime, were triturated with four ounces of rain water, as in the last experiment.
If a hard rock is met with, it is first triturated by an iron rod, and the materials being thus reduced to small fragments or powder, are readily extracted.
The mass is thentriturated until of uniform consistence.
From this form of cavity it is evident that no part of the sides is ever intended to be brought in contact, and that the food is triturated by being mixed with hard bodies, and acted on by the powerful muscles which form the gizzard.
There are two kinds of renal calculi, the phosphatic and the uric, which should be trituratedas separate preparations.
The fresh milk from a bitch is triturated in the usual way.
My attention was called to Skookum chuck some time since, and I procured some of the salts and triturated a quantity, making the first, second, third and sixth potencies.
The dried thyroid gland of the sheep is triturated in the usual way or an extract may be prepared from the fresh gland.
The residue obtained by evaporation, from the waters of the mineral springs of Gastein, Germany, is triturated in the usual way.
The live animal is crushed and triturated as under class IX of American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia, a tincture can be prepared as under class IV of the same Pharmacopoeia.
A mixture composed of equal parts of dry chloride of Gold and chloride of Sodium, triturated in the usual way.
The virus, obtained by irritating the animal and allowing it to bite on glass, is triturated in the usual way.
Its union with the vegetable acid, when triturated with manna, is said to compose Keyser's Pill.
Triturated with gum arabic it is much recommended by Plenk; and triturated with sugar and a little essential oil, as directed in a former Edinburgh Dispensatory, it probably forms some of the syrups sold as nostrums.
For it appears from the experiments of Van Woensel, that calomel or sublimate corrosive, triturated with variolous matter, incapacitates it from giving the disease by inoculation.
The wheat berry being broken up and triturated in one operation, the flour necessarily contained a large proportion of branny particles in which cerealin, an active diastasic constituent, was present in very sensible proportions.
Each pound of paste is triturated with four pounds of alcohol, specific gravity 8.
It may be presumed, therefore, that the granite crust of the exploded globe from which some comet was created was the source of the finely triturated material which we know as clay.
And hence, if a comet did strike the earth and deposited its ground-up and triturated material upon the earth's surface, we should find nothing different in that material from earth-substance of the same kind.
To blacken the hair a little of this dye is triturated in the hand or between the fingers, with which the hair or beard is well rubbed.
Sir Spencer Wells, twenty years ago, recorded some cases of confirmed cancer cured by taking powdered and triturated oyster shells; whilst egg shells similarly reduced to a fine dust have proved equally efficacious.
When triturated with quicklime, it exhales ammonia, which is a characteristic of all ammoniacal salts.
The perchlorate detonates feebly when triturated with sulphur.
Meuder has observed, that a pyrophorus is obtained, when equal parts of orpiment and iron-filings are sublimed together, and ten parts of this sublimate are triturated in a mortar along with twelve of nitrate of silver.
Others, however, assert, that their crysocolla was nothing more than the rust of copper, triturated with urine.
As Mr. Holbrook was the most passive member of the directorate, drifting quietly along with the general current, it seemed safe to accept him as representing the feeling of that body.
Cocaine hydrochlorate, when triturated with calomel, blackens by the slightest humidity or by moistening it with alcohol.
Obolonski[552] has recommended the following process:--The finely divided viscera are triturated with powdered glass and digested for twelve hours with alcohol.
The metallic foil is first carefully triturated into a fine paste with honey, after which it is boiled in water containing a little alkali, and then repeatedly washed in hot water and dried at a gentle heat.
Equal parts of nitrate of silver and dry tartaric acid are triturated in a mortar, and treated with water, when a reaction takes place, resulting in the formation of tartrate of silver and the liberation of nitric acid.
