SECTION III. — HISTORY. I45 



Parkes, Samuel. 



Chemical Essays. Sec' i)i Section V. 

 The work has valuable historical notes. 



Paulin, Jacob. 



Dissertatio gradualis de primordiis chemiae. Upsaliae [1779]. Sm. 4to, 



Pebal, Leopold von. 



Das chemische Laboratorium der Universitat Graz. Wien, 1880. pp. 

 28, 4to. 8 plates. 



Peckston, T. S. 



Theory and Practice of Gas-Lighting. See in Section V. 

 Contains a sketch of the early history of Gas-lighting. 



Pellegrino, Luigi. 



La chimica e le arti in Europa, ossia esame filosofico della vita e delle 

 arti, tratto dalle vicende della chimica, da servire come elemento 

 alia storia filosofica delle arti in Europa. Messina, 1844. 8vo. 



Pennes, J. A. 



Notice pour servir a I'histoire generale de la pharmacie presentee 

 devant I'assemblee generale des pharmaciens de la Seine le 14 avril 

 1869. Paris, 1869. 8vo. 



Pernety, Antoine Joseph. 



Les Fables Egyptiennes et Grecques devoilees. See in Section II ; and 

 compare in Section III, Tollius, Jacob. 



Persoz, J. 



Exposition universelle internationale de 1889 a Paris. Rapport sur 

 les procedes chimiques de blanchiment, de teinture, de I'impression 

 et d'appret. Paris, 189 1. 8vo. 



Pest (Laboratorium). 



See Than, C. von. 



Peters, Hermann. 



* Aus pharmazeutischer Vorzeit in Blld und Wort. Berlin, 1886. pp. 

 x-224. Neue Folge. Berlin, 1889. pp. xi-287. 2 vols., 8vo. 



Handsomely illustrated with facsimiles of early cuts, title-pages and portraits, 

 83 in number. One section deals with : " Goldmacherkunst." Vol. II 

 has 92 illustrations. The chapter on mineralische ArzneistofTe is an 

 interesting contribution to medical chemistry. For an American trans- 

 lation of vol. I see the following : 



* Pictorial History of Ancient Pharmacy with sketches of 

 early medical practice. Translated from the German 



