3. To the last, add of oil of cloves, 2 oz.
4. Essence of musk and ambergris, of each 1 oz.; liquor of ammonia, 1⁄2 dr. See Snuff, &c.
SCHEELE’S GREEN. See Green pigments.
SCHLIPPE’S SALT. Sulphantimoniate of sodium. See Antimony, Sulphantimoniate.
SCHWARTZ’S DROPS. See Drops, Worm.
SCIAT′ICA. See Rheumatism.
SCIENCE. “Man,” says Whewell, “is the interpreter of nature. Science the right interpretation. The senses place before us the characters of the ‘Book of Nature,’ but these convey no knowledge to us till we have discovered the alphabet by which they are to be read.”
Various classifications of the sciences have been proposed by different authors. Dr Neil Arnott conceived that the object of all the sciences, viz. a knowledge of nature, might be best attained by the study of physics, chemistry, life and mind, including under this latter the laws of society, or the modern science of sociology.
As to mathematics he regarded it as a
system of “technical mensuration,” invaded by the mind in order to enable it to study the other sciences. In his ‘Cours de Philosophie Positive,’ Comte traverses the entire circle of the theoretical, abstract, or fundamental sciences, and divides them into mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and sociology. He admits no distinct science on psychology or the science of mind.