“Reader! Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of its inclosure. Imagine the additions made where the projecting limbs had fairly and far emerged beyond the confines of the garment. Imagine the boy still growing, and the clothes, mended all over, now more than ever in want of mending”

— John Joseph Griffin

such is chemistry, and such its nomenclature.
Chemical Recreations (7th Edition, 1834) "The Romance of Chemistry" p189

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