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and Soldering : Of Copper, 497 ; Improved Flux, 546 ; Solder for Silver 

 and Brass, 546. Alloys : Abyssinian Gold, 497 ; Platinum-bronze for Cook- 

 ing Vessels, 529 ; American Sterling, 544. 



Sundry Chemical Processes. Sugar : Manufacture of, 505 ; Use of 

 Caustic Baryta in Refining, 405 ; Manufacture of Red Lead, 497 ; Utiliza- 

 tion of Tinned Iron Scraps, 537 ; Extraction and Utilization of Suint, 519 ; 

 Extraction of Oils by Gasoline, 503. 



Miscellaneous : Uses of Refuse Tan, 532 ; Preparation of Chlorine, 532 ; 

 Absorption of Metallic Salts by Wool, 534 ; Rubber Corks, 536 ; Artificial 

 Leather, 527 ; Japanese Felt, 528 ; Mineral Sperm Oil, 536 ; Filing Appa- 

 ratus, 528 ; Buttons from Soap-stone, 498 ; Glazing Earthenware, 499 ; En- 

 amel for Cooking Vessels, 524 ; Mineral Cotton from Glass, 496 ; Mushet's 

 Special Steel, 495 ; Imitation of Mahogany, 519; Preparation of New Zea- 

 land Flax, 523 ; Spontaneous Combustion of Charged Silks, 88. 



N. MATERIA MEDICA, THERAPEUTICS, AND HYGIENE 549 



MATERIA MEDICA. 



Particular Substances : Chloral : Nature of, 105 ; Crotonate of, 550, 555 ; 

 Sulpho-hydrate of, 586 ; Use in Cholera, 564. Alcohol : Protest against its 

 Use in Medicine, 553 ; Elimination from the System, 554. Carbolic Acid : 

 Physiological Action, 587. Xylol for Small-pox, 561. Chloroform and 

 Morphine as an Anaesthetic, 556. Opium Alkaloids, Action of, 552. Apo- 

 morphia of no Therapeutic Value, 555. Cod-liver Oil Pills, 550. Camphor 

 and Bromine, 556. Strychnine : Action on Vaso-motor Nerves, 554 ; Na- 

 ture of Guarauna, 586. Physiological Action of Coffee, 283 ; of Quinine, 

 284; of Tobacco, 285-, of Bromide of Potassium, 593; of Delphinium. Glyc- 

 erine for Vaccine Lymph, 557. Sulphates as Remedies, 550. Anaes- 

 thetics : Nature of, 286 ; Chloroform and Morphine, 556 ; in Butchering 

 Animals, 455. Food : Milk from Diseased Cattle, 568. Cold Milk for In- 

 fants, 595. Value of Meat Extract, 551 ; of Beef Tea, 553. 

 DISEASES, ETC. 



Epilepsy : Bromide of Potassium for, 549 ; Artificial, 549. Mercurial Poi- 

 soning : Remedy for Mercurial Vapors, 528. Cholera : Cholera Districts, 

 562 ; Immunity of Coppersmiths, 564 ; Chloral for, 564 ; Hypodermic In- 

 jections in, 564. Small-pox : Glycerine for Vaccine Lymph, 557 ; Xylol 

 for, 56*1 ; Revaccination, 561. Phthisis : MacCormac on, 579. Eczema : 

 Cure for, 5l?9. Measles and Scarlet Fever : Micrococci in, 560. Croup : 

 Nature and Cure, 582. Sciatica, 565. Skin Diseases from Bad Soap, 566. 

 Pyaemia and Bacteria, 578. Seasickness : Pollard on, 579. Defective 

 Vision : In Young, how Caused, 589. Malaria : Origin of, 573 ; Use of 

 Sulphites for, 550. Microscopic Organisms : Bacteria and Pyaemia, 578 ; 

 Mould, 560 ; Micrococci in Measles, 560. Poisons : Poisonous Reds and 

 other Colors, 581 ; Coralline not necessarily Poisonous, 583 ; Arsenic in 

 Wall Paper, 584 ; in Carpets, 596 ; Poisonous Vanilla Cream, 465 ; Action 

 of Noxious Salts on Lead, 584 ; Poisonous Serpents in India, 585. Virus : 

 Physiology of, 591 ; of Infectious Matter, 560. Injection of Septicemic 

 Blood, 595. Antidotes : Chloral and Strychnine, Mutual Antidotes, 583 ; 

 Atropia Injection for Opium, 587. Miscellaneous : "Weakening of Fatal 

 Maladies, 558 ; Use of Hot Sand-baths, 592. 



