ACI—ACI 1s 
“i “a - er 
Meprctwat Uses. In pills, dose gr. j. for old venereal 
affections, parti of the skin ; a solution of gr. 
ij, in £3ij rose-water, used as x cosmetic. Keyser’s 
anti-venereal pills consist of this mercurial salt, tritu- 
rated with manna. 
No.12.—Acipum Aceticum—(impurum ?) Fortius. 
L. Strong (impure?) acetic acid. Spe- 
cific gravity, 1.046. Lond. Pyroligneous 
acid—e ligno stillatum. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 13. ; 
Acetic acid distilled from wood, or pyroligneous acid— 
known in England in 1661, under the name of ‘sour - 
irit,” or ‘* vinegar of boxwood;” within a few years _ 
Spinit,”” S5a eats Obtained by d ing 
wood, in large iron cylinders, by heat—rises gaseous, _ 
“and becomes condensed into a liquid by passing — 
through cool pipes. Oe 
Qvauitrzs. Colourless, limpid; sharp agreeable taste, ~ 
and penetrating vinegar-odour, with some empyreu- _ 
matic aroma ; five or six times stronger than common _ 
vin ; very volatile ; makes a white opaque smoke, 
which is a dry acetate, when its vapour is allowed to 
rise near carbonate of ammonia ; similar in chemical 
properties to diluted pure acetic acid ; forms a colour- 
less salt when saturated with potass, and a colourless 
mixture with sulphuric acid. 
Mepicat Prorrrttes anp Uses. Diluted with distilled 
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powerfully —— tic—hence its economical use, in _ 
F 7 i 3 bstances—m igt nt 
be nea Etgenpanitinn of mata - ‘ ae 
No. 13.—Aci1pum AcztosuM, forte E. Acidum ace- 
* tecum. D. Concentrated acetic atid— 
radical vinegar. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff, Col, No, 14. 
Differs from distilled vinegar, in being more concentrat- 
edand pure. Obtained from decomposition of acetic 
salts by sulphuric acid. jane 
Quaxitizs. Pungent, acrid, volatile; takes fire, when — 
heated in open air; more solyent than distilled vine- _ 
id dissolving camphor, essential oi see resins— 
ution precipitates them again. With alcohol, it — 
forms a kind of ether; waked With water Meeapghe ” 3 
