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dressing wounds and burns.. Those resins, as copal, &c., which 

 do not dissolve in the liquid, yield readily to the vapor. 



Air or coal-gas, surcharged with benzole, yields a flame of 

 highly luminous power, and the author has recommended 

 (Ch. Gaz. vii. 188) a system of illumination based upon this 

 property. 



So also, when mixed in the proportion of one volume to two 

 of alcohol or pyroxylic spirit of .840, it forms an admirable 

 burning fluid. 



It, moreover, possesses ansesthetic properties. 



