INDEX. 



Marie, e»periraents to difcover its afEalty with calcareoiw 

 earth, 7. 



* • its compofitioD (Jifcovered by thefe experioients, 17, 



- why different kinds of it are necelTary for raaau- 



ring different foils, 19, 



* its effervefcing with acid, no te{^of the quantity of 



calcareous cartTi it contains, 22. 

 effefls of fire upon it, 22. 26. 

 its affinity with quick lime, 25. 26. 45. 

 — — differs only from calcareous fubftances, by con. 



laining a certain proportion of clay, 28, 

 II — experiments to difcover what change the adlion of 

 fire would produce npon its calcareous earth, 33, 

 » contains a certain quantity of iron, 39. 



an attempt to make it by an artificial compofition, 4I. 



' - experiments fhewingthat it does not attradl an acid 



from the air, 47, 



JVfeafles, cf the ufe of the bark in a hoarfenefs after theai, 



375- 

 Medicines, experiments with fome of the moft powerful 



ones, to {how how they afl upon the nerves to which 

 they are primarily applied, or after being abforbed, by 

 Dr Alexander Monro, junior, 292. See Opium, fpirits, 

 and oils. 

 Metk, (Mr John) his hiftory of a fraflured fternum, J05, 

 jHiihfes, effeft of eleflricity in removing obilrudiions of 



them 1 16. 

 Menftruum, what Circumftances increafe Its acftion, 91. 

 Mercurial pijl, its ufe ih a thickened bladder. 49 j. 

 Mercury, (corrofive lublimate of) given as aa anthelmin- 

 tic, 380. 

 • its ufe in convulfive diforders, 551. 557. 



Mtoillure, cffefts of its circulation, 80. 



Moiflure, 



