INDEX. 441 



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Bifmuth fir(l mentioned by George Agricola - i$4 



Bitumen, bodies impregnated with it - 257 



Ulowpipc, its utility in experiments on foflils - 223 



Hricks burnt by the Egyptian* - 29 



nutters, metallic, their nature and origin - 343 



Bricks, proccfs for burning them . - * - - 37^ 

 Chinefe, acquainted with corrofivc mercurial fublimatc 3 1 <; 

 dafTcs of foflHs - - 7" 



Common clay confidercd as a material for bricks 380 



Combinations of mercury with the marine acid - 317 

 Competition of fofilli - *^' > - 216 



Corrolive mercurial fublimatc 3*9 



Coma, albedos of f-' 1 - - 19* 



Chincfc poflefTcd of coafidcrablc chemical knowledge 8 c 



Chcmiflry metaphorical character of - 3 

 Chemical arts, origin of - r ^ , ^ 



Chcmills, their defence of antiquity blamed - 7 



. fond of tracing an allegorical hillory of their fci- 



cncc in the fables of antiquity - - "9 



Chemillry, nature of fofGls difcernablc by its acid 22 z 



Chemirtry, its progrefs flower among the Greeks than a 



mong the Egyptians - - ,- i 1 57 



Copper firil tlifcorcred in Cyprus - - 57 



Crete, afbcltos of * - ; - - 19* 



Corinthian compofitions of mctali * * if ^7 



Cyplic)8, an akxipharmic compofition of the Egyptians 2S 



Cudbear, the fir ft difcovery of . - 126 



Cronlltdt, his merit as a foflilill *;; tlj 



Compound earths, how united - * '' 149 



Crocodile, (kelcton of, found in thcfand-pit at MacftricLt 286 



Diamond - * '*' ' '" "'' - 251 



fpccics of * - 283 



Difpenfatory of Valerius Cordus - 108 



DoHie, his delicacy relative to the adulteration f corrofivc 



fublimatc with arfcnic " * . * 333 



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