340 INDEX. 



Is most judiciously employed as a remedy in cerebral inflam- 

 mation, 261. 



CONCRETIONS. See CALCULUS, and ACID, Uric; also ACID, 

 Lithofellic. 



CONSTITUENTS, Azotised. Of blood : see FIBRINE and ALBU- 

 MEN. Of vegetables : see FIBRINE, Vegetable ; ALBUMEN, 

 Vegetable ; CASEINE, Vegetable ; ALKALIES, Vegetable ; and 

 CAFFEINE. Of bile : see ACID, Choleic, Cholic, and Choloidic. 

 Of urine : see ACID, Uric; UREA, and ALLANTOINE. 



COOLING. See COLD and CLOTHING. 



COUERBE. His analysis of cliolesterine, 300. 



Cow. Amount of carbon expired by the, 14. Comparison of 

 the food with the excretions of the cow, 291. 



CRUM. His analysis of cane sugar, 300. 



CULTIVATION. Is the economy offeree, 78. 



CYAMELIDE. Its formula, 280. 



CYANIC ACID. See ACID, Cyanic. 



CYANIDE OF IRON. Its remarkable properties, 269. 



CYANURIC ACID. See ACID, Cyanuric. 



D. 



DAVY. Oxygen consumed by an adult man, 283. 



DEATH. Cause of, in chronic diseases, 27, 28. Caused in old 

 people by a slight depression of temperature, 255. Definition 

 of it, 254. 



DEMARCAY. His analysis of choleic acid, choloidic acid, and 

 taurine, 315. Remarks on his Researches on Bile, 316. 



DENIS. His experiments on the conversion of fibrine into albu- 

 men, 42. 



DESPRETZ. His calculation of the heat developed in the com- 

 bustion of carbon, 34. 



DIABETES MELLITUS. The sugar found in the urine in this 

 disease is grape sugar, and is derived from the starch of the 

 food, 95. 



DIASTASE. Analogy between its solvent action on starch, and 

 that of the gastric juice on coagulated albumen, 111. 



DIFFUSION OF GASES. Explains the fact that nitrogen is given 

 out through the skin of animals, 118; and the poisonous 

 action of feather- white wine, 116. 



DIGESTION. Is effected without the aid of the vital force, by a 



