INDEX. 
A 
Aborigines, metals known to, v. 182 
Academy of Medicine of Paris, reports 
of, xiii. 326 
Accidents caused by bryony root, x. 83 
" from arsenic, xii. 18 
Acetic acid, i. 53, ii. 155, iv.204, v. 40, 
xviii. 292 
« ether, ii. 82, iv. 119, v. 40, vi. 
262 
Acetification of alcohol, iii. 263 
Acetone, xv. 194 
Aceto-spirituous tincture of cantharides, 
viii. 257 
Acetous fermentation of some officinal 
alcoholic preparations, xx. 47 
Acetum opii, viii. 84 
Achilleine, xix. 57 
Achras sapota, viii. 280 
Acid, acetic, i. 53, iv. 204, xviii. 292 
" " preparation of, v. 40 
" " purity of, ii. 155 
" achilleic, xix. 57 
(i arsenic, i. 53 
" benzoic, ii. 155, vii. 258, ix. 19, 
x. 176, xii. 173, xv. 157 
" " conversion of, into hip- 
puric, xvii. 6 
" ec in elecampane, xv. 157 
" " preparation of, xvi. 157 
" boracic, xiii. 92, xiv. 336, xxi. 178 
" " with soda, new compound 
of, xxi. 175 
" butyric, xix. 205 
" camphoric, iv. 347 
" carbazotic, vi. 187 
<£ 6t preparation of, i. 157 
" carbolic, vii. 252 
" carbonic, decomposition of, xvi. 
91 
u " gas as a therapeutic 
agent, x. 173, xv. 154 
Acid, carbonic, liquid, viii. 59, x. 301 
" chloro-oxalic, iii. 88 
M chromic, xviii. 199 
" " as a bleaching agent, xx. 
341 
" cinnamic, xv. 77 
" citric, i. 54, ii. 156 
u <c from gooseberries, ii. 81 
" " test for, viii. 86 
" digitalic, xvii. 181 
" developed in rancid fat, iv. 252 
" elardic, vi. 84 
« esculic, vii. 150 
« formic, vi. 171, xviii. 289 
tl " anhydrous, vii. 263 
" fumaric, viii. 58 
£ < gallic, iii. 268, v. 11, vi. 82, viii. 
86, xviii. 237, xx. 112 
<c guaiacic, viii. 170 
" hippuric, xiii. 337, xviii. 320 
" hydriodic, i. 77, ix. 175 
" hydrobromic and hydriodic, pre- 
paration of, xxi. 368 
" hydrochloric, i. 53, xiii. 106, xviii. 
79 
" " purity of, ii. 156, 
xvii. 222, xx. 315 
c: c< test for starch in 
rice, xv. 76 
" hvdrocyanic, iii. 266, 309, 356, 
iv. 17, 83, 85, v. 173, vii. 160, 
viii. 82, 161, xii. 32 
" « action of, xvii. 161, 
xviii. 234, 274 
" " antidote for, xix. 223 
" " death from, xv. 237 
« " in sweet spirits of 
nitre, xvi. 41, 115 
medicinal, xix. 259 
poisonous to vege- 
tables, v. 262 
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