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INDEX. 
Arsenic, accidents from, xii. 18 
" action of, on sugar, iii. 174 
c< antidote to, vii. 350, viii. 346, 
x. 263, xi. 171, xiii. 339 
" chloride of, i. 56 
<£ detection of, vi. 94, vii. 71, 
107, x. 108, xii. 279, xiii. 
149, xiv. 103 
experiments on, iv. 108 
hydrated peroxide of iron, an 
antidote to, xiii. 239 
in earth of cemeteries, xvi. 238 
in muriatic acid, xiii. 348 
in organic mixtures, xviii. 220 
in phosphorus, viii. 331 
in sulphuric acid, xii. 236 
iodide of, xii. 186, xiii. 97 
mode of distinguishing anti- 
mony from, xi. 351, xiv. 104 
poisoning by, ix. 75, xiii. 326, 
xvii. 238, xviii. 179, 279 
separation of, viii. 307, x. 58 
sulphuret of, x. 217 
a 
a 
a 
tt 
a 
a 
a 
it 
tt 
tt 
a 
a 
test for, 
xiii. 202 
" tobacco a remedy for, viii. 346 
" treated by tritoxide of iron, xi. 
171 
Arsenical preparations, acetate of iron 
an antidote to, xvii. 55 
Arseniferous sulphuric acid, xvii. 180 
Arseniuretted hydrogen, x. 217, xiv. 152 
Artificial aventurine, xix. 110 
blue copper, xix. 216 
cajuput oil, vi. 349 
formation of a vegeto-alkali, 
xvii. 54 
xix. 284 
i. 318 
it 
tt 
a 
tt 
gum, 
ice, 
Artificial malic acid, v. 168 
" marble, xviii. 319 
" musk, viii. 14 
" oil of rue,production of,xxi.372 
" ultramarine, ii. 136, vii. 172, 
xix. 105 
c< e< for coloring sugar 
xix. 320 
Arum triphyllum, xv. 81 
Asarum Canadense, x. 181 
" £< and asarum Euro- 
paeum, xiii. 177 
" tinctuie of, xviii. Ill 
Asbestus lamp, x. 239 
Ascites, liniment for, ix. 175 
Asclepias curassavica, xix. 19 
Ashes in different parts of wood, propor- 
tion of, viii. 170 
Asparagine, xvii. 65 
" in extract of belladonna, 
vii. 345 
Asparagus, dry extract of, vi. 53 
" syrup of, vi. 122, viii. 197 
Asphaltine, ix. 84 
Assafcetida, ix. 261, xix. 75 
" plaster, v. 36 
Ass's milk, composition of, ix. 81 
Athenian poplar, salicine from, iii. 174 
Atmosphere, eudiometry of, xvii. 294 
Atmospheric soda fountain, ix. 183 
Atropia, its medical use, xix. 95 
Atropine, _ vi. 83, 314 
Attraction, capillary, vi. 245, 292 
Aurocyanide of potassium in electro- 
gilding, xix. 237 
Aventurine, artificial, xix. 110 
Azote, protoxide of, v. 87 
Azotic gas, xiii. 260 
B 
Balsam of copaiba, ii. 84, iii. 39, vii. 173, 
xvi. 236, xviii. 302 
" " adulteration of, ii. 
245, xvi. 309 
" " analysis of, ii. 340 
" " new kind of, xxi. 260 
« purity of, ii. 340 
" " resin from, xv. 36 
« " solidification of, i. 3, 
ii. 162 
" «< test for purity of, v. 
33, xix. 187 
" volatile oil and resin 
of, i. 117 
fir, ix. 18 
honey, vi. 61 
Mecca, analysis of, ii. 339, iv. 
229 
u 
tt 
it 
Balsam of Peru, xi. 89 
" Toluand its products, xx. 117 
" " new, vi. 177 
" " syrup of, xiv. 344 
" Turlington's, v. 28, xi. 92, 
xiv. 99 
Baobab tree, bark of, xx. 328 
Barbadoes, manufacture of sugar in, xxi. 
53 
Barium, chloride of, xiii. 93 
" crystallized, viii. 87 
" iodide of, i. 202, iv. 263 
" protoxide of, v. 87 
Bark, angustura, ii. 157 
ei Brazilian, xvii. 84 
' e Carthagena, i. 155 
" essential salt of, xiv. 106, 341 
" from Santa Fe, analysis of, xii. 108 
