INDEX. 
Blistering plaster without cantharides, 
ii. 167 
Blood, human, xvii. 240 
quinine in, xiv. 352 
stains, method of distinguishing 
them from other stains, xix. 319 
Blowpipe table, xxi. 107 
Blue coloring matter of lapis lazuli, ii. 
136 
" copper, artificial, xix. 216 
" dye from buckwheat, iv. 169 
<c dyes, plants furnishing, vi. 72 
" ink, xx. 65, 69 
" mass, remarks on, i. 100, xvi. 2 
e< " sophistication of, xviii. 257 
" tc machine for, xxi. 6 
" " non-existence of oxide of 
mercury in, i. 101 
<e urine, xv. 148 
Bogota, styrax of, ii. 163 
Boiling of liquids in glass vessels, xx. 
329 
(( of mixtures of two liquids and 
their explosions, x. 231 
" point of water variable, xvii. 75 
Bologna catechu, xviii. 158 
Bolus of cubebs, copaiba and turpentine, 
xiii. 78 
Boracic acid, xiii. 92, xiv. 336, xxi. 174 
" " lagoons in Tuscany, xii. 40 
({ et with soda, new compound 
of, xxi. 175 
Borate of soda, i. 55 
Borax, iii. 119, xvii. 3 
" manufacture of, ii. 243 
Bordeaux turpentine, xii. 135 
Boron and potassa, tartrate of, iii. 312, 
xii. 36 
" apparatus for evolution of, v. 246 
Botanical press, portable, viii. 99 
Bottles, mode of labelling, vii. 54 
" H removing stoppers from, 
i. 46 
Boullay's filter and process of displace- 
ment, x. 1 
Boxwood a substitute for hops, iv. 351 
Brandy, adulteration of, ( xvi. 233 
Brandy, purification of, xvi. 293 
Rrass, to water,. v. 172 
Brazilian bark, xvii. 84 
(( drugs, notice of, xvii. 81 
Brazil nut tree, xx. 157 
' c sarsaparilla of, xv. 275 
Bread, adulteration of, xvi. 284 
" for diabetic patients, xxi. 242 
" poisoned, analysis of, vii. 107 
Brilliant white light for signals, viii. 85 
British and American Pharmacopoeias, 
xiv. 179 
« oil, v. 29, xi. 73 
Bromates of potassa and soda, action of 
nitric acid on, xiii. 225 
Bromic ether, iv. 118 
Bromide of salicyle, xi. 151 
Bromides of alkalies, delicate test for 
iodides in, xv. 121 
Bromine, viii. 169, ix. 233 
" and its combinations, ii. 89,169 
ic action of,on vegetable alkalies, 
vi. 334 
« American, xviii. 95 
" chlorine and iodine, antidotes 
to vegetable alkalies, ii. 83 
" extraction of, from liquor of 
kelp, xviii. 224 
" in mineral waters, xviii. 195 
Brown mixture, xi. 284 
Brucia, chlorate and iodate of, ii. 302, 
305 
" products from, by oxygen, xvi. 
201 
Brucine, action of nitric acid on, xix. 
237, xx. 114 
Bryony root, accidents caused by, x. 83 
Bubuline, vi. 83 
Bucharian rhubarb, xviii. 64, 123 
Buchu, fluid extract of, xx. 85 
Buckwheat, blue dye from, iv. 169 
Buena, ii. 240 
Burgundy pitch, xii. 132 
.Burns, lotion for, iv. 258 
Burnt sponge, iv. 88 
Bussorah galls, xxi. 265 
Buxine, vi. 177 
C 
Cacao, 
viii. 286 
" butter of, vi. 352 
Cachou nut, resin of, iv. 171 
Cachuchu siphonia, sap of, iii. 292 
Cacoucia coccinea, description of, iv. 186 
Cadmium, lactate of, xvi. 54 
cc sulphuret of, in dyeing, iii. 264 
Cajeput oil, iv. 139, 261, x. 19 
" artificial, vi. 349 
Cajeput oil, to separate copper from, vi. 
348 
Calagirah of India, ix. 32 
Calamine, adulteration of, ix. 173 
ct impurity of, xvi. 182, 185 
Calamus acorus, v. 265 
Calcined magnesia, iii. 198, viii. 169 
i( <( different kinds of, 
xvi. 272 
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