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INDEX. 
Composition of honey, xxi. 334 
" protocarbonate of iron, 
xvii. 76 
" salicine, ii. 337 
" sesquicarbonate of soda, 
xv. 143 
Compound cathartic pills, iii. 207 
" decoction of aloes, xv. 125 
" " sarsaparilla, vii. 
175, xii. 31 
" of albumen and bichloride of 
mercury, viii. 347 
u of boracic acid with soda, 
xxi. 175 
" of tin and platinum, viii. 81 
" syrup of sarsaparilla, ii. 282 
Compounds, gaseous, xii. 115 
Compressed air, therapeutic action of, 
xiii. 81 
Concentrated acids, poisoning by, xiii. 
129 
Concentration of nitric acid, xiii. 261, 
xix. 24 
Concrete oil of cocoa, xiii. 16 
Concretion in a horse's stomach, xviii. 
93 
Condensation of chlorine, x. 261 
" nitrogen by vegetable 
mould, xvii. 40 
Coneine, vii. 241, viii. 169 
Confection of iron, compound, xvi. 157 
Confections, &c, ii. 341, v. 31 
Conium maculatum, active principle of, 
i. 76 
Conserve of roses, v. 32 
Consolidation of copaiba by wax, xiii. 
288 
Constituents of milk, microscopic, xiii. 
175 
Constitution of salts, x. 346 
Construction of formulae, xxi. Ill 
Contagions, Liebig on, xiii. 218 
Continuous displacement, xxi. 131 
Contrayerva, tincture of, xviii. 115 
Convention, national medical, xi. 345 
Conversion of benzoic into hippuric acid, 
xvi. 6 
" calomel into corrosive sub- 
limate, xii. 167, xv. 128 
" iron into plumbago, x. 81 
" oil of mustard into oil of 
garlic, xvii. 228 
« salicine into a peculiar 
color, iii. 263 
" tannic into gallic acid, xx. 
112 
Convolvulus orizabensis, x. 224 
if panduratus, xi. 177 
Copaiba, ii. 84, iii. 39, vii. 173, xvi. 236 
« adulterated, ii. 245, xvi. 309 
Copaiba, analysis of, ii. 340 
(( and magnesia, ii. 262 
" and rhatany, capsules of, xv. 
238 
" examination of, xviii. 302 
" new kind of balsam, xxi. 260 
« purity of, ii. 340 
" resin extracted from, xv. 36 
" solidification of, i. 3 
" syrup of, xi. 264 
t( tincture of, viii. 258 
« tests for, v. 33, xix. 187 
" volatile oil and resin of, i. 117 
Copal and amber, to dissolve, v. 261 
Copper, xiii. 204 
« action of cold sulphuric acid on, 
vi. 127 
" artificial blue, xix. 216 
M antidote to salts of, xiii. 341 
" coating for glass vessels, xxi. 
264 
" detection of arsenic by, xv. 269 
ee deutoxide of, xiii. 94 
" in organic fluids, xviii. 238 
" new salt of, viii. 330 
« polished, i. 56 
" protoxide of, iv. 88, vi. 352 
** sulphate of, i. 55 
" test for, vi. 188, xiii. 341 
Copperas and alum, manufactory of, v. 
12 
te manufacture of, iii. 55 
Coptis teeta, ix. 196 
Coral and quinine dentifrice, ii. 342 
Cordial, Godfrey's, v. 26, xi. 70 
Cornelian, coloring principle of, vii. 88 
Cornus circinata, i. 73 
« Florida, vii. 109,265 
Corrosion of lead pipes, viii. 82, xxi. 342 
Corrosive sublimate, action of, on albu- 
men, xii. 351 
« " antidote for, xiv. 
309, 332 
te c( decomposed by ve- 
getable bodies, i. 
320 
" " from calomel, xii. 
167, xv. 128 
« " mode of preparing, 
xix. 232 
« f< solubility of, in 
alcohol and ether con- 
taining camphor, i. 158 
Cortex adstringens Brasiliensis, xii. 224 
Corylus rostrata, xiv. 280, 344 
Cosmetics, danger from certain, viii. 350 
Costus amer, bark of the belahe or, x. 
47 
" varieties of, v. 321 
Cotton oil, purification of, ix. 297 
