INDEX. 
xix 
Distribution of mineral substances in 
vegetable organs, xvi. 264 
Disulphate of quinine, fallacy of test for, 
xviii. 72 
Diuretic decoction, ii. 109 
Division of mercury, xiv. 392 
Doebereiner's glass of strontian, ii. 252 
" soluble glass, ii. 252 
Dogwood, Jamaica, xvii. 46 
Donium, viii. 345 
Donovan's solution, preparation of, xix. 
93 
Dosing of iodide of potassium, xvi. 316 
Double salts of iron, xvi. 96 
Dover's powder, ii. 250 
Dragon's blood, xiii. 84 
i( " analysis of, iii. 252 
Dried herbs, vi. 84 
Drop, black, v. 260, xi. 202 
Drops, Bateman's pectoral, v. 25, xi. 69 
" grains and minims, i. 165 
Druggists in Prussia, iii. 264 
Drug grinding, xxi. 19 
" mill, xviii. 255 
Drugs, action of light on, xix. 144 
adulteration of, ii. 155, x. 114, 
xi. 169, xix. 310, xx. 200 
Drugs, adulteration of, law prohibiting, 
xx. 292 
" impurity of some, xvi. 182 
( t loss by pulverization, i. 138, xxi. 
31 
" notice of Brazilian, xvii. 81 
" rejected, list of, xxi. 159 
Drusium, or resin of oak, ii. 344 
Dry sulphuric acid, viii. 242, xx. Ill 
Drying narcotic plants, mode of, ii. 
253 
<e plants, new method of, viii. 175 
Drymis Chilensis, xix. 81 
" Winteri, vii. 115, xix. 161 
Dryobalanops camphora, xvii. 219 
Dublin pharmacopoeia, review of obser- 
vations on, iii. 322 
Dulcamara, 
vm. 15 
Dulong, necrological notice of, xi. 64 
Dye from buckwheat, blue, iv. 169 
" metallic, iv. 173 
" new red, xvi. 149 
iC red from Peru, iii. 265 
" woods, apparatus for extracting 
coloring from, xviii. 191 
Dyes, plants furnishing blue, vi. 72 
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Earths, antimoniate of potash and, xvi. 
37 
" (lime and magnesia) as tests, i. 
52 
Eau medicinale, vii. 347 
Eblana, ix. 316 
Education, medical, ix. 56, 161, 248 
Effect of light on plants, ii. 255 
" animal charcoal on solutions, 
iii. 148 
Effects of terrestrial radiation on vege- 
tation, ix. 52 
Effervescent magnesia, ix. 292, xx. 24 
Efflorescence, on, iii. 179 
Egypt, ancient plants of, v. 137 
Egyptian opium, v. 296 
Elaiometer, for detecting adulteration of 
olive oil, xvi. 24 
Elardic acid, vi. 84 
Elaterium, analysis of, iii. 124 
Elder root in dropsy, v. 176 
Elecampane, benzoic acid in, xv. 157 
Electricity used in poisoning by strych- 
nia, xvi. 154 
Electro-magnetic experiments, vi. 153 
Electuary of turpentine, xv. 239 
Elemi, xvi. 230, 232 
" gum from Bengal, new, iv. 84 
Elixir of vitriol, xiii. 174 
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Elixir, paregoric, xiv. 283 
Emetic, tartar, impurity of, xvi. 185 
Emetics of the United States, vegetable, 
iv. 276 
Emetine, vii. 351 
Emmenagogue properties of aconite, viii. 
263 
Emplastrum assafcetidae, v. 36 
plumbi, vii. 284 
" carbonat., iii. 206 
tart, antimon., v. 295 
Emulsin, action of, on amygdaline, x. 
351 
" researches on, xxi. 351 
Emulsion, anthelmintic, v. 259 
" camphor, i v . 13 
" . of castor oil, xx. 309 
of oil of turpentine, iv. 12 
of spermaceti, iv. 13 
of sulphuric ether, iv. 12 
Emulsions, i v . 11, v . 101 
English calomel, preparation of, xv. 93 
Epilepsy, indigo in, viii. 86 
Epispastic paper, xvii. 279 
Epsom salts, adulterations of, vii. 9 
" " new mode of administering, 
vi. 174 
« « patent for the manufacture 
of > xvii. 231 
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