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Abortion, prevented by suppositories of Opium, page 197.
Absolute and Relative remedies, meaning attached to the terms, 68.
Absorbent medicines, why they check diarrhœa, 82.
Absorbent system, specifically stimulated by Mercury, 96.
Acetate of Potass, decomposed _in transitu_, and its alkaline base
developed, 94.
Acetification of Milk by a thunder storm bears some analogy to the
operation of depraved digestion, 56 (_note_.)
Acids, ingenious explanation of their modus operandi, as Refrigerants,
113.
——, vegetable, undergo decomposition in the digestive organs, and are
elaborated into chyle, 94.
——, their effects in cases of Narcotic poisoning, 136.
Acrid, or Rubefacient poisons, the classification of, 128.
Acridness, Galen’s notion respecting the origin of, 21.
Adjuvans, the, in a medicinal formula, 178.
Advice to the ultra chemist, which it is hoped may not be lost, 55.
Adulteration of medicines, how extensively it is practised, 62.
—— —— —— constitutes a regular branch of trade, 62.
Aërial poisons, nature of, 127.
Ætius collected a multitude of nostrums, 19.
Affinities usual of bodies, suspended, modified, or subverted, by the
powers of digestion, 55.
Afzelius, Dr. describes a shrub of the natural family of _Contortæ_
which affords a curious exception to botanical affinities, 41.
Ague, the celebrated Dutch remedy for the, 166.
Air, its state in relation to moisture an important consideration in
the cure of asthma, 105;
its power of conducting heat affected by moisture, 106.
Alcohol, its poisonous effects upon a rabbit, 131.
——, whether absorbed into the circulation or not, still remains a
question, 77.
——, large doses of, act directly sedative, 77.