Volume 1

Cooley's Cyclopædia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopœia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families.

  • Cooley, Arnold J. (Arnold James)
Date:
1892
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Credit: Cooley's Cyclopædia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopœia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mercury, Red Oxide op, brick-dust, red lead, &c. „ Ammoniated (white precipi- tate), chalk, carbonate of lead, plaster of Paris, &c. Milk, water. Mustard, turmeric, wheat flour. Myrrh, gum bdellium, and other gum resins. Oatmeal, barley flour, rubble. Opium, stones, sand, clay, vegetable extracts, sugar, treacle, water, &c. Pareira Root, different roots substituted. Pepper, linseed meal, different flours, mustard husks, &c. Pickles, salts of copper, acetate of copper. Porter and Stout, sugar, treacle, water, and salt. Potash, carbonate, sulphate, and chloride of potash, lime, iron and alumina. Potash, Acetate of 1 sulphates and chlo- „ Carbonate op j rides of potash. „ Bicarbonate op, carbonate of pot- ash. „ Citrate of, sulphates of potash. „ Chlorate of, chloride of potassium. ,, Tartrate of, tartrate of lime. „ Nitrate of, sulphate or chloride of potassium. Preserves, salts of copper. Quinine, sulphate of lime, chalk, magnesia, cane-sugar, sulphate of cinchonine, &c. Rhubarb, turmeric, and inferior varieties sub- stituted for Turkey. Rum, water, cayenne, burnt sugar. Sago, potato flour. Sauce, treacle, salt, cochineal, Armenian bole, and other colouring matters. Scammony, chalk, starch, guaiacum, jalap, dextrin, &c. Senega, guinseng, gillenia. Senna, leaves of Cynanchum argel. Sherry, sulphates of potash, soda, brandy, burnt sugar, &c. Snuff, carbonate of ammonia, glass, sand, colouring matter, &c. Soda, Bicarbonate, carbonate and sulphate of soda. „ Carbonate, sulphate of soda. „ Phosphate of, phosphate of lime. Spices, colouring materials, substitutions, and different flours. Squills (Powdered), wheat flour. Sugar (Moist), sand, flour, &c. Sulphur, sulphurous acid (as an impurity). Sulphuric Acid, lead, water, arsenic, hydro- chloric acid, &c. Tapioca, inferior starches mixed with the pure tapioca. Tea, sand, iron filings, exhausted tea leaves, foreign leaves; and in green teas, black lead, Prussian blue, China clay. Tobacco, inferior tobacco, water. Turmeric, yellow ochre, carbonate of soda, or potash. Uva Ursi (Bearberry Leaves), leaves of red whortleberry, and others. Vinegar, sulphuric acid, and metallic im- purities. Wines, water, jerupiga, bitartrate of potash, substitution of inferior wines, brandy, spirits, and various other matters. Zinc, Oxide of, chalk, carbonate of magnesia. Important and common adulterations will be found mentioned under each particular article. The recent Acts of Parliament dealing with the adulteration of food and drugs are the following: The Pharmacy Act, 1868; Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875; Sale of Food and Drugs Amendment Act, 1879; Margarine Act, 1887. M (e). [L.] For words sometimes written with this initial diphthong, and not found below, see under E. A'ER (a'-er). [L., prim. Gr.] Air. A'ERATED (a'-er-rate-ed). In chemistry, &c, impregnated with carbonic acid. See Alkali, Lemonade, Waters, Mineral. AERIAL (a-ere'-e-al). Belonging to the air or atmosphere; produced by, consisting of, depending on, or partaking of the nature of the air. AERIFICA'TION (a-er-e-). Syn. Aerifica'- tio, L.; Aerification, Gazeification, Fr. In chemistry, the conversion of a body into gas. A'ERIFORM (a'-er-). Syn. Aeriform'is, L.; Aeriform, Gazeiporme, Fr. Luftformig, &c, Ger. In chemistry, air-like, gaseous. AEROL'OGY. Syn. Aerolo'gia, L.; Aero- logie, Fr., Ger. In physics, a discourse or treatise of the air. In physiology and hygiene, the doctrine of the air, more especially with regard to its salubrity and action on organised beings. AEROM'ETER. Syn. Aerome'trum, L. ; Aerometrie, Fr. An instrument used in aero- metry. AEROM'ETRY. Syn. Aerome'tria, L.; Aero- metrie, Fr.; Luptmesskunst, &c, Ger. In chemistry and physics, the art of measuring gases, and of determining their densities. AERONAUTICS. Syn. Aeronautique, Fr. The art of sailing in, or of navigating the air. See Balloons. AEROPHO'BIA. [L.] Syn. Aerophobie, Fr. In pathology, a dread of air (wind); a com- mon symptom in hydrophobia, and occasionally present in hysteria and phrenitis. AEROSTATICS. Syn. A£rostat'ica, L.; Aerostatique, Fr. That branch of pneumatics which treats of air, and other elastic fluids, in a state of rest. AEROSTATION. [Eng., Fr.] Syn. Aero- STA'tio, L. The art of weighing the air; aerial suspension and navigation. See Balloons. iERU'GO (e-). [L.] The rust of brass, bronze, or copper; verdigris. 2ESCULIN. C15Hlfi09. A crystalline fluorescent substance existing in the bark of the horse-chest- nut (JEsculus hippocastanum) and of other trees of the genera Msculus and Paria. In the above- named sources iEsculin is associated with another fluorescent body called Pariin. iEsculin is spar- ingly soluble in water, imparting a beautiful blue fluorescence when viewed by reflected light; alka- lies augment, acids destroy the colour. iE'THER. See Ether. ^THE'REA (-there-). [L. pi.] Ethers. AESTHETICS (ez-). Syn. ^Esthet'ica, L. Medicines or agents which affect sensation. See Anesthetics and Hyperesthetics.
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