KIRC

2m

Adulterated with liquor made of worm-eaten mushrooms, or with whatis made from the outside shells of ripe walnuts. When made incopper vessels, as it usually is, and with vinegar refuse, it containsverdigrise, and is poisonous. This may be detected by evaporatingsome to dryness, dissolving the residue in nitric acid, when the copperwill coat a knife, or any piece of iron put into it.Keysbr's Pills, Dragees de Keyser. A foreign nostrum composed of

acetate of mercury and manna, and reputed to be antisyphilitic.Kinates are salts formed with kinic acid and alkaline bases.Kinic, or Quinic Acid. New. Is procured by macerating in cold waterthe bark of the Cinchona laneifolia, concentrating the infusion, andsetting it aside till a salt separates in plates, which is Kinate of'lime.Oxalic acid will precipitate the lime from the solution of this, andby evaporation rhombo-prismatic crystals of kinic acid are producedof a brown colour and of an acid bitter taste.Soluble in water ; and forms soluble compounds with alkaline bases.King's Yellow. See Orpiment.

Kino. L. E. D. P. A gum, or gum resin, procured from a tropicaltree, supposed (ascertained says Dr. Paris) to be the Pterocarpuserinacea. The kino lias no smell, is of a bitter taste with a shade ofsweetness.Soluble in alcohol, and also in water at 60°.

Incompatible with isinglass, mineral acids, the alkalies, acetate of lead,corrosive sublimate, nitrate of silver, the sulphates of iron and zinc,and tartarized antimony.Adulterated with the extract of mahogany, and in the original pre-paration with earthy matters, which may be known by its grittinesswhen chewed. It is imported chiefly from Amboyna, and ought tobe deep brown, shining, brittle, and uniform in colour. With spiritof wine it ought to form a claret-coloured tincture, which water willnot render turbid.Medicinally it is a good tonic, astringent, and antiseptic, though in-ferior in certainty to catechu. The dose is gr. x to 3j or 5ss indiarrhoea and haemorrhage. According to Dr. Pemberton, it onlyastringes the bowels when they are diseased, not when they arehealthy. The tincture is perhaps the best form when there is noinflammatory tendency.Enters into Elect. Catechu. E. D. Tinct. Kino. L. E. D.Kirchwasser. A celebrated German liqueur prepared from cherries,which must be thoroughly ripe, carefully picked, and the pulpbruised, taking care not to break the stones. The mash is then setin a vat to ferment, and afterwards distilled like other spirits. It iscolourless, transparent, and what is sold at Paris tastes very much

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