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Antacids, remarks upon the action of, 118; under what circumstances,they may be advantageously administered in conjunction with tonic*170.

Anthelmintics, their modus operandi considered, 142.

Anthemis Nobilis, essentially changed by cultivation, 61.

Antidotes, derivation and meaning of the term, 129.

Jlntidotum Mitkridatium, the hUtory of, 28.

Anti-hectic mixture of Dr. Griffith, the composition of the, 55.

Antililhics and Lithonthryptics, definition of, 118 ;—belong to the class oivital as well as chemical agents, 118.

Antimonial Remedies, the unjust prejudices against, 51 ; proscribed bythe Supreme Council of Paris, 5 1.

Antimony, a case related by Dr. James, wherein it occasioned salivation;193 ; a conjecture respecting the origin of the term, 48.

Antimony and Opium accelerate the effects of Mercury upon the system166.

Antimony, experiments concerning, by Basil Valentine. 48 ; restored topublic favour by a French decree, 51 ; its sudorific powers increasedby Opium, 157.

Antiseptics, origin of remedies so called, 77.

Anti-spasmodics, how they differ from Narcotics, 80; must be consideredas both absolute and relative agents, 80 ; may be frequently combinedwith Tonics, or Narcotics, 169.

Anti-spasmodics, definition of, 83.

ANTI0HPIAKA, by W. Heberden, M. D., 28 {Note.)

Antonius Musa cured Augustus by the cold bath, 31.

Apoplexy, use of suppositories in producing counter-irritation in a pa-roxysm of, 203 ; the supposed powers of Sternutatories in preventingan attack of. 112.

Apothecaries' Hall, the ingenious machinery at, 53, (Note.)

Arabians, the improvement of the Materia Medica greatly indebted totheir zeal and industry, 46.

Archosal remedies introduced by Stahl, 22.

Argonauts, the golden fleece of the, a chemical allegory, 45 ; one ofthem cured by the rust of iron, 8.

Aristides, the unhappy dupe and victim of quackery, 20, (Note.)

Arnoldus de Villa Nova invented Tinctures, 48.

Aromatics Oriental, introduced into practice by the Arabians, 46 ; defi-nition of the term, 83.

Aromatic and Tonic qualities often found in conjunction, 83.

Aroma, M. Robiquet's important experiments respecting, 1 59, (Note.)

Arsenic, and other corrosive poisons require very different antidotes, 136.

Arsenic. Amulets of. used in the plague of London, 2*5; in its metallicstate quite inactive, 174.

Arsenic, derivation of the term, 37.

Art, importance of discriminating its operations from those of Nature, 34.

------, the processes of, may be often improved by imitating those of Na-ture, 150.

Artichoke, Jerusalem, origin and meaning of the term, 39.

Ascarides, cured by Suppositories, 203.

Asclepiades the, a company of empirics, 20.

Asclepiades used the Trumpet in the cure of Sciatica, 8, (Note.)

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