GENERAL INDEX
OF REFERENCE
to
The Economical, Medical, and Physiological Facts dispersed through various Articles.
A.
ABSORBENTS, see Chalk.
Abstergents, see Bee-glue.
Acid, the Marine; see Gout:—its economical uses; see Bleaching—substances that yield vegetable acid; see Vinegar.
Acidity of the stomach, see Gentian.
Ague, relieved by Snakeroot; Sage; gruel; bark; electricity; spiders; arsenic; avens; bistort; Coffee; Germander; Holly; Nux-vomica; Orache; Silver-weed; Sloe-tree; Stone-crop; Willow-bark, &c.
Air, how to purify, see Chamber, Evergreen, Wells, &c.
Alder, its use in fencing, see Fence.
Ale, to clarify, see Albumen, Common Burnet Saxifrage—to improve its flavour, see Fern.
Alkali, vegetable, may be obtained from Horse-chesnuts, Spanish Lilac, Beech-tree, Common Broom, Glass-wort, Grass-wrack, Arrow-grass, Goose-foot, Purslane, Orache, Sea-plantain, Tamarisk, Sea-holly, Stone-crop, Teasel, Artichocke, Thistle, Fern, Mugwort, &c.
Alum, substitute for, see Club-moss;—is also extracted from Shale.
Anchovies, substitutes for; see Sprat;—their management, see p. 392, Suppl.
Animation, suspended; see Death, Drowning, Frost, Galvanism, Lightning, Suspension by the Cord, &c.
Antidotes, see Coffee, Lead, &c.
Antiscorbutics, see Cloud-berry, Dame-wort, Radish, Fir-tree, Pepperwort, Scurvy-grass, &c.
Antiseptics, see Bilberry, Bistort, Buckthorn, Carrots, Cherries, Cucumbers, Fixed Air, Lemon, &c.
Antispasmodics, see Bismuth, Goosefoot, Musk, Zinc.
Aperients, see Anemone, Bryony, Burdock, Goose-grass, Madder, Radish, Sassafras, Strawberry, Tartar, Charcoal, &c.
Aphthæ, relieved by Borax, House-leek, &c.
Apple-trees, to protect, see Insects, p. 433, Suppl.
Apricots, to increase their fertility, see Irrigation, Ivy.
Arrow-root, see Orchis.
Arsenic, see Antidote;—danger of employing it in granaries, see Corn.
Artichoke, substitute for, see Milk-thistle.
Asparagus, substitutes for, see
