A cyclopaedia 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 pharmacopœias, and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families / by Arnold J. Cooley.

  • Cooley, Arnold James.
Date:
1856
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Credit: A cyclopaedia 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 pharmacopœias, and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families / by Arnold J. Cooley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ricinm, the dog tick ; Acarus sacchari, the sugar mite; Acarusscabiei, the itch insect; Acarus siro, the mite. Most of these animals are either microscopic or extremely minute, and possess such tenacity of life as to resist for some time the action of boiling water, and to live with comparative impunity in alcohol. The irritation of the skin, caused by them, may be relieved by a lotion of equal parts of sal volatile and water; and they may lie destroyed by tobacco water, or a lotion or ointment of stavesacre. ACCIDENTAL COLOURS. Syn. Com- plimentary Colours. If we look for some time, with one eye, on a bright coloured object, as a wafer, placed on a piece of paper, and subsequently turn the same eye to another part of the paper, a similarly shaped spot or mark will be seen, but the colour \\'\\\ vary, though it will be always the same under like circumstances. Thus, if the original spot or wafer be of a red colour, the imaginary one will be green ; if black, it will be white: the imaginary colour being always complimentary of that first gazed upon. An attention to this subject is of the utmost importance in the art of dress, as the colour should be chosen with reference to the complexion. That best adapted to the particular individual can be easily determined, on scientific prin- ciples, before making a purchase or a trial. See Dress, Sfc. ACCIDENTS. As no situation or con- dition in human life is not liable to a great variety of serious accidents, against which it is impossible always to guard, even by the greatest care and foresight, it becomes of the utmost importance to remember, that one of the most powerful assistants in dan- gerous or trying circumstances, is presence of mind. A certain amount of self-posses- sion would have saved many lives which from its absence have been lost, and would have averted the mischiefs arising from various accidents, which without it, have become irretrievable. The mind over- whelmed by fear, or astounded by alarm, is utterly incapable of deliberately guiding us in securing either our own safety, or the safety of those who happen to be dependent on us, or in the same predicament as our- selves. It is, therefore, a proof of the truest wisdom to cultivate, and endeavour to pre- serve as much as possible, in all extraordi- nary and unexpected situations of danger or calamity, those invaluable mental requisites —coolness, judgment, and determination ; in short—presence op mind. ACERBITY. Acidity, with bitterness and astringencv. See Molt Liquors, Wines, Sfc. j ACERIC ACID. Syn. Maple Acid ; Acidum Acericum,—Lat. An acid found by Soberer, in combination with lime, in the milky sap of the common maple. Prep. Keep maple juice in a warm situ- ation for about a fortnight, that it may undergo fermentation; then filter, add a solution of acetate of lead as long as a pre- cipitate forms; collect this on a filter, and it vi\ih very cold water. Next, care- fully pour on a large quantity of boiling water, and receive it in glass vessels. Acerate of lead will be deposited as the liquor cools, under the form of brilliant crystals. These must be washed in cold water, dried, reduced to fine powder, and decomposed by sulphuretted hydrogen, as directed under absinthic acid. Prop. 8(e. Crystalline; soluble ; its salts are termed acerates. It resembles malic acid, with which it is probably identical. (Gnielin.) ACESCENCY. The souring of fermented liquors, &c., by spontaneous decomposition, or the acetic fermentation. Fermented liquids that have been badly stored or kept too long, frequently become acescent, or acquire acescencv. See Wine, Beer, 8^-0. ACETA MEDICATA, (Lat.) Medicated vinegars. See Vinegars. ACETAL. An etherial fluid discovered by Dobeireiner, and at first named oxygen ether. It is one of the products of the slow combustion of alcohol by spongy platinum. Prep. (Liebig.) Pour alcohol, to the depth of one inch, into a tall, wide-mouthed, glass bottle, and suspend three or four watch-glasses or capsules containing the black powder of platinum, (previously moistened with water,) to the depth of about two lines, close to the surface of the spirit. Place the apparatus in a warm situation for some weeks. Acetal, aldehyde, acetic acid, and acetic ether will be formed. Next neutralize the liquor with chalk, (or carbonate of potassa,) and carefully distil, (the first fourth only being collected.) The product treated with powdered chloride of calcium, until the latter is no longer moist- ened, decanted, and (very slowly) redis- tilled, yields pure acetal, as soon as the boiling point reaches 202 Fahr. Prop. Hfc. Liquid, colourless, inflamma- ble ; alcoholic; miscible with ether and alcohol; soluble in 18 parts of water; un- changed in the air ; decomposed by strong alkalies and acids; convertible by slow com- bustion into acetic acid. Sp. gr. '821, at 72° Fahr.; boiling point, 204 F. Its odour resembles that of Hungary wines. ACETAMIDE. A crystallizable sub-