THE

AMERICAN

JOURNAL OF PHARMACY,

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.

EDITED BY

JOSEPH CARSON, M. D.

Professor of Materia Medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy,

ASSISTED BY A PUBLISHING COMMITTEE,

CONSISTING OF CHARLES ELLIS, AMBROSE SMITH, THOMAS P. JAMES,

CONTENTS.

ART. 1.-A Review of certain Doctrines advanced by the celebrated

Liebig, and sanctioned by Gregory and Kane, By

Robert Hare, M. D.,

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ART. II. Remarks on the Reduction of Iron by Hydrogen. By

William Procter, Jr.,

ART. III.-

ART. IV.-

ART. V.-

ART. VI.

ART. VII.

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-Note on Cucumber Ointment. By Wm. Procter, Jr., 16

-Value of Opium imported and exported from 1827 to

1845.

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-On the Properties of the Asclepias Curassavica, or Bas-

tard Ipecacuanha. By W. Hamilton, M. B.,

-Concentration of Commercial Nitric Acid,

-On the Oil of Monarda (Horse-Mint.) By A. E. Arppe, 26

ART. VIII.—On the Products of Decomposition of Gelatine by

Chromic Acid. By A. Schlieper,

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ART. IX.

ART. X..

-On the Malambo Bank of the Province of Carthagena,

South America. By W. Hamilton, M. B.,

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-On the Purification of Cobalt from Zaffre. By Mr. B. H.

Paul,

ART. XI.

-Process for preparing Cannabine (?), or Hemp Resin.

By T. and H. Smith, Edinburgh,

ART. XIII.—Extract from a Patent for Purified Quinoidine, and

Basic extract of Bark,

ART. XIV.—Analysis of Aloes and Aloetine.

Robiquet,

ART, XV. —On the Solubility of some Precipitates which occur in

Quantitative Analysis. By R. Fresenius.

ART, XVI.—On the Change which Tincture of Iodine Undergoes

with keeping. By. M. Guibourt.

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ART. XVII.—On Achilleine and Achilleïc Acid. By B. Zanon, - 57

ART. XVIII.-Effect of Matico-Leaf in a case of obstinate Hæmor-

rhage,

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