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BOTANICAL 



Blumni journal 



Published monthly in the interest of the Alumni Association of the College 



of Pharmacy of the City of New York. 



Pharmaceutical Department of Columbia University. 



PUBLISHED AT 43 FULTON ST., NEW YORK CITY. 



CHAS. A. LOTZ, Ph.G., Editor CURT. P. WIMMER, Phar D., Associate Editor 

 Vol. XVI. OCTOBER, 1909. No. 10. 



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Charles F. Chandler, A.M., Ph.D., etc. Anton Vorisek, Phar.D. 



Henry H. Rusby, M.D. William Mansfield, Phar.D. 



Virgil Coblentz, A.M., Phar.M., etc. Clinton B. Knapp, M.D. 



George C. Diekman, Ph.G., M.D. W. A. Bastedo, Ph.G., M.D. 



John Oehler, Ph.G. Frederick A. Leslie, Phar.D. 



William J. Gies, Ph.D. Charles W. Ballard, Ph.C. 



Carlton C. Curtis, Ph.D. Harry B. Ferguson, Phar.D. 



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LIQUOR MAGNESII CITRATIS. 



By Jac. B. Zimmermann, Phar. D. 



(Written especially for the Alumni Journal.) 



So many formulae have been published and so many different 

 modes of procedure suggested in the manufacture of Liquor Mag- 

 nesii Citratis that surely this article is not out of place. 



It being the duty of every fellow-pharmacist to impart what 

 knowledge he may gain (through experience, or otherwise) to his 

 fellow men, that in practice as well as theory we may all be 

 classed as professional men side by side with physicians. 



How often does it occur that a physician will give prescription 

 for i-io gr. calomel powders, and then, after the powders have 

 been taken, the patient is directed to take a part or all of a bottle of 

 citrate of magnesia? 



According to the present formula the resulting Lig. Mag. Citratis 

 is a cloudy, intensely sour preparation; which is neither pleasing 

 to the eye nor pleasant to the taste. Strenously object to the use 



