Notice of the appearance is Fish and Lizards. 41 
sea A a0 Hg the critical and scrutinizing chemist, and Saher 
mac With these premises, I fe el ha appy to inform the 
medical facalty that havesucceeded in consolidating copaiva 
0 a proper consistence, for being formed into pills. e con- 
waved copaiva is the oil and resin united, and consequent- 
ly possesses all the properties of the balsam. It may be made 
into four grain pills, and one or two pills taken three times a 
day; two pills are equal to thirty drops of the balsam. These 
pills may be taken without the least inconvenience, neither 
cep menraany, taste, nor imparting odour to the breath, it is 
also retained without the least disquietude or uneasiness to 
the RRS and Li am informed by Dr. Rousseau, that in 
large doses, it does not purge. 
This article differs, very essentially, from what is termed 
extract, or resin copaiva, being not in the least qctonopeiee 
o ee pF in drau ht, ‘which will subject it to 
he inconveniences with the fluid rege m, having its 
disagreeable taste with its unpleasant effect 
Pad: consolidated copaiva is aamitaceed and sold at 
o. W. Carpenter’s Chemical Warehouse, No. 301, Market 
po Philadelphia. 
t. V.— Notice of the appearance of Fish and Lizards 
in extraordinary circumstances; by Joseru E. Muse. 
Cambridge, E. S., Maryland, Jan. 5, 1829. 
TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAN. 
Tue late notice in an English paper, of a shower of her- 
rings witnessed by a noe McKenzie, as he traversed a field 
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