140 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Blue pill is imported containing a per-centage of mercury from ten 
down to seven and a half, mixed with blue clay and prussian blue, to 
give the proper density and color. Two importations of this kind from 
the manufactory of William Bailey, of Wolverhampton, have been 
publicly exposed by this College in the newspapers, the first in the 
year 1845, and the second and worst lot during the sini month. Its 
composition according to the analysis of our Prof. Rei 
Mercury, = ‘ ' : 75 
Earthy clay, . : : ; . 270 
Prussian bhi used in | coloring, é i ’ 15 
Sand in combination with the clay, . 2 (7 2a 
Soluble saccharine matters, . ‘ : ‘ 34:0 
Insoluble organic matters, : : : . 0 
Water, , { , ' : 4 ; 16-0 
100-0 
An account of the former, with the correspondence between our 
— eg ts in the New York Journal of Medicine for September. 
large quantities of rhubarb, uae decayed, the better parts of 
bien are dark colored, with scarcely any taste or smell, having prob- 
ably been exhausted to make extract, come from ngland, invoice 
there from a to 8 pence sterling per lb. It is intended and used fo 
powdering, color being given to it by turmeric, &c. Xe 
, —"s, pals: pe oxyd of zinc on the English labels, is generally 
“ of zinc, being imported at a price which A ig tik ae 
sibility of honest preparation. 
All that is received under the name of precipitated sulphur, (or “ lac 
sulphur,” as the merchants commonly term it,) except when it is ex- 
pressly ordered, from an ee manufacturer, contains from 80 to 
95 per cent. of sulphate of lim 
Opium is _—_ invoiced at ethers the value of good quality, and 
is found upon examination not to be worth even that. The sa me ray 
be said of scam elon y: 
Most of the foreign extracts are not what they profess tobe, and 
cannot be relied upon in the treatment of disease 4; 
The salts of quinine, morphine, and all the more costly chemicals 
are greatly i ht 5 : 
‘e are informed by the agent of an English manufacturer of chem: 
icals, fairer and many other preparations used in medicine, that it is 
a regular and systematic business, carried on by his principal and 
others in his line, to make articles for the American market of differ- ae 
ent qualities, one for the Atlantic es — another, very rouch infe- — 
rior, “for the West,” meaning thereby our Western States. He gives 
us, for instance, the following ihe ions: “compound extract of 
ee th, 9s. 6d.; do. for the West, 5s.”—the latter, as we are allow- 
2d to infer, sentnin ning no scammony at all, only the poorest ‘sort of 
siaee, pane bt ilon if if mas alannah or extract from, it. ar Hee pill, 
the Is. 
