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cle, hospital gangrene, ill conditioned ulcers, gangrenous sores 

 of the worst description ; the fetid discharge of cancer, 

 herpes ulceratia, porigo favosi, atonic ulcers, ulcers of the 

 uterus, mortification, &-c. &c. 



The proportions to be used vary of course with the virulence 

 and state of the disease ; when applied externally the weak 

 solutions, frequently repeated, are likely to be more effectual 

 than the stronger mixtures. From the French mode of prepar- 

 ing it, the use must be suspended when the sores are red 

 and inflamed. In this country it has been most successfully 

 used in all the foregoing cases ; as a gargle in ulcerated sore 

 throat, ptyalism, and tumours. Diseases of animals of a 

 similar nature will be cured by the same means.* 



9. Specimens in Materia Medica^ Pharmacy^ and Chem- 

 istry. — We are informed that Mr. George W. Carpenter, No. 

 301, Market-street Philadelphia, puts up complete collections 

 of chemical and pharmaceutical preparations, with the vari- 

 ous subjects of the materia medica, embracing an entire suite 

 of specimens, to illustrate lectures on pharmacy and materia 

 medica, giving a full and complete idea of each species, from 

 their physical and sensible properties and external charac- 

 ters, by which the genuine, and inferior or spurious, may be 

 recognised and distinguished ; also articles resembling each 

 other in external characters, such as color, crystaline form, 

 &c., as epsom salts, oxalic acid, sulphate of zinc. The dif- 

 ferent varieties of Peruvian bark, with the quantity of qui- 

 nine they respectively contain, the varieties of opium, rhu- 

 barb, ipecac, jalap, &c. &c. and the articles they are general- 

 ly adulterated with. These specimens have been found high- 

 ly useful in public lectures, and are in fact, almost indis- 

 pensable in a course of instruction. We understand that Dr. 

 Carpenter has furnished collections for the medical colleges 

 of Pennsylvania, New York, North and South Carolina, and 

 Virginia, to the entire satisfaction of their respective profes- 

 sors, and that a similar collection has been ordered by Prof. 

 Ives, for the Medical Institution of Yale College. The spe- 

 cimens are neatly put up in square bottles, handsomely label- 

 led and fully described at 40 cts. a specimen ; a complete 

 suite consists of about one hundred and twenty specimens. 



* The chlorides of lime and soda may be procured from Carpenter's Chem- 

 ical Warehouse, 301, Market St. Philadelphia — price, by the small quantity, 

 25 cents per lb. 



