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THE AXJ STEAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Peruvian Bark Calisaya to two ounces of boiling water, let it boil five minutes, 
then filter and add one ounce Bromide of Potassium ; wash two drachms of the 
Salts of Carbonate Lithia in proper vessels, and add all the ingredients together, 
heat on a slow fire, in a close covered vessel, to 100 degrees specific gravity , 
remove it to a mortar , pulverise zoell and triturate. Divide the whole mixture 
into 25 powders. 
Dose — 1 Powder on going to bed until cured. 
Prescription No. 2. 
Extract Buchu, 3 drachms. 
„ Nux Yomica, half a drachm. 
,, Dami/na , three drachms. 
Pulv. Cascara Amarga , two drachms. 
Extract Diospyros Kaki> one drachm. 
The above ingredients to be thoroughly incorporated and made into Pill 
Mass with the usual incipients, and rolled into four-grain Pills and sugar-coated. 
Dose — Two Pills, three times daily, one hour after meals. 
N.B. — These Pills must in all cases be sugar-coated as soon as possible 
after they are made, as some of these ingredients quickly deteriorate if exposed 
to the atmosphere. 
Botsc; jAtnvtrrrcics. 
The report that spurious and injurious “ cubebs ” had been met with in 
this country has naturally provoked a careful supervision of parcels coming into 
the United States market, but, according to Dr. Squibb ( Ephemeris, December, p. 
866), hitherto without the detection of any Lauraceous substitutes. One parcel 
that had been pronounced by other experts to be spurious was undoubtedly 
derived, in Dr. Squibb* s opinion, from a Piperaceous plant, though possibly 
from P. crassipes. The berries were slightly smaller and lighter in colour than 
those of a sample of high quality of genuine cubebs, but larger and darker 
than those of poor samples. The taste was the same, but the odour, which 
was also at first thought to be identical, appeared when more carefully tried, in 
the case of the spurious berries, to have a faint, but distinct trace of nutmeg 
or mace superadded to the strong cubeb odour. The yield of oil on distillation 
was small, and the mace-like odour was more pronounced in it than in the berry. 
But in external appearance the berries were substantially alike, and when cut 
ana examined with a pocket glass they showed no greater difference from 
undoubtedly genuine berries than is observed between different berries of the 
same samples. Dr. Squibb inclines to the opinion that the sample was the product 
of the true Piper Cubeba , grown under unusual conditions of locality, climate, 
soil, etc., which are known to exercise a modifying influence in other ways. He 
suggests that under the stimulus of high prices, the collection of cubebs has 
been pushed into fresh districts, with the result of bringing into the market 
the products of different varieties and sub-varieties of the true Piper Cubeba , 
the therapeutic properties of which have yet to be proved. — Pharmaceutical 
Journal. 
Dr. Ogle has been instituting an inquiry into the relative mortality attached 
to specific callings. In proportion to 1000 the average mortality during the 
period of 18S0-2 is stated as follows: — Clergymen, 556; gardener and nurseryman, 
599; farmer and grazier, 631; labourer in agricultural counties, 701. The figures 
for the other occupations, or groups of occupations, increase rapidly, and at the 
bottom of the list appear the following: — Plumber, painter, and glazier, 1202 ; 
