THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Chemistry. 
Time allowed, three hours. 
(1) Describe the commercial process of making Hydrochloric Acid. 
(2) Show, by equations, how Phosphorus is made. 
(3) How is Calomel made ? What is a likely impurity, and how may it be 
removed ? 
(4) Define briefly Realgar, Orpiment, Zeolite, Glass, Clay, Diamond, Emery, 
Kelp, Barilla, Aqua Regia. 
(5) Write equations, showing the action of Sulphuric Acid on Manganese 
dioxide, and on Potassium bichromate, respectively. 
(6) How are Tartarated Iron and Tartarated Antimony prepared ? Illustrate 
by equations. 
(7) Illustrate, by examples from the elements, the changes in the physical 
states of matter under variations of temperature and pressure. 
(8) Write out the preparation, properties, and composition of commercial 
Ammonium carbonate. 
(9) What is meant by Quantivalence P 
(10) How is Iodoform made? For what does the reaction serve as a test? 
6th and 7th December, 1886. 
Questions in Practical Pharmacy. 
Division I. — Dispensing— Practical Work. 
Time allowed, fifteen minutes. 
(1) Read five autograph prescriptions. 
Time allowed, twenty minutes. 
(2) Dispense at counter : — Mrs. Jones. — R 01. morrhuse, 3i ; syr. aurant., 
Ji; aquam ad 3iv. Make an emulsion, using any suitable excipient; or, R syr. 
scillae, 51 ; tr. camph. co., §i ; ether chlor., 3i ; mist, ammoniac, ad 3vi. Misce 
S. A. Cap. 3ft ter in die. The candidate may choose which of the mixtures he 
will dispense. 
Time allowed, thirty minutes. 
(3) Dispense at counter : — Mrs. Smith. — R Pil. galban. co., 3ft ; ext. nucis 
vom., grs. iii; pil. rhei. co., grs. xx. Ft. mas. et in pil. xii divid. argent, fol. 
involv. Cap. i vel ii omni alt. noct. 
Written Work. 
Time allowed, two and a half hours. 
(1) Write fully in Latin, without abbreviation, and using words instead of 
signs for the quantities : — R Acid sulph. dil. 3ft ; syr. rhoead. 3ii ; tr. cardam. 3ii. 
Let a mixture be made, of which let the patient take one teaspoonful every six 
hours in any agreeable vehicle. 
(2) Write the quantities of ext. nucis vom., ext. can. ind., ergota, 
chloroform, and calumb. contained in each dose of the following mixture : — 
R Tr. nucis vom. 3iii ; tr. cannab. ind. 3iii ; sp. chloroform 3ii ; ext. ergotse liq. 
5iii; infus. calumb. ad Jx. Ft. mist., cap. 3ft ter in die. 
(3) Give the weight in grammes of a fluid ounce of ether, S. G. 720. 
Give in grains the specific gravity of a liquid a fluid ounce of which weighs 
26’32 grammes. Express according to the Metric Notation 946 321 grammes. 
Reduce to inches *543 of a metre. How many grain measures are equal to 100 
minims ? 
(4) Give the solubilities in cold water and in rect. spirit of — acid gallic, 
acid tannic, hyd. perchlor., chloroform, camphor. 
