PHARMACY. 
Tlie preparations and compounds are ex- 
hibited under tlie following heads : 
Acida 
Tincturae 
Alkalina 
jEtherea 
Eerrea 
Vina 
Sales 
Aceta 
Sulphurea 
Mellita 
Metallica 
Synipi 
Vegetabilia 
Confectiones 
Olea Expressa 
Pulveres 
Olea Distillata 
Pilul® 
Aquae Distillatae 
Partium Animaliuin 
Decocta 
prmparatio 
Infusa 
Emplastra 
Mucilagines 
Cerata 
Extracta 
Unguenta 
Misturae 
Einimenta 
Spiritus 
Cataplasmata. 
Upon these divisions the limits to which we 
are confined prevent us from making more 
than a few observations. 
Among the acids we ])erceiye a form for 
the citric, now first introduced into the list, 
which will be found a useful and elegant me- 
dicine ; we have a new form for the nitric, 
and the flores benz^es assume the name of 
acidum benzoicnm. 
In the alkahnes rve meet with no great 
difference, except in the change of names, 
which, for the most part, are shortened 
from those of the Edinburgh Pharmaco- 
poeia. 
The same general observation may apply 
to the* earths and salts, which, under the 
existing Phannacopmia, form one common 
chapter w'ith the two preceding divisions, 
The chapter sales employs the term soda in- 
stead of that of natron. 
The sulphurea of the proposed Pharma- 
copoeia is nearly a transcript of the prepa- 
rata e sulphure of that now in use. 
Among the metallica we perceive the pul- 
vis antimonialis ordered to be prepared 
with half the quantity of sulphurated anti- 
mony to tiiat of gross antimony, as Jinder 
the present form. A useful and well-known 
preparation of arsenic is introduced under 
the name of liquor arsenicalis. Copper fur- 
nishes two preparations, cuprum ammonia- 
turn and liquor cupri ammoniati ; and iron 
several additional forms. 
Among the distffled waters, the aqua 
anethi is banished, and the aqua carui intro- 
duced in its stead. 
The addition to the chapter of decoc- 
tions is numerous, and consists chiefly in a 
form of this kind for the dulcamara, lichen, 
genega, and vcratrum. 
To the infusions there is also a very no- 
merous addition : angustura, cloves, casca- 
rilla, cinchona, columbo, quassia, rhubarb, 
simarouba, tobacco, digitalis, tar, horse- 
radish, each becomes a separate subject of 
this mode of preparation. 
Among the mucilages, that of tragacanth 
is omitted. 
The extracts afford us new preparations 
in the hop (hnmulus lupulus) poppy, sarsa- 
parilla, dandelion (taraxacum), and hem- 
lock. 
The mixtures gives us a new form for 
gum guaiacum. 
The spirits revive the old spiritus anisi, 
and spiritus raphani, the latter under the 
newer name of spiritus armoracite compo- 
situs. 
The chapter of tinctures, provides a new 
form for capsicum, digitalis, humulus, hyos- 
cyamus, kino. 
The aceta give ns a form for the colchi- 
cum. 
The syrupi provide a form for the lemon, 
and order the syrupus papaveris somniferi 
to be prepared from its extract. 
The term confectiones is intended to em- 
brace equally electuaries, confections, and 
conserves : from this chapter several of the 
existing forms are banished. 
The fist of pulveres is also considerably 
diminished, chiefly by a rejection of several 
of the cretaceous preparations. 
Among the pilulm we now meet with a 
gamboge pill ; the opium pill is banished. 
The list of emplastra is diminished in a 
few forms, and enriched by a new Prepara- 
tion entitled emplastrum thuris cum opio. 
The cerata are increased by a ceratum 
sabinae, and C. vesicatorii. 
Theunguentaare much diminished; seve- 
ral of those, indeed, in the existing Pharma- 
copoeia being transferred under a different 
preparation to the chapter of cerata : while 
as new articles we have an U. hydrargyri 
nitrici, U, hydrargyri nitrico-oxydati, and 
U. veratis. 
The liniments give us as a new prepara- 
tion, a lin. asruginis. 
The cataplasms offer us a new form for 
one prepared from meal and yeast, under the 
title of C, efferyescens. 
PHARMACOLITE, in mineralogy, is 
of a snow-white colour, and it occurs in 
small crystals, though sometimes in other 
forms. Internally it is glistening, with a 
silky lustre. Its fracture is radiated or fi- 
brous : it also presents large and small gra- 
nular, distinct concyetions. Tffe crystal- 
