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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
as the General Council, with the approval 
of the Lords Commissioners of Her Ma¬ 
jesty’s Treasury, may from time to time de¬ 
termine. 
A Section also to he added as follows:— 
Sect. LVII.—No patent, quack, or other 
medicine shall be sold unless a sworn cer¬ 
tificate of its composition be lodged with 
the registrar of the General Council, and a 
copy thereof be open for inspection in the 
shop or place in which such medicine is 
sold ; and any person, or proprietor of a 
shop, selling any secret remedy shall, on 
summary conviction, for each such offence, 
be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20. 
May 29, 1863. D. L. Corrigan, Chairman. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Wanted copies of the May, June, July, and August numbers of the Journal, 1852, 
for which the publishing price will be paid by Mr. Bremridge, 17, Bloomsbury Square, 
W.C. 
T. S. A. (Boston).—Carbolic acid may be made by distilling coal-tar till anthracene 
begins to pass over; the resulting oil is rectified, collecting apart the portion which distils 
over between 150° and 200°; this portion is mixed with saturated potash-ley and pulverized 
hydrate of potash, whereby it is converted into a white crystalline magma ; this is dis¬ 
solved in hot water, and the oil which rises to the surface removed ; the lower alkaline 
liquid neutralized with hydrochloric acid, and the impure hydrate of phenyl, which rises 
to the surface as an oil, is then washed with water and digested over chloride of calcium ; 
rectified several times, and gradually cooled to —10° in a closed bottle.— Grnelin. 
Chloroform and its Dilutions. —Dr. Charles Kidd, having been frequently applied to 
for the best form for dilute chloroform for inhalation, has sent the following formula for 
publication:—Take of chloroform, one part ; well washed sulphuric ether, four parts : 
mix. 
LI. (Cambridge).— Parietaria ereeta of Koch; Parietaria officinalis of Smith. It 
belongs to the Natural Order Urticace^:. It is in common language termed Wall 
Pellitory. 
Toxos (Bath).—“Pasma” is, we believe, a proprietary article, the composition of which 
we are not acquainted with. 
M. A. P. S. (Southport).—The quinine in the mixture referred to can only be dissolved 
by the addition of an acid. 
A. P. S. (Chichester).—Students will, of course, be expected to make themselves ac¬ 
quainted with the New Pharmacopoeia within a reasonable time. 
A Pharmaceutical Apprentice (Salisbury) begs to correct a misprint in the third 
edition of Royie’s ‘Materia Medica,'in the formula given for Fleming's Tincture of 
Aconite , p. 272, where ten ounces of the root of A. Napellus are ordered, instead of sixteen 
ounces, to twenty-four ounces of spirit. 
Mr. Charles Surnes (Leamington) is thanked for his communication, which will receive 
attention. 
CORRIGENDA. 
Page 560, line 24, for “Physotigma” read “ Physostigma.” 
Page 560, line 27 ,for “Mucura ” read “Mucuna.” 
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