CEKASUS YIRGINIANA. 
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MAJOR EXAMINATION, 19 th Avgust , 18G3. 
{Registered as “ Pharmaceutical Chemists.”) 
Brayshay, Thomas .Stockton-on-Tees. 
Hicks, James Sellick .East Looe. 
Miller, Thomas Henry.Crediton. 
MINOR EXAMINATION, 
(Registered as u Assistants.”) 
Browne, Thomas Llewelyn.. v .Chester. 
Dawson, Oliver Robert .Southampton. 
George, William.....Newcastle Emlyn. 
Heathorn, William.Maidstone. 
Millar, Frederick Charles Moss.Beaminster. 
Squire, Alfred Rook .Bristol. 
Warren, George Robert.Ware, Herts. 
REGISTERED APPRENTICES. 
NAME. RESIDING WITH. ADDRESS. 
Gorton, Charles .Mr. Gorton.London. 
Lane, Elihu B.Mr. Judd .Christchurch. 
Manby, Walter Edward .Mr. Manby.Southampton. 
Sartin, Samuel Robert.Mr. Anderson.London. 
Sewell Allen. 
*** The Prizes and Certificates will be distributed at the evening meeting on the 7th 
October next, when the successful competitors will be expected to attend. 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
NEW AMERICAN REMEDIES. 
BA' PROFESSOR BENTLEA', F.L.S., HONORARY FELLOW OF KING’S 
COLLEGE, LONDON. 
( Continued, fromp. 25.) 
XII. CERASUS (PRUNUS) VIRGINIANA, MICH A UX .—WILD 
CHERRY, WILD BLACK CHERRY. 
History. —Wild-cherry bark is regarded by the most competent writers on 
medicine and therapeutics in the States of North America, as one of the most 
important of their indigenous remedies. It is extensively employed by the re¬ 
gular medical practitioners as a tonic and sedative, and is regarded as more 
especially valuable in local or general debility of the system, attended with irri¬ 
tation. In domestic practice its reputation is also very high. A resinoid extract 
obtained from it, and which is called Trunin , is also much used by the Eclectic 
practitioners. Wild-cherry bark was introduced into the United States Phar¬ 
macopoeia in 1820, where it is still retained, and formulae given for some of its 
preparations. At present it has not been much employed in this country, 
except in certain localities, but those who have given it a fair trial speak 
favourably of its virtues. From the high testimony of its valuable properties 
borne by American writers, we cannot doubt but that it is a remedy worthy of 
an extended trial in this country. 
Synonyms. — Various names have been given by botanists to the plant which 
is officinal in the United States Pharmacopoeia, and hence it is most important 
that there should be no doubt as to the one thus ordered to be employed. It is 
