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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. [December 3, 1870. 
of soda, and of powders as ground in their drug 
mills. 
Messrs. Herrings’ laboratories and drug mills are un¬ 
der the superintendence of Mr. C. Umney, whose 
name is well known to pharmaceutical chemists. 
Hodginson, King and Co. 
Quinovatc of lime, a new preparation of Peruvian 
bark. 
Bichloride of methylene, a new anaesthetic. 
Hood and Co., Melbourne . Exhibited by M orson and 
Son, London. 
No. 1 opium, from Sunbury, near Melbourne. 
No. 2 „ from Gisborne, near Melbourne; rich al¬ 
luvial soil, well manured. 
No. 3 
No. 4 
No. 5 
No. 6 
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from Gippsland ; rich soil, cold climate, 
from near Gisborne; volcanic soil, 
from South Yarra. 
from Dromana, on the shores of Port 
Phillip; very sandy soil. 
A paper upon these specimens of opium was commu¬ 
nicated to the Conference by Mr. Morson. 
Horkin and Williams, Messrs., London , List of Spe¬ 
cimens EXHIBITED BY. 
1. Mercury biniodide. 2. Bismuth citrate ver. 3. 
Zinc sulphocarbolate. 4. Soda sulphocarbolate. 5. Iron 
sulphocarbolate per. 6. Uranium nitrate. 7. Anthra- 
quinone. 8. Iodoform. 9. Iron iodate. 10. Delphine. 
11. Papaverine. 12. Ammonia tartrate (neutral). 13. 
Acid cinnamic. 14. Lithia citrate cryst. 15. Chloral, 
pure anhydrous. 16. Ditto (insoluble modification). 17. 
Chloral, hydrate (mass). 18. Ditto, recryst. pure. 19. 
Ditto, recryst. from Benzole. 20. Chloral, methylate. 
21. Chloral, alcoholato. 22. Chloral, butylate. 23. 
Chloral, amylate. 24. Chloralide. 25. Bromal hydrate. 
26. Ethylidene chloride. 27. Methyl acetate. 28. Ethyl 
bromide. v 29. Amyl nitrate. 30. Amyl nitrite. 31. 
Amyl chloride. 32. Amylene bromide. 33. Amyleno 
bibromide. 34. Benzoyl chloride. 35. Propylamine. 
36. Acid chloracetic. 37. Haematoxyline cryst. 38. 
Cantharidine. 39. Curari poison. 40. Ethal. 41. Cho- 
lesterine. 42. Apomorphia hydrochlorate. 43. Tyro¬ 
sine. 44. Leucine. 
Motes on the above Specimens. 
2.’ Bismuthi citr. ver. Suitable for liq. bismuthi 
amnion, citr. B. P. 5 grains to 1 dram nearly re¬ 
presents the Pharmacopoeia strength: it is readily 
soluble in ammonia; is also quite free from copper, 
arsenic and other impurities. 
7. Anthraquinone. Interesting as being the interme¬ 
diate product between anthracine and artificial aliza¬ 
rine ; also as one of the series of “ kinones.” 
8. Iodoform. Now largely used as a local anodyne. 
9. Iodate of iron. Lately used in medicine. 
15. Pure anhydrous chloral. In liquid form. 
16. „ In its insoluble form. 
17. Chloral hydrate. Fused. 
18. „ Recrystallized from bisulphide 
of carbon. 
19. ,, Recrystallized from benzol. 
20. Chloral methylate. Combination of chloral and 
methyl alcohol, deliquescent. 
21. Chloral alcoholate. Sometimes sold as chloral 
hydrate, but far less effective. 
22. Chloral butylate. Possesses a very pleasant smell; 
insoluble in water. 
23. Chloral amylate. Insoluble in water, crystallizing 
with great beauty ; the combination of chloral with 
various alcohols is attended with great rise of tem¬ 
perature ; in the case of the methyl compound, the 
mixture actually boils. All these compounds can be 
readily distilled, and thus be obtained of constant 
boiling-points, and quite pure. 
Chloral hydrate, when distilled, gives a very white 
and beautiful product. 
24. Chloralide. Product of the long-continued action 
of boiling sulphuric acid on chloral. This body 
differs essentially from all the other known chloral 
compounds, inasmuch as when treated with alkalies 
it yields no chloroform. 
25. Bromal hydrate. Now being tried medicinally, 
but its action not yet fully understood. Its vapoui- 
produces a copious flow of tears. 
26. Ethylidene chloride. A new anaesthetic, introduced 
to medicine by Dr. O. Liebreich, of Berlin. 
30. Amyl nitrite. This body when pure has a re¬ 
markable effect upon the action of the heart, and 
has been largely used to relieve the spasm in angina 
pectoris; it is often improperly confounded with 
nitrate of amyl, a substance quite destitute of the 
peculiar properties of the nitrite. 
35. Propylamine. One of the compound ammonias c 
having a strong odour of lierring-brine; used as a 
remedy for rheumatism. 
36. Chloracetic acid. In crystals; a substitution repre¬ 
sentative of glacial acetic acid. 
39. The Curari or Woorari poison ; the arrow-poison 
of the South American Indians. When applied to 
a wound, it produces death, but may be administered 
internally without any ill effects,—is said to act as 
an antiperiodic. 
Howe, E. W. and Co., London. Pure chloral; bromal 
hydrate ; carbonate of lithia ; white shellac. 
Hustwick, T. H., Liverpool. 
Specimens of sulpho-carbolatos of ammonium, magne¬ 
sium, sodium, calcium, copper, iron and zinc, also 
carbolic acid mouth-wash. 
Hutchinson, John and Co., JYidncs. 
Specimens of alkali in various stages of manufacture, 
and samples of sulphur recovered by Mond’s process. 
Ince, J., London. 
Collection of old books, illustrative of the pharmacy of 
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
Jones, Orlando and Co., London. 
Chapman’s entire Wheat-flour. 
Limousin’s Oxygen Gas Inhaling Apparatus. 
Limousin’s drop measures give drops of equal size and 
of the weight of 5 centigrammes of distilled water. 
A table, showing the number of drops of several 
fluids making one gramme, accompanies each mea¬ 
sure. 
Liverpool Chemists’ Association. 
Collection of 70 medicinal plants, presented to the 
Association by Ransom, of Hitchin. 
Lowe, Charles and Co., Manchester. 
Carbolic acid crystals, a solid block weighing 1^ cwt 
Picric acid crystals. 
„ paste. 
Anthraquinone. 
Sulphophenate of soda. 
„ of zinc. 
Anthracene, crude. 
„ . pure. 
Rosolic acid, crude. 
„ pure. 
Naphthaline. 
Disinfecting powder. 
Macfarlan, J. F., and Co., Edinburgh. 
Samples of opium. 
Morphia and salts. 
Apomorphia muriate, got by the action of hydrochloric 
acid on morphia. 
Oxymorphine (morphine + O), new base (Matthiessen). 
Codeine and salts. 
,, reproduced from chlorocodide. 
Apocodeine chloride, got by the action of chloride of 
lime on codeine (Matthiessen). 
New base, got by the action of H 2 S0 4 on codeine 
(Matthiessen). 
Narceine. 
Meconine, from E. opii. 
„ „ opianic acid. 
