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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Hyoscyamus (Brighton).—Hooper’s ‘Physician’s Yade Mecum,’ by Drs. Guy and 
Harley. 
Student (Liverpool) and others.—Pereira’s ‘ Manual of Materia Medica and Thera¬ 
peutics,’ by Farre, Bentley, and Warington, will shortly appear. The price wjll be 
about 15s. 
Herbarium (Norwich).—Bentley’s £ Manual of Botany,’ price 12s. 6d., and Fownes’s 
‘ Manual of Chemistry,’ price 12s. 6d. 
G. H. Dunmore (Penarth, South Wales).—The remedy has been extensively tried in 
the hospitals in this country and abroad, and is generally regarded as valueless. See a 
Paper by Professor Bentley, in the ‘Pharmaceutical Journal,’ vol. iv. n.s. p. 294. 
A. Z. (Penzance).—Thq plant alluded to has a popular reputation in certain dis¬ 
tricts as a purgative and emetic, but its medical properties are not mentioned in any 
standard work on Medical Botany. 
Aqua Fontana (Leeds).—The seeds are only occasionally met with in this country. 
The only way of obtaining them is to apply to your wholesale druggist. There is no 
formula for an extract, and hence we cannot give the dose. 
Vinegar ivithout Acetic Acid ! —A correspondent informs us that a placard to the fol¬ 
lowing effect may be observed at the door of an oil-shop in the New North Road, 
Islington: “ Strong Pickling Vinegar, 3d. per pint—warranted not to contain any 
Acetic Acid.” 
u Semper Idem ” (Manchester).—1. In the Mixture referred to, the Ammonia enters 
into combination with the Iodine, and thus deprives the solution of colour. 2. Yes,— 
by the diligent use of the opportunities afforded for study. 
li. D. (London).—Smee’s ‘ Elements of Electro-Metallurgy,’ or Ure’s 1 Dictionary of 
Arts, Manufactures,’ etc. 
H. IF.—Fownes’s ‘Manual of Chemistry.’ 
S. IF. (Burslem).—Hoblyn’s ‘ Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine and the Col¬ 
lateral Sciences ’ (Whittaker and Co.). 
R. L. (Merthyr).—“ Chlorodyne ” is a proprietary article, the formula for which we 
are unable to give. 
u Ponto ” (Liverpool) is referred to the Secretary, 17, Bloomsbury Square, for the re¬ 
quired information. 
Chemicus Juvenis (Villa Faustina).—A cement made with Isinglass and Glacial 
Acetic Acid would probably answer the purpose best. 
Mr. H. Barnaby (Rochester), Mr. Howden (London), are thanked for their commu¬ 
nications. 
A. B .—We believe there is no other edition of the ‘ Pharmaceutical Latin Grammar ’ 
than that of 1845. 
Filula (Coventry).—The article w r ould be liable to the Stamp Duty ; the fact of the 
recommendation having been issued separately from the article to which it refers, does 
not alter the case. 
The Plates, in illustration of the paper by Messrs. Deane and Brady, “ On Microscopic 
Research in relation to Pharmacy,” will be given in the January number. 
Errata. —Page 19G, for Noakes, Henry Thorby, read Noakes, Edward Thorby; for 
Bailey, John, read Baily, John. Page 197, for Gibbans, Thomas Gilks, read Gibbons, 
Thomas Gilks. 
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