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Liverpool Chemists’ Association. 
A fine series of isinglass and gelatine, forwarded from tlieir own museum. 
Meggeson and Co., Manufacturers, London. 
Seventeen specimen bottles of medicated lozenges, including those intro¬ 
duced into the British Pharmacopoeia. 
Morson and Son, J^ondon. 
A few specimens for exhibition, comprising globules containing pepsine, 
pancreatine, and charcoal. 
These globules are a convenient form for administering these and other medicines. 
They also exhibited specimens of pancreatine or pancreatic oil in both an acid and 
alkaline state, with an emulsion formed from the latter, which has the advantage of 
greater stability and can be kept without change or putrefactive fermentation. 
Specimens of Meconine and Narceine. 
Two of the least abundant alkaloids of opium, the latter body having recently 
obtained considerable reputation in France and Germany as a most valuable seda¬ 
tive, applicable in cases in which morphia and other preparations of opium cannot 
safely be administered. The small quantity of this alkaloid present in opium, 
and its consequent high price, will of necessity limit its use to cases in which other 
narcotics are inadmissible. 
A specimen of podophyllin or purified resin of the root of the May apple. 
A preparation now considered as a valuable addition to the Materia Medica. 
A specimen of the oil and seeds of the Argemone Mexicana. 
Proposed by Dr. Hamilton as a remedy for cholera, choleraic diarrhoea, and other 
diseases, and described by him in vol. xii. p. 292 of the Pharmaceutical Journal. 
A specimen of pepsine prepared by a modification of the process of Dr. 
Pavy, by which, if carefully followed out, the greatest digestive activity 
of this body appears to be obtained. 
A preparation from the cuticle of wheat, to which the name of Saccharated 
Wheat Phosphates has been given. 
This has been used and recommended for some years by Dr. Tilbury Fox. It 
may be considered as the active part of bran and as containing a combination of 
’ the organized phosphates, and a peculiar digestive principle admirably suiting 
it, to supply a want in the food of children and invalids, which will probably render 
it a valuable dietetic. It can be prepared at a reasonable price, and combined 
advantageously with a great quantity of farinaceous food. The peculiar digestive 
principle of bran will not, like pepsine, digest animal matter, but seems specially 
suited for the digestion of farina. 
Mottershead and Co., Manchester. 
Oxy-azotized water. 
Hansom, W., mtcJiin. 
Scammony root and resin. 
Hobbins, J., Oxford Street, London. 
Anaesthetic ethers, oxygenator, and charcoal capsules. 
Savory and Moore, London. 
Handsome plant of Datura Tatula, specimens of cigars, cigarettes, and cut 
Datura Tatula. 
Cases of suppositories, pessaries, and soluble bougies, medicated gelatine 
disks, narcotine, Ellis’s anaesthetic fluids, various pancreatic preparations, 
and Liebig’s food for infants. 
Schacht, G. F., Clifton. 
New filter for pharmaceutical purposes. 
The apparatus has been already described and figured, Pharm. Journ. vol. vii. 
