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BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
Wagner, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Pstahlishment^' in Pcsth, Hun¬ 
gary. Hounded 1836. 
Chemical works for pbarmaceutico- and technico-chemical preparations, 
simple and compound medicines, essential oils and essences for the manu¬ 
facture of wines, liqueurs, and brandies, elegant assortment of objects 
for a pharmacy, drugs and minerals, utensils for photography, daguerreo¬ 
type, and panotopy. 
Objects exhibited. 
Flores papaveris, F. tilicc, F. verbasci, Fol. belladonna, F. hyoscyami. 
These and other medicinal herbs furnish our land in large quantities, and in the 
best quality. Our export in these objects is very important. 
Extractum belladonnse, extractum cicutse, extractum hyoscyami. 
Supplied according to various formulae. 
Cognac oil, I.; Cognac oil, II. 
Distilled from the most selected Hungarian wine lees : they are very convenient 
for use, and produce at a moment’s notice a very fine cognac brandy, retaining the 
flavour of the wine. Cognac oils are used also for manufacturing artificial wines, 
and for the amelioration of inferior descriptions. Aqua laurocerasi is three times 
stronger than the French or Italian. 
Oleum Chamomillee, manufactured from best chamomile flowers. • 
Used in cases of cholera with great success. This sample exactly corresponds to 
the original description, of being pale blue when freshly drawn. 
Oleum juniperi, oil of juniper berries ; the price is very low. 
Roob juniperi, a bye-product of the distillation of juniper oil; the price is 
very low. 
Oleum melissce, finest balm oil, produced from garden balm herbs. 
Spiritus terebinthinm, with very little smell. 
Syrupus violarum, very fragrant and of good colour. 
Tellur metal, only manufactured in this establishment. 
The tellur ore comes from ; Nagyag, Transylvania, with silver and gold as 
Tellurblatterer. 
Ferrum dialysatum (oxydatum solutum in aqua). 
A reddish-brown fluid of pure astringent taste. Dose in case of diarrhoea or dys¬ 
entery, one scruple to a drachm. 
Whittles, Hirmingham. 
Several specimens of nickel and cobalt ores. 
Yates, James, F.E.S. 
The male cone and two leaves of Cycas revoluta. 
CLASS III. 
THE GENERAL APPLIANCES OF A PHARMACY, DIETETICS, AND MISCELLANEA. 
Adams, J., Loughborough. 
Old books relating to pharmacy, amongst which is a copy of Gerard’s 
‘ Herbal.’ 
This fine old folio (dated 1597), is extremely rare. It was printed in an 
age when men expessed their reverence for a subject by the type in 
which it was enshrined. 
* The original descriptive note has been as far as possible retained. 
