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afford in the highest degree their desirable properties. A summary of such conditions 
occupies a few pages. 
The substances derived from animals and vegetables, arranged in alphabetical order, 
together number more than five hundred, but of these about two hundred only are dis¬ 
tinguished by an asterisk, indicating that they ought to be kept in stock by every phar¬ 
maceutical chemist. Comparatively few of these substances are accompanied by any 
description,—usually merely the name of the plant, and the part employed is given ; but 
in some instances their principal characters are mentioned. The substances derived 
from minerals and chemical products, also arranged in alphabetical order, number from 
seventy to eighty, of which thirty-one are marked wdth an asterisk; with each substance 
in this part are usually given its principal characters and the tests for its purity. 
The third part—comprising the Pharmacopoeia—is contained in 561 pages, and is sub¬ 
divided in the following mannerIn the first place, into two large classes, the one con¬ 
stituted of the simple medicines furnished by chemistry, the other of compound 
medicines prepared by the mixture of various substances ; in other words, into chemicals 
and galenicals as they are commonly styled in this country. In the next place, into 
seventy-five chapters, occupied as follows:—Elementary substances, acids, oxides, alkalies, 
ammonia, chlorides, bromides, iodides, cyanides, sulphides, and mineral salts, in the first 
fourteen chapters; vegetable acids and alkaloids, salts of the vegetable acids, salts of 
vegetable bases, soaps, alcohol and its derivatives, neutral vegetable principles, and 
pyrogenic products form a second group of eight chapters; factitious mineral waters 
have a chapter to themselves ; then follow fifty-one chapters devoted to the following 
subjects: Simple powders, pulps, vegetable-juices, oils and fats; ptisans, apozems. broths, 
emulsions, mucilages, and mixtures; alcoholic tinctures, alcoolatevrs, ethereal tinctures, 
medicated wines and vinegars, medicated beers, and oils ; distilled waters, volatile oils, 
and spirits ; extracts, resins, and gum-resins ; simple and compound syrups, honeys and 
oxymels, conserves and chocolates, electuaries, confections, and opiates, jellies, pastes, 
oleo-saccharures, saccharures; lozenges and pastilles; species and compound powders; 
pill masses, pills and granules, and capsules; cerates, pomades, ointments, plasters, 
sparadraps, and impiers emplastiques; suppositories and prepared sponges ; cataplasms, 
fomentations, lotions, injections, collutoria, gargles, and medicated baths; collyria, 
glycerates, liniments, escharotics, and fumigations. 
The seventy-fifth and last chapter is devoted to a collection of foreign formulae, such 
as are not likely to be prescribed by French physicians, but which, the Commission bear¬ 
ing in mind the present rapidity and facilities of travelling, the pharmacien may occasion¬ 
ally be called upon to dispense for a foreigner. In looking through this chapter, I find 
that the selection made from the British Pharmacoposia consists of the following:— 
Decoctum Sarsae Compositum 
Extractum Colocynthidis Compositum 
Hydrargyrum cum Creta 
Infusum Gentianae Compositum 
Infusum Sennae Compositum 
Linimentum Camphorae 
Linimentum Camphorae Compositum 
Linimentum Chloroformi 
Linimentum Saponis 
Liquor Sodae Arseniatus 
Mistura Cretse 
Pilula Aloes et Myrrhse 
Pilula Khei Coraposita 
Pilula Calomelanos Composita 
Pilula Plumbi cum Opio 
Pilula Ehei Composita 
Pilula Scillae Composita 
Pulvis Aromaticus 
Pulvis Cretas Aromaticus 
Pulvis Cretae Aromaticus cum Opio 
Pulvis Ipecacuanhae cum Opio 
Pulvis Scammonii Compositus 
Tinctura Aurantii 
Tinctura Calumbae 
Tinctura Cardamom! Composita 
Tinctura Cinchonae Composita 
Tinctura Cinchonae Flavce 
Tinctura Gentiana^ Composita 
Tinctura Hyoscyami 
Tinctura Krameriae 
Tinctura Lavandulae Composita 
Tinctura Opii 
Tinctura Ehei Composita 
Tinctura Scillae 
Tinctura Sennae Composita 
Vinum Antimoniale, and 
Vinum Ipecacuanhae. 
Then, lastly, twenty-pages are appended, containing extracts of the laws and regula¬ 
tions affecting the practice of pharmacy, and the book closes with two copious indices, 
the one in Latin, “ Index Alphabeticus,” the other in French, “ Table Alphabetique.” 
