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preparations, — Chiretta,  the  new  East  India  tonic  of  the  Gen- 
tian family, — Sassafras,  which  is  imported  in  root,  instead  of  the 
bark  alone  which  is  used  with  us, — Indian  Bael,  a  new  astrin- 
gent,— Kamala,  the  peculiar  glandular  powder  obtained  from 
Rottleria  Tinctoria,  upon  which  D.  Hanbury,  of  this  firm,  has 
written  a  thoroughly  scientific  paper;  it  is  a  specific  remedy  for 
tape  worm, — Lactucarium,  which,  contrary  to  my  previous  ideas, 
I  find  is  not  made  extensively  in  England,  the  German  arti- 
cle being  preferred. 
The  mode  of  preparing  orange  peel  pursued  at  this  establish- 
ment, furnishes  a  beautiful  and  very  aromatic  product ;  the  fruit 
is  peeled  in  a  beautiful  curled  shaving,  without  taking  off  the 
thick,  pulpy,  under  portion. 
Elaterium  is  made  in  this  establishment,  of  elegant  quality ; 
the  process  employed  is  nearly  that  given  by  Pereira.  A  large 
barrel,  almost  a  hogshead,  of  confection  of  senna  made  by  the 
process  of  the  London  Pharmacopoeia,  showed  how  much  greater 
demand  there  is  for  this  preparation  in  England  than  with  us. 
Is  not  the  reason  to  be  found  in  the  inferiority  of  the  article  as 
produced  by  our  manufacturers  ? 
Among  the  antiquities  noticed  were  some  old  jars,  which 
have  probably  been  some  seventy  years  in  the  house ;  the  labels 
on  two  of  them  were  Biascordium  and  Ung.  Diapomph.  (oligos  f) 
The  employees  in  this  establishment  are  numerous ;  perhaps 
six  "  prescription  clerks,"  besides  warehousemen,  porters  and 
the  female  attendant,  whose  duties  include  the  cooking  and  ser- 
ving of  one  daily  meal,  or  more,  on  the  premises.  Here,  as  well  as 
elsewhere,  we  partook  of  the  generous  hospitality  of  the  proprie- 
tors,— an  opportunity  highly  prized  from  the  associations  which 
cluster  round  Plough  Court,  and  make  it  classic  ground  to  the 
pharmaceutist. 
This  was  long  the  residence  and  place  of  business  of  the  great 
and  good  William  Allen,  one  of  the  most  eminent  philanthro- 
pists and  men  of  science  of  his  age.  A  Fellow  of  the  Koyal 
Society,  and  of  the  Linnsean  Society,  the  friend  and  co-laborer 
of  Davy,  Dalton,  Wollaston,  Babington,  and  that  army  of  ex- 
perimental philosophers  who  gave  such  an  impetus  to  physical 
science  at  the  close  of  the  last  and  beginning  of  the  present 
century,— he  was  at  the  same  time  an  active  participant  with 
