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given  in  water  or  a  bitter  infusion,  in  cases  of  obstinate  ansemia, 
and  diseases  of  which  that  condition  is  a  symptom.  I  failed  in 
making  this  beautiful  product  satisfactorily  in  the  only  attempt 
I  have  made  to  prepare  it;  I  found  it  too  adhesive  and  deli- 
quescent to  separate  in  scales,  from  the  glass  plate  on  which  I 
poured  the  concentrated  solution. 
Most  of  the  preparations  advertised  by  this  Company  are  al- 
ready known  in  America,  and  many  of  them  have  been  noticed 
in  this  Journal.  Grlonoin,  "  of  guarranteed  purity,  and  uniform 
strength,"  is  among  the  remedies  offered.  Chlorate  of  Soda  is 
recommended  as  a  substitute  for  chlorate  of  potassa ;  it  is  said 
to  be  soluble  in  three  parts  of  cold  water,  while  the  latter  is 
soluble  only  in  the  proportion  of  0  parts  in  100  of  water  at  60Q. 
Iodide  of  Lime  is  another  of  their  novelties  ;  it  is  sold  in  solu- 
tion made  by  boiling  iodine  with  milk  of  lime,  which  is  said  to 
contain  iodide  of  calcium  and  iodate  of  lime  ;  of  the  solution  con- 
taining one  grain  of  iodine  to  a  fluid-ounce,  the  dose  is  30 
minims  to  two  fluid- drachms ;  the  peculiar  adaptations  of  this 
salt,  are  said  to  be  in  the  treatment  of  neuralgia  occasioned  by 
mercury,  lead,  &c. 
From  Liverpool  let  us  next  turn  attention  to  Edinburgh,  the 
chief  seat  of  science  in  the  North.  The  University  is  just  about 
to  close  its  summer  course,  and  thither,  across  the  deep  ravine  that 
divides  the  town,  we  wend  our  way.  The  purposes  of  this  essay 
forbid  a  description  of  the  ancient  castle,  with  its  legends  of  dar- 
ing emprise,  and  of  the  quaint  old  buildings  with  which  it  is 
surrounded,  hallowed  by  many  a  thrilling  story  of  the  early 
times — of  the  church  where  John  Knox  thundered,  the  house  in 
which  he  resided,  and  the  spot  where  his  bones  moulder,  though 
these  are  all  in  the  old  town,  and  in  the  vicinity  of  the  object 
of  our  search.  For  nearly  three  hundred  years,  the  University 
of  Edinburgh  has  dispensed  the  benefits  of  a  liberal  education 
to  the  numerous  students  who  have  annually  resorted  to  11  the 
modern  Athens,"  and  for  the  last  half  century  has  enjoyed  a  re- 
putation inferior  to  no  other  institution  of  learning  in  Great 
Britain.  In  medicine,  especially,  it  has  excelled,  and  hence  is 
especially  worthy  a  short  notice  in  our  Pharmaceutical  Notes. 
The  present  ample  building,  which  was  commenced  in  1789,  is 
a  plain  and  very  substantial  structure,  forming  a  parallelogram 
