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as well as the adulteration to which even alimentary substances 
are, occasionally, subjected to. 
The two last divisions of this chapter are exceedingly valuable, 
and the matter condensed in them sufficiently comprehensible for 
all purposes. With the latter, the pharmaceutist will be enabled 
to ascertain the purity and genuineness of the drugs he purchases. 
With the other, he may, in a short time, place himself in a posi- 
tion to afford assistance in cases of poisoning, either by direct in- 
terference in the absence of a physician, or by assisting the practi- 
tioner in his difficult task. 
Under the head of Pharmaceutical appendix, the following 72 
pages embrace a variety of subjects, viz. ; A formulary for veteri- 
nary practice ; An essay on Homoeopathic pharmacy ; Special 
points of information in pharmaceutical chemistry ; A table of 
chemical compounds exhibiting their symbols, equivalents, den- 
sities, and solubilities in water and alcohol, arranged in vertical 
columns, which will prove exceedingly useful and convenient. 
This table of chemical compounds is, probably, the most complete 
extant in any book, and is well calculated to facilitate chemical 
computation, and the preparation of the compounds obtained by 
double decomposition. There are also essays on chemical analysis 
and on pathological chemistry exceedingly desirable. Pharma- 
ceutists have frequent occasions to make researches on some points 
of analytical chemistry, which they are sometimes at a loss to per- 
form for want of a proper guide. They may, at any time, be called 
upon to ascertain the composition of an alloy, of a mineral, of an 
arable soil, of a mineral water, &c, or, they may have to perform, 
at the request of some physician, analyses of morbid secretions, of 
bile, urine, &c. In this chapter, they will find information calcu- 
lated to assist them in the solution of these diverse problems of 
analytical chemistry. 
Then follows a miscellany of 18 pages, including many valuable 
suggestions and recipes accessory to the shop business ; Phar- 
maceutical economy, or rules for governing the shop and labora- 
tory ; a chapter giving catalogues of medicines, instruments and 
appliances suitable for ship and country medicine chests, for 
assistance to drowned and asphixiated persons, and to the wound- 
ed on the field of battle, &c; and lastly, a therapeutical reminder 
{memorial therapeutique) suggestive of the remedies used in dis- 
