406 
INDEX. 
Pharmacopoeia, review of Dublin ..... 6 
Pharmacopoeia of the United States, .... 194,292 
Pharmacy, Boston College of . . . . , 91 
" in Turkey, ...... 228 
" College of, in Massachusetts, .... 275 
" Philadelphia School of . . . . 191 
u Eclectic ...... 329 
Phosphorescence of phosphorus, . . . . . 374 
Phosphorus, red . . . . . . 374 
Physician's prescription book, ..... 297 
Phthisis, cod-liver oil in . . . . . 86 
Pitaya bark, . . . . . . . 168 
Plaster of paris, method of hardening, .... 87 
Poisoning with dulcamara, . . . . . 181 
by muriate of baryta, . . . . . 38 1 
" by oil of bitter almonds, . . . . 382 
" by prussic acid, . . . . . 381 
11 by veratria, . . . . . 282 
Poisonous properties of Homeria collina, . . . . 361 
Poppy juice, . . . . . . 237 
Porcelain baths and steam tubs, . . . . . 379 
Pollack liver oil, . . . . . . ]03 
Potassa, purity of bi-tartrate of . . 5 
Potassa, prussiate of, in asthma, ..... 84 
Potassium, tests for iodide of .... 3 
Potassa, purity of nitrate of . . . 5 
Powdered drugs, . . . . . . 121 
Powdered ergot, . . . . . . 122 
Powdered opium, . . . . . . 121 
Practical observations, . . . . . . 121 
Preparation of atropia, . . . . . . 159 
u of hydriodic ether, . . . . . ] 56 
a of sugar of lead, ..... 78 
;< of Smyrna opium, . . . . . 251 
" of vegetable alkaloids, . 242 
11 of oily emulsions, ..... 377 
" of oil of roses in the East, . . . 335 
Presence of iodide of cyanogen in commercial iodine, . . 83 
Preservation of alimentary vegetable substances, . . 357 
u of proto-sulphate of iron, . . . . 183 
Prescriptions in English, ...... 385 
Process of engraving on ivory, ..... 87 
for purifying iodine, . . • . . 12 
Proto-nitrate of iron, syrup of ..... 312,315 
Protection of electrieal machines fiom moisture, . . 178 
Protoxide of nitrogen and alcohol, congealed, ... 86 
