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nations used as food. Mezereon bark in its recent state also blis- 
ters the skin, but by the moderate heat of drying it loses this 
power. The seeds of palma Christi are acrimonious and violently 
cathartic; yet when boiled they are used as an article of diet. 
The root of the cassava, which, like the dandelion, yields a milky 
juice, is in its natural state a violent poison, but when boiled it be- 
comes harmless : the leaves, equally poisonous, are by heat ren- 
dered innocuous, and are eaten as a culinary vegetable : tapioca 
the food of the invalid, is obtained from the roots. The effect of 
heat on onions and garlic is known to every one. 
" The quantity of spirit of wine here made use of, although it 
conduces to the preservation of the juice, is by itself insufficient ; 
hence the necessity of Appert's process. Each ounce will contain 
about one drachm of spirit of wine ; more might be disagreeable or 
inexpedient. 
" By the foregoing process, we have dandelion juice in a degree 
of perfection not very inferior in qualities to that which exists in 
the plant in its natural state ; and in a condition to retain its vir- 
tues throughout the year." — Am. Jour, Med. Sci. 
PHARMACY IX SWEDEX. 
By Dr. N. P. Hamberg, 
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy to the Royal Caroline Institution, and to the Pharmaceutical 
Institution of Stockholm. 
As the Pharmaceutical Journal already contains various arti- 
cles upon the state of Pharmacy in different countries, and as 
the Editor has expressed a wish to have an article upon Phar- 
macy in Sweden, I have very great pleasure in communicating 
my knowledge upon the subject, hoping that if the notice is in 
some degree incomplete, it will be excused, inasmuch as it is 
written from memory. 
In Sweden, as well as in many other countries, it has been 
the object of Government, by laws and other regulations, to pro- 
vide that the people for a fixed moderate price, should obtain un- 
adulterated medicines ; and by means of limiting the number of 
shops, and preventing quacks or other incompetent persons from 
