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or  from  two  to  ten  years'  subscriptions.  It  is  therefore  with  earnestness 
that  we  appeal  to  this  class  of  our  subscribers,  in  the  hope  that  they  will 
come  forward  and  square  their  accounts  now  that  aid  is  needed.  It  has 
been  our  aim  to  make  this  Journal  a  record  of  the  progress  of  pharmacy 
and  pharmaceutical  chemistry,  without  introducing  much  that  merely 
caters  to  a  taste  for  novelty  or  business  fashion.  There  are  some  subscribers 
who  value  a  pharmaceutical  journal  solely  in  proportion  to  the  material  it 
contains  that  is  conducive  to  business.  Hence  they  hail  the  appearance 
of  recipes  for  preparations  of  various  kinds  with  pleasure  and  approval. 
"Without  abandoning  the  plan  upon  which  this  Journal  has  been  conducted 
for  so  long  a  series  of  years,  it  is  intended  to  introduce,  when  such  offer, 
notices  of  apparatus,  processes,  and  preparations,  under  the  name  of 
Pharmaceutical  Notices  ;  and  we  shall  be  pleased  to  receive  contributions 
to  this  chapter  from  any  of  our  readers  or  friends  who  may  have  some- 
thing to  communicate  which  may  be  deemed  too  little  for  a  paper. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy. 
Sir, — An  old  subscriber,  and  constant  reader  of  your  excellent  Journal 
of  Pharmacy  wants  information  On  one  or  two  points,  and  if  you,  or  any 
of  your  readers,  will  furnish  it  in  an  early  number,  you  will  much  oblige 
me  and  several  professional  friends. 
Jeremie's  Solution  of  Opium,  p.  242,  and  Tincture  of  Sumbul,  p.  244, 
are  neither  of  them  officinal,  but  are  referred  to  in  Braithwaite's  Re- 
trospect, part  47,  July,  1863,  but  not  known  in  Drug  Stores.  What  are 
they?  and  where  described  ? 
Farradism  is  now  frequently  spoken  of  as  a  new  mode  of  applying 
Electricity  to  medical  purposes;  but  no  one  seems  to  know  the  nature  of 
it ;  likewise  the  nature  of  the  machine  for  producing  it,  by  Legendre  and 
Morin.  Is  it  made  in  this  country  ?  and  where  ?  Where  can  a  general 
description  be  found,  or  can  you  furnish  one?  It  will  much  oblige. — Page 
243,  Vol.  above  mentioned. 
Since  the  invention  of  the  Spectroscope  in  1860,  by  Buns^n,  in 
Germany,  several  new  metals  have  been  discovered.  Information  is 
wanted  of  the  nature  and  operation  of  this  instrument ;  where  is  it 
described  ?  and  how  used  ?  and  if  for  sale  in  this  country  ?  &c. 
We  are  not  acquainted  with  "  Jeremie's  solution  of  Opium,"  and  none 
of  the  authorities  within  our  reach  allude  to  its  composition.  "  Tincture 
of  Sumbul "  is  made  of  the  strength  of  tincture  of  valerian,  which  it  re- 
sembles. A  formula  for  fluid  extract  of  Sumbul  (or  musk-root)  was  pub- 
lished at  page  233,  vol.  3d,  third  series  of  this  Journal,  and  articles  on 
musk-root  itself  in  vol.  xvi.  and  xxiii.  of  the  previous  volumes. 
The  fluid  extract  is  the  form  in  which  this  singular  product  of  Asia  has 
been  employed  pharmaceutieally  in  Philadelphia.  Dose  of  the  fluid  ex- 
traet  15  minims  to  half  a  fluid-drachm.  This  is  equivalent  to  7  J  to  15 
grs.  of  the  root. 
Farradism  is  a  name  given  by  M.  Duchesne,  of  Boulogne,  to  the  induced 
magneto-electric  current  applied  as  a  therapeutic  agent,  and  so  called  to 
