610  Index.  {Am&Z'$r 
Plastilina,      .......  355 
Plating  iron  with  platinum,  .  .  .  .  -35  5 
Polymnia  uvedalia,  uses  of,  .  .  .  •  453 
Polyporus  officinalis,  use  of,  .....  592 
Poisons,  organic,  detection  of,  .  .  .  .  576 
Pomade,  Cremefs,  ......  193 
Porphyra  vulgaris,  use  of,  ....  547 
Portulaca  oleracea,  ......  546 
Postans,  A.  W.,  improved  preparation  of  ergot,  .  .  .  581 
Potassium  bichromate,         .  .  .  .  •  .  356 
bitartrate,  estimation  of  calcium  tartrate  in,  .  .  550 
chlorate,  poisoning  by,       .  .  .  .  .112 
iodide,  impurities  in,  ....  405 
salicylate,  .  .  .  .  .  .114 
Po-zver,  Fr.  B.,  resin  of  podophyllum,         .  .  .  369 
Powers,  Thos.  H.,  resolutions  on  death  of,  .  .         602,  605 
Frail,  Delbert  E.,  infusum  digitalis,  ;  .  .  .422 
Prescott,  A.  B  ,  laboratory  notes,  .....  561 
Prescription  blanks  and  the  percentage  business,         .  .  .  143 
clamps,  .  .  .  .  .  .66 
Principle,  emulsifying  of  yollc  of  egg,         ....  138 
Pritchardia  filamentosa,  used  by  the  Indians,      ....  543 
Procter,  Wm.,  Jr.  Co.,  vinum  digestivum,    .  472 
Proctor,  B.  S.,  soluble  essence  of  ginger,  .  .  .  -49^ 
Prosopis  juliflora,     »     .  .  .  .  .  .  540 
Psoralea  spec,  used  by  the  Indians,     .....  545 
Pterocaulon  pycnostachyum,        .  .  .  .  53 
Puff,  A.  P.,  and  C.  R.  A.  Wright,  sabadilla  alkaloids,         .  .  .489 
Pulvis  ipecuanhas  et  opii,  valuation  of,  .  .  .561 
Pycnocoma  macrophylla,  boomah  nuts,  .  .  .  .  29 
yuercus  spec,  used  by  the  Indians,    .              .              .              .  .            .  541 
Quinia  and  bismuth  iodide,          .               .               .              .              .  578 
curious  synonym  for,              .              .                            .              .  143 
fraudulent,        ......  70 
hydrobromate,          ......  259 
in  commerce  and  in  pharmacy,       ....  606 
kinate  for  hypodermic  injection,             ....  487 
substitutes  for,  .  .  .  .  .174 
sulphovinate  of,                      .              .              .              .              .  343 
tannate,  tasteless,             .....  259 
test  for  impurities  in,                ....  297 
Quinidia  from  the  quinoidin  of  commerce,  .  .  .69 
sulphate  of,           .....  304 
Quiniretin,     .......  348 
Quinoidin  as  a  febrifuge,      ......  549 
Rain  tree,  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  313 
Reducing-agents,  actions  of,  on  the  product  obtained  from  brucia,  .  383 
Remington,  Jos.  P.,  device  for  perforating  plasters,  .  .  .  171 
on  a  distillatory  apparatus,  .  .  .  15 
iResin,  crystallizable,  of  gurjun  balsam,  ....  305 
distillation  of,  :  .  .  .  .  •  256 
