Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  \ 
Dec,  1877.  J 
Index. 
635 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmocy,  examination,  graduates,  commencement,  .  192 
junior  examination,  .              .  137 
minutes  of  meetings,  .  38,  255,  258,  422,  565 
Drug  Exchange,       .....  621 
Physicians  and  pharmacists,  differences  between,              .  .              .  426 
Physostigma,  the  alkaloids  of,                    ...  .              .  446 
Physostigmia,  estimation  of,  in  calabar  beans,   .              .  .  .21 
Pill  coating,   .              .              .              .              .  .  .175 
masses,  excipient  for,     .             • .              .              .  .  72 
Pills  and  pill  masses,     .              .              .              .  .  .162 
coated  and  uncoated,    .              .              .              .  139,  207 
phosphorus,  preparation  of,  .              .              .  .  135 
sugar-coated,  a  word  in  defence  of,            .              .  .  .105 
use  of  Canada  balsam  in,                    .              .  .              .  445 
copaiba,            .              .              .              .  .              .  441 
Pilocarpina  and  its  salts,              .              .              .  .                171,  350 
hydrochlorate,  use  of,                    .              .  .  .401 
nitrate,  preparation  of,             ...  599 
Piper  citrifolium,  .             .             .             .             .  .             .  250 
methysticum,      ......  248 
Pitury,  an  Australian  rival  to  coca,    .              .              .  .              .  403 
Plants,  antiscorbutic,  new  mode  for  the  treatment  of,  .              .  177 
diseases  of,               .              .              .              .  .              .  376 
medicinal  and  useful,       .              .              .  .  155 
cultivation  of,  at  Banbury,  ,  406 
Hitchin,              .  .             .  600 
Plumb,  C.  S.t  properties  of  Lobelia  inflata,         .              .  .  .588 
Podophyllum  peltatum,  constituents  of,                     .  .                520,  548 
Potash  and  soda  in  organized  structures,            .              .  .  .468 
Potassium  chlorate,  testing  of,                   ....  203 
cresylsulphate,  preparation  of,           .              .  .  .175 
iodide,  decomposition  of  solution  of,  .              .  82 
testing  for  impurities  in,        .              .  .         471,  551 
new  reagent  for,         .              .              .  .  .421 
nitrate,  impure,  ......  191 
phenyl  sulphate,  preparation  of,                .  .  .175 
Powders,  machine  for  compounding,  .....  324 
Power,  Fred.  B,y  ammonio  cupric  sulphate  as  a  test  for  grape  sugar,  .  13 
note  upon  a  reaction  of  emetia,              .  .              .  391 
student  life  in  Germany,  .              .  .  -33 
Prescott,  Albert  B.,  laboratory  notes,    .              .              .  .  .481 
Prescriptions,  dispensing,             .              .              .  .  .498 
expensive  medicines  in,  .              .              .  .              .  327 
looseness  in  writing,              .              .  .  383 
the  metric  system  in,                    .              .  49,  84,  90,  204 
Proctor,  H.  R.y  some  methods  of  estimating  tannins,  .  .  .412 
Pumpkin  seeds,  analysis  of,                .              .              .  .              .  23 
Pyrethrum  carneum,  poisonous  principle  of,              .  .  .17 
Pyroxylon,  preparation  of,    .              .              .              .  .         301,  374 
Quackery  in  the  garb  of  piety,      .              ;              .  .  .623 
Quinetum,  medicinal  use  of,               .              .            «  .  .              .  71 
Quinia,  behavior  to  glycyrrhizin,                .              .     .  .              .  617 
citrate  of  iron  and,  variable  composition  of,  .              .  400 
colorimetric  estimation  of,  .  .  .  .  536,  570 
compound  with  thymol,         .....  597 
ferrocyanhydrate,  preparation  of,                  .  .             .  442 
