INDEX.  585 
Pills,  French  chalk  for  rolling   164 
Pinns  Sabiniana,  abietene  from   97 
Plants,  loss  in  drying  of  herbaceous  parts  of   7 
odors  of   121 
Platinum  black,  ready  method  for  forming   176 
Poisons,  indiscriminate  sale  of     382 
precautions  in  dispensing..  168,  284,  467,  526 
Polk,  C.  G.,  aromatic  syrup  of  phosph  iron,  quinia  and  ignatia   530 
Pommade  tannique  pour  les  cheveux  blancs   Ifc4 
Potash  supply,  new  source  of  153,  334 
Potassium  bromide,  estimation  of  chloride  of  potassium  in   493 
of,  in  iodiJe  of  potassium  167,  248 
and  iodide,  alkalinity  of   246 
p  eparation  and  purity  of   37 
ferricyanide,  preparation  of   489 
iodide  and  oxide  of  mercury   487 
new  process  for  making   556 
Practical  information,  need  of,  in  pharmaceutical  publications     531 
Prescriptions,  language  used  in   89 
Procter,  Wallace,  on  the  fruit  of  Magnolia  tripetala..   145 
Procter,  William,  jr.,  re-elected  professor  of  pharmacy   470 
Pulvis  glycyrrhiza?  compositus   292,  381 
pectoralis   292 
refrigerans     94 
Pycnanthemum  incanum  used  as  horsemint   197 
linifolium  used  in  hydrophobia.    197 
Pyrophosphates,  conversion  of,  into  phosphates  374,  451 
Quinamina,  a  new  cinchona  alkaloid   302 
'Quinia,  detection  of  morphia  in..   540 
fraudulent  477,  540 
hydrobromate   448 
reactions  of   257 
soluble  sulphate  of   445 
tannate  of   281 
Quinoa — Chenopodium  quinoa   557 
Railroads,  medical  supplies  on   91 
Renard,  A  ,  testing  and  estimation  of  arachis  oil  in  olive  oil  81,  541 
Rest  da  odorata,  root  of  ,   69 
Revaccination   519 
Reviews : 
Abstract,  half-yearly,  of  the  medical  sciences  143,  431 
American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  proceedings  of   430 
Alumni  Association  of  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy,  first  annual 
report     286 
Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  8th  annual 
report   288 
American  Pharmaceutical  Asso.iation,  proceedings  of   141 
Archives  of  ophthalmology  and  otology   383 
Arkansas  State  Medical  Association,  proceedings  of   95 
Both,  C,  small-pox,  the  predisposing  conditions  and  prevention    570 
Braithwaites  retrospect  143,  431 
California  Pharmaceutical  Association,  proceedings  of  335,  571 
Cincinnati  Industrial  Exposition   336 
Clarke  and  Amory,  bromide  of  potassium  and  bromide  of  ammonium   285 
Cooley's  cyclopaedia  of  practical  receipts   477 
handbook  of  compound  medicines   569 
perfumes,  cosmetics,  etc   570 
Dragendorff,  G.,  in  Turkestan  gebriiuohliche  Heilmittel   432 
DuDglison,  Robley,  history  of  medicine   239 
Fleming,  Gr.,  vivisection     14:5 
