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JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY, 
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EDITED  BY 
JOHN  M.  MAISCH. 
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MARCH,  1885. 
Vol.  XV,  No.  3 
Tincture  of  Ferric  Chloride.  By  Joseph  W.  Eng- 
land, Ph  G   113 
Citrate  of  Iron  and  Quinine.    By  R  Rothen   121 
The  Diastatic  Power  of  Certain  Extracts  of  Malt. 
By  Albert  B.  Prescott   126 
An  Examination  cf  Burdock  Fruit.  By  Henry 
Trimble  and  F.  D.  Macfarland   127 
Substances  Contained  in  Saffron.    By  R.  Itayser....  129 
The  Essential  Oil  Industry  in  Grasse.  By  F.  A. 
Fluckiger   131 
Crystallized  Arbutin  and  Arbutose.  By  J.  Dal- 
mon   139 
Note  on  the  Purity  of  Commercial  Kamala.  By 
P.  W.  Squire,  F.C.S.,  and  R.  A.  Cripps....   141 
^he  Xhetection  of  Aloes  in  Pharmaceutical  Prep- 
arations.   By  R.  A.  Cripps  and  T.  S.  Dymond   142 
Gleanings  in  Materia  Medica.    By  the  Editor   146 
Note  on  an  Impurity  in  Ether.   By  C.  J.  H.  War«- 
den,  M.D   148 
Apparatus  for  Continuous  Percolation  with  Boiling 
Fluids.    By  W.  Watsun  Will   149 
Pr  actical  No les.   By  the  Editor   151 
Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting   153 
Alumni  Association,  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy  154 
Sixth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress   154 
Editorial  Department   166 
Reviewn  and  Bibliographical  Notices  t   158 
Obituary   160 
ITEMS:— Production  of  Sulphate  of  Quinine  in  Eu- 
rope, 128.  So-called  Carbonate  of  Ti  anium, 
130.  Anaesthesia  by  Chloral  150.  Action  cf  the 
Different  Alkaloids  of  Aconite  on  the  Heart, 152. 
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