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Vol.  57      AMERICAN  ' 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY, 
PUBLISHED  BY  AUTHORITY  OF  THE 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
EDITED  BY 
JOHN   M.  MAISOH. 
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FouETH  Series.]  JULY,  1885.  Vol.  XV,  No.  7 
C  O  T 
On  Arbiitin,  the  Bitter  Principle  of  the  Cowberry 
(Vaccinium  Vitis  Idaea,  Lin.).   By  Edo  Claas- 
sen   321 
Ohio  Wine,  Argols  and  Commercial  Tartaric  Acid. 
By  James  0.  Howells,  Ph.G   321 
Note  on  Dover's  Solution.  By  A.  B.  Lyons,  M.D..  329 
On  Some  Useful  Plants  of  the  N  tural  Order  of 
Verbenaceai     By  John  M.  Maisch   330 
Gleanings  from  Foreign  Journals.    By  J.  Robert 
Moechel  ^   336 
Keratin-coated  Pills.    By  Dr.  Unna    333 
Materia  Medica  of  the  New  Mexican  Pharmaco- 
p(*^ia.    By  the  Editor  =   339 
Commercial  Tannin.    By  T.  Maben   342 
Spurious  Ciibebs.    By  Edward  D.  Gravill   348 
The  Seat  of  the  Active  Principle  in  Vesicating  In- 
sects.  By  H.  Beauregard   350 
Gleanings  in  Materia  Medica.    By  the  Editor   350 
The  Cliangea  occuning  iif  Bailey  during  Malting, 
and  in  the  Manufacture  of  Spirit-".    By  P.  Beh- 
rend   357 
Minutes  of  the  College   358 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association   359 
Meetings  of  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations   366 
Editorial  Department   367 
Obituary   368 
ITEMS.— Choline  in  Hops,  323.  Alveloz,  328.  For 
Fixed  Dressing  for  Joints,  329,  Pilocarpus  in 
Urticaria,  335.   Turtle  Oil,  337.   Antisep' ic  Silk,  351 
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