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SEPTEMBER,  1885. 
Vol.  XV;No.  9 
COI<J  TENTS. 
Sodio-Bismnth  Tartrate  and  Pepsin.  By  R.  Bother  417 
The  Fruit  of  Illicium  Anisatum,  Loureiro.  By  Carl 
E.  Schlegel,  Ph.G   426 
Menthol   429 
Materia  Medica  of  the  N«w  Mexican  Pharmaco- 
poeia.   By  the  Editor   430 
Gleanings  from  Foreign  Journals.    By  J.  Robert 
Moechel   435 
Pharmaceutical  Preparations  of  the  Mexican  Phar- 
macop.deia.    By  the  Editor   438 
Disinfectants   441 
Note  on  Camphor  Motions.   By  P.  Casamajor   444 
The  Cultivation  of  the  Star  Anise  Tree  and  the 
Preparation  of  the  Oil  in  Annani   447 
Prickly  Pear  in  America     449 
Detection  of  Colocynthein,  Elaterin  and  Bryonin. 
By  E.  Johansen   451 
Detection  of  Eerberine,  Hydrsstine  and  Oxyacau- 
thine    By  L.  V.  Hirschhausen   452 
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A  V.  Kugelgen   453 
Nitrogenous  Substances  Insoluble  in  Gastric  Juice. 
By  A.  Stutzer   454 
Gleanings  in  Materia  Medica.    By  the  Editor   456 
Varie  ies   459 
Editorial  Department.*.  ,   460 
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Obituary   463 
ITEMS.— Opionin,  425.  Syzyginm  Janibolanum, 
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Chryf^arobin  in  Liquor  Gutta  Perchse,  437.  Re- 
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