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MISCELLANY. 
drug trade, was offered any powder he chose for 36s. per cwt., and when 
the person making the offer was asked if the article was genuine, his answer 
was, that it was the best he could make at the price, thus showing that 
the powder might be brought down to almost any price! The druggist 
himself sometimes sends out the genuine article to the grinder, mixed 
with a number of foreign ingredients; the grinder, then does his share of 
the adulteration — so that very little of the genuine article ever reaches the 
customer ! The apothecaries, who are supplied by the chemists, only 
consider themselves judges of the roots and drugs as they present them- 
selves in the natural state ; they do not pretend to be able to apply any 
chemical tests to the article. Drugs are likely to be procured in their 
genuine state where the apothecary employs a respectable druggist who 
grinds for himself. To the knowledge of witness, only two houses in Lon- 
don grind their own drugs. It was his opinion that drugs adulterated as 
described, were commonly sold to country practitioners, and he thought 
that the education prescribed to medical men was not calculated to direct 
their attention to chemistry sufficiently to enable them to detect such 
frauds. Inasmuch as price is one of the tests by which medicine is pur- 
chased, the poor are more liable than others to be supplied with bad re- 
medies. A chemist had urged the witness himself to deal with him, say- 
ing, in reference to his prices, that he could supply him with drugs for 
paupers much cheaper. 
Formula for the Internal Administration of Turpentine. 
R. Olei terebinth. giss — ij. 
Magnesia? carbonat. £i. 
Tere simul et adde 
Aqua? menth. sat. g v. 
Syrupi limon. gij. 
Spir. lavand. comp. gij. 
Misce. sumatur pars quarta ter die. 
Schonidts Tahrbucher and Med. Chir. Review. 
Useful Application to Chilblains. — The following application is strongly 
recommended to relieve this troublesome affection. 
Take of Balsam of Fioraventi, gij. 
Solution of acetate of lead, ^iij. 
Olive oil, giij. 
Hydrochloric acid, gi. 
Shake them well together. 
The affected parts are to be rubbed once or twice a day with this em- 
brocation, and a piece of silk paper, moistened with it, should be kept 
constantly applied. The strength of the embrocation may be easily in- 
creased or diminished by varying the quantity of oil used in preparing it. 
