CONTENTS. 
V. 
No. II. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
On Veratrum Viride, with experimental facts, to serve as a chemi- 
cal history of the root of this plant. By Henry W. Worth- 
ington, ------- 89 
On Chemical Symbols. By Robert Bridges, M. D. - - 98 
Medico-Botanical Notices. No. XIV. - - - - 105 
Notice of the Observations of Berzelius, L. Thompson, and M. 
Vogel de Munich, upon the Process of James Marsh for 
the Detection of Arsenic, ----- 108 
SELECTED ARTICLES. 
Report of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on the 
Adulteration of Drugs, - - - - - 114 
On the identity of the Bark of the Strychnos Nux Vomica with 
the false Angustura of writers on Materia Medica. By W. 
B. O'Shaughnessy, M. D., Prof, of Chem. Med. Col. 
Calcutta, - - - - - - - 144 
Notes taken at the Post-Mortem Examination of a Musk Deer. 
By A. Campbell, Esq., Nipal Residency, June 24, 1834, 148 
Notice regarding the Composition of James' Powder. By Dou- 
glas Maclagan, M. D., Fellow of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, of Edinburgh, ----- 152 
The action which Chlorine exercises upon the Organic Salifiable 
Bases, 160 
Minutes of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 171 
Miscellany, 173 
