AmDe°cTi884arm"}  Index.  667 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  : 
Graduating  class  231,  298 
Honorary  members   294 
Minutes  of  meetings,   123,  294,  445,  599 
Pharmaceutical  meetings  52,  124,  172,  298,  342,  601,  648 
Philadelphia  Pharmacy  law,  opposition  to;   493 
Phlox  Carolina,  amount  of  extract  and  ash   570 
Phormium  tenax,  microscopic  characters  of  fibres   223 
Phytolacca  decandra,  constituents  of  root   567 
Picramnine  in  cascara  amarga  <   333 
Pile,  &ust.    Percentage  and  specific  gravity  of  alcohol   71 
Pilocarpine,  action  of  bromine  on     478 
use  of...   121 
Pipmenthol,  composition  and  melting  point  of.   406 
stearophen  of  peppermint   345 
Piptsedenia  gida,  use  of,  in  Brazil  =   625 
Pipturus  argenteus,  microscopic  characters  of  fibres   222 
Plants,  chemistry  of.   581 
easily  oxidizable  constituents  of.   49 
medicinal,  used  by  the  Cree  Indians   617 
pungent  principles  of   553 
Plasters,  prevention  of  brittleness  in   547 
Platinum,  native,  from  Oregon   648 
Plenge,  H.  C    Aloin   507 
Poehl,  A.  Putrefaction  alkaloids   158 
Poison  case,  Biroth's   545 
Poisons  prescribed  in  medicines  493,  556 
Polyporus  officinalis,  constituents  of.   373 
Pomegranate  bark,  chemical  examination  of   137 
Poplar  bark,  use  of,  by  the  Indians   618 
Potassium  bitartrate,  quality  of  commercial   544 
bromide,  commercial,  examination  of.   543 
chlorate,  danger  in  use  of.   492 
powdered,  in  mixtures  crystallizesm   139 
iodide,  incompatibility  with  quinine  340,  598 
nitrate  prepared  from  plants   365 
permanganate,  reducing  action  of  paraffins  upon.....   436 
Potato,  origin  of  the  cultivated   344 
Powder,  Seidlitz,  composition  of.   553 
Powers  &  Weigh tman's  laboratory,  partial  destruction  by  fire  of.   237 
Pressler  H.  and  E.  Schmidt.    Theobromine   44 
Preston,  E.,  Jr.    Root  of  Phytolacca  decandra   567 
Protium  heptaphyllum,  use  of  fruit  in  Brazil   623 
Prunus  virginiana,  use  of,  by  the  Cree  Indians   620 
Pseudomorphine,  composition  and  derivatives  of   338 
Pseudotropine,  properties  of.   584 
Punica  Granatum,  efficient  preparation  of  (acidulated  infusion)   30 
Putrefaction,  chemical  action  of  alkaloids  of.   158 
Quassiin,  preparation,  properties  and  yield  of   98 
Quebracho,  crystal  sheaths  of  bast  fibres   129 
effect  on  heart  action   51 
Quillaia  bark,  saponin  from   276 
Quinidine,  large  amount  of,  in  cinchona  bark..«   554 
Quinine  and  quinidine,  compound  of.   43 
fluoride,  use  of,  in  enlarged  spleen   646 
modification  of,  Kerner's  test  for   546 
relation  to  homoquinine  515,  575 
sulphate,  incompatibility  with  potassium  iodide  340,  598 
Kandall,  Chas.  D.   Syrup  of  hypophosphites  with  iron...   357 
