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f  Am.  Pharm  Jour 
\    April  1,  1873. 
No.  2.  How  is  nitric  acid  prepared  ?  Explain  the  process  and  state  the  com- 
position of  the  strongest  acid.  Give  the  physical  and  chemical  proper- 
ties the  composition  and  leaction  of  the  officinal  acid. 
No.  3.  What  officinal  compound  is  formed  by  the  action  of  chlorine  and  slacked 
lime?  Give  its  supposed  composition  with  the  reactions  which  take 
place  during  its  production.    To  what  are  its  peculiar  properties  due? 
No.  4.  What  is  the  chemical  name  of  Borax  ?  Give  the  sources  from  which  it 
is  derived,  its  chemical  composition  and  physical  properties. 
No.  5.  What  is  the  chemical  name  of  Epsom  Salt?  Give  its  mode  of  prepara- 
tion, the  impurities  it  may  contain  and  the  mode  of  detecting'  them. 
No  6.  (rive  the  tests  by  which  the  mineral  acids  may  be  distinguished. 
No.  7.  In  what  officinal  preparations  does  iron  exist  in  a  condition  not  to  be 
detected  by  the  more  common  tests? 
No.  8.  What  are  the  best  antidotes  for  Arsenic,  and  the  best  form  and  con- 
dition in  which  they  should  be  used? 
No.  9.  What  are  the  best  antidotes  for  the  alkalies,  and  how  do  they  act? 
No.  10  What  product  is  formed  by  heating  cream  of  tartar  in  close  vessels,  and 
of  what  does  it  consist  ? 
Matkria  Medioa.    Professor  John  M.  Maisch.    Session  1872-73. 
1.  Spanish  Flies — Give  the  name  of  the  insect,  and  where  collected  ;  how  may 
the  vesicating  principle  be  obtained,  in  what  per  eentage  is  it  present,  and 
which  parts  of  the  animal  contain  the  largest  proportion? 
2.  From  the  root  of  which  plants,  and  by  what  process  is  Kxtractum  Glycyr- 
rhizai  made  ;  in  what  modifications  is  the  glycyrrhiziu  contained  in  it,  and 
how  may  its  quality  be  determined? 
3.  Benzoin. —  Where,  from  what  plant  and  how  obtained?  Name  the  princi- 
pal varieties,  give  its  constituents  and  how  to  determine  its  quality. 
4.  Nntgalls. — Where  obtained  ?  How  produced?  Give  the  structure,  con- 
stituents, varieties  and  how  to  ascertain  their  quality  ? 
5.  What  plant  yields  Valerian?  WThere  and  in  what  localities  does  it  grow? 
Describe  the  drug  and  state  the  difference  in  appearance  and  composition, 
when  obtained  from  different  localities. 
6  Give  the  name,  natural  order  and  habitat  of  the  plant  yielding  dulcamara. 
When  should  the  drug  be  collected  ?  WThat  are  its  physical  characters  and 
its  constituents  ? 
7.  Describe  mezereou  :  its  botanical  origin,  native  country,  physical  appear- 
ance, constituents  and  medical  properties. 
8.  What  is  the  source  of  Alexandria.  Bombay  and  Tinnevelly  Sennas  ?  How 
do  they  differ  from  each  other  and  from  other  officinal  leaves.  What,  if 
any,  are  the  impurities  and  how  recognized  ? 
9.  Cubebs  :  their  botanical  origin,  native  country,  time  of  collection,  differ- 
ence from  similar  drugs  and  medical  properties  of  the  principal  constit- 
uents. 
10.  Give  the  botanical  characters  of  the  natural  order  of  Composite,  and  name 
the  officinal  herbs  and  flowers  obtained  from  it. 
Pharmacy.    Professor  William  Procter,  Jr.    Session  1872-73. 
1.  When  a  hollow  Sphere,  weighing  1000  grains,  floating  on  water  at  60° 
Fahr.  has  exactly  one  half  of  its  surface  immersed,  what  is  its  specific  gra- 
vity? and  what  would  be  the  weight  of  the  water  displaced  if  it  be  entirely 
submerged  ? 
2.  What  is  the  definition  of  Evaporation  in  Us  pharmaceutical  sense?  What 
physical  laws  influence  it?  What  forms  of  apparatus  are  used  in  the 
laboratory  to  accomplish  it  ?  For  what  classes  of  preparations  is  it  chiefly 
used  ? 
3.  State  the  physical  law  which  enables  the  chemist  to  purify  a  salt,  from  con- 
taminating small  quantities  of  other  Salts,  by  the  processes  of  solution 
and  crystallisation. 
