ON ADULTERATED DRUGS. 
Jiv. in proof spirit (diluted alcohol U. S. P.) Oij ; strain, L.'^ 
Now this indicates that these formnlffi have the same digitalis 
strength, and merely vary in the strength of the alcohol, 
whilst in fact the London formula is one fifth weaker. 
This difficulty should be corrected, if the work reaches 
another edition, either on the plan of the United States 
Dispensatory, which is the best, or by placing a caution in 
the fore part of the book. 
ART. XLIIL— ON ADULTERATED DRUGS. 
George D. Coggeshall, Vice President of the N. Y. 
College of Pharmacy, in a communication to one of the 
editors, relative to the action of Congress on adulterated 
drugs, says : *' I embrace the occasion, also of transmitting 
a few samples, with short statements respecting them, and 
append a copy of proceedings at a meeting of the whole- 
sale druggists of Boston, addressed to the President of this 
[N. Y.] College. 
"The first package was marked ^direct from Maracaibo, 
sold at seven cents per pound, one fifth off on the difference 
of currency. Invoice, fifteen hundred pounds.' This 
article is of very inferior quality, though it presents the 
character of the Carthagena barks. No. 2, marked *Bark 
from Hamburg, eighteen thousand pounds, cost nine and a 
half cents. An invoice, from Amsterdam, cost from three 
to seven cents per pound. Both invoices passed within the 
last two weeks.' The third package was labelled ^Rhu- 
barb, from London, three thousand three hundred and sixty 
pounds, cost three and a half pence sterling per pound, two 
and a half per cent, off.' This specimen ..of Rhubarb has 
