588 
Index. 
Pancreatin,  action  upon  albuminoid  substances,  .  .  .236 
diastase  and  ptyalin,  .....  444 
preparation  of,  .  .  .  .  -575 
Pareira  brava,  development  and  structure  of,  .  .  .  234 
Paris,  Pharmaceutical  Society  of,  .  .  .         235,  571 
Parrish,  Clemmons,  effect  of  light  on  syr.  ferri  iodidi,  .  .  209 
Pencils,  cauterizing,  .  .  .  .  .  -67 
Peppermint  plantations,  mare's  tail  in,  .  .  .  286 
Percolators,  adjustable  supports  for,  .....  400 
Peterman's  Michigan  ague  cure,  .  392 
Pharmaceutical  journals,  changes  in,    .  .  .  .  .  94 
statistics,  .  .  .  .  '  '  .517 
Meetings,  minutes  of,     37,  89,  139,  178,  225,  278,  331,  379,  431, 
520,  568 
Pharmacists,  their  relations  to  physicians  and  nostrums,  .  .  10 
Pharmacopoeia  U.  S.,  revision  of,       ....  382,  439,  440 
Pharmacy,  modern  methods  in,    .  .  .  .  .199 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  catalogue  of  class,  1 875-76,       .  .  45 
examination,  graduates1  commencement,  179 
formal  opening  of  the  renovated  building,  280 
minutes  of  meetings,  88,  222,  330,  471 
the  Procter  prize,       .  .  .185 
Philadelphia,  the  sanitary  condition  of,  .  .  .  282,  523 
Phosphates,  constitution  of,  ....         112,  135 
Phosphorus,  administration  of,  ....  439 
preparation  of  an  emulsion  of,  .  .  .230 
a  solution,       .  .  .  .316 
presence  of  arsenic  in,    .  .  .  .  .  445 
Physicians,  pharmacists  and  nostrums,  their  relations,  .  .  10 
suggestion  to,    .  .  .  .  .  .  266 
Picramates  as  a  test  for  acids  and  alkalies,  .  .  .236 
Pill  coating,  ......  69,  71 
masses,  glycerin  in,  ....  205 
press,  an  improved,       .  .  .  .  97,  179 
Pills,  Blaud's,  ......  492 
phosphorous,  .  .  .  .  .    56,  318,  439 
pancreatin,         .  .  .  .  .  -5  75 
ready-made,  of  our  day,  .  .         121,  159,  1-9,  189,  203,  334 
zinc  phosphide,  .....  408 
Pilula  hydrargyri,  composition  of,  .  .  .  .  143 
preparation  of,  and  powder,       .  .  .269 
Pilulae  aloes  comp. ;  Pil.  antineuralgicae,  .  .  .138 
cinchonia?  comp.  5  P.  cinchoniae  et  arsenici,     .  .  .138 
colocynthidis  cum  belladonna,  .  .  .  .138 
opii  cum  Plumbi  acetate,  .  .  .  .  .138 
Podophylli  comp.  ;  P.  rhei  et  gentianae,  .  .  .  .138 
Pinus  pinea,  yield  so-called  pine  nuts,        .  .  .  .178 
Piper  aethiopicum,  ......  367 
Piperina,  constitution  of,  .  .  .  •  467 
Pittakal,  crystalline  principle  in,  .  .  .  .  329 
Plants,  drying  of,  for  the  herbarium,  .  .  .  542 
medicinal,  of  Greece,  .....  193 
Plasters,  spread,  India  rubber  in,  ....  570 
Podophyllin,  examination  of  the  resinoid,  .  .  .  •  385 
Poisons,  the  division  of,  .  .  .  .  .167 
vegetable,  sassafras  as  an  antidote  to,  .  .  .  •  276 
