164 MINUTES OF THE 
While on this subject it may be well to mention, that a much 
better way of effecting the solution of the sugar, is to in- 
troduce it into the infusion in a pulverized state, and agi- 
tate it until dissolved in a stopped bottle. 
ART. XLIV\ — EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY 
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, July 3d, 1845. 
The Committee of Inspection, to whom the Opium ex- 
hibited at the last meeting of the Board, by Mr. W. L. Rush- 
ton, was referred, beg leave to report, that 
The specimen of opium in question was a thin oval cake, 
which had been covered with a large leaf, whose impression 
still remained upon its surface. It was more soft and moist, 
and contained more gummy or mucilaginous matter than 
Smyrna opium. In fact, it answered in every respect, the 
description which Pereira (page 1728, vol. 2, Elements of 
Mat. Med. and Therap., 2d Eng. edition) gives from Pro- 
fessor Guibourt, of the inferior kind of the Constantinople 
variety 
Parcels of 100 grains, or more, were examined by each 
of the committee, to ascertain the quantity of morphia it 
would yield. The result closely approximated, showing 
that not more than four per cent, could be obtained from 
the sample exhibited as above. 
The committee has since been informed that the entire 
parcel, consisting of ten cases, was not sold in New York, 
but transmitted to Boston ; but, as it may again appear in 
this market, it is thought advisable that the trade should be 
put upon their guard, lest purchasers, by some reduction in 
price, should be induced to buy without sufficiently careful 
