596 
INDEX. 
Schweitzer,  Dr.  Ed.,  on  ammonia-oxide  of  copper,  a  solvent  for  vegeta- 
ble fibre  230 
Scientific  Mission  to  India  169 
Sharp,  Alphceus  P.,  on  collodion  538 
Sherman,  0.  S.,  on  the  preparation  of  collodion  212 
Shinn,  James  T.    Collodion  in  Pharmacy  216 
Simple  process  for  rendering  stuffs  waterproof   76 
Smith,  J.  F.  W.,  on  a  substitute  for  lard  in  ointments  231 
Soaps,  used  for  clarifying  sugars  264 
Soda  from  salt  403 
Soft  sulphur  for  stopping  teeth  .  ....182 
Solubility  of  metallic  oxides  in  commercial  ammonia....  163 
Soluble  silicate  of  soda  or  mineral  gum  -.  336 
Solvent  powers  of  simple  syrup  289 
Some  facts  connected  with  sugar  refining  184 
Sonnenchein,  M.,  on  a  new  precipitant  for  the  alkaloids  550 
Sorrel,  M.,  on  a  new  process  for  painting  with  oxychloride  of  zinc  326 
Sorghum  saccharatum  as  a  dye,  yielding  plant  397 
Sorghum  saccharatum,  its  culture  and  sugar  production  105 
Spirits,  new  apparatus  for  rectifying  spirits   1 
Spence,  T.  R.,  M.  D.,  on  some  preparations  of  cinchona   45 
Specific  remedy  of  tuberculosis  .143 
Spurious  lemon  juice  ,  364 
Squibb,  E.  D.}  M.  D.,  on  the  purification  of  liquids  in  a  state  of  vapor  and 
on  a  new  apparatus  for  rectifying  spirits  1 
"       "       "       on  the  process  of  percolation  97 
St.  Louis  Pharmaceutical  Association  88,185 
Stabler,  R.  H.,  M.  D.,  onPodophyllin  
Starch  sugar  for  reducing  chloride  of  silver  ...537 
Stearns,  Frederick  on  the  production  of  leeches  in  Michigan  29 
it  «      on  a  new  method  of  preparing  solution  of  citrate  of 
magnesia  31 
"  »      reform  in  weights  and  measures  34 
a  11      on  compound  syrup  of  yellow  dock  and  sarsaparilla  415 
"  «       on  our  native  wines  450 
a  »       remarks  on  leeches  454 
«  "      glycerole  of  lactucarium  459 
Stenhouse,  John  L.  L.  D.,  on  a  simple  method  of  deodorizing  impure  hydro- 
gen and  carbonic  acid  gases  260 
»        on  a  method  of  obtaining  glue  from  refuse  leather  352 
Strength  of  diluted  acetic  acid  306 
Stychnia,  on  the  detection  of.  59 
Strychnia,  on  citrate  of  iron  and  275 
Strychnia,  poisoning  by  470 
Sugar,  on  the  maple,  of  the  United  States  72 
Sugar  cane  in  Louisiana  129 
Sugar  coated  pills  
Substitute  for  lard  in  ointments  231 
