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Examination  Questions. 
Am.  Jonr.  Pharm. 
May.  189o. 
ammonia  react  with  hydrochloric,  nitric  and  sulphuric  acids?  Give  the 
formulas  and  chemical  names  of  the  products  in  these  three  cases. 
D-(i)  Complete  the  reactions:  Na2S203  +  2HCI  =;  Ca3(POJ2  + 
2H2S04  =  ;     Ca3fP04)2  +  3H2S04  =. 
(2)  Give  the  chemical  formulas  for  boric  acid,  official  sodium  borate,  ortho- 
phosphoric. acid,  official  sodium  phosphate. 
BOTANY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
E — Organs  of  Vegetation.  (1)  Name  in  the  order  of  their  evolution  the 
organs  of  vegetation  of  the  higher  plants.  (2)  How  would  you  distinguish 
between  a  tuber  and  a  tuberous  root?  (3)  State  the  distinction  between  a 
cladophyll  and  a  phyllode.  (4)  Make  a  drawing  of  a  single  leaf  that  answers 
the  following  description:  exstipulate,  petiolate,  lamina  2  inches  long,  obcor- 
date,  crenulate,  and  with  a  pinni-furcate  venation.  (5)  Write  the  pharmacal 
name  of  the  drug  derived  from  Barosma  betulina,  and  state  three  of  the  most 
important  of  the  structural  characteristics  of  the  drug. 
F— Organs  of  reproduction.  (6)  What  organs  of  the  complete  flower- are 
essential  to  the  production  of  seed  ?  State  the  respective  functions  of  these 
organs.  (7)  Draw  the  ground  plan  of  a  typical  flower  of  a  monocotyl  in  which 
the  anthers  are  bilocular  and  extrorse  and  the  single  compound  ovary  has  mar- 
ginal placentae.  (8)  State  the  most  distinctive  difference  between  the  flower  of 
an  augiosperm  and  that  of  a  gymnosperm.  (9)  Write  the  appropriate  names 
of  each  of  the  following  fruits:  a  pineapple,  a  grape,  a  black  pepper,  a  colo- 
cynth,  and  a  juniper  fruit.  (10)  Draw  a  diagram  of  a  complete  dicotyledonous 
embryo,  pointing  out  and  correctly  naming  each  of  its  parts. 
COMMITTEE. 
G — Diluted  Hydrobromic  Acid.  ( 1 )  What  is  its  official  name  ?  (2)  What  is  its 
percentage  strength  ?  (3)  Give  a  process  for  its  manufacture.  (4)  What  is  its 
specific  gravity  ?  Should  it  be  completely  volatilized  by  heat  ?  and  why  ? 
(5 )  What  are  its  medicinal  properties  and  dose  ? 
//"—Describe  the  following  classes  of  official  preparations.  Give  the  offi- 
cial title  and  mode  of  preparation  of  one  of  each  class.  (1)  Mucilages.  (2) 
Emulsions.    (31)  Mixtures.    (4)  Infusions.    (5)  Glycerites. 
/ — A  pharmacist  made  a  compound  mustard  liniment  by  mixing  3  per 
cent,  of  volatile  oil  of  mustard,  20  per  cent,  of  fluid  extract  of  mezereum,  10 
per  eent.  of  oil  of  camphor,  15  per  cent,  of  castor  oil,  with  sufficient  alcohol 
to  make  ten  litres.  How  many  c.c.  of  each  ingredient  did  he  use?  (Percent- 
age by  measure  being  understood  without  allowance  for  contraction.)  How 
many  bottles,  each  to  contain  500  grams  of  the  liniment,  would  this  quantity 
fill  if  its  specific  gravity  was  0*850  ? 
K — What  antidotes  should  be  administered  at  once  for  poisonous  doses  of 
— (1)  Corrosive  sublimate.  (2)  Ammonia  water.  (3)  State  how  you  would 
prepare  an  emergency  antidote  for  arsenous  acid.  (4)  What  precautions  are 
necessary  in  administering  antidotes  ? 
OPERATIVE  PHARMACY. 
The  Junior  Examination  in  Operative  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Saturday, 
March  2,  1895.  The  work  exacted  was  the  making  of  solution  of  ferric  sul- 
phate, mass  of  mercury,  and  granulated  sodium  acetate. 
