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PHARMACY  IN  BUENOS  AYRES. 
fessions  in  that  city,  having  given  rise  to  considerable  inconve- 
niences. A  carefully  prepared  volume  of  160  pages,  compiled 
by  Pedro  Banon,  one  of  the  members  of  the  Society  and  Inspec- 
tor of  Pharmacy,  in  conjunction  with  Dr.  Alburellos,  Professor 
in  the  College  of  Medicine,  is  now  only  waiting  the  sanction  of 
the  Government  to  become  recognized  as  the  National  Pharma- 
copoeia. The  Society  has  also  succeeded  in  obtaining  the  estab- 
lishment of  two  new  professorships  in  the  Academy  of  Medicine 
in  Buenos  Ayres,  for  the  especial  instruction  of  pharmaceutists  ; 
one  of  which,  the  chair  of  Pharmacology,  we  observe,  has  been 
filled,  by  appointment  of  the  Government,  by  Carlos  Murray,  cor- 
responding member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
The  Society  has  also  sought  to  foster  the  spirit  of  original  inves- 
tigation among  its  members,  by  offering  prizes  for  the  best  essays 
containing  an  examination  of  substances  employed  in  pharmacy, 
and  by  the  foundation  of  a  pharmaceutical  library. 
Not  the  least  valuable  portion  of  the  papers  appearing  in  the 
JRevista,  are  those  reprinted  from  the  annals  of  the  Society  of 
Pharmacy  of  Santiago,  in  Chili ;  among  which  we  observe  sev- 
eral upon  the  medicinal  plants  employed  among  the  natives  of 
that  country,  the  properties  of  which  are  but  little  known.  We 
note  the  following,  viz. : 
An  analysis,  by  Dr.  Angel  Yasquez,  of  the  gum  of  a  species  of 
Cardon  f  belonging  to  the  Bromeliacese,  which,  occurring  in  con- 
siderable quantity,rhas  been  proposed  as  a  substitute  for  gum 
arabic,  and  is  remarkable  in  containing  a  large  amount  of  gum- 
my matter,  somewhat  similar  to  cerasin,  and  53  per  cent  of  pec- 
tic  acid. 
Also,  an  essay  upon  the  Euphorbia  chilensis,  the  juice  of  which 
is  used  as  a  drastic  purgative  ;  also  observations  upon  the  Latua 
venenosa  of  Chili,  or  tree  of  the  enchanter,  by  the  same  author. 
The  latter  is  a  plant  but  lately  described,  and  as  yet  but  little 
known,  which  produces  an  effect  upon  the  brain  and  nervous  sys- 
tem similar  to  that  of  the  Cannabis  Indica,  and,  like  that,  appar- 
ently owing  its  efficacy  to  a  resin.  We  find  also  a  carefully  pre- 
pared account  of  a  remedy  relied  upon,  in  domestic  practice  in 
Chili,  for  the  cure  of  hydrophobia,  by  Jose  Vicenti  Bustillos, 
giving  a  description  of  its  botanical  and  therapeutical  character- 
