Index, 
Senna,  spurious,    .  .  .  .  .  .  136,  215 
Serpentaria  from  N.  Carolina  and  Texas,    .  .  .  ■  .  229 
Sesamum  orientale,  use  of  the  seeds  in  oriental  countries,  .  •  500 
Shellac,  clarification  of  alcoholic  solution  of,  .  .  .  3°^. 
6'/zr);o<:^,  mixtures  of  gum-arabic  and  of  liquorice,     .  .  .  4^6 
Shuttle^ivorth,  E.  B.,  benzoate  of  lithium,      .  .  .  •  i^S 
Sideritis  the^ezans,  use  of,    .  .  .  .  ...  499 
Silver,  composition  of  Pirsch-Baudoin's  imitation  of,    .  .  .  ^5 
nitrate,  action  of  hydrogen  upon,  ....  2,13 
monosulphide  of  sodium  upon,  .  .  4^7 
Smit/2,  T.  La'^vrence,  laboratory  notes,  .  .  '31 
Snow  and  sulphuric  acid,  refrigerating  mixtures  of,     .  .  .  267 
Soap,  salt  water,  5^3 
Sodium  bicarbonate,  solubility  and  dissociation  of,    .  .  •  310 
carbonate,  pure,        ,  .  .  .  .  '  3' 
hyposulphite,  use  of,  for  preserving  raspberry  juice,       .  .  279 
metallic,  preservation  of  bright  surface  of,  .  •  .211 
monosulphide,  preparation  of,         ....  428 
phosphate,  impure,  371 
Solanum  lycopersicum  in  Greece,  ....  535 
Melongena,  use  of  the  fruit,  ....  5<^°j  534 
Sonnenschein^  F.  L.,  conversion  of  brucia  into  strychnia,  .  .  345 
Spigelia,  adulteration  of,       .  .  .  .  •  •  ^34 
Spirit  of  nitrous  ether,  examination  of  8  samples,         .  .  .  4^3 
Spiritus  frumenti  rectificatus,  .....  49° 
Sponges,  bleaching  of,    ,  .  .  .  •  ■  399 
commercial,  3^2 
Syrian,  ^7'^ 
Staehle,  JVm.  C,  examination  of  cotton-root  bark,  .  .  .  457 
Stamp-tax  on  medicines,  .  .  .91,  137,192,  233,  379 
Starch,  action  of  diastase  upon,  .  .  .  •  •  573 
Stiles,  M.        cod-liver  oil  with  quinia,        .  .  .  .  325 
Strychnia,  conversion  of  brucia  into,    .  .  .  .  •  345 
eating,  ....  .  .  285 
Sugar,  doctored,    .  .  .  .  .  •  •  381 
formation  in  diabetes,        .  .  •  •  •  5^S 
from  starch,  by  diastase,  .  .  .  ,    •       '       •  573 
in  grape-vine  leaves  and  in  bananas,   .  .  .  -  9° 
potions,       .  .  .  .  .  •  •  428 
Sumbul  plant,  flowering  of,  in  England,      ....  4^4 
Sunday  traific  hy  apothecaries,  .  .  •  ■  -134 
Suppositories,  .  .  .  -55?  89,  98,  loi,  133,  202. 
Swiss  Ap  jthecaries' Society,  annual  meeting  of,    ....  475 
Syrups,  exsiccated,         .  .  .  •  .  •  209 
medicinal,  preparation  of,  by  cold  percolation,        .  .  .  39° 
Syrupus  acacise,  ......  252 
ferri  arseniatis,  535 
iodidi,       .  .    -  .  .  249,  336,  392,  528 
kramerice,  .  .  •  •  •  •  393 
Tartrates,  effervescing,  examination  of,  .  .  •  .60 
Taylor,  Jos.  T.,  asclepias  incarnati,  .  .  .  •  2,46 
Tea,  adulteration  of,  .  .  .  •  >  •  348 
Thebaina,  physiological  action  of,  ...  •  225^ 
Thermometer,  new  scale  for,  .  .  .  •  -  l"^! 
Thymol  as  an  anti-septic  and  anti-fermentative,  ,  .  •  34^ 
Tichhorne,  C.  R.  C,  Fluorescence  for  detecting  adulterations,  .  .305 
Tilden,  W.  A.,  crystalline  constituents  of  Barbadoes  and  Socotrine  aloes,.  .  544 
Tin  lining  of  vessels,  detection  of  lead  in,         .  .  .         37 1>  429 
