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OLEUM  MORHAUiE  CUM  QUINIA. 
physician,  in  as  much  as  they  need  not  entrust  the  life  of  the 
patient  to  a  man  in  whose  skill,  knowledge  and  experience  they 
cannot  bestow  the  necessary  confidence  ;  and  on  the  pharmaceu- 
tists, who  ought  to  turn  their  eyes  to  a  proper  education,  and 
allow  their  apprentices  the  time  and.  means  required  for  obtain- 
ing a  complete  knowledge  of  all  that  belongs  to  pharmacy,  and 
who  among  themselves  ought  to  cultivate  a  collegial  feeling, 
forming  pharmaceutical  associations  for  a  mutual  exchange  of 
opinions  and  observations,  and  for  not  being  left  behind  the  times, 
behind  the  steps  of  the  natural  sciences  which,  in  this  century, 
progress  so  rapidly. 
An  elaborately  written  paper,  by  Mr.  Parrish,  on  "pharmaceu- 
tical education,"  was  published  some  time  since  in  this  Journal, 
and  it  claims  the  attention  of  every  pharmaceutist.  The  noble 
objects  of  the  "  American  Pharmaceutical  Association"  should 
not  be  ignored  by  any  one  who  does  or  intends  to  stand  on  a 
level  with  those  acquirements  that  may  be  properly  demanded  of 
a  real  apothecary.  Well  educated  men,  thoroughly  acquainted 
and  conversant  with  all  that  appertains  to  pharmacy,  cannot  fail 
but  to  win  the  entire  confidence  of  the  public,  and  to  convince 
the  conscientious  observer,  that  apothecaries  are  something  else 
besides  merely  tradesmen,  and  that  pharmacy  is  an  art  and  a 
science, 
(To  be  continued.) 
OLEUM  MORRHILE  CUM  QUINIA. 
To  the  Editors  of  the  Medical  Chronicle. 
Gentlemen  :  As  the  above  preparation  has  attracted  some  at- 
tention in  England,  and  is  frequently  prescribed  by  medical  men 
here,  it  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  some  of  your  readers  if  we 
describe  the  process  we  have  found,  after  some  experience,  to  be 
most  successful. 
A  short  notice  of  this  article  appears  in  the  London  Pharma- 
ceutical Journal  of  March,  1855,  which,  however,  furnishes  no 
exact  formula  for  its  preparation,  and  merely  states  that  it  is  a 
solution  of  anhydrous  quinia  in  cod-liver  oil,  prepared  by  adding 
the  former  in  fine  powder  to  the  oil  contained  in  a  suitable  glass 
vessel,  and  effecting  the  solution  by  heating  in  a  water-bath. 
We  have  observed,  that  by  the  continued  application  of  heat,  a 
