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CONTENTS. 
■No. II. 
Observations on the Magonolia Grandiflora. By Stephen Procter, 
M. D. - 89 
Pharmaceutical Notices. No. XXII. By Augustine. Duhamel, 99 
Essential Salt of Bark. By C. Ellis, ----- 106 
Remarks on some Pharmaceutical preparations of Lobelia Inflata. 
By W. Procter, Jr. 108 
Citrine Ointment. By Peter Lehman, ----- no 
An Inaugural Essay on Statice Caroliniana, with a Chemi- 
cal Analysis of the root of this plant. By Edward Par- 
rish, - r - - - - - r - - 111 
Observations on two of the Species of Aristolochia which afford 
the Serpentaria of Commerce, - - - - - - 118 
The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America, by authority 
of the National Medical Convention held at Washington, 
A.D. 1840, --------- 122 
Medicinal Phosphoric Acid, ------- 127 
Theory of the preparation of Carbonate of Lead — Ceruse, - 128 
Upon a new construction of the Galvanic Pile. By Wohler, - 130 
Some Notice respecting a New Hyponitrous Ether from Py- 
roxylic Spirit. By Dr. Robert Hare, Professor of Che- 
mistry, &c. --------- 132 
Process for Separating Gold from Platinum. By M. Kemp, - 135 
On the Decomposition of the Binoxalate of Ammonia by 
heat, and the Products which result therefrom. By M. 
Balard, - - - - - - - - - 135 
Extraction of Lilacine, a Crystallizable Bitter Principle, from the 
Syringa Vulgaris. By Alphonse Meillet, - - - 139 
New method to determine the amount of Nitrogen in organic Com- 
pounds. By MM. Varrentrapp and Will, - 141 
Observations on Arseniuretted Hydrogen. By M. Henri Rose, - 152 
A Modification of Marsh's Apparatus, 154 
An improved process for preparing the Hydrochlorate of Morphia. 
By A. T. Thomson, M.D.,F.L.S. .... 155 
