. American journal of pharmacy. yanic acid, astheir medicinal properties are for the most part derived from the cyanogenthey contain. With this clear indication of the authors intent, it is sur-prising that the Editors have omitted all notice of this class of bodies, save ashort notice of the cyanides of mercury, silver, gold, and zinc, in the appendix,and a foot note (at page 779) on Ferrocyanide of Potassium. Prussian blue EDITORIAL. PERIERAs MATERIA MEDICA. 187 and cyanide of potassium are entirely overlooked. It is probable that theEditors accidentally omitted to notice them in their prope
. American journal of pharmacy. yanic acid, astheir medicinal properties are for the most part derived from the cyanogenthey contain. With this clear indication of the authors intent, it is sur-prising that the Editors have omitted all notice of this class of bodies, save ashort notice of the cyanides of mercury, silver, gold, and zinc, in the appendix,and a foot note (at page 779) on Ferrocyanide of Potassium. Prussian blue EDITORIAL. PERIERAs MATERIA MEDICA. 187 and cyanide of potassium are entirely overlooked. It is probable that theEditors accidentally omitted to notice them in their proper place, and sub-sequently forgot to put them, with other cyanogen compounds, in theappendix. This should have been corrected in the American test for hydrocyanic acid has been introduced by the Editors. Wherever Dr. Pereira has written on a subject the Editors havegenerally availed themselves of it, and in some instances have quotedalmost bodily. The article on Kosso is an instance of this kind. Kosso Fig. Bray era anthelmintica, Kunth. A, flowering branch. C, flower seen laterally. B, bunch of female flowers. | D, female flower. a, b, c, d, e, the five outer segments of the ca!yx. is the product of Brayera anthelmintica, a rosaceous tree of Abyssinia,attaining the height of 20 feet. Figure 360 represents a flowering branch,The flowers are disecious, small, greenish, and become purple. The flowers 188 EDITORIAL. PEREIRAs MATERIA MEDICA. are the medicinal portion, and have attained much celebrity as a remedy fortape worm. The exorbitant price at which the remedy is sold, has proveda drawback to its employment. In the article on Balsam of Peru, the Editors appear to have overlookedthe researches of Dr. Pereira, published in the Pharmaceutical Journal, onthe botanical source and mode of preparation of this drug, and on whitebalsam and balsamito. The Editors give no notice of these, nor of Dr. Sten-houses investigation of the white balsam resulting in the iso
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