Excerpt from Manual of Practical Pharmaceutical Assaying: Including Details of the Simplest and Best Methods of Determining the Strength of Crude Drugs and of Galenical Preparations, Designed Especially for the Use of the Student and of the Practical Pharmacist Gravimetric estimation of Alkaloids Assay of Galenical preparations Special methods of separating Alkaloids in a state of purity. Separation of Alkaloids from one another by Solvents Parson's scheme of Proximate Analysis Estimation of Alcohol in fluid extracts, etc Estimation of Glycerin in fluid extracts, etc Aconite and its preparations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.