Excerpt from The American Journal of Pharmacy, Vol. 83: Published by Authority of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy The material employed was the commercial drug, the genuineness of which was established, and it appeared to be of good quality. A preliminary test with a small portion of the material showed the absence of an alkaloid, and in the course of the investigation no evi dence was obtained of the presence of a glucoside. 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.