Excerpt from The Canadian Druggist, Vol. 15: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the General Drug Trade and to the Advancement of Pharmacy; January to December, 1903 A good general rule for selecting suspending agents is to use acacia ior non-alcoholic liquids and tragacanth for all solids and alcoholic fluids. 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.