Excerpt from Hand Book of Practical Assaying of Drugs and Galenicals: A Manual for the Pharmaceutical Student, and a Guide to the Practical Pharmacist Who Has Occasion Either to Standardize His Own Preparations or to Test the Drugs and Galenicals He Dispenses Twelve years have passed since the Author published his Manual of Practical Pharmaceutical Amaying. During the' greater part of the intervening time he has been occupied in a different line of work. Others, however, have been engaged diligently in bringing under more complete cultivation the field in which his work was so largely of a pioneer character, and the old Manual am no longer be said to be abreast with the times Decidedly it is time for a new book. 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.