Excerpt from The American Journal of Pharmacy, 1914, Vol. 86: Published by Authority of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy In this laboratory Smith's statements and results were con firmed ou solutions of pure mercuric chlorid. Utter failure, however, followed attempts to apply his method either to commercial tablets or to similar laboratory mixtures of mercuric and ammonium chlorids. Abnormal precipitates appeared after addition of iodin, and results obtained were erratic and much too low. At the same time the method given in the German Pharmacopoeia, slightly modified, was found to work smoothly and quantitatively. 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.