Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Eclectic Medical Journal, Vol. 8: From January, 1849 to January, 1850 In the third number of the thirteenth volume of the American Journal of Pharmacy, August, 1847, is published the Observa tions on Podophyllum Pe tatum, by John R. Lewis, containing an account of an interesting series of experiments on that article. These experiments were probably made revious to my own, but were not published till a month after I ad obtained the Podo phyllin, and introduced it to the notice of the profession. The results of Mr. Lewis' analysis are in general similar to my own, and in some respects fuller than any I have yet made. His most eligible mode of obtaining the; resinous principle was briefly as follows. 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.