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notices in contemporary journals, some of them laudatory, and others the reverse. Among the latter may be mentioned the statement of a late writer in the " Pharmaceutical Journal," that chloroform prepared in Edinburgh, avowedly by the process in question, was found, in Liverpool, to have undergone decomposition, to have become loaded with chlorine, and to be quite unfit for use. In Dr Gregory's absence on the continent, I have felt it to be my duty to make inquiry into the truth of this statement; and the result is, that no less than three manufacturers in Edinburgh have tried the process on a considerable scale, and that all have failed to obtain a permanent article. A chloroform of fine quality is obtained in the first instance ; but it does not keep many days ; and ere long it becomes so loaded with chlorine that its vapour cannot be inhaled.