168 HUMULUS LUPULUS. 
farther advantages which would result’ from the 
easier preservation of the article, its ‘superior 
flavour, and the diminished chance of adulteration, 
arising from reduction of price.* ia 
The researches of Dr. Ives are. entitled to 
pieinehiaemintion, as they seem to promise a 
highly economical improvement in an important 
branch of domestic manufacture. In Great 
Britain, where malt liquors are more extensively 
consumed than, perhaps, in any other! country, 
the saving must be an object of more’ conse- 
quence, than with us. It remains to be ascer- 
tained whether any effectual and economical 
method of separating the powder from the stro- 
biles can be brought into practical use. 
In medical practice the hop’ has been found 
a decided and useful tonic. A fermented 
decoction, known by the name of hop beer, and 
usually formed from this article with the simple 
addition of treacle, is much used in the N ew 
England states. When made sufficiently bitter 
with the hops, and taken as a common drink at 
meals, it promotes digestion more than any: of 
~* The term Lupulin, ty which Dr. Ives designates the powder 
of the hop, is convenient and not objectionable for practical use. 
As a chemical term, however, it does not agree with those of similar 
termination employed in. the Science; which express proximate 
principles of vegetables &c. and not heterogeneous badies. 
