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C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



June. 1918 



The Composition of Proprietary 

 Preparations. — A number of queries to 

 the composition of proprietary remedies 

 have been answered by telephone during 

 the past month, by reporting analyses 

 published by chemists in various bureaus 

 devoted to such work. For various rea- 

 sons at this time we will not print the 

 answers to such queries, but will refer 

 our readers to the two publications of 

 the American Medical Association, The 

 Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary 

 Medicines and Nostrums and Quackery, 

 as well as to the Bulletins of the food 

 and drug departments of the States of 

 Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana and North 

 Dakota, all of which we have in the 

 library. 



Elixir Vitae.— L. J. K., New York. 

 — Hager's Handbuch gives the follow- 

 ing recipe for "elixir vitae Matthiolus" : 

 Oleosaccharum of anise 

 Oleosaccharum of fennel 

 Oleosaccharum of mace 

 Oleosaccharum of peppermint, of 



each 2.5 

 Aromatic water 

 Aromatic spirit of cinnamon, of 



each 40.0 

 Aromatic tincture 

 Tincture of cinnamon, of each 5.0 



Books on Drug Names. — G. L. H., 

 New York.- — As to books giving foreign 

 names of drugs, there is no one book 

 doing this in any complete way as the 

 field is too vast to cover in one volume. 

 The following list is given as compris- 

 ing most of the languages regarding 

 which you inquire : 

 Graa, Manual of International Pharvia- 



cy., published by A. Graa, West Ho- 



boken, N. J., gives Latin, English. 



German, French and Italian. 

 Rosseau. — Poliglota Vade-Mecnni Far- 



macio, published by the American Es- 



perentist Association, Washington, D. 



C, gives English, French, German, 



Italian and Spanish. 

 Slozvnicsek Apteczny, sold by the Polish 



Book Importing Co., 83 Second Ave., 



N. Y. C, gives Latin, German and 



Polish. 

 Novak & Roch, Synonyma Apothecario- 



rium, published in Leipzig, Germany, 



gives Latin, German and Bohemian. 



Benedict's Solution. — S. D. C, New 

 York. — The latest recipe for this sugar 

 testing solution, which has 'come to our 

 attention, was published in the Journal 

 for March, 191 7, page 48. 



Marihuana and Indian Jand. — G. L. 



H., New York. — According to the Mexi- 

 can Pharmacopoeia, marihuana is the 

 Spanish name for cannabis indica, the 

 other names for which as given in the 

 same book are rosa maria and chanvre 

 indien. 



A colloquial East Indian name for can- 

 nabis is ganja : hence the origin, I pre- 

 sume of the second synonym you submit 

 to me, Indian Jand. 



Dimethylamideazobenzene. — D. R. 

 S., New York. — This dye, commonly 

 called "butter yellow," is now included in 

 the list of reagents given on page 530 of 

 the present Pharmacopoeia. It is used 

 as a diagnostic reagent in the examina- 

 tion of stomach contents : an alcoholic 

 solution I in 200 being employed under 

 the name of Topfer's reagent ; its use 

 being as indicator in the . determination 

 of free hydrochloric acid in gastric analy- 

 sis. It is now more frequently called di- 

 methylaminoazobenzene. 



