17 
Cocaine Hydrochloride Tablets, Soluble, se gis. 
and 214 grs. 
Cocaine Hydrochloride Solutions, 2% and 4%, with 
Chloretone. 
Also combinations in pill, elixir, wine, and tablet form. 
Note.—The value of Coca leaves depends largely upon 
the manner in which they are harvested; the choice leaves 
in commerce are those which have been picked by hand 
and in warm, dry weather so that they may be dried in as 
short a period as possible; undue exposure to the sun has a 
bad influence upon the alkaloids—the cocaine is apt fo split 
up into several substances (among which is a base called 5 
ecgonine) that have totally different properties. ‘We not 
only obtain our crude drug from trustworthy sources, but = 
test all purchases by assay, and apply the alkaloidal test to = 
the finished products. 
COLCHICUM. 
AXo callet Meadow Sapien ee 
The root and seed of Colchicum cutumnale (inn) ) 
ops Sr 
Colchicine, an ‘slkaieid 3 is “the ine ‘constituent. eS 
Sedative; alterative; diuretic; -empectorant._ os 
