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Emplastrum Quartro Fundentes. — 

 A. H. M., New York. — According to 

 Hager, this is a mixture of equal parts 

 of soap plaster, compound lead plaster, 

 mercury plaster and conium plaster. 



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 Quack- 

 ery" as well as to the Bulletins of the 

 food and drug departments O'f the States 

 of Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana and North 

 Dakota, all of which we have in the 

 library. 



Fluid Extract of Cinchona and the 

 Greek Pharmacopoeia. — R. F. B., Penn- 

 sylvania. — W^hile our library does not 

 possess the Greek Pharmacopoeia of 

 1899. we find in Hirsch's Pharmacopoeia 

 Universalis that the Greek standard does 

 not recognize a fluid extract of cinchona. 



Salophen. — A. H. T. wishes to know 

 what acetyl-para-amido-phenol salicylate 

 is. This is the chemical marketed as 

 salophen, an excellent description of 

 which can be found in New and Non- 

 Official Remedies. The pharmacist 

 should be sure to remember that salophen 

 is not the same as saliphene, which is the 

 trade name for sahcyl-phenetidin, and 

 which is therefore similar to phenacetin. 



Compound Infusion of Cinchona. — 

 K. M. S., New York. — We had quite a 

 hunt before we found a recipe for this 

 preparation in Grilifith's Formulary, a 

 book pubhshed in 1874. It reads: 

 Cinchona 



Juniper berries, of each. . i drachm 

 Orange peel 



Cinnamon, of each 2 drachms 



Canella ^ drachm 



Ipecac 15 grains 



Boiling water 7 ounces 



Infuse, strain and then add extract of 

 juniper berries i^ drachms. 



Quinine Chocolate Syrup. — F. E. B., 



New York. — In answering your quer}- 

 concerning a chocolate syrup of qui- 

 nine, it might be well to state at the 

 beginning that as far back as 1868 this 

 method of dispensing a palatable fluid 

 preparation of quinine w^as in vogue. 

 In the Afnerican Journal of Pharmacy 

 for that year, page 517, a recipe of 

 that character was printed. Taking a 

 more modern type, we find in the 

 Druggists Circular for 1910, page 171, 

 the following recipe for a basic syrup 

 for this purpose, which reads as fol- 

 lows : 



Powdered chocolate. ... 2 ounces 



Sugar I ^ pounds 



Tincture of vanilla i ounce 



Aromatic fluid extract of 



yerba santa i ounce 



Glycerin 4 ounces 



Boiling water enough 



Mix the chocolate and the sugar with 

 enough boiling water to make two pints 

 of fluid. Let the syrup cool and add the 

 other ingredients. With this basic syrup 

 the quinine salt (either tannate or sul- 

 phate) can be triturated, the quantity 

 used depending on the dose of quinine 

 desired. 



