92 



C. U. C P ALUMNI JOURNAL 



^^'c are much gratified to hear from 

 Dr. W'einstein and we hope that other 

 friends will freely criticize the informa- 

 tion we furnish, thus adding further 

 knowledge concerning the topics dis- 

 cussed. We want to make this depart- 

 ment of great value to our readers and 

 to do so we wish our readers to add their 

 quota of information to that furnished 

 by us. 



We are "Stumped." During the past 

 month three queries have come in con- 

 cerning with diligent search in our li- 

 brary has failed to elicit information. 

 \\'e therefore turn to our readers in hope 

 that they may be able to enlighten us. 



Jamun Seed. — This is printed on the 

 label of a proprietary medicine as one 

 of the constituents of the preparation. 

 It sounds suspiciously like the "jenube- 

 bin" and "blodgetti" which figured in the 

 proprietary remedy advertising of a 

 score of years ago, but perhaps our 

 readers can inform us diiTerently. 



Gregory's Plaster. — We found a 

 number of recipes bearing the name of 

 Gregory, the most prominent of course 

 being Gregory's powder. Thus in Sores- 

 ina's Recittario there are no less than 

 thirty recipes attributed to Gregory but 

 not one of them was for a plaster. Who 

 will help us out? 



Liquor Hecturi. — This was an in- 

 gredient called for in a prescription in 

 which lo grammes of benzoic acid was 

 to be dissolved in i.ooo cc. of the 

 "liquor." It was claimed that it was a 

 preparation of the Swedish Pharmaco- 

 poeia. Our search of all the Scandi- 

 navian pharmacopoeias failed to show 

 anything bearing a name similar to the 

 one given above; so we appeal to our 

 readers. 



Rhubarb and Soda Mixture without 

 Glycerin. — Since the publication of a 

 recipe for this preparation on page 15 of 

 the Journal for January. R. Hageman, 

 (X. Y. C. P. 1915"^ of Flushing has 

 called our attention to the fact that when 

 physicians in his vicinity prescribe 

 "mistura rhei et sodae sine glycerino" 

 they desire the rhubarb and soda mixture 

 of the Pharmacopoeia of 1880, which 

 reads as follows : 



Bicarbonate of sodium. . 30 parts 

 Fluidextract of rhubarb 30 parts 

 Spirit of peppermint. . . 30 parts 

 Water a sufficient quan- 

 tity to make 1000 parts 



Dissolve the bicarbonate of sodium in 

 500 parts of water. Add the fluidextract 

 of rhubarb and the spirit of peppermint, 

 and lastly, enough water to make the 

 mixture weigh 1000 parts. 



W^e are very grateful to Mr. Hageman 

 for this information, which applies to 

 prescriptions of American practitioners. 

 In the case we cited, a German prescrip- 

 tion was under consideration and the in- 

 formation given was based upon this 

 fact. 



Names of Manufacturers, — We glad- 

 ly furnish our querists with information 

 concerning the manufacturers of goods 

 handled by the drug trade, but for 

 obvious reasons, such answers are not 

 published in this department. 



Thompson's Emulsion of Linseed 

 Oil.— R. K. G.. New York, will find a 

 recipe for this preparation on page 38 

 of the C. U. P. Alumni Jonrnal for 

 February. Our readers had better keep 

 their copies of the Journal for future 

 reference. 



