146 



C. U. C. \\ ALUMNI JOURNAL 



± 





A 



Conducted by Prof. H. V. Arny. 



GENERAL INFORMATION. 



1. Telephone inquiries will be an- 

 swered cheerfully without charge. 

 Residents of Greater New York or 

 vicinity wishing to inquire about some 

 pharmaceutical problem will ring up 

 the Information Bureau, Columbus 

 117, and will receive information im- 

 mediately, if same is accessible. 



2. Non-residents will have their 

 problems answered in the next issue of 

 the C. U. C. P. Alumni Journal without 

 cost, if they send their inquiries by mail. 



3. Those not wishing to wait for 

 their information until the next issue 

 of the Journal may have their inquiries 

 answered by mail by enclosing a self- 

 addressed stamped envelope. 



4. Problems requiring extended re- 

 search will be handled for a fee as 

 moderate as consistent with high grade 

 service. 



5. Translations of articles from for- 

 eign languages, either in full or in 

 abstract, as well as transcripts of 

 papers appearing in English or Ameri- 

 can pharmaceutical, chemical or botan- 

 ical periodicals will be prepared for 

 those desiring to pay for such service. 



6. As in the past, all visitors to the 

 library, desiring to do their own re- 

 search work, will be given courteous 

 attention. 



H. V. Arny, Librarian. 

 Adelaide Rudolph, Bibliography. 

 Jeannot Hostmann, Queries. 



ANSWERS TO QUERIES. 



Iron Balls. — I. G., New York, had a 

 call for this product and states that the 

 customer brought a sample, which con- 

 sisted of a little black "bolus" to which 

 is attached a loop of string. This is un- 

 doubtedly boiile de mars, a form of iron 

 and potassium tartrate formarly enjoying 

 great vogue in France as a tonic. The 

 lump was suspended in a glass of wine 

 and each time it was so immersed a 

 small amount of the iron salt dissolved 

 in the wine. 



"Hiperchloruro de Hierro." — I. G., 



New York, has had a call for this sub- 

 stance from a Spanish customer who 

 uses it in nose bleed. While the Span- 

 ish Pharmacopoeia calls ferric chloride 

 "perchloruro de hierro" we believe that 

 was what was wanted. "Hipochlorito 

 de hierro" would be a hypochlorite or 

 iron, which, of course, is out of the 

 question. 



Cnicin.— T. R. B., New York. Accord- 

 ing to the Real-Enzyklopsedie der Ges- 

 amten Pharmazie (4-1905-28) Cnicin is 

 a bitter principle extracted from the 

 blessed thistle (Cnicus Benedictus) by 

 Scribe. This investigator ascribed to it 

 the form)ula C^Jr^-^^O^^. Later investi- 

 gators claim that it is a glucoside hydro- 

 lyzing to sugar, a phenol-like substance 

 and a volatile aldehyde. 



■ Queen of the Meadow.— R. F., New 



York, this is a well-known synonym for 

 stillingia. 



