the Journal of Pharmacology. 



A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Advances Made in the Various Departments of 



Materia Medica. 



Voi.. V. JULY, 1S98. No. 7 



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Chas. Rice, Ph.D. H. H. Rusby, M.D. V. Coblentz, Ph.D. Geo. A. Ferguson, Ph. B 



Geo. C. Diekman, M.D. H. B. Ferguson, Phar. D. 



ABSTRACTS. 



Chicory. — " Chicory Growing as an Addition to the Eesouroes of the 

 American Farmer," is made the subject of " Bulletin No. 19 of the IT. S. 

 Dept. Agric," Division of Botany, by Maurice G. Kains. This is a pamphlet 

 of 52 pages, illustrated by twelve cuts. The uses of the herbage as a pot- 

 herb, a salad, and a fodder, and of the root as a vegetable, a beverage, a 

 medicine and an adulterant, or substitute, are reviewed. The plant is 

 figured and fully described, and copious analytical tables of composition 

 submitted. Cultivation processes are given in detail, with tables exhibiting 

 cost, proceeds and net profit. 



Amylolytic Ferments. — In an article on this important subject, by 

 Wyatt Wingrave, M.K.C.S., Eng. (Assistant Surgeon to the Central London 

 Throat and Ear Hospital), in the London Lancet, May 7, 1898, we are 

 informed of a personal necessity that arose in the writer's experience for a 

 reliable starch digestant. A crucial comparative examination was therefore 

 made of many malt extracts and of Taka-Diastase, the tests being conducted 

 both chemically and clinically. 



He summarizes briefly: 1. That Taka-Diastase is the most powerful of 

 the starch or diastatic ferments and the most reliable since it is more rapid 

 in its action — i. e., " it will convert a larger amount (of starch) in a given 



