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| Pulvermacher’s clamp, the distant end of the divided nerve - 
2 Sagal to the stimulus, aoe the near end was hardly 
was observed to dilate very slowly, and the ventricle at the: 
time of systole, which had become imperfect, assumed a folded, 
appearance, and at the diastole the heart presented a marbled 
pearance, pale in some places and red in ceaaine The 
rength of the contractions was not much affected. 
At the end of 85 to 40 minutes the heart recovered its 1 nor- 
mal condition. (Les Nouveaux Remédes, Sept. 15th, 1886. ) 
Description.—The fresh bark -has a smodth grey ‘suber, 
and bears small fissured corky lenticels arranged ‘in.perpendi- 4 
cular rows. On rubbing off the thin suber a green surface i is 
c.. chloride. Spirit ‘dissolved out éwo resins; one salable, 
the other insoluble in dilute alkali, and a bitter alkaloid. ‘The 
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iodine in potassium iodide: and tannin, white. precipitates with. . 2 
ammonia-and soda. Oxidizing agents as. potassium bichromate - ie 
or manganese oxide with sulphuric acid produce with ita tran- 
i cin purple solution ; Broek sad, alone forms a red, and = 
