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did lie get any relief until he had taken several cups of tea and 

 been blooded. He then slept profoundly and perspired very 

 freely. On waking, no bad effects remained, and the diarrhoea 

 had ceased. Runiphius remarks that if he had taken three real 

 nutmegs, he would have suffered much more. 



Commerce. — Rampatri is now worth about Es. 10 per maund 

 of 37| lbs. ; formerly it was much cheaper. The nutmegs fetch 

 Rs. 2 per maund of 37^ lbs. According to Dr, Hefelmann, the 

 adulteration of powdered mace in Germany generally consists 

 in the addition of Bo^nbay mace, or of other vegetable material 

 (leguminous fruits) coloured with turmeric. The presence of 

 the latter is shown by the presence of starch cells which are not 

 present in mace. Bombay mace may be detected by boiling the 

 suspected sample with alcohol and filtering through a white 

 filter; in the case of pure mace, the filter is stained a faint 

 yellow, but in the presence of Bombay mace, the filter, especially 

 the edge, is coloured red. x^Lnother more delicate test is to 

 add Goulard's extract to the alcoholic filtrate; with pure mace 

 only a white turbidity is occasioned, but when Bombay mace 

 is present, a red turbidity is obtained. The reaction given by 

 turmeric is similar, but it may be distinguished from that of 

 Bombay mace in the following manner :- — A strip of filter 

 paj)er is saturated with the alcoholic solution, the excess of 

 fluid removed, and the strip drawn through a cold saturated 

 solution of boric acid; when Bombay mace is present, the paper 

 remains unchanged, but in the presence of tui-meric it turns 

 orange-brown. If a drop of potassium hydrate solution is now 

 placed on the strip of paper, it causes a blue ring if turmeric 

 is present, and a red ring if the adulterant is Bombay mace, 

 {P/iarm. ZeiL, 1891, 122.) 



LA URINES. 



CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA, Nees. 



Fig.^-BentL and Trim., t. 222 ; Woodv. Med. Bot., f. 236; 



Nees, L 130 ; Benj. et ScL, t 10, e. ; WigJd Jc, t. 1818. Cam- 

 phor {Eng.)y Camphre {Fr.y 



