BOTANI 

 QARDI 



The Microscope. 



AND ITS RELATION TO 



Medicine and Pharmacy. 



Vol. 1. Ann Arl3or, April, 1881. No. 1. 



ml #0mm^miCi^ti0tis, 



IPECACUANHA, ITS STRUCTURE AND ADULTERA- 

 TIONS. 



BY LOUISA RKED STOWELL, 



DURING the year many specimens are sent to the Microscopical 

 Laboratory for examination. The majority of these specimens 

 are the commercial spices, such as mustard, cinnamon, pepper, etc., 

 and the more common, or the more expensive drugs. Among the 

 drugs sent for examination have been several specimens of 

 Ipecacuanha. Although this drug has been reported by Bentley 

 and Trimen and by Stille and Maisch has comparatively free from 

 adulterations — frequently having other roots substituted for it — yet 

 the specimens sent here have all been adulterated more or less. 

 Evidently powdered ipecac is losing its reputation for purity and 

 will soon have to be classed with those drugs and spices commonly 

 reported impure. The substances which were found to be mixed 

 with the ipecac were of the simplest kind and can be detected under 



