40 New preparation of Balsam Copaiva. 
which has deen denominated cornine, and which has been 
very carefully and accurately described by Dr. Samuel G. 
orton in the Philadelphia Journal of Medical and Physical 
a From the most respectable sources in the med- 
ical profession, from various parts of the United Bates where 
the article has been sent, the most favourable accounts have 
been received of the unequivocal success of the cornine in 
the treatment of intermittent fevers in the same doses as the 
quinine, and the only circumstance which precludes its com- 
petition with that substance, is the extremely minute compar- 
ative eeertan of cornine eee by the cornus florida. 
Art. IV = 0beereatiions on a new preparation of Balsa 
Copaiva; by Georce W. Carpenter, of Philadel phiag 
* Batsam Copaiva being a medicine used in the practice of al- 
most every physician, its characters, effects and uses are con- 
familiar to them. It is admitted by all, to be one 
of the most nauseous and. disagreeable iain of the ma- 
teria medica. Disguised or mixed as it may be, its unpleas- 
ant nature is still re = little if at t all diminished, 
highest utility, and even where it is almost indispensible, and 
other remedies much less efficient are substituted, thus pro- 
tracting = ure which could have been speedily effected 
by the copa 
Since eae of this remedy dowa to the pres- 
ent period, it has ever been a desideratum to obviate these 
inconveniences, and it is a circumstance not Jess unfortunate 
_ * Our distinguished Professor of Practice, in the Ist volume of his Therapeu- 
tics, page 417, observes, that two circu ing eo frequently interfere with the 
exhi 
