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a paralysing, narcotic effect occurred within two hours, but when such 

 ascarides were transferred to non-poisonous liquids they recovered 

 their mobility in a short time. The same results were obtained with 

 the principal constituent of the oil which we isolated a short time 

 ago and whose formula we approximated as C 10 H 16 O 2 . This body 

 also appears to be the active constituent of wormseed oil, for its 

 action was even much more powerful than that of the oil itself. 

 According to his very extensive experimental studies, and a series of 

 successfully accomplished worm-cures with patients, Br lining considers 

 American wormseed oil an anthelmintic which has an action equal 

 if not superior to that of santonin, and he intends using the oil and 

 also the active constituent which we isolated from it, in experiments 

 with other entozoa. The remedy is taken without any admixture, 

 and not unwillingly, in emulsions, according to the following recipes: 01. 

 chenopodii anthelmint, Gum. arab. subtill. pulv. aa 5,0 g., Aqu. dest, 

 Sir. aurantior. aa 45,0 g., or 01. chenopodii anthelmint. io,og., Vitellum 

 ovi unius, 01. amygdal, Gum. arab. pulv. aa 10,0 g, Aqu. dest. ad 200,0 g. 



Ylang Ylang Oil "Sartorius'\ In spite of the fact that we 

 had to increase the price in the spring, owing to the advance in the 

 prices of blossoms in Manila, the demand was exceptionally brisk, so 

 much so that we could scarcely keep a stock of a few cases. This 

 article is greatly appreciated especially by our clients in Paris. 



New essential oils. 





Two oils which had not been produced up to the present were 

 sent to us for approval by the Syndicat du Geranium Bourbon. They 

 are the oils from Evodia simplex Cordem., and from Pilea spec, no v. 

 Both plants are indigenous to Reunion and grow there in the wild state. 



Oil of Evodia simplex. This plant belonging to the family 

 Rutaceae is closely allied to loddalia aculeata Pers., which has essential 

 oil 1 ) both in the leaves and in the bark of the roots. The yellow- 

 green, mobile oil has a pleasant, not obtrusive odour. The fact that 

 the oil strongly reminds of Reunion geranium oil, is, according to the 

 manufacturer, due to the use of stills employed in the geranium oil 

 production. d 15 o 0,9737; a D — I 3°4 / J ac id no. 2,1; ester no. 16,4; 

 ester no. after acetylation 63,3. The oil forms a clear solution in 

 0,9 vol. 80 per cent, alcohol, with a slight separation of paraffin, but 

 does not completely dissolve in 10 vol. 70 per cent, alcohol. In a 

 freezing mixture it becomes cloudy with separation of a very few 



Gildemeister and Hoffmann, The Volatile Oils, p. 460. 



