94 Report of Schimmel s Co. April 1913. 



greatly affected by the circumstance that later on, especially at the turn of the year, 

 there were numerous second-hand offers at lower prices, mostly on the part of firms 

 which had cheap contracts still running, which were not over-confident in the future 

 of the market, or which were compelled to sell owing to the general tightness of 

 money. For our part, we take by no means an optimistic view of the situation; on 

 the contrary, we feel convinced that for the present there is no chance whatever of 

 any reduction in prices. The larger are the quantities of dear wood from the auctions 

 which are placed upon the market, the higher will go the quotations for sandalwood 

 oil, seeing that the low-priced wood from previous years' auctions has been used up 

 as a result of the brisk turnover of last autumn. Part of the time our unique distilling- 

 plant has been running day and night in order to turn out the large quantities of oil 

 which we supply to the principal buyers at home and abroad. It is well known that we 

 pay particular attention to the manufacture of an extra quality containing 94 p.c. santalol. 

 Those of our readers who are not in close touch with the trade in sandalwood 

 oil will be interested in the subjoined table showing the price of pure East Indian oil 

 during the last 10 years: — 



March 15th 1904 ^f 22— March 15 th 1909 ^23 — 



15th 1905 



„ 24 — 



„ 15th 1910 



„ 21 — 



15 th 1906 



n 24.- 



„ 15th 1911 



„ 24.- 



15 th 1907 



„ 24.50 



„ 15th 1912 



„ 24.50 



15th 1908 



„ 24.50 



„ 15 th 1913 



n 45.- 



From the report of the Conservator of Forests in Mysore to his Government, 

 which naturally reflects great satisfaction with the result of the auctions, we take the 

 following particulars relating to the season 1911: 



The total quantity of 2348 tons 1 cwt. 94 lbs., that is to say 143 tons more than 

 in the previous year, realised Rs. 1254155-5-1, or R. 218742-7-3 more than in 1910. 

 The average price realised for the wood was Rs. 534, as compared with Rs. 471 in the 

 year 1910 and Rs. 455 in the last 10 years. 



J. Pohl 1 ) has attempted to estimate experimentally the therapeutical value of 

 several balsams, especially of sandalwood oil and of preparations of sandalwood oil. 

 It is familiar ground that the action of balsams is due to their power of arresting 

 inflammation and exudation. With the object of ascertaining these inflammation- 

 arresting properties in a measurable form, Pohl utilised a method devised by R. Winternitz. 

 This consists in artificially provoking inflammatory symptoms in experimental animals 

 of equal weight, and in applying the antidote under examination in one case. After 

 a given period the matter exuded from the inflamed surfaces was then determined 

 quantitatively, and the inflammation-arresting properties of the substance under exa- 

 mination were thus ascertained. 



In each experiment Pohl injected into the pleura of three rabbits of approximately 

 equal weight, heated yeast-suspension, an inflammatory agent. On the first and second 

 day two of the animals were each given per os 2 cc. of the remedy under examination, 

 mixed with alcohol and water. On the third day all three animals were bled to death, 

 the thorax was opened and the exudations collected and measured in graduated test-tubes. 



The results of the experiments, which are set forth in table-form, lead the author 

 to pronounce sandalwood oil an active remedial agent. Its action is assisted by Kawa- 



l ) Therap. Monatsh. 26 (1912), 874. 



