‘then even large quantities of oil have no effect. 
lessened blood ale : oie “ m 
aaa -worm disease with American wormseed oil, 
or Epona ge es few ae ile adcninteleted via the mor 
(viz., cottonseed, olive, castor and coconut oils). | 
are said to be caused by the poorer nourishment of die ‘kidneys fe 
and cites, 12 further simil 
from the literature on the subject. | Hi: 
L.W. Scoville found dchenspodium< oil the least poisonous for animals when ad 
dissertations by Salant and Nelson Concerning the eet es, os wormseed. 6 ) 
and of Motter On the hook-worm sickness®) which pied have been discussed by t : 
For the yellow resin Xanthorrhea hastilis, R. Br., and for the red resin X. kona R 
are given as the plants from which they respectively originate. R. H. Rennie, W.T. ¢ 
and H.H. Finlayson*) assume that the resins mentioned’), in which benzoic, cinnamic, 
-cumaric acid free or as ester, vanillin and p-hydroxybenzaldehyde were found, origin. 
from New South Wales. The authors themselves then examined resins which 
had received from the Kangaroo Island, South Australia (a red resin of unknown « 
and a yellow resin of Xanthorrhewa Tateana, F. v. Miill.), and from West Austr 
red resin of Xanthorrhwa Preissii, Endl.). The resin contained p-cumaric acid —free 
ester, and p-hydroxybenzaldehyde. On steam-distilling a strong alkaline solution ( 
red resin of unknown origin 0.35 to 0.36 percent. of a solidifying essential oil was Oph 
contained in the oil of Peonia Moutan, Sims. In addition Hee tno 5 
small amount of liquid with an odour of vanillin and traces iS a higher 
1) Journ. Pharm. and Exp. Therapeutics 9 (1917), 529. According to Hovey of Co 
copwia of U.S.A. for 1916, 244. Chem. Zentralbl. 1919, Ill. 934. — 2%) Americ. Journ 
According to Digest for 1916, 244. — *) Journ. Americ. Med. Ass. 67 (1916), 1593. Accor 
or 1916, 244. — 4) Bull. Pharm. 1915, 490. According to Digest of Comments fo : 
October 1915, 43. — °%) Report April 1915, 50. — 7%) A. Tschirch, Die Harze uw 
p. 249. — *) Journ. chem. Soc. 117 (1920), 338. — %) Information as to source war 1 
cinnamic acid in both resin oils, free and as ester, as well as Si dct esiee 
