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has he observed the occurence of unfavourable incidents. When re- 
peating such experiments, I would recommend the use of the much 
more pleasantly smelling and chemically uniform body limonene, in- 
stead of oil of turpentine. 
16. Group of Expectorants. 
Among the remedies which dissolve the coagulating sputum in 
catarrh of the lung, pneumonia, emphysema, asthma, and tuberculosis 
of the lung, and which thereby promote its expectoration, anethol takes 
the first place. Only ammonia can be placed alongside it as of equal 
value. Both active remedies are contained in Liquor ammonii anisatus, 
which, however, acts much too powerfully to place it without risk direct 
in the hands of the public. A preparation which lends itself much 
more to the direct delivery to the public than the one just mentioned, 
is the good old Ringelmann's pectoral elixir, Elixir e succo liquiritiae, 
which in Russia is also called Elixir regis Daniae. As recently com- 
plaints have been made that the anethol in it in winter separates out 
in pieces, it is advisable to dilute this preparation once more, most suit- 
ably with glycerine aa. During the time I was Director of Brehmer's 
Sanatorium for pulmonary diseases at Gorbersdorf, I have had the 
opportunity of prescribing this remedy very many times, and I can 
again state that it is very inexpensive, tastes well (under milk, sugared 
water, or Chinese tea), and moreover is very effective. Of course I 
should never dream of maintaining that it has a favourable effect on 
tuberculosis of the lung as such. Sanosin, the patent fumigating remedy 
recommended against tuberculosis of the lung by L. Danelius^) and 
unfortunately also by the President of the German Anti - Quackery 
Society, Professor Sommerfeld'^), which is said to be a mixture of 
sulphur, carbon, and eucalyptus oil (from Eucalyptus maculata var. 
citriodord) has still to prove its usefulness. The objections made to it 
by Fraenkel^) are only too well founded. If the patients who come 
to Reichenhall fix all their hope there on pine-needle oil (from Pinus 
montana), this must undoubtedly have a very useful psychical effect on 
those who had up to then been without hope. But from a pharmacological 
point of view. Oleum pini pumilioiiis can only be considered as one 
of the oils of turpentine, and in aroma it is inferior to the equally 
active limonene, already referred to above in several places. The best 
method of application of oils of turpentine, and of limonene, myrtol, 
etc. in tuberculous patients, consists of sending the patients, on days 
^) Berl. Klin. Wochenschr. 1903, No. 23, p. 524. 
2) Pharm. Ztg. 1903, No. 65, p. 658 and 655. 
3) Berl. Arzte-Korresp. 1903, No. 32. 
