THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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of preparing extractum cinehome liquidum, which, no doubt, we owe to 
Professor [Redwood, and is based upon De Vrij’s method, is muck better 
than tke old. The infusum cinchonas acidum will, being based upon the same 
principle, be found much more certain and stronger than the aqueous infusion 
of the past. Liquor epispasticus is now made without acetic acid, acetic ether 
being the menstruum. The amount of potassium iodide is properly increased in 
linimentum iodi, the iodine slightly increased, evidently to make the column parts 
by weight and measure agree more nearly. The hypodermic injection of 
morphine is now 1 in 10, instead of 1 in 12 ; oleum pkosplioratum 1 per cent., 
instead of *75 per cent., with regard to the solutions for hypodermic injection, 
and liquor morphine acetatis, and liydrochloratis. The hypodermic solutions were 
1 in 12 ; they are now practically 1 in 10. As the compders of the B.P. would 
seem to have aimed at a system of percentages, it is a pity they did not make 
these solutions by grain measures instead of by ounces. How easy would it 
be to take 100 grains of morphine acetate, or rather its equivalent of hydro- 
chlorate, and make the solution up to 1000 grain measures ! 
The term rkisome is new to the B.P., but more correct than radix in the 
five cases in which it is applied. Assafetida is spelt with one s, which is the 
spelling found in the Pkarmacograpkia and foreign Pharmacopoeias. 
Pilula phosphori contains in 3 grains the preparation has been altered; 
wax reduced and curd soap to be added as required, 1 grain to 2 grains of 
the mass. In the last “ additions" there was 1 grain in 90 ; in this it is the 
same. The old formula was very faulty ; this is better. The dose has been altered 
from 3 to 6 grains to 2 to 4 grains. 
Pulvis glycyrrhizse compositus is now what it ought to have been when first 
introduced, the same as that of the German Pharmacopoeia ; there was no 
sulphur in the 1874 “ additions," and this difference and the absence of fennel 
was often a source of trouble to dispensers. The substitution of hydrochlorate 
of quinine for the sulphate in vinum quininse is an improvement. Ung. kydrargyri 
ammoniati is now 1 in 10, instead of 1 in 15. 
The formerly very objectionable formulas for suppositories is now what it 
should be. The substitution of paraffins for lard in some of the ointments was 
only to be expected ; but in this climate the ordinary soft paraffin, called 
vaseline, is too soft, and requires, especially in summer, the addition of hard 
paraffin. The substitution of Scammonv resin is good, as it is uniform in 
composition, and the powder is far from being so ; but it renders pills liable to 
“ fall," or lose their shape. 
The change of the solutions of arsenic and morphine to 1 per cent, instead of 
1 in 109 will meet with approval when the medical profession and pharmacists 
have become accustomed to it. 
We now have the well-known glycerinum tragacantkse. Linimentum saponis 
is now made with £ instead of ^ water. Lin. terebinth is made with glacial 
acetic acid, and is transparent. Mucilage of tragacanth is made — as I have done 
for years — by diffusion in spirit before the addition of water. Ung. hyd. nit.-ox. 
is made with vaseline. If prepared with castor oil it also keeps perfectly. 
The infusions are now to stand for a shorter time. Glycerinum amyli has an 
improved formula by the addition of water. Pil. rhei. co. has glycerine added. 
The introduction ot tr. chlorof. et morpkina is evidently for the purpose of 
preventing the use of a secret and quack nostrum, which at the best is a mess. 
Hydrocyanic acid is one of its constituents. I have not found H. C. H. in 
chlorodyne. Perhaps it is lost before it reaches Australia. The new formula for 
vin ipecac, is theoretically correct, and will render this much- employed and 
valuable preparation more elegant and unvarying. We may accept this as an 
