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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Gold Cure for Morphine Habit. — D r. A. B. I^'ons has made an examina- 
tion of “ Dr. Keeley’s Gold Cure,” and denounces it as containing no more gold 
than is to be found in ordinary sea- water, and as largely consisting of the deadly 
atropine, against which he warns his patients. — Drug . Cir. and Chem. Gaz. 
Pulvis Anti-Phlogisticus Infantum. — II. Hager recommends the following 
improvement of the popular German Kinderpulver (known as “ Bismarck’s Infant 
Powder”) in all infantile ailments, especially teething: — Quinidine tannate, 20 
paris ; magnesium carbonate, 2 parts ; white sugar, 120 parts ; oil of fennel, 1 part ; 
powdered liquorice root, 8 parts. Mix. Dose, half a small teaspoonful every half, 
one or two hours. — . 'Rundschau . 
Chinchona Bark. — T he Pharm. Jour. (London) says: — “A silvery coat- 
ing on the epidermis of the bark is one of the points to which a fictitious 
importance is attached. . . . The natural tendency is toward a preference for 
natural barks — the renewed bark and shavings, often of greater value, being 
rejected.” 
Anodyne for Children. — T he following colic mixture, according to the Ind. 
JPharm., is used with success in the City Hospital, Indianapolis : — R. Sodium 
bromide, 4 scruples ; oil anise, 2 drops ; camph. tine, opium, 32 drops ; water, 
q.s., ad. 2 ounces. M. Sig. Teaspoonful every hour as needed ; shake before 
using. 
Hop Bitters. — H ops, 4oz. ; mandrake root, ^oz.; dandelion root, ljoz. ; buchu 
(long), loz. Put into jar ; add one gallon boiling water ; cover ; strain after 
twelve hours ; and add one-seventh part of alcohol to the product. 
Terebane, which is a molecular modification of the spirit of turpentine, 
appears to have excited considerable interest in the old country. In the British 
Medical Journal ‘of 12th December Dr. Murrell states that he has very 
successfully used it in cases of winter cough. He prescribes a dose of from 5 
to 20 minims, on sugar. 
Sedative Cough Mixture. — D r. H. C. Wood gives the following as the 
most effective that he has ever used : — R. Potassii citratis, 5j ; succi limonis, 3ij ; 
syr. ipecac., Jss ; syr. simplicis, q.s., ad. Jvj. M. Sig. A teaspoonful four to six 
hours a day. Where there is much cough or irritation of the bowels add 
paregoric. — Ther. Gaz. 
Freckles. — D r. C. Heitzman, of Hew York, uses an ointment recommended 
by Wertheim, of Vienna: — R. White precipitate and subnitrate of bismuth, aa 
5i ; glycerin ointment, Ji. M. Apply a thin layer every other night for from 
four to six weeks. Dr. Wigglesworth, of Boston, has used for fifteen years : 
R. White precipitate and subnitrate of bismuth aa, 10 parts ; vaseline, 100 parts. 
M. — Quarterly Epitome. 
Chapped Hands. — R. Zinc oxide, grs. xx; tannic acid; gum camphor, pulv. 
aa, grs. xv ; glycerin, §iv ; tr. benzoin, 5ss. M. Apply locally. The 
glycerin may well be diluted a little with water. — J. W. Swift, M.D., in N.E. 
Med. Monthly. 
Hypnone, the Latest Hypnotic. — I n an article on this new hypnotic the 
Philadelphia Therapeutic Gazette writes : — The drug itself is by no means a 
discovery of a very recent period, as Friedel had extracted it already in 1857 
from the products of distillation of benzoate and acetate of calcium. He 
represented the drug by the formula of C 6 H 5 — C O — C H.. It crystallises in 
lartre flakes, becomes fusible at 15° (C.), boils at 98° (C.), and has a density of 
1032. Its taste is hot, and its odour resembles that of bitter almonds and oil 
of wintergreen together. Four to ten drops taken at once are, according to 
Dujardin-Beaumetz’s statement, sufficient to produce a refreshing and sufficiently 
long sleep. It is best taken in either of two preparations, as advised by Pierre 
