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grain) ; oil of rose, 0'5 (7 grains) ; oil neroli, 0*5 ; oil bergamot, 0*5 ; oil winter- 
green, 5 drops ; oil ylang, 1 drop ; tinct. musk (1:10), 3 drops. 3. Coumarin, 
0‘05 (4-5 grain) ; oil of bergamot, 2* (J dram) ; oil rose, 0'5 (7 grains) ; oil bitter 
almonds, 10 drops ; tinct. ambergris, 5 drops. 
Thompson’s Eye Watee. — Zinc sulphate, 20 grains ; copper sulphate, 5 
grains ; tinct. saffron, 2 drachms ; tinct. camphor, 1 drachm ; rose water, 8 
ounces ; distil, water, 8 ounces. Mix and filter. 
Common Salt as an Antiseptic. — The Medical Bulletin says : — “ The ideal 
antiseptic is an article which combines the three qualities of cheapness, effective- 
ness, and harmlessness to the patient. Such an article is the chloride of sodium, 
or common salt. It can be used in a solution of any strength in the same 
manner as other germicidal agents are employed.'* 
Foe the Nausea of Peegnancy. — Powdered Colombo root ; powdered 
sugar, aa 15 parts ; senna leaves, 4 parts ; boiling water, 475 parts. Infuse. A 
wineglassful before each meal. — De. Foewood, in L' Union Medicate. 
It is stated that the passage of a sponge saturated with strong ether over 
an adhesive plaster will cause the latter to adhere firmly to the skin. 
Moths. — Thymol, salicylic acid, of each 2 grammes, dissolved in 200 
grammes of alcohol, perfumed with 1 gramme oil of lemon. The ApotheJcer 
Zeitung recommends this solution as very efficient in destroying moths and 
their brood. It leaves no stain, and the odour is pleasant, and easily removed 
by airing the materials to which the solution has been applied. 
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TJeethane as an Antidote to Steychnine. — From the British Medical 
Journal we learn that some very interesting observations have quite recently 
been made by Professor Coze on the subject of the physiological effects of 
urethane, and more particularly on its antagonism to those of strychnine. The 
first point is its extreme tolerance when injected subcutaneously, or into the 
peritoneal cavity. Eight to ten grains so injected did not set up any local 
irritation in the frog, nor did 30 grains in the guinea-pig. No symptoms of 
gastric irritation were produced by from 80 to 100 grains given by the mouth 
in rabbits. The effect of the drug on the blood appears to consist in an 
increase of the amount of oxygen (4 per; cent.) ; and the nervous exhaustion 
which follows its use may, perhaps, be attributable to the greater difficulty with 
which the blood parts with its oxygen in favour of the nervous system. Dr. 
Coze suggests that clinical use should be made of the drug in conditions 
attended with convulsions, and more especially in cases of tetanus. 
Commeecial Oepiment as a Depilatoey. — The following note is of interest 
to chemists and druggists from the fact that orpiment is understood to be the 
active ingredient in the most successful depilatories for tbe human skin. Orpiment 
(orpen) is not the true orpiment — a yellow arsenic trisulphide — but it is red, and 
agrees approximately in composition with realgar, or arsenic disuiphide. It 
contains, however, a little trisulphide. In tanyards it is applied mixed with 
lime, either to the fiesh side of the hide only, if it is intended to preserve the 
wool or hair, or the hides are entirely immersed in the same mixture. The 
arsenic sulphide dissolves in the hydrated lime, forming a soluble sulpho-salt, 
which reacts upon the animal tissue, causing it to swell up so that the hairs 
easily become detached. Hides which have been steeped in water previous to 
unhairing present afterwards black spots in parts which, while still moist, have 
been in contact with articles of rusty iron, or upon which particles of iron have 
