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made alkaline with ammonia water and washed out with chloroform. 
The resulting solution is filtered, the chloroform distilled off, the 
residue dissolved in ether, and the latter evaporated. The residue is 
then dried in a dessicator to constant weight and weighed. For the 
titrimetric estimation the resulting material is to be dissolved in abso- 
lute alcohol, water added, and the resulting solution titrated with 
1/10 1ST. hydrochloric acid, using hagmatoxylon as an indicator. Each 
cc. of the 1/10 N. acid equals 0.0645 gm. of aconitine. — Geschafts 
Bericht von Caeser & Loretz, 1905, p. 102. 
Holmes, E. M., discusses several species of Indian aconite root 
and makes some comparisons of the relative strengths of the aconi- 
tines. — Pharm. J., Bond., 1905, v. 21, p. 831. 
Chevalier (Bull. gen. de Therap., 1905, v. 150, p. 713) reports on a 
specimen of aconite obtained from North America, which, while 
morphologically identical with the official Aconitum napellus , con- 
tained 0.378 per cent of crystalline aconitine beside 0.580 per cent of 
amorphous alkaloid (japaconitine) . — Biochem, Centralbl. 1905, v. 4, 
p. 715. 
Senft, Em., describes and figures the structural characteristics of 
Aconitum vulparis Rchb. and of Aconitum paniculatum Lam. FI. 
franc, ed. I. suppl. 1224. — Pharm. Prax., 1905, v. 4, pp. 445^60 and 
495-502. 
Truax, Florence T., in discussing the A, B, C of the Eclectic 
Materia Medica, says: 
Aconite is sedative, stimulant, antiphlogistic, emmenagogue, anaesthetic; as 
a child’s remedy unsurpassed. — Eclectic Med. J., 1905, v. 65, p. 534. 
Francis, John M., deplores the omission of extract of aconite, and 
points out that this preparation has undoubted use in connection with 
the administration of aconite in the form of pills, and says: 
We have personally examined hundreds of pounds of the extract which was 
possessed of full therapeutic potency. 
He further points out that the official assay process does not de- 
termine pure aconite and that, consequently, the method of stand- 
ardization is not so reliable as that proposed many years ago by 
Squibb. — Bull. Pharm., Detroit, 1905, v. 19, pp. 452, 496. 
ADEPS. 
Kebler, Lyman F., reports finding lard composed of 75 per cent of 
cotton-seed oil and 10 per cent of hard beef fat. 
Wetterstroem, T., is quoted as reporting on 67 samples, of which 
number 27 were impure and 36 pure. — Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 1905, 
v. 53, p. 185. 
An abstract from the Helfenberger Annalen expresses the Belief 
that the melting point of lard, as given in the Ph. Germ., IV, should 
