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exceptions to this rule. — Missouri Bot. Gard., 17th Annual Report, 
1906, pp. 130-140. 
Francis, John M., believes that he is warranted in asserting that 
a 94 per cent alcohol is not necessary for the exhaustion of capsicum 
in the manufacture of the fluid extract. He points out that while 
capsicum is quite rich in fats these do not contain the active prin- 
ciple desired. He suggests that this oily or fatty matter might be 
removed and the active portion of the drug exhausted with 70 per 
cent alcohol (absolute by volume). — Bull. Pharm., Detroit, 1905, 
v. 19, p. 528. 
Gerrard, A. W., makes a contribution to the pharmacy of capsicum. 
He has conducted a series of experiments to determine the best all- 
round solvent of the active principles, with a view of obtaining an 
extract representing the full activity of the drug. He finds alcohol 
to be a more satisfactory solvent for capsicum than ether, benzine, 
chloroform, or other organic solvents. The paper includes a formu- 
lary for two ointments, a capsicum wool and a capsicum plaster, 
based on the use of a liquid extract of capsicum made by percolating 
100 parts of capsicum with 90 per cent alcohol and distilling off the 
solvent from sufficient of the percolate to have the resulting prepara- 
tion weigh 50 parts. — Pharm. J. Bond.; 1905, v. 21, pp. 153, 168, 196. 
Truax, Florence T., in an article on the A B C of eclectic materia 
medica, designates capsicum as a pure stimulant, of times insidious, 
diffusible stimulant. In paralysis, paresis, delirium tremens, pros- 
trating diarrhoeas ... In postpartum haemorrhage, nothing more 
prompt. In ulceration of the stomach . . . Locally in chilblains. — 
Eclectic Med. J., 1905, v. 65, p. 538. 
CARBONEI DISTJLPHIDUM. 
An abstract from a German patent application figures and de- 
scribes a modification in the patent granted to E. R. Taylor, of Penn 
Yan, X. Y., for an electrical oven or furnace for the production of 
carbon disulphide. — Chem. Ztg. Cothen, 1905, v. 29, p. 1131. 
Pappe, C., reports the spontaneous ignition of carbon disulphide 
which was being transferred from a glass bottle through a metal 
funnel to a large glass carboy. The origin of the combustion is 
ascribed to electric friction, and the author concludes that glass fun- 
nels would be safer. (From Pharm. Ztg., 1905, v. 50.) — Proc. Am. 
Pharm. Ass., 1905, v. 53, p. 720. 
Harmsen, Ernst (Vrtljhrschr. f. ger. Med., 1905, p. 422), has dem- 
onstrated that carbon disulphide is a blood poison in that it reduces 
the blood corpuscles, the haemoglobin, and the leucocytes. — Apoth. 
Ztg., Berlin, 1905, v. 20, p. 834. 
