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This confusion arises because of the confusion of names. Substitu- 
tion is not through intent, but through ignorance. — Pharm. Rev,, 
1905, v. 23, p. 301. 
Mundy enumerates the several conditions in which eupatorium is 
indicated. — Eclectic Med. J., 1905, v. 65, p. 572. 
EXTRACTUM MALTI. 
Woocock, E. C., says of extract of malt: 
This preparation, Rip Van Winkle-like, has been allowed to sleep for twenty 
years, and on awakening has found itself rather antique. The directions to 
evaporate to the consistence of thick honey, regardless of existence of degrees in 
specific gravity, are obsolete. — Am. Druggist, 1905, v. 47, p. 317. 
Francis, John M., suggests that the real demand of the situation 
has been overlooked because the pharmacopoeia gives no means for 
determining the value of the resulting extract of malt. Some of the 
most extensively advertised and popular extracts of malt are practi- 
cally without amylolytic action. — Bull. Pharm., Detroit, 1905, v. 19, 
p. 494. 
TERRI CARBONAS SACCHARATUS. 
Gadd, Sydney C., contributes some laboratory notes on the manu- 
facture of ferrous carbonate, the object being to supply a demand for 
a preparation which shall have the effect of Blaud’s pills without 
their bulk. The method outlined is based on that given in the 
U. S. P. for the preparation of saccharated ferrous carbonate.— 
Pharm. J., Lond., 1905, v. 21, p. 134. 
FERRI CHLORIDUM. 
Lyons, A. B., points out that while ferric chloride, U. S. P., VIII, 
should contain 25 per cent of iron, the official requirement is for only 
22 per cent. — Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 1905, v. 53, p. 261. 
Duncan, William, discusses a method for overcoming the incom- 
patibility of ferric chloride with readily oxidizable bodies such as 
the alkali iodides. — Pharm. J., Lond., 1905, v. 21, p. 861. 
Moreau (Bull. Soc. Pharm.) presents a method for the volumetric 
titration of ferric chloride solution, based on the reaction between 
ferric chloride and sodium thiosulphate and the fact that only ferric 
salts give a violet reaction with salicylates. — Year Book of Pharm., 
Lond., 1905, p. 81. 
FERRI ET AMMONII CITRAS. 
Siboni, G., discusses the composition of the several citrates of iron 
and of citrate of iron with ammonia, also the per cent content cf 
iron. — Apoth. Ztg., 1905, v. 20, p. 1018. 
