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(C 17 H 23 N0 3 ), which as yet has not been reproduced by any other 
investigator. As this formula differs from that found in what is 
usually called hyoscine, it is evident that the name should not be 
continued, and it has very properly been suggested to omit it entirely 
from future revisions of the German Pharmacopoeia. — Riedel’s 
Berichte, 1905, p. 11. 
Hesse, O., discusses the presence of atroscin as a contamination of 
hyoscine. — Suedd. Apoth. Ztg., 1905, v. 45, pp. 215-216. 
Bering, R. E., discusses the use of hyoscine hydrobromate in mor- 
phine addiction (California State Jour, of Med., July, 1905). — 
Abstr. in J. Am. M. Ass., 1905, v. 45, p. 657. 
See also Wagner, H. G. — (Cleveland M. J., June, 1905.) Abstr., 
ibid., p. 355. 
HYOSCYAMUS. 
True, Rodney H., says that hyoscyamus has been successfully 
grown in the testing gardens of the Bureau of Plant Industry. — 
Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 1905, v. 53, p. 274. 
Rusby, H. H., asserts that much of the henbane of commerce is 
taken from the plant in the first year of its growth. — Merck’s Rep., 
N. Y., 1905, v. 14, p. 212. 
Yanderkleed, Charles E., finds that 7 assays of henbane leaf varied 
from 0.078 to 0.251 per cent of alkaloids. He believes that the gen- 
eral quality of this drug is good. — Proc. Pennsylvania Pharm. Ass., 
1905, p. 56. 
Dohme, A. R. L., asserts that hyoscyamus runs fairly uniform in 
alkaloidal content. Duing the five years from 1901 to 1905, inclusive, 
the greatest variations were from 0.09 per cent in 1904 to 0.15 per 
cent in 1905. He also points out that henbane in 1905 is running 
unusually high, as high as 0.2 per cent alkaloid being quite com- 
mon. — Apothecary, Boston, 1905, v. 17, p. 942. 
The revisors of Vienna pharmacies assert that hyoscyamus leaves 
were frequently found with an abnormally high ash content. In 
one case the ash content amounted to no less than 64.5 per cent; 
other figures indicate the presence of from 16.5 to 23.3 per cent of 
ash, the average given in the literature being from 19 to 23 per 
cent. — Pharm. Prax., 1905, v. 4, p. 37. 
An abstract asserts that of two specimens of Hyoscyamus muticus , 
one, obtained from the Punjab, was found to contain 0.36 per cent of 
hyoscyamine in the dry stems, while the second, from Larkana, con- 
tained 0.28 per cent. In neither case was any other alkaloid detected. 
It is thought that these low alkaloid contents would indicate that 
the Indian plant can not compete with the richer Egyptian variety 
as a commercial source of hyoscyamine. — Merck’s Rep., 1905, v. 14, 
p. 214. 
