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Patch, E. L., reports finding a sample of powdered capsicum which 
was adulterated and artificially colored. Yielded but 11 per cent 
of extractive to alcohol. — Proc. Am. Pliarm. Ass., 1906, v. 54, p. 335. 
Baird, J. W., reports that of 55 samples examined in 1901, 1 
were found to be adulterated. — Proc. Massachusetts Pharm. Ass., 
1906, p. 58. 
Oliliger, Willard, reports powdered capsicum loaded with powdered 
black pepper. — Proc. Michigan Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 47. 
Blome, W. H., reports two lots of powdered capsicum yielding an 
excessive amount of ash — 13.07 and 16.19 per cent ; he adds that some 
authorities state that it should yield not over 5 per cent. — Ibid ., p. 101. 
Xestler, A., presents an exhaustive study, illustrated, of Capsicum 
annuum . — Ztsclir. f. Unters. d. Xahr. u. Genussm., 1906, v. 11, pp. 
661-666. 
Fyfe, John William, finds that Capsicum annuum constituted an 
important medicament in colic, rheumatism, fever and ague, coldness 
of the system, and malignant sore throat. It saved some whose state 
had been thought to be desperate. — Eclectic Med. J., Cincin., 1906, 
v. 66, p. 320. 
Felter, Harvey Wickes, say's Lillian G. Bullock, (J. Therap. and 
Diet. Yov.) extols a remedy the more extensive use of which we have 
frequently urged. For low conditions, with lack of buccal and 
intestinal secretions, capsicum is one of the best agents in materia 
medica. — Abstr. Eclectic Med. J., Cincin., 1906, v. 66, pp. 586-588. 
Ivopp, Frederick, (Horn. World, N. A. Jour.) regards Capsicum 
annuum as the most beneficial remedy in those obstinate diarrhoeas 
of the aged which resist ordinary remedies. He gives drops of the 
tincture upon sugar or in sweetened water. — Hahneman. Month., 
Phila., 1906, v. 11, p. 59. 
Rice, Philip, (Pacific Coast J., Homoeop.) says when acute and 
inflammatory conditions tend to suppuration, and the usual inflam- 
matory remedies have little or no effect, give capsicum. Indicated in 
lazy, phlegmatic individuals in whom medicines have little effect. — 
Ibid., p. 75. 
CARBO. 
Takahashi, M., discusses the several charcoals of animal origin 
that have been used and reports on the examination of a Japanese 
variety of animal charcoal. — Pharm. Zentralh., 1906, v. 17, pp. 707- 
709. 
Rosenthaler and Turk discuss the absorbing properties of various 
kinds of charcoal and their comparative value as decolorizing 
agents. — Arch. cl. Pharm., 1906, v. 211, pp. 517-536. 
Patch, E. L., found a sample of willow charcoal which was not 
completely carbonized. — Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 1906, v. 51, p. 335. 
