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aethesia is reasonably fresh, put up in well filled, tightly stoppered 
bottles, and that it has been protected from bright light and excessive 
heat. — Bull Pharm., Detroit, 1906, v. 20, p. 215. 
Price, T. Slater, quotes Wade and Finnemore (J. Chem. Soc., 
1904, v. 85, 938) to the effect that chloroform made from acetone is 
not nearly so good an anaesthetic as chloroform made from ordinary 
alcohol by reason of the presence in the latter of a very small pro- 
portion of ethyl chloride. — Pharm. J., Bond., 1906, v. 23, pp. 89-91. 
Kahn, Joseph I., notes that the U. S. P. VIII fails to give any 
chemical tests whatever for the identification of chloroform, prob- 
ably for the reason that chloral gives the same reaction as chloro- 
form. He gives a test with sulphurated potassa (U. S. P., 1890). — 
Proc. New York Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 207. 
Rosenthaler, L.. points out that the mixing of chloroform and ether 
is accompanied by a perceptible rise in temperature of the combined 
liquids. This rise he believes to be due to a chemical change and a 
rearrangement of the ether molecule. — J. cl. Pharm. v. Elsass-Lothr., 
1906, v. 33, pp. 65, 66. 
Caspari, Chas. E., rejDorts seven samples examined: Five U. S. P. ; 
two contained chlorinated decomposition products. — Proc. Missouri 
Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 100. 
Baird, J. W., reports six samples examined in 1904. one adulter- 
ated. — Proc. Massachusetts Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 59. 
Ohliger, Willard, reports chloroform with chlorinated compounds 
and carbonizable impurities present. — Proc. Michigan Pharm. Ass., 
1906, p. 47. 
Scoville, Wilbur L., suggests the use of chloroform as a sweetener 
for alkaline mixtures. — Am. Druggist, X. Y., 1906, v. 48, p. 158. 
Nicloux, Maurice, presents a method of determination of chloro- 
form in the air, in the blood, or in an aqueous liquid by the employment 
of a technique which is simple, rapid, and very exact, and which he 
commends to the attention of the physiologist and the medico-legal 
expert. — Compt. rend. Acad, des Sc., Par., 1906, v. 142, pp. 163-165, 
(See also Ibid ., pp. 258, 303-305, and Bull. Soc. cle chim., Par., 1906, 
v. 35.) 
Feigel and Meier report a series of biologic chemical observations 
on the influence of chloroform on the animal organism. They con- 
clude that narcotic doses of chemically pure chloroform have little or 
no action on blood pressure, the heart, or the circulatory system gen- 
erally, and that these effects, when observed, are usually due to the 
accompanying impurities in commercial alcohol. — Biochem. Ztschr. 
Berl., 1906, v. 1, pp. 316-331. 
Gwathmey, Jas. T., discusses the scientific methods of administer- 
ing anaesthetics and calls attention to the fact that surgeons fre- 
quently do not understand the principles of anaesthesia. He par- . 
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