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stigma 13.33 times the strength of the drug. — Proc. Pennsylvania ' 
Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 159. 
Matthes and Rammstedt give the results of their experiments with 
the method recommended by H. Thoms for the determination of the 
alkaloidal content of narcotic extracts by means of potassium-bis- 
muth iodide, and of the tannins, particularly in the extract of bella- 
donna, by means of potassium permanganate. — Pharm. Ztg., Berl., 
1906, v. 51, p. 1031. 
Dieterich, Karl, reports the determination of the moisture and ash 
content of a number of the Ph. Germ. IV extracts. — Helfenberger 
Annalen, 1905, 1906, v. 18, p. 158. 
Herzog, J., discusses a communication by IV. Bruns, published in 
Xo. 28 of the Pharm. Zentralh., 1905, and reasserts that the method 
as outlined by Bruns is not designed to furnish a satisfactory phar- 
macopoeial extract. — Arb. a. d. pharm. Inst. d. Univer. Berl., 1906, 
pp. 99-104. 
EXTRACTUM GLYCYRRHIZJE DEPURATUM X. F. 
Caldwell. Paul, believes that purified extract of licorice should 
have been omitted from the X. F., as the U. S. P. VIII contains a 
pure extract of licorice. — Drug. Circ. & Chem. Gaz., X. Y., 1906, v. 50, 
p. 393. 
FEE BOVIS. 
Croftan, A. C., recommends the use of bile acids in intestinal putre- 
faction, hepatic insufficiency, and gallstone disease. — X. Y. Med. J., 
1906, v. 83, pp. 810-812. 
Xigay (Soc. med. de l'Elysee, 1906, 2, April) thinks the use of 
bile in the treatment of biliar}^ insufficiency and its consequences is 
worthy of special attention, since it is nonpoisonous in the usual 
doses up to 1 gm. (gr. 15), and has an excellent action in lithiasis, 
icterus, acholia, cholaemia, and in fact in all functional disturbances 
of the bile in man. — Abstr. in Merck’s Ann. Rep., 1906, Darmstadt, 
1907, v. 20, p, 104. 
FERRI CARBONAS SACCHARATUS. 
Gadd, Sydney C., (Trans. Brit. Pharm. Conf. [Yearbook of Phar- 
macy] 1905, 472) gives a formula and outlines a process for making 
ferrous carbonate suitable for preparing pills, which are less bulky 
than Blaud's pills obtained ordinarily. — Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 
1906, v. 54, pp. 840, 841. 
FERRI CHLORIDUM. 
Lefeldt, Max, points out that the oxidation of the ferrous chloride 
may be accomplished much more rapidly, and with less nitric acid, 
