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cousins have said about our Latin and that printers may think of our 
orthography. — Meyer Bros. Druggist, St. Louis, 1906, v. 2T, p. 4. 
Stevens, A. B., remarks that opinion seems to be about equally 
divided upon the union of extra ctum fluidum into fluidextractum. — 
Proc. Michigan Pliarm. Ass., 1906, p. 95. 
Moerk, Frank X., points out that the usually relied upon statement 
that 1 c. c. of fluid extract is the equivalent of 1 gm. of the drug 
is not correct in all cases. With assayed preparations there seems to 
be no reason why this relation should not be required in place of hav- 
ing the fluid extract represent from 80 to 90 per cent of the contained 
active constituent. — Proc. Pennsylvania Pliarm. Ass., 1906, p. 159. 
Dott, D. B., discusses the variety of official methods for the produc- 
tion of liquid extracts and suggests that the resulting complication 
is to be deprecated, because unnecessary. Lie proposes the use of 60 
per cent alcohol for all drugs, and discusses, in detail, the reasons for 
this suggestion. — Yearbook of Pharmacy, 1906, pp. 299-301. 
An editorial declares that the attitude of D. B. Dott toward official 
methods of preparing liquid extracts is somewhat unorthodox, but 
there is a lot of common sense about it. — Chem. & Drug., Lond., 1906, 
v. 69, p. 130. 
Beckstroem, B., proposes a preliminary maceration of forty-eight 
hours, in place of twenty-four hours, for the fluid extracts of the Ph. 
Germ. — Ber. d. pharm. Gesellsch., Berl., 1906, v. 16, p. 325. 
Buttin, Louis, discusses the official, Swiss, fluid extracts and pre- 
sents a table giving the amount of dry extract and of ash contained 
in the several preparations. — Schweiz. Wchnschr. f. Chem. u. Pharm., 
1906, v. 44, pp. 848, 849. 1 
Wiebelitz, H., suggests that the requirement for specific gravity 
and extract content for fluid extracts would be desirable, providing 
the permissible variations were not too exacting. — Pharm. Ztg. Berl., 
1906, v. 51, p. 1003. 
Hallberg, C. S. X., asserts that no two different lots of fluid ex- 
tracts, whether bought or prepared, should ever be mixed, because 
there is always a slight variation in the alcoholic strength of the 
menstruum, and that will induce precipitation. — Proc. Am. Pharm. 
Ass., 1906, v. 54, p. 265. 
Caspari, Chas., jr., points out that fluid extracts are very susceptible 
to changes in temperature, the influences of light and air, and par- 
ticularly the change in alcoholic strength of the menstruum by expo- 
sure to heat. — Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 1906, v. 54, p. 262. 
Studdiford, W. E., reports an interview with a manufacturer in 
which the latter asserted that he would not be willing to guarantee 
the composition of fluid extracts containing mydriatic alkaloids for 
more than three months, and suggests the advisability of dating 
