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GOSSYPIUM PURIFICATUM. 
Cook, O. F., presents an exhaustive study on weevil-resisting 
adaptations of the cotton plant, including a comparative study of 
various conditions existing in Central America and in the cotton belt 
of the United States. — Bui. Bur. Plant Ind., U. S. Dept. Agric., 1906, 
No. 88. 
(A number of references on the cultivation of cotton and related 
subjects are to be found in Just’s Botanischer Jahresbericht.) 
Bell (Med. Press & Cir., June 14, 1905) reports two cases. In one 
he administered a small handful of absorbent wool — teased up very 
finely, part in milk food, part in jam sandwiches — to an 18 months 
child who had gleefully swallowed a gold brooch with the letters 
“ B-A-B-Y ” sticking out on all sides. In the other, a boy, aged 4J, 
who had swallowed a small brass knob, which he had unscrewed from 
his bed, was given a handful of absorbent wool in bread and milk. 
A third case is cited, a patient of G. L. Bohnson, who had swallowed 
a metal denture. — Abstr. in Eclectic Med. J., Cincin., 1906, v. 66, pp. 
146-147. 
GRANATUM. 
The Ph. Brit. Committee of Reference in Pharmacy report on 
pomegranate says if not omitted no ash figure necessary, as it is not 
used in powder. — Chem. & Drug., Bond., 1906, v. 69, p. 863. 
Philipp Roder, Wien, reports finding 12.74 and 14.82 per cent of 
ash in pomegranate bark, and doubts the practicability of the Ph. 
Austr., VIII, limit of 10 per cent of ash for this drug. — Pharm. Post., 
Wien, 1906, v. 39, p. 248. 
An unsigned critique of the Ph. Ndl. IV notes the requirement of 
not less than 0.25 per cent of alkaloids. — Chem. & Drug., Bond., 1906, 
v. 68, p. 82.8. 
Caesar and Boretz suggest the estimation of moisture and the 
alkaloid content in pomegranate bark. For the latter they outline 
a method.— Geschafts-Ber. v. Caesar & Boretz, in Halle, a. S. 1906, 
pp. 95-97. 
Puckner, W. A., reviews some of the recent literature relating to 
the assay of pomegranate, and points out that Fromme has come to 
the conclusion that the variable results obtained are due to the loss 
of pomegranate alkaloids by volatilization. — Pharm. Rev., Milwau- 
kee, 1906, v. 24, pp. 272-273. 
Irokawa, K., examined commercial pomegranate bark and found 
that there is no distinct difference as to the quantity of alkaloid con- 
tained in the bark of roots, stems, and branches. He recommends 
the inclusion of the stem bark in the new Japanese Pharmacopoeia. — 
J. Pharm. Soc. Japan, 1906, p. 123. 
