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ean be founded a common agreement it would be prudent to refrain 
from standardizing the official tincture by a process based on its 
alkaloidal strength. — Yearbook of Pharmacy, 1906, p. 214. 
Francis, John M., considers the adoption of the acetic menstrua 
for fluid extracts of lobelia, sanguinaria and squill to be a grievous 
mistake. Nothing gained on the score of economy and probably noth- 
ing in efficiency of the preparation. No method of assay or valuation 
of lobelia is given. In the case of digitalis and squill, the acetic fluids 
are very much inferior to the corresponding alcoholic preparations, 
when tested on animals, and in the case of sanguinaria repeated 
attempts have shown very deficient extraction of the alkaloids when 
the official menstruum was used. * * * We believe that the ninth 
revision will discard acetic menstrua. — Bull. Pharm., Detroit, 1906, 
v. 20, p. 10. 
Felter says specific lobelia is the remedy for the soft, open, full 
and doughy pulse, with not overactive velocity. There may be but 
little or a high temperature. As an arterial sedative it occupies a 
place between aconite and veratrum, and proves especially valuable 
in the circulatory disturbances of the exanthemata and of the acute 
respiratory diseases. — Eclectic Med. J., Cincin., 1906, v. 66, p. 204. 
Fyfe, John Williams, quotes Wooster Beach to the effect that — 
Lobelia pukes freely, but it is very exhausting to the system, and when given 
alone sometimes causes alarming appearances, although the patient soon 
recovers from its effects. I sometimes combine it with ipecac and bloodroot, 
equal parts, which makes an excellent emetic in all cases in which its use is 
required. — IMd, v. 66, p. 318. 
LUPULINUM. 
The Ph. Brit. Committee of Reference in Pharmacy report on 
lupulin says: 
Presumably this drug will be omitted, as it is practically never used. The ash 
figure, 10 per cent, is high enough if the drug is retained. — Chem. & Drug., 
Lond., 1906, v. 69, p. 864. 
Caesar & Loretz assert that the Ph. Ndl. IV requirement that 
lupulin have an ash content not exceeding 6 per cent is impractical. 
They point out that the naturally sieved lupulin has an ash content 
that varies from 14 to 20 per cent, and that it is only by the use of 
ingenious mechanical appliances that the ash content can be reduced 
to 10 per cent. — Geschafts-Ber. v. Caesar & Loretz, 1906, p. 36. 
G. Hell & Co., in Troppau, assert that lupulin is being offered 
which is decidedly inferior in quality. Five samples examined varied 
in ash content from 11.5 to 25 per cent. Only one out of six samples 
submitted complied with the requirements of the Ph. Austr. — Pharm. 
Post, Wien., 1906, v. 39, p. 181. 
