460 
Lowry, Wm. J., jr., also objects to this manipulation and suggests 
several modifications of the method. — Proc. Maryland Pharm. Ass., 
1906, pp. 86-90. 
Lunan, George, makes some interesting observations and sugges- 
tions concerning granular effervescent preparations. — Pharm. J. 
Lond., 1906, v. 23, pp. 665-668. 
Remington, J. Percy, describes his method for the manufacture of 
granular effervescent salts. — Proc. Pennsylvania Pharm. Ass., 1906, 
p. 144. 
Vanderkleed and Turner discuss methods for the analysis of granu- 
lar effervescent salts, which, as the authors point out, involves a 
number of more or less complicated problems. They present in 
detail the methods used by them for the analysis of a number of 
commercial samples. — Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 1906, v. 54, pp. 412- 
422. 
SAL CAROLINUM FACTITIUM N. F. 
Klut points out that the crystalline form of artificial Carlsbad 
salt, as usually found, is of uncertain composition because the sev- 
eral ingredients do not crystallize out uniformly, the sodium car- 
bonate being more soluble than the other ingredients remaining in 
the mother liquor. — Pharm. Ztg., Berl., 1906, v. 51, p. 460. 
SALICINUM. 
Irvine and Rose describe a synthetical method which they devised 
in order to prove that salicin possesses the y-oxidic linking. — J. Chem. 
Soc. Lond., 1906, v. 89, pt. 1. pp. 814-822. 
Tyrrell, John Boyd, describes the technic of salicin administration 
in the treatment of acute articular rheumatism, and states that it is 
usually borne better alone than the mixed treatment. — X. YorkM. J., 
1906, v. 84. p. 1089. 
SALVIA. 
An editorial notes that Salvia officinalis is mentioned in the Ice- 
landic Pharmacopoeia of the thirteenth century. — Chem. & Drug., 
Lond., 1906, v. 69, p. 969. 
Fyfe, John William, says that Salvia officinalis was extensively 
employed in coughs, colds, and fevers, and held in such high esteem 
that one author wrote : “ Why dies the man whose garden sage 
affords? ”• — Eclectic M. J., Cincin., 1906, v. 66, p. 322. 
SANGUINAItlA. 
Henkel, Alice, mentions Sanguinaria canadensis L., commonly 
called sanguinaria, bloodroot v red puccoon, Indian-paint, and tetter- , 
wort, as being found in rich, open woods from Nova Scotia to 
