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Fromme, G., reports some comparative results obtained by a modi- 
fication of Keller’s method of assay of stramonium. — Geschafts-Ber. 
v. Caesar & Loretz, 1906, p. 27. 
Dolnne, A. K. L., reports the amount of alkaloid found in the 
same sample of stramonium leaf, by the same process, by seven an- 
alysts to vary from 0.24 to 0.40 per cent. — Am. Druggist, N. Y., 
1906, v. 49, p. 268. 
Schieffelin, Wm. Jay, on behalf of the Committee of the N. W. 
D. A. suggested that the standard for stramonium be reduced from 
0.35 per cent of mydriatic alkaloids to 0.25 per cent. — Ibid ., v. 49, 
p. 347. 
V anderkleed, Charles E., reports the assay of 9 lots of stramonium 
leaf which averaged 0.458 per cent of mydriatic alkaloids. Only one 
sample asayed below 0.35 per cent. (The present standard is 0.25 
per cent.) — Proc. Pennsylvania Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 124. 
The Helfenberger Annalen (for 1906, p. 112) records some ex- 
periments in the systematic determination of the extract content of 
stramonium leaves. — Pharm. Zentralh., 1906, v. 47, p. 854. 
Lyons, A. B., reports that 6 of the 12 replies received indicated 
that the former standard, 0.35 gm. mydriatic alkaloids in 100 c. c. of 
fluid extract of stramonium, is satisfactory and readily maintained. — 
Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 1906, v. 54, p. 437. 
Farr and Wright present some notes on the standardization of 
powdered alcoholic extract of stramonium seed and of stramonium 
leaf. — Pharm. J., Bond., 1906, v. 22, pp. 310-312. 
See Gordin’s comment under Bella donnae Folia. 
Moerk, Frank X., points out that the extract of stramonium is 
required to be four times the strength of the drug and that the tinc- 
ture represents but 8.6 per cent of the contained alkaloids in place of 
10 per cent of the drug strength. — Proc. Pennsylvania Pharm. Ass., 
1906, p. 159. 
Hommell, P. E., wonders that the tincture should have been made 
official ; he asserts that the average physician prescribes preparations 
of stramonium, but rarely, perhaps, the ointment or the solid ex- 
tract. — Proc. New Jersey Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 109. 
Fyfe, John William, asserts that Datura stramonium constituted 
a useful remedy in inflammatory and painful swellings of the 
glands, and it was also deemed efficient in epilepsy and other con- 
vulsions. — Eclectic Med. J., Cincin., 1906, v. 66, p. 321. 
STRONTII BROMIDUM. 
Brooks, H., uses strontium bromide in the treatment of coronary 
sclerosis. — J. Am. M. Ass., v. 47, p. 1594. 
