COOKS RECEIVED. 
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(live grains) of strychnia, by mistake for calomel. When the young woman went home, 
she swallowed the dose, which was immedi, ely followed by the usual effects—great 
agony an d a rapid dissolution. She was dead in less than fifteen minutes. Deceased 
was aged 27 years. The case, we hear, is in the hands of the authorities .—Aberdeen 
Journal. 
Poisoning- by Sulphuric Acid.—A young woman named Brown was tried at 
Bury St. Edmunds, March 28th, on the charge of causing the death of her illegitimate 
child by sulphuric acid. The post-mortem examination and the analysis proved poison¬ 
ing by oil of vitrol, but as the jury did not consider the evidence sufficient to prove the 
administration of the poison by the mother, they acquitted her. 
Perchloride of Iron and Collodion.—This combination constitutes a good 
haemostatic in the case of cuts, leech-bites, etc. One part of the crystallized perchloride 
of iron is to be dissolved in six parts of collodion ; but this must be done very gradually, 
or the heat which is produced will cause the ebullition of the collodion. The mixture is 
a yellowish-red, limpid fluid, which, when applied to the skin, gives rise to a small yel¬ 
low pellicle possessed of great elasticity .—Reine Med., Nov. 15, and Medical Times. 
The Acorns Calamus as a Preventive of Insect depredations.—Dr. 
Schultes observes that much use was made by the older naturalist travellers in the East 
of the powder of the root of Acorus Calamus as a preservative*against insects, and that he 
has found it of the highest utility for the protection of herbaria against the ravages of 
the Annobium panniceum. Some of the powder is to be occasionally strewed over the 
plants, and this insect, beetles, etc., at once desert the spot wherever its smell is per¬ 
ceptible. For the same reason it is a valuable means of preserving zoological collections 
from insect depredations.— Buchner's Repertorium , 1863, No. 8, and Medical Times. 
Invalid Bath.—A very useful bath has lately been invented by Mr. Maddox, sur¬ 
gical instrument maker to University College Hospital. It is made in such a shape that 
it can readily be passed under a person either lying in bed or sitting up; besides which 
it possesses the advantage that the water cannot be spilt. The part which is likely to 
be brought into contact with the patient is well padded, and the material of which the 
bath is made is a guarantee against accidents which sometimes occur with more fragile 
materials. The bath is both portable and cheap. 
REVIEW. 
Notes on the British Pharmacopoeia. By A. F. Haselden. 
This little book contains a great deal of useful information respecting the British 
Pharmacopoeia, and will render material assistance to those who are engaged in studying 
the new work, and making themselves acquainted with the relations existing between 
its processes and products, and those of the Loudon, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharma¬ 
copoeias. The changes which have been made, as far as relates to additions, omissions, 
and changes of name, are represented in tables. Then a series of notes are given, in 
which any peculiarities in the processes are pointed out, and in this part differences in 
strength or composition, if they exist, in the medicines, as compared with those made 
by previous processes, are particularly noticed. Many of the remarks which occur in 
these notes are judicious, the object of the author being apparently rather to explain, 
than to criticize what he comments upon. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
The C he mist’s Price-Book, or Retail Counter Companion. By Joseph Goddard, 
M.R.S. Seventh edition, enlarged and revised according to the British Pharmacopoeia. 
1864. London: sold by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Farriugdon Street. 
Archives of Medicine. Edited by Lionel S. Beale. Vol. IV. No. 14. London: 
John Churchill and Sons. Leipzig: Ludwig Denicke. 
