April 26, 1S73.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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SUGGESTED ADDITIONS TO THE PHAR¬ 
MACOPEIA APPENDIX. 
BY A. W. GERRARD, 
Pharmacist , Guy's Hospital. 
. The following preparations are suggested as posses¬ 
sing sufficient merit to entitle them to a place in the 
proposed Appendix to the British Pharmacopoeia. 
All of them have been prescribed for some time past 
by the physicians and surgeons of Guy’s Hospital, 
and some of them by those of St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital, and they have been found to be highly 
useful and efficacious remedies. 
Glycerine of Belladonna. 
Take of— 
Extract of Belladonna ... 1 ounce. 
Glycerine . 1 fluid ounce. 
Mix the glycerine gradually with the extract in a 'Wedg¬ 
wood mortar. 
This is a very useful preparation, and one which I 
believe would soon become a favourite with the 
medical profession. 
Solutions for Hypodermic Injection of Atro¬ 
pine, Morphia, and Quinine. 
For some time past different prescribers have been 
using solutions of these alkaloids for hypodermic 
injections of different strengths, and prepared by 
different methods. Being organic products, the 
solutions are liable to undergo change, developing 
a confervoid growth, the prevention of which is an 
object yet to be attained, and for which a series 
of experiments on the solubility and keeping proper¬ 
ties of the various salts of the above, both organic 
and inorganic, are required. 
My experience with the acetate of morphia has 
been that the stronger the solution is made the 
better it keeps. Some samples of the salt I have 
found would not entirely dissolve. This, I believe, 
w T as due to unconverted morphia, a defect of manu¬ 
facture, which I have remedied by the careful addition 
of acetic acid until dissolved, and afterwards of a 
small quantity of dilute solution of ammonia until 
slight turbidity was produced, and then filtering. 
This ensures a neutral preparation. The following 
formula is a good one:— 
Take of— 
Acetate of Morphia . 1 drachm. 
Warm distilled Water . 6 drachms. 
Dissolve and filter. 
Liquid Extract of Senega. 
To be made after the usual method for liquid 
extracts, namely, by maceration and percolation. 
This class of preparations is now regarded with 
much favour, and I believe the future of English 
pharmacy is destined to witness a large increase in 
the number. I consider the above one of the best 
and most elegant; it has a pleasant, peach-like odour, 
and the characteristic sweetish bitter taste in a high 
degree. 
Opium Suppositories. 
The only suppository in the Pharmacopoeia con¬ 
taining opium is the compound suppository of lead, 
which contains acetate of lead as well as opium. I 
think it is desirable to add one containing opium 
Third Series. No. 148. 
simply, as it is frequently prescribed; and for 
this purpose I would advise the extract to be used, 
as being less irritating, more quickly absorbed, and 
forming a suppository of more uniform strength than 
the powder. 
Resin of Copaiba. 
In a recent number of the Lancet , Dr. Wilks speaks 
highly of this substance as a remedial agent, and 
remarks that he should like to see it have a place in 
the Pharmacopoeia, as it is at present found in but 
few chemists’ shops. 
NOTES ON INDIAN SIMARUBEJE. 
BY ALFRED W. BENNETT, M.A., B.SC., F.L.S., 
Lecturer on Botany, St. Thomas's Hospital. 
{Continuedfrom p. 802.) 
There is a good review of the order by Planclion in 
Hooker’s 1 London Journal of Botany,’ 2nd series, vol.v. 
The Indian species may be thus classified :— 
Tribe I. — Simarube^e. 
Ovary deeply divided. 
1. Ailanthus, JDesf. 
Lofty trees with alternate, unequally pinnate leaves- 
Flowers small, polygamous, bracteolate, in terminal 
or axillary panicles. Calyx 5-cleft; lobes equal, im¬ 
bricate. Petals 5, valvate. Disc 10-lobed. Stamens 
] 0 (in the hermaphrodite flowers 2-3) ; filaments 
short or elongated, not scaly. Ovary 2-5-partite ; 
styles connate ; ovules solitary in each cell, semi- 
anatropous. Fruit samaroid ; samarse 1-5, with very 
large membranous wing, 1-seeded. Seed pendulous, 
sparsely albuminous. 
The genus is confined to Tropical Asia and Aus¬ 
tralia ; and includes 4 species. 
1. A. glandulosa ,• Desf. Act. Ac. Par. 1736, p. 263, 
t. 8 ; DC. Prodr. i. 89. A lofty tree with very large 
unequally pinnate leaves, frequently exceeding a foot 
in length ; the leaflets very numerous, shortly stalked, 
pubescent or subglabrous, very coarsely toothed at 
the base. Flowers small in much branched panicles. 
Stamens with elongated exserted filiform filaments, 
several times longer than the anthers. Fruit of about 
three membranous linear-oblong samarse, about 15 
lines long by 4 lines broad. Seed near the centre of 
the samara, about 2 lines by 1 line. 
A native of China, generally distributed over 
Northern India, but probably introduced. Appa¬ 
rently destitute of useful properties either in the 
wood or bark, but frequently planted in India for the 
sake of its magnificent foliage, which is also the 
ordinary food of one of the Chinese silkworms, 
Bombyx Cynthia. 
2. A. excelsa, Roxb. Cor. i. t. 23 ; FI. Ind. ii. 450 ; 
DC. Prodr. i. 89 ; W. & A. Prodr. 150 ; Wight, Illust. 
i. t. 67. A tree 60 to 80 feet high, with unequally 
pinnate leaves, a foot or more in length, the leaflets 
very numerous, on long stalks, very coarsely dentate, 
very unequal at the base, and, as well as the petioles, 
glandular hairy. Flowers larger than in A. glandu¬ 
losa, on longisli pedicels, in large, lax, often very much 
branched panicles. Petals ovate-lanceolate, com¬ 
monly reflexed. Stamens with very short filaments, 
about half the length of the anthers. Samara) larger 
than in A. glandulosa , 2 inches by 4 inch, strongly 
