Du Mez—The Galenical Oleoresins . 
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Ballard 1903 
Sur quelques condiments des colonies francaise (Anise 
etoile, Cannelle, Cardamome, Curcurma, Gingembre, Girofle. 
Journ. de Pharm. et de Chim., 157, pp. 248 and 296. 
Ginger from the Ivory Coast is reported to have yielded 6.33 per cent, 
of ether extract, that from Tahiti, 3.75 per cent, p. 248. 
Black pepper yielded the following percentages of extractive matter 
to ether: 10.15, 8.70 and 5.50. 
Beythien 1903 
Capsicum. 
Zeitschr. Unters. Nahr. u Genussm., 5, p. 858. [Pharm. 
Ztg., 47, p. 549; Proc. A. Ph. A., 51, p. 747.] 
The examination of a number of commercial samples of powdered capsi- 
sicum showed the following: 
Yield of extract to ether (total) . 12.54 to 19.70 per cent. 
“ “ “ “ “ (av.) . 14.94 “ “ 
“ “ “ “ alcohol (total). 26.55 to 35.71 “ “ 
“ “ “ “ “ (av.) 28.94 “ “ 
Dieterich 1903 
Extract a spissa et sicca. 
Helfenberger Ann., 1903, p. 240. 
Three samples of extract of male fern examined showed a “ moisture ’ 1 
content of from 5.52 to 7.38 per cent., and gave from 0.27 to 0.39 per 
cent, of ash (p. 241.) 
Penndorff, O. 1903 
Untersuchungen ueber die Beschaffenheit kaeuflicher Filix- 
Rhizoma und Extrakte. 
Apoth.-Ztg., 18, p. 150. 
The author states that the rhizomes turn brown on aging due to the 
breaking down of the filix-tannic acid into filix-red and sugar. 
An examination of 20 samples of commercial rhizomes showed that 
12 of them or over 50 per cent, contained rhizomes of Aspidium spinulosum, 
1 sample consisted of 90 per cent, of this species. 
Twenty samples of commercial extracts were examined with the fol¬ 
lowing results: 
4 samples — Starch present in small quantities. 
1 sample —Aspidin present. 
20 samples —6.65 to 18.31 per cent, crude filicin. 
20 samples —1.06 to 7.48 per cent, filix acid. 
20 samples — 0.40 to 3.00 per cent, filix acid in solution. 
20 samples —0.40 to 6.05 per cent, filix acid deposited. 
7 samples — copper, more or less. 
