Du Mez—The Galenical Oleoresins. 
1175 
Vanderkeed, C. A. 1909 
Report of the Committee on Adulteration. 
Proc. Penna. Pharm., Assoc., 32, p. 119. 
Samples of capsicum, cubebs, ginger, and male fern examined are re¬ 
ported to have yielded oleoresin as follows: five samples of capsicum, 14.34 
to 17.95 per'cent; four samples of cubebs, 16.49 to 24.34 per cent; sixteen 
samples of Jamaica ginger, 3.142 to 6.91 per cent; two samples of African 
ginger, 8.2 and 9.036 per cent; one sample of male fern, 10.33 per cent, 
(p. 129.) 
-— 1910 
Extractum Filicis. 
Caesar and Loretz, Jahres-Ber., Sept. 1910, p. 90. 
Fromme’s method for the estimation of crude filicin is given. 
- 1910 
Cubebs. 
Southall Bros. & Barclay, Lab. Rep., 17, p. 11. 
Eight samples of cubebs, when extracted with petroleum spirits, yielded 
from 3.88 to 18.08 per cent, of extractive matter. The same samples on 
subsequent extraction with alcohol (90 per cent.) yielded from 3.4 to 5.66 
per cent, of extractive matter. 
- 1910 
Capsicum. 
Southall Bros. & Barclay, Lab. Rep., 17, p. 8. 
Two samples of capsicum (B. P. C.) yielded 15.4 and 14.0 per cent., 
respectively, of extract to benzol. 
Dohme and Engelhardt 1910 
The new Hungarian Pharmacopoeia. 
Proc. Am. Pharm. Assoc., 58, p. 1168. 
The extraction of male fern with ether, as directed in the Ph. Hung. Ill, 
instead of acetone as in the 77. S. P., VIII, is thought to be desirable since 
the latter is liable to extract substances which might produce injurious 
after etfects (p. 1179.) 
It is further stated that the yield of ether extract as given in the Hun¬ 
garian Pharmacopoeia is 8 per cent. (p. 1184.) 
