1182 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts, and Letters. 
Vanderkleed, C. E. 1912 
Report of Committee on Drag Market. 
Proc. Penna. Pharm. Assoc., 35, p. 165. 
The assay of 4 samples of capsicum showed the oleoresin content to be 
from 14.41 to 16.7 per cent; five samples of cubebs yielded 1.735 to 24.49 
per cent, of oleoresin; seventeen samples of Jamaica ginger, 3.444 to 6.640 
per cent; ten samples of African ginger, 6.85 to 11.10 per cent (p. 179.) 
- 1913 
Miscellaneous Inquiries. 
Chem. & Drugg., 82, p. 470. 
Gingerin is stated to be the extract obtained upon evaporating the tinc¬ 
ture of ginger. It is said to vary with the variety of ginger used in the 
preparation of the tincture. 
Capsicin is stated to be commercially indefinite. It may be a strong alco¬ 
holic extract, an ethereal, a chloroformie or an acetone preparation. The 
accepted capsicin of commerce, however, is the oleoresin prepared with 
ether. 
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- 1913 
Die Methoden zur Wertbestimmung des Filixextrakts. 
Pharm. Ztg., 58, p. 129. 
The methods of Goris and Yoisin, and E. Schmidt for the evaluation of 
the extract of male fern are discussed. 
-- 1913 
Extractum Filicis. 
Caesar and Loretz, Jahres.-Ber., Sept. 1913, pp. 98 and 106. 
Four samples of extract of male fern prepared by the firm showed a 
crude filicin content of 32.64, 23.7, 28.15 and 30.4 per cent., respectively, 
(p. 98.) 
The firm guarantees the filicin content of their extract to be 27 per 
cent. 
- 1913 
Male fern extract. 
Evans Sons Lescher & Webb, Analyt. Notes, 8, p. 44. [Year- 
Book of Pharm., 51, p. 244.] 
Seven samples of extract of male fern examined during the year showed 
a filicin content of 21.3 to 25.3 per cent, and a refractive index of 1.5 to 1.51. 
Three samples were impure or suspicious. They showed a refractive 
index of 1.495, 1,497 and 1.499, and a filicin content of 15.6, 19.6 and 
19.7 per cent., respectively. 
