152  Chemical  Analysis  of  Sage  Brush.  {^Sffi^* 
England  informs  me  that  at  the  Philadelphia  Hospital  they  use  an 
ammoniated  acetanilid,  the  formula  of  which  is  : 
Grains. 
Ammonium  carbonate  I 
Sodium  bicarbonate  \]/z 
Pulv.  acetanilid  
Misce. 
Dose,  one  to  three  powders. 
Ammonol  thus  appears  to  be  another  of  the  numerous  mixtures 
of  acetanilid  that  are  being  palmed  off  on  the  gullable  physicians 
as  new  and  valuable  discoveries.  The  names  published  in  their 
circulars  would  indicate  that  the  Ammonol  Chemical  Company  have 
been  unusually  successful  in  playing  on  the  credulity  of  quite  a 
number  of  prominent  practitioners,  and  medical  as  well  as  pharma- 
ceutical journals. 
CHEMICAL  ANALYSIS  OF   SAGE  BRUSH,  ARTEMISIA 
TRIDENTATA,  NUTT. 
By  Griffith  H.  Maghee. 
Contribution  from  the   Chemical  Laboratory  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy.    No.  161. 
The  sage  brush,  or  sage  bush,  is  a  small  shrub,  5  or  6  feet  in 
height,  which  grows  abundantly  on  the  Western  plains,  covering 
hundreds  of  square  miles  on  the  foot-hills  of  Nevada  and  Utah,  and 
extending  from  Arizona  to  Oregon  and  Sonora,  and  as  far  east  as 
Nebraska.  It  does  not  thrive  where  there  is  an  abundance  of  water, 
but  rather  prefers  a  dry,  barren  soil ;  ranchmen  very  often  clear  their 
ground  of  it  by  flooding  with  water. 
When  fired,  it  burns  rapidly  and  with  an  intense  heat,  affording 
excellent  fuel,  and  the  Indians  employ  the  smoky  flame  in  curing  or 
smoking  their  buckskins  ;  they  also  use  an  infusion  of  the  leaves 
for  colds,  headache  and  mountain  fever  (considered  by  many  physi- 
cians to  be  a  modification  of  typhoid  lever). 
The  leaves  and  flower  heads  used  in  the  present  analysis  were 
collected  in  Fremont  County,  Wyoming,  at  an  elevation  of  5,000 
feet.  Fifty  grammes  of  the  fine  powder  were  used,  and  the  usual 
method  of  plant  analysis  was  employed,  except  that  the  drug,  after 
extraction  with  alcohol,  was  enclosed  in  a  strong  piece  of  muslin 
and  suspended  in  the  water  and  succeeding  solvents,  with  the  result 
that  a  much  smaller  amount  of  liquid  was  necessary  for  complete 
