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strychnia, than kermes does. The relative efficacy of the two substances 
can only be tested by experience: the experiments on animals require to be 
extensively repeated, lest we may be deceived by exceptional circumstances. 
It is possible that all the advantages in M. ThorePs arose from the evacua- 
which were induced by the antimony and buckthorn. — The British and 
Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review , July, 1850, from Journal de Pharmacie et de 
Chimie, 8 Ser., xvii, pp. 185-91. 
On the destruction of the Odor of Musk by Camphor. By M. Fleischmann. — 
The fact of musk, when mixed with other substances (as sidph., antim., 
aurat., syrup of almonds, wax, &c.,) almost entirely losing its odor, has often 
been observed; but the attention of M. Fleischmann has been recently more 
particularly drawn to the subject, by his finding that a powder, composed 
of musk, camphor, and sugar, lost its odor after mixing. Repeating the 
experiment, he found that, as often as camphor was commingled with musk, 
it exerted this effect upon it; so, too, when musk was given with an oleo- 
saccharum, as cinnamon, &c, its odor became lost. — Ibid from Buckners 
Repert., Band iv. p. 262. 
Adulteration of Quinine. — Stresemann has observed adulterations of quinine 
with from 30 to 40 per cent of salicine ; Sckeyde, with from 10 to 18 per 
cent of sugar and milk: and VVinckler, with 40 per cent of chalk. — Ibid 
from Liebig's Report, p. 475. 
On the Saffron of the East. By X. Landerer, of Athens. — On the Conti- 
nent, as well as on the islands of the Archipelago, the stigmata of Crocus 
Spruneri. sativus, vernus, luteus, and variegatus are gathered and sold as 
saffron (Safora.) In the whole of Greece, about 30 to 40 pounds are 
annually gathered of it; but much more is brought from Macedonia and 
Thracia, where the saffron is said to be taken from the Crocm aureus, but 
mixed with the petals of Crocus and Calendula. It is sold in the bazaars of 
Smyrna. Thessalonica, and Gallipolis, a large quantity of saffron, about 
30,000 litres annually, is brought by Persian small dealers to the so-called 
Misir-bazaars in Constantinople, i. e. the bazaars where all the products from 
the interior of Asia Minor, from Egypt, and from the Caucasus are sold. — 
Pharmaceutical Journal, October 1, 1850. 
On a Compound of Iodine and Codeine. By T. Anderson, M. D. — The 
compound of iodine and codeine, which formed the special subject of this 
communication, is obtained by mixing together alcoholic solutions of equal 
quantities of codeine and iodine, and leaving the mixture to spontaneous 
evaporation, when the new compound is deposited in crystals. The com- 
pound is insoluble in water, sparingly soluble in cold alcohol, but readily in 
boiling, and it is again deposited in small triangular plates as the solution 
cools. Its crystalline form has been determined by Prof. Haidinger of 
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