282  Formulas  for  Galenical  Preparations.    { Am j^efiSS™' 
the  Masonic  and  religious  societies,  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical 
professions,  and  especially  attended  by  the  members  of  the  Chicago 
Veteran  Druggists'  Association,  of  which  he  was  an  honored  past- 
president.  He  was  buried  at  Oakwood  Cemetery.  The  pall-bearers 
were  Prof.  J.  H.  Long,  Thomas  N.  Jamieson,  W.  Bodemann,  Henry 
Biroth,  Thomas  H.  Patterson  and  Judson  S.  Jacobus.  It  was  in 
everybody's  mind,  "  That  a  good  man  has  passed  away,  and  the 
world  is  better  for  it  that  he  has  lived." 
Among  those  who  had  tutelage  and  training  under  Mr.  Sargent, 
we  recall,  previous  to  the  fire,  Samuel  H.  Larmanie,  Peter  J.  Singer, 
Albert  E.  Ebert,  Thomas  W.  Baird,  Louis  Strehl,  John  Corbidge, 
N.  Gray  Bartlett,  Thomas  N.  Jamieson,  Judson  S.  Jacobus,  Isaac  H. 
Fry,  Edwin  R.  Smith,  Edward  C.  Jones,  H.  M.  Palmer,  George  Ives, 
Fred  M.  Schmidt,  Rollin  A.  Keyes. 
FORMULAS  FOR  SOME  GALENICAL  PREPARATIONS  OF 
THREE  VEGETABLE  DRUGS  THAT  MERIT 
FURTHER  MEDICAL  ATTENTION.1 
By  George  M.  Beringer. 
Galega  Officinalis  Linn'e. — This  perennial  herbaceous  leguminous 
plant  is  indigenous  to  Southern  Europe,  and  is  but  slowly  acquiring 
a  reputation  as  a  valuable  galactagogue.  It  is  now  more  than 
thirty  years  since  Gillett-Damitte,  in  1873,  in  a  communication  to 
the  French  Academy,  reported  that  experiments  demonstrated  a 
real  foundation  in  fact  for  the  popular  belief  in  the  galactagogue 
value  of  this  plant.  Since  then  a  number  of  other  investigators 
have  confirmed  this  conclusion.  The  generic  name,  u  Galega,"  is 
derived  from  the  Greek  and  signifies  to  lead  or  induce  milk,  showing 
that  as  long  ago  as  the  time  when  Linnaeus  wrote  his  il  Species 
Plantarum  "  this  property  was  attributed  to  this  particular  species. 
The  tops,  including  stems  and  leaves,  are  the  parts  used  for  stimu- 
lating lacteal  secretion.  To  the  root  is  ascribed  diaphoretic,  diuretic, 
antispasmodic  and  anthelmintic  properties.  The  older  writers 
recommended  an  infusion  of  the  herb  (10-200),  given  in  tablespoon- 
ful  doses  every  hour  or  an  aqueous  solid  extract  given  in  5-gramme 
1  Read  at  the  meeting  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  at 
Bernardsville,  May  25,  1904. 
