528 
Pharmacy  and  Chemistry. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\  November,  1904 
flowers  are  distilled  with  water  from  a  common  still.  The  distillate 
of  oil  and  water  separates  into  two  layers,  the  lower  being  the  oil. 
This  is  tapped  off,  filtered  through  talcum  and  furnishes  a  water- 
white  first  quality  oil.  The  last  runnings  are  more  yellowish  in 
tint  and  have  a  slight  smoky  odor.  B.  Largado,  of  Manila,  shows 
some  10  pounds  of  the  various  grades. 
The  Spanish  naturally  never  forget  tobacco.  Here  are  all  quali- 
ties of  leaf  and  cigars,  cigarettes  and  the  like.  The  most  striking 
is  the  manner  in  which  the  finest  quality  are  sent  into  the  trade. 
Each  box  looks  like  a  chemical  laboratory;  it  is  filled  with  test 
tubes  tightly  corked,  each  test  tube  containing  a  single  cigar. 
The  firm  of  Ynchausti  &  Ca.,  Tanduay,  Manila,  are  extensive 
makers  of  alcohol,  spirits,  liqueurs,  rhum,  etc.  The  alcohol  shown 
is  water-white,  of  first  and  second  quality.  Cana  is  the  name  of 
alcohol  made  from  sugar  cane.  Ron  is  rhum.  The  exhibit  is  very 
elegantly  gotten  up. 
We  have  read  of  the  deadly  crazing  "  vino  "  that  many  of  our 
troops  attacked  with  gusto  and  were  sent  home  in  a  pitiful  condi- 
tion. Palms  are  many  in  the  islands ;  sweet  juices  may  be  extracted 
from  the  flowers.  Fermenting,  distilling  and  the  like,  a  powerful 
intoxicant  results.  Many  wines  of  this  kind,  gins,  true  wines,  mos- 
catels  and  beers  make  up  a  large  portion  of  this  exhibit. 
The  Forestry  Building  boasts  many  beautiful  slabs  of  timber. 
Slabs  from  a  single  tree  10  feet  across  and  many  feet  long  are  com- 
mon. Of  exquisite  color,  weight  and  hardness,  these  trees  furnish 
the  best  of  wood  for  the  carpenter. 
The  collection  of  barks,  roots  and  resins  used  medicinally  number 
into  the  thousands.  We  may  say  that  there  are,  if  anything,  too 
many.  It  is  simply  bewildering  to  see  the  wealth  of  drugs  fur- 
nished by  the  Philippine  forests. 
Of  resins  there  are  several  hundred  ;  also,  in  many  cases,  the 
latex  is  shown.  Probably  a  ton  of  one  single  resin,  that  known  as 
alamaciga,  obtained  from  Agathis  canarium,  testifies  to  the  import- 
ance of  this  branch  of  forestry.  This  resin  is  in  enormous  lumps, 
many  being  over  6  inches  through.  The  resin  is  hard,  of  pale  yel- 
low to  brown  tints,  and  quite  translucent.  It  is  still  in  the  original 
Philippine  package,  long  knitted  bags  of  thin  willow  or  other  wood 
thongs ;  the  mesh  averages  2  inches.  This  resin  comes  in  the  class 
of  dammar,  kauri  and  other  hard  resins.    It  makes  good  varnish. 
