i)ctrietu0 
Disulphate of Quinia rendered soluble by Tartaric Acid. — M. Righini has 
proposed to substitute tartaric acid for sulphuric acid to render the com- 
mercial sulphate of quinise soluble in water when directed in solution by 
prescriptions, as being less austere and disagreeable to the taste. M. Caso- 
rati, of Turin, gives the following formula: Sulphate of Quinia, six grains; 
Tartaric Acid, three grains; Syrup of Oranges, a fluid ounce. L'Abeille 
Medicate. 
Bark of the Musssenna Tree (of Abyssinia - ) a Remedy for Tape Worm. — 
By Dr. Prunerbey. — This bark, derived from a leguminous tree, is a popular 
remedy in Abyssinia for the taenia which is so common in that country, 
and for which the kousso is so celebrated. Dr. Prunerbey treated a patient 
with this bark with the following results. It was given by admixing about 
two ounces of the powdered bark with hashed meat slightly cooked. The 
patient eat nothing the evening preceding, nor on the day the medicine was 
administered until the evening, when he took a little rice. The next day 
the worm was passed with a soft stool, in many pieces, a little softened and 
decomposed. Since this case, the author used the remedy with complete 
success in nineteen cases. Its action differs from that of kousso by killing 
the parasite without causing diarrhoea. — Jour, de Chimie Med., Feb. 1852. 
Purgative Syrup of Jalap. By .M. Viel. — Take of powdered jalap, an 
ounce; alcohol, 3 J fluid ounces; water, 26 J fluid ounces ; sugar, 30 ounces. 
Digest the jalap in the water and alcohol, previously mixed in a flask, 
during five or six hours, at the temperature of 90° to 100 q - F., filter, add 
the sugar and dissolve it, aromatise and preserve for use. 
This syrup, which is an agreeable purge for young children, may be 
given in tea-spoonful doses. — Ibid. 
Soluble Iodide of Starch. By M. Duboys, of Limoges. — Take of pulver- 
ized iodine one part, starch 9 parts. The starch is gradually added in small 
quantities to the iodine, with constant trituration. The mixture is then 
moistened with a little water introduced into a flask and heated, plunged 
up to its neck in a water bath. The flask is withdrawn and agitated from 
time to time and the iodide tested as to its solubility. The heating'is continued 
during three hours to effect its complete and instantaneous solubility in water. 
The iodide is found in the retort in the form of a thick, tenacious and 
elastic paste which is washed thoroughly on a filter with rectified alcohol, 
and then dried in a stove, or in free air. 
The iodide, after desiccation, is black, brilliant, nearly inodorous, nearly 
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