^°sept"i88r™'}  Hypopkosphltes  containing  Iron.  •  437 
The  samples  were  those  of  Powers  &  Weightman^  Eosengarten, 
Merck,  T.  &  H.  Smith,  and  Chas.  T.  White. 
In  round  numbers  one  part  of  this  salt  requires  from  18  to  24  parts 
-of  water  at  15°C.  for  solution. 
SOME  NEW  PEEPARATIONS  of  the  HYPOPHOSPHITES 
CONTAINING  lEON.^ 
By  C.  Lewis  Diehl. 
Several  years  ago  I  was  requested  by  a  physician  to  prepare  for  one 
of  his  patients  a  pleasant  combination  of  the  hypophosphites  of  iron 
and  quinia,  if  possible,  in  the  form  of  an  elixir,  and  in  as  nearly  a 
neutral  condition  as  practicable.  After  some  experiments  I  succeeded 
in  making  a  very  acceptable  preparation — in  fact,  an  elegant  elixir, 
containing  in  each  fluidrachm  one  grain  of  each  of  the  salts  named,  in 
perfectly  neutral  combination.  The  successful  production  of  this 
preparation  led  me  to  apply  the  chemical  facts  involved  to  the  produc- 
tion of  other  combinations  of  hypophosphites  containing  iron,  some  of 
which  have  been  received  with  decided  favor  by  the  physicians  w^hose 
:attention  I  have  been  able  to  invite  to  them.  Thinking  that  possibly 
these  preparations  may  merit  more  extended  use,  and  that  at  all  events 
they  are  interesting  combinations,  I  have  concluded  to  make  known 
their  formulas  and  the  methods  of  their  preparation  in  the  following : 
So  much  has  been  written  about  the  hypophosphites,  and  there  is  so 
iiifiuch  diversity  of  opinion  as  to  the  best  mode  of  their  exhibition,  as 
well  as  of  their  therapeutic  value,  that  I  deem  it  necessary  only  to 
briefly  note  the  points  that  seem  to  make  it  desirable  that  preparations 
■of  hypophosphites  containing  iron  should  be  prepared  as  below  recom- 
juended.  The  preparation  of  hypophosphites  which  has  found  most 
favor  in  this  country  is  the  so-called  "  ChurchilFs  syrup  of  the  hypo- 
,phosphites.'^  Whether  Dr.  ChurchilFs  original  syrup  was  one  con- 
taining only  hypophosphite  of  calcium,  as  seems  to  me  probable,  or 
whether  it  conformed  to  one  or  the  other  of  the  formulas  for  "  syrup 
of  the  hypophosj^hites  "  proposed  by  Mr.  W.  S.  Thompson,  of  Balti- 
*  Read  at  the  meeting  of  the  Kentucky  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in 
<^)vington,  May,  1882.  Keprint  from  the  "  Louisville  Medical  News," 
«forninunicated  by  the  author. 
