18  Syrup  of  Wild  Cherry  and  Nitrous  Ether.    { Am>aT'i£7.arm' 
avoid  the  duty  on  the  refined  article,  and  as  it  is  shipped  free  as  bal- 
last, it  makes  a  cheap  article  with  which  American  high-priced  labor 
and  freights  will  hardly  allow  of  competition. 
The  great  demand  for  sulphur  is,  of  course,  for  the  manufacturing 
of  sulphuric  acid,  and  it  would  seem  at  first  sight  that  it  would  be 
necessary  to  ship  our  western  sulphur  to  the  east  and  supply  this  de- 
mand, in  order  to  make  the  enterprise  a  profitable  one ;  this,  plainly 
enough,  would  eat  up  the  profits.  But  such  is  not  the  case,  the  de- 
mand for  sulphur  in  the  West  is  enormous  and  is  steadily  increasing, 
and  will  continue  to  increase  as  long  as  the  population  increases  and 
new  industries  are  started  in  operation.  Sulphur  is  used  largely  in  the 
West,  especially  in  Colorado,  New  Mexico,  and  Texas,  as  a  "  sheep 
dip."  This  "dip"  is  composed  of  sulphur  and  an  alkali,  and  is  used 
for  cleansing  the  sheep  and  destroying  a  kind  of  itch  that  is  common  in 
that  locality.  The  carrying  out  of  this  cleansing  is  compelled  by 
law.  Little  towns  in  the  West  that  are  hardly  noticeable  on  the  maps 
and  are  almost  unheard-of,  purchase  annually  from  five  to  ten  car- 
loads of  sulphur.  This  sulphur  is  then  sold  to  the  various  ranches  in 
the  vicinity  and  used  as  described;  Sulphur,  again,  is  largely  used  in 
restoring  old  vineyards,  especially  in  California  and  that  vicinity.  It 
is  also  used  in  a  variety  of  smaller  ways  that  are  well  known  in  the 
East.  The  imports  of  this  article  in  1878  were  48,102  tons,  and  in 
1886  were  117,538  tons,  showing  an  increase  of  over  sixty-nine  thous- 
and tons  in  the  importation  in  eight  years,  and  in  the  next  eight  years 
the  increase,  of  course,  will  be  much  greater  unless  we  bring  our  west- 
tern  sulphur  into  the  market ;  and  it  will  be  brought  into  the  market 
and  will  compete  with  the  Sicily  trade,  just  as  sure  as  American  energy 
and  enterprise  continues  to  be  what  it  has  been  in  the  past. 
SYRUP  OF  WILD  CHERRY  BARK  AND  NITROUS 
ETHER. 
By  Thos.  S.  Wiegand. 
Read  at  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting,  December  21. 
A  few  weeks  since,  having  occasion  to  make  use  of  a  cough  mixture 
composed  of  acetate  of  morphine,  syrup  of  squill  and  syrup  of  wild- 
cherry  bark,  and  symptoms  arising  which  rendered  the  use  of  sweet 
spirit  of  nitre  desirable,  an  addition  of  25  per  cent,  of  that  prepar- 
ation was  made  to  the  first-named  mixture  ;  it  apparently  produced  no 
