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quor  for  general  use  in  the  preparation  of  elixirs.  Such  a  liquor 
might  be  termed  an  alcarome.  In  a  general  way  glycerin  appears 
better  applicable  than  sugar  as  a  sweetening  for  elixirs.  The  mixture 
of  three  measures  of  alcarome  with  one  measure  of  glycerin  might 
then  be  appropriately  designated  as  a  glycarome. 
The  writer  prepares  alcarome  by  separating  the  shells  from  three 
drams  of  cardamom  and  triturating  the  grains  to  a  fine  powder.  One 
and  a  half  troy  ounces  of  coriander  is  then  also  finely  powdered. 
The  two  powders  are  then  mixed  with  ten  drops  of  oil  of  cassia  and 
half  a  troy  ounce  of  powdered  magnesium  carbonate.  This  powder 
is  now  added  to  a  mixture  of  2  pints  of  alcohol  and  4  pints  of  water. 
The  whole  is  set  aside  for  several  days,  well  shaken  at  intervals, 
then  poured  into  a  filter  and  the  filtrate  brought  to  the  measure  of  six 
pints  by  the  addition  of  enough  (J)  alcohol  through  the  filter. 
To  prepare  elixir  or  rather  glycarome  of  ammonio-magnesium  val- 
erate, one  troy  ounce  of  valeric  acid  is  mixed  with  6  fluidounces  of 
water  and  125  grains  of  ammonium  bicarbonate.  After  all  the  bicarbon- 
ate is  added  and  decomposed  an  excess  (about  3  drachms)  of  magnesium 
carbonate  is  incorporated  during  occasional  stirring.  One  drachm  of 
cochineal  is  now  rubbed  to  a  fine  powder  and  mixed  with  the  solution 
of  the  valerates.  The  mixture  is  then  poured  into  a  filter  and  when 
all  the  liquid  has  passed  down,  followed  by  alcarome  until  24  fluid- 
ounces  of  filtrate  is  collected.  To  this,  8  fluidounces  of  glycerin  is 
added  and  the  whole  well  mixed. 
ANTISEPTIC  COTTONS  AND  GAUZES. 
By  Joseph  W.  England,  Ph.G. 
Read  at  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting,  March  22. 
Pilcher,  in  his  "  Treatment  of  Wounds,"  from  whose  work  some  of 
the  formulas  herein  given  are  taken,  as  there  expressed  or  modified, 
says  that  "  Septic  infection  is  to  be  guarded  against  by  covering  the 
parts  with  soft  and  absorbent  material  that  will  receive  and  keep  asep- 
tic the  discharges  that  drain  away  from  them  and  that  will  purify 
from  septic  particles  the  air  that  passes  through  them  to  the  wound. 
For  this  purpose  many  substances  will  be  found  useful.  Among  those 
more  commonly  employed  are  cotton-wool  (absorbent  cotton),  loosely 
woven  cotton-cloth,  gauze  and  lint,  tow,  jute,  turf-mould,  charcoal, 
