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peutic  agent.  It  seems  likely  to  retain  its  qualities,  not  only  on  ac- 
count of  the  presence  of  iron  in  the  schistous  soil  in  which  it  is  grown, 
but  from  the  richness  of  the  Jacquez  wine  in  coloring  matter  and  ceno- 
cyanin.  (According  to  Gauthier  iron  becomes  fixed  in  wine  under 
the  form  of  oenocyanin).  A  natural  ferruginous  wine  presents,  for 
medical  use — so  says  M.  Sambuc — the  important  advantage  of  being  in 
a  condition  favorable  to  its  assimilation. 
Thuja  Occidentalis. — Pointed  condylomata — according  to  a  re- 
cent discoverer  writing  in  the  Prat.  Med. — shrivel  and  fall  off  in  two  or 
three  days  if  painted  with  the  tincture  of  thuja  occidentalis.  The 
remedy  is  said  to  be  preferable  to  all  others  where  excision  cannot  be 
made.  In  the  Bull.  Com.,  October,  "  E.  F."  finds  that  Thuja  articu- 
lata  was  used  thirty  years  ago  for  this  purpose,  and  wonders  why  it 
has  fallen  into  desuetude. 
Myrobalanus,  the  fruit  of  several  species  of  Terminalia — an  an- 
cient remedy  for  intestinal  affections,  though  long  since  disused  in  Eu- 
ropean countries — is  receiving  some  attention  of  late  on  account  of  ar- 
ticles concerning  it  published  in  the  Union  Pharm.,  September,  Octo- 
ber, 1887,  by  Dr.  Apery,  of  Constantinople.  He  calls  it  "an  heroic 
remedy  against  diarrhoea/'  and  tells  us  that  Dr.  Ahmed  Pacha  pre- 
scribes it  with  great  success.  The  pharmacists  of  the  East  sell  it  in 
large  quantities  under  the  name  of  Kara-halil6,  or  Indicher.  The 
doctor's  investigations  were  made  upon  M.  nigral,  s.  indices,  that  va- 
riety being  "  the  most  energetic  and  having  the  greatest  vogue."  He 
found  no  alkaloid,  but  ascertained  the  presence  of  a  green  oleo-resi- 
nous  substance  which  he  believes  to  have  an  influence  upon  digestion 
and  bile-secretion.  This,  together  with  tannin,  which  acts  upon  the 
intestines,  leads  the  doctor  to  place  the  substance  among  the  nutri- 
tive tonics  and  stimulants.  A  large  number  of  doctors,  who  were  led 
by  him  to  test  the  substance,  found  it  very  effective  in  acute  diarrhoeas 
of  the  aged  and  in  infants,  as  also  in  intestinal  catarrh  in  tuberculous 
patients.  They  also  found  it  efficacious  in  hemorrhages,  hemorrhoids 
and  albuminuria.  The  doctor  believes  it  to  be  the  best  remedy  now 
used  in  the  dysenteries,  and  acute  and  chronic  choleriform  diarrhoeas, 
which  decimate  the  people  of  the  Orient.  The  dose  is  from  four  to 
twelve  pills,  whose  size  is  not  given.  However  useful  myrobalanus 
may  yet  become  as  a  medicine,  it  contains  so  enormous  a  quantity  of 
tannin  that  a  practical  man  reading  these  articles  would  be  inclined 
to  predict  for  it  a  still  more  brilliant  success  in  the  manufacture  of 
