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intravenously  or  by  mouth.  The  mixture  of  tulase  with  milk,  men- 
tioned above,  is  the  form  in  which  it  maybe  administered  to  infants. 
Tulase  is  now  being  used  in  an  experimental  way,  but  Behring 
himself  warns  against  too  much  reliance  being  placed  on  the  cura- 
tive properties  of  the  substance. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy. 
Dear  Sir: — I  send  you  herewith  the  result  of  the  votes  of  the 
Committee  of  Revision  upon  the  first  instalment  of  corrections  in 
the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  eighth  revision,  since  the  passage  of  the 
Food  and  Drugs  Act.  Very  truly  yours, 
Joseph  P.  Remington, 
Chairman. 
CHANGES  AND  CORRECTIONS  IK    THE  UNITED  STATES  PHARMACOPOEIA. 
(Eighth  revision.) 
Belladonna  Leaf  now  0  3  per  cent,  mydriatic  alkaloids. 
Belladonna  Root  now  0-45  per  cent,  mydriatic  alkaloids. 
Colchicum  Seed  now  0-45  per  cent,  of  colchicine. 
Ipecac  now  175  per  cent,  of  ipecac  alkaloids. 
Stramonium  now  0  25  per  cent,  of  mydriatic  alkaloids. 
Fluidextract  of  Belladonna  Root  now  0-4  gramme  alkaloidsfin 
100  c.c. 
Tincture  of  Belladonna  Leaf  now  0-03  gramme  alkaloids  in  100  c.c. 
Fluidextract  of  Colchicum  Seed  now  0-4  gramme  alkaloid  in 
100  c.c. 
Tincture  of  Colchicum  Seed  now  0-04  gramme  alkaloid  in  100  c.c. 
Fluidextract  of  Ipecac  now  1-5  gramme  alkaloids  in  100  c.c. 
Fluidextract  of  Stramonium  now  0  25  gramme  alkaloids  in  100  c.c. 
Extract  of  Stramonium  now  i-o  per  cent,  alkaloids. 
Tincture  of  Stramonium  now  0  025  gramme  alkaloids  in  100  c.c. 
Jalap  Root  now  7  per  cent,  of  total  resin. 
Under  the  article  Petrolatum,  p.  336,  U.  S.  P.,  last  paragraph,  the 
sulphuric  acid  test  has  been  dropped. 
February  15,  1907. 
