THE  PHARMACOPOEIA  PROCESS  FOR  CITRATE  OF  IRON,  <fcC.  437 
manufactory  with  Payen's  white  Marseilles  soap  more  than 
eight  months  old,  and  with  soap  made  only  three  days  by  the 
process  above  described.)  Saving  of  time  is  not  the  only  ad- 
vantage of  this  process.  It  is  obvious  that  each  globule,  being 
separately  attacked  both  inside  and  out,  without  becoming 
agglomerated  or  cooked  en  masse,  no  portion  escapes  saponifi- 
cation. Moreover,  caustic  soda,  acting  at  a  medium  tempera- 
ture, does  not  alter  the  fatty  bodies,  as  in  the  ordinary  pro- 
cesses, in  which  part  of  the  oils  is  carried  off  in  the  colored  and 
frothy  lixivium,  thus  entailing  a  notable  loss. 
It  results,  then,  that  in  twenty-four  hours  a  soap  can  be 
made,  in  greater  quantities,  as  pure,  as  neutral,  whiter,  and 
lathering  better  than  the  best  white  Marseilles  soap,  requiring 
for  its  manufacture  thirty  or  forty  days,  and  theu  kept  several 
months.  These  researches  I  hope  will  tend  to  check  the  intro- 
duction of  a  host  of  injurious  products  sold  under  the  name  of 
soap  to  the  injury  of  the  needy  population  ;  and  I  further  hope 
that  the  manufacture  of  soaps  and  of  stearic  acid  may  be  raised 
from  the  comparatively  present  low  state  into  which  it  has 
fallen  London  Chemical  News,  June  18th,  1861,  from  Oomptes 
Bendtis,  lviii.,  1864. 
THE  PHAKMACOPGEIA  [BRITISH]  PROCESS  FOR  CITRATE 
OF  IRON  AND  QUININE. 
TO  THE  EDITOR  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  JOURNAL. 
Sir, — Having  unsuccessfully  tried  to  prepare  some  "  Citrate 
of  Iron  and  Quinine"  according  to  the  proeess  described  in  the 
new  British  Pharmacopoeia,  and  having,  after  repeated  trials, 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  process  was  a  fallacious  one, 
allow  me  to  ask  you  the  favor  of  publishing  in  the  next  <  Phar- 
maceutical Journal '  the  following  receipt  of  mine,  which  not 
only  gives  an  elegant  preparation,  but  also  a  product  similar  in 
every  respect  to  that  found  in  commerce. 
I  am,  Sir,  yours  obediently, 
Mauritius,  May  6th,  1864.  E.  Fleurot,  M.P.S. 
FERRI  ET  QuiNIiE  ClTRAS. 
Take  six  fluid  ounces  of  a  saturated  solution  of  citrate  of  per- 
