Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
Oct.  1, 1872.  J 
Bromide  of  Quinia,  etc. 
447 
correspondent  of  The  Med.  Times  and  Grazette,  under  the  title  of 
"  Bullock's  Blood — A  New  Remedy,"  in  which  the  use  of  blood  is  re- 
ferred to  as  a  new  remedial  agent  for  anaemia,  and  mentioning  that 
cases  of  phthisis  pulmonalis  have  been  as  much  benefitted  by  it  as 
they  would  have  been  by  cod  liver  oil.  The  writer  also  states  that  a 
French  pharmacien  has  prepared  an  extract  of  blood,  which  is  admin- 
istered in[the  form  of  pills,  each  of  which,  weighing  about  three  grains, 
is  said  to  be  equivalent  to  half  an  ounce  of  blood.  My  purpose  in 
calling  attention  to  this  article  is  to  state  that,  though  the  use  of  pow- 
dered blood  may  be  a  novelty  in  Europe,  it  is  not  a  new  thing  in  this 
country.  In  1852,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  [late  Professor  Samuel 
Jackson,  M.  D.,  Mr.  Elias  Durand,  an  eminent  pharmaceutist  of  this 
city,  carefully  evaporated  fresh  bullock's  blood  to  the  consistence  of 
an  extract,  which  was  reduced  to  powder,  and  prescribed  by  Dr. 
Jackson  under  the  title  of  pulv.  sanguinis.  The  following  is  a  copy 
of  one  of  his  prescriptions  : 
Jfy.    Pulv.  sanguinis,         .....  3i. 
"  aromat., 
"    sacchari,  aa9        .....  ^ss. 
M.  et  divide  in  chart.    No.  xij. 
Dr.  Jackson  prescribed  this  preparation  in  a  large  number  of  cases 
with  satisfactory  results,  and  I  think  I  am  correct  in  stating  that  the 
use  of  this  remedy  suggested  to  him  the  compound  mixture  of  phos- 
phates, afterwards  considerably  modified,  and  now  popularly  known 
under  the  name  of  chemical  food. 
The  use  of  blood,  both  pure  and  in  combination  with  wine  and  other 
adjuvants,  has  frequently  been  suggested,  and  experience  may  yet 
prove  its  adaptation  as  a  nutritive  tonic  and  useful  in  anaemic  condi- 
tions of  the  system. 
ON  THE  PREPARATION  OF  THE  BROMIDES  OF  QUINIA, 
MORPHIA,  STRYCHNIA  AND  CALCIUM. 
By  George  MacDonald. 
The  bromides  of  the  alkaloids  may  be  readily  prepared  in  small 
quantities  by  precipitating  a  solution  of  their  neutral  sulphates  with 
bromide  of  barium. 
As  bromide  of  barium  is  a  salt  not  met  with  in  commerce,  the  ope- 
rator will  have  to  make  it  for  himself,  by  saturating  a  solution  of  hy- 
