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usual  daily  clothes,  about  50  grammes  (14  fluid  drachms)  of  oil 
of  turpentine ;  when  he  awakes  he  is  cured ;  his  bed  and  his  clothes 
are  no  longer  infected.  The  odor  of  the  turpentine  passes  off  in 
two  or  three  days. 
This  treatment  has  several  advantages  ;  1st,  it  attacks  the 
parasites  at  the  time  they  are  most  accessible  ;  2d,  fumigation 
acting  by  substitution  on  secondary  eruptions  is  much  less 
irritating  than  lotions  and  frictions,  whether  soapy,  sulphuretted, 
or  terebinthinated  ;  3d,  the  treatment  acts  at  the  same  time  on 
all  the  contaminated  objects  ;  4th,  not  only  is  it  more  rapidly 
efficacious  and  better  than  any  other,  it  is  likewise  the  cheapest. 
— Chemist,  Jan.,  1857. 
G-lycerin  and  wood  soot  in  chronic  eczema. — M.  Bougard,  after 
trying  various  applications  in  an  aggravated  case  of  chronic 
eczema,  resorted  to  a  mixture  of  soot  and  glycerin  in  equal  parts 
with  astonishing  effect.  Fifteen  days'  use  of  this  remedy  had 
almost  cured  the  eczema,  which  was  of  several  years  standing. 
This  result  was  corroborated  by  subsequent  successful  treatment 
of  cases  of  eczema — Jour,  de  Med,  de  Bruxelles,  Sept.,  1856, 
in  Chemist. 
G-lycerin  and  borax  in  cracked  tongue. — Dr.  Brinton  says  that 
two  samples  of  borax  dissolved  in  four  ounces  of  water  with  an 
ounce  of  glycerine  (Price's)  gave  marked  relief  at  once,  and 
eventually  cured,  aided  by  other  treatment,  an  obstinate  case  of 
cracked  tongue. — Lancet  in  South.  Med.  and  Surg.  Jour. 
Poisonous  'principle  of  Cyclamen  Europium. — M.  De  Luca  has 
discovered  in  this  plant  a  proximate  principle  which  he  calls 
cyclamin,  and  which  appears  to  possess  poisonous  properties 
analogous,  though  in  a  less  degree,  to  those  of  the  curara  of 
South  America.  Cyclamin  is  white,  opaque,  brittle,  inodorous, 
hygroscopic,  and  is  darkened  by  exposure  to  the  light.  Pigs 
eat  it  with  impunity,  but  a  drachm  of  the  juice  thrown  into  the 
trachea  of  a  rabbit  caused  it  to  die  in  convulsions  in  ten  minutes. 
Bromine  appears  to  possess  antidotal  powers. 
Tinctura  Rosce. — The  following  formula,  attributed  to  Mr. 
Squire,  is  given  in  the  new  (1857)  edition  of  Redwood's  Supple- 
ment to  the  Pharmacopoeia  : 
Take  of  rose  petals,  bruised,  5  ounces;  proof  spirit, made  with 
rose-water,  a  pint.    Digest  for  three  days,  frequently  shaking, 
