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brown, without decomposition, and again separates from it 
as a fine white powder. The isolated sugar dissolves in 
cold alcohol. To obtain more of this sugar, the author 
agitated syrup with eight times its quantity of absolute 
alcohol, decolorized the clear decanted liquid with animal 
charcoal, and mixed it with a solution of potash in alcohol. 
In this manner he procured a large amount of this compound 
of sugar and potash, which possessed all the properties of 
the substance obtained from the horseradish. 
According to the above experiments, myronic acid is 
most easily prepared by fermenting the residue from the 
alcoholic extract of the horseradish after distilling off the 
alcohol in order to destroy the sugar. On evaporating the 
fermented liquid, a bitter syrup is obtained, which contains 
acid myronate of potash. No volatile oil is formed in this 
fermentation. — Ibid, from Journ. fur Prakt. Pharm, 
ART. IX — PHARMACY IN HUNGARY. 
The pharmaceutical reform, which has made so much 
progress in the north of Germany, has not yet extended its 
beneficial influence into Austria. In this country, the 
pharmaceutists are still almost completely dependent on the 
medical men, and the latter appear to have been even 
encouraged by the local authorities in the exercise of arbi- 
trary and despotic conduct, which they have fearlessly 
indulged in towards the pharmaceutical body. Thanks to 
the liberty of the press, which was granted in the course of 
last year, and to the courageous effort of some of our breth- 
ren who asserted the rights of the body, the government 
has put an end to the most flagrant of the acts of injustice 
to which the pharmaceutists were previously exposed. 
Yet, although the condition of the pharmaceutists has been 
considerably ameliorated of late, much still remains to be 
