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male salep," which, in their opinion, possesses a greater 
medicinal power, and is, on this account sold much dearer. 
When the bulbs are perfectly dry, they are placed in sacks, 
and sent to the East for sale. 
The salep is in great reputation among the Turks as a 
strengthening medicine, and is- used throughout Greece in 
affections of the bowels and respiratory organs. The de- 
coction of salep, or rather the gelatine salep, is prepared in 
the following manner by persons who are called in Greece 
and the whole of the East, Saleptsides : — 
The salep is ground by means of handmills into a fine 
powder, then stirred up with water, and boiled into a stiff 
jelly, which is sweetened with honey. Some Saleptsides 
add also a small quantity of Cyprus root, in order to make 
it slightly acrid. 
After midnight these men go to work, and with day- 
break they are heard crying " Salep ! Salep sestom I" i. e. 
hot salep, which is taken against cough, &c, not only by 
the poor, but also by others. The salep jelly is carried 
about in large tin vessels, and kept hot by coals underneath. 
About eight o'clock in the morning the whole, troop of these 
Saleptsides disappear all at once, and betake themselves to 
their huts in order to issue again from thence with the fol- 
lowing daybreak. — Pharmaceutical Journal, March 1, 
1850. 
ART. LV. — ON A NEW EEAGENT FOR DETECTING THE 
PRESENCE OF SUGAR IN CERTAIN LIQUIDS, AND ES- 
PECIALLY IN URINE. 
By M. Maumene. 
Several processes have been described by chemists for 
the detection of sugar, even under the singular circumstan- 
ces of diabetic disease. Unfortunately none of the pro- 
