ON THE LACTATE OF IRON. 
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and keeps exceedingly well. I believe that its employment 
is more convenient than that of the pastils, because its ferru- 
ginous taste does not remain so long a time in the mouth. 
Pills of Lactate of Iron. 
Jfc. Lactate of Iron. 
Powdered marshmallows, 1 gramme. 
Honey, q. s. 
Make 20 pills, which should be silvered immediately, or 
covered with gelatine according to the method of M. Garot. 
I give this formula, which can be modified in the doses, 
only to inform practitioners that it would be improper to 
bring in contact with the lactate of iron, astringent extracts, 
or others capable of decomposing it. 
Journ. de Pharmacie. 
ART. XLII.— NOTE UPON DIFFERENT FALSIFICATIONS 
OF THE LACTATE OF IRON. By M. Louradour. 
In the March number of the Journal de Pharmacie,* I have 
described the method adopted by b me for the ^preparation of 
crystallized lactate of iron. Since that period, having had oc- 
casion to examine different specimens of lactate of iron, I 
have detected several adulterations practised by aid of the 
pulverulent form, under which manufacturers have believed 
they ought to introduce it into the market, and I hasten to 
make them known to my associates. 
I have found, in fact, in some of these specimens, effloresced 
sulphate of iron, or the same precipitated with alcohol; in 
others, starch or sugar of milk. 
Nothing is easier than to determine the first of these adul- 
* See last number of this Journal. 
