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most  useful  property  was  that  of  relieving  pain.  A  lady  in  constant  pain  from 
cancer  of  the  integument  who  had  been  unable  to  sleep,  without  narcotics,  for 
weeks,  was  relieved  of  all  suffering,  and  enabled  to  sleep,  by  means  of  this  lini- 
ment. Mr.  Wilson  suggested  that  this  very  simple  remedy  deserved  a  trial  at 
the  hands  of  the  profession,  and  believed  that  it  would  be  found  a  valuable 
agent  of  cure  in  many  affections  where  the  skin  was  painfully  attacked. — Med. 
and  Surgical  Reporter,  June  13,  1874. 
Jaborandi,  a  New  Medicine. — A  new  medicine — with  marvellous  virtues, 
according  to  its  sponsors— has  been  introduced  and  experimented  with  at  the 
Hospital  Beaujon,  Paris.  An  account  of  the  action  and  characters  of  the 
medicine  appears  in  the  "Repertoire  de  Pharmacie  "  of  March  25,  from  which 
we  condense  the  following  particulars.  Dr.  S.  Continho,  of  Pernambuco,  who 
claims  to  have  discovered  the  properties  of  the  plant,  induced  Prof.  Gubler  to 
make  a  trial  of  it,  and  the  account  given  by  that  eminent  physician  corresponds 
exactly  with  the  claims  put  forth  by  Dr.  Continho. 
The  leaves  and  little  twigs  of  the  plant  are  broken  up,  and  from  four  to  six 
grams  infused  in  a  cupful  of  warm  water.  The  infusion  may  be  taken  warm 
or  cold,  and  in  about  ten  minutes  after  administration  the  patient  breaks  out 
into  a  violent  perspiration,  which  continues  for  four  or  five  hours,  and  which  is 
so  thorough  as  to  necessitate  several  changes  of  linen.  At  the  same  time  a 
most  abundant  flow  of  saliva  is  promoted,  so  abundant,  says  M.  Gubler,  that 
speech  is  rendered  almost  impossible.  He  asserts  that  he  has  known  patients 
eject  more  than  a  litre  in  less  than  two  hours.  Occasionally  the  medicine  has 
induced  diarrhcea.  Its  action  is  more  rapid  and  more  thorough  if  taken  warmi 
and  if  the  patient  is  well  covered  up  in  bed,  but  its  effects  are  none  the  less 
certain  under  quite  contrary  conditions. 
MM.  Continho  and  Gubler  justly  assume  that  there  is  a  great  future  for  a 
drug  of  such  capabilities  as  this  jaborandi  seems  to  possess.  According  to 
Prof.  Baillon,  the  plant  belongs  to  a  species  of  the  rue  family,  the  Pilocarpus 
pinnatus :  jaborandi,  it  seems,  is  the  Indian  name  for  the  plant.  M.  Continho 
slightly  shakes  our  confidence  in  the  miraculous  power  of  his  protege  when  he 
tells  us  that  it  is  to  be  found  in  the  interior  of  some  of  the  northern  provinces 
of  Brazil,  an  expression  which  seems  to  bear  a  relationship  to  Dr.  Bliss's 
famous  condurango  formula,  the  herb  which  was  only  of  value  when  procured 
"from  the  almost  inaccessible  slopes  of  the  Andes."  We  shall  hope  for  fur- 
ther enlightenment  and  evidence  concerning  this  energetic  diaphoretic. — 
Chemist  and  Druggist  [Lond.\,  April  15,  1874. 
Emulsion  of  Raw  Meat. — We  quote  from  the  "  Repertoire  de  Pharmacie  " 
a  formula  for  the  above,  which  was  given  by  its  inventor  (M.  Yvon)  at  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Socicte  d'Emulation  pour  la  Science  Pharmaceutique.  The  object 
was  to  provide  an  agreeable  means  of  administering  raw  meat,  a  remedy  much 
in  fashion  with  some  of  the  Continental  physicians.    M.  Yvon  takes 
