414  Gleanings  from  European  Journals.  {^e^mS?*' 
salts  are  found  in  the  solution,  provided  that  no  insoluble  compound 
is  formed.  The  salts  in  question,  if  they  be  no  true  double  salts, 
would  therefore  be  mixtures  of  at  least  four  salts,  and  in  the  ease  of 
the  officinal  pyrophosphate  of  iron,  would  contain  a  portion  of  that 
compound  unaltered,  but  in  a  soluble  condition.  Whether  the  medi- 
cinal value  of  this  salt  is  questionable,  we  leave  to  physicians  to  de- 
termine ;  but  it  appears  to  us  to  possess  valuable  properties,  though 
perhaps  not  superior  to  those  of  the  ordinary  phosphate,  if  in  a  simi- 
lar soluble  condition. 
We  advocate  what  may  be  called  elegant  pharmacy,  but  we  are 
opposed  to  what  we  consider  a  degradation  of  pharmacy  and  of  medi- 
cine, which  we  find  in  the  easy  virtue  of  many  physicians  of  listening 
to,  and  practically  approving  of,  the  claims  of  superiority  for  thou- 
sands of  semi  secret  medicines,  and  in  the  indolence  of  many  phar- 
macists, which  is  abundantly  manifested  by  purchasing  numerous 
preparations,  which  could  be  made  by  them  of  as  good,  if  not  better, 
quality,  and  as  cheap,  if  not  cheaper,  than  those  purchased.  Ac- 
cording to  our  view,  elegant  pharmacy  should  be  practised  in  the 
pharmacist's  shop,  and  not  in  the  manufacturer's  laboratory. 
GLEANINGS  FROM  THE  EUROPEAN  JOURNALS. 
By  the  Editor. 
A  False  Angustura  Bark  has  been  described  by  the  editor  in  the 
February  number,  page  50,  of  this  journal.  Profs.  Oberlin  and 
Schlagdenhauffen,  of  Nancy,  state  that,  in  a  large  number  of  phar- 
macies of  the  department  of  Meurthe  et  Moselle,  and  in  French  drug 
stores  generally,  a  bark  is  met  with,  the  physical  and  organo- 
leptic characters  of  which  correspond  completely  with  those  de- 
scribed in  the  place  mentioned  above.  They  have  been,  since  the 
close  of  1873,  occupied  in  studying  this  bark,  and  report  the  same 
to  be  derived  from  Esenbeckia  febrifuga,  Martius,  s.  Evodia  febrifuga. 
Saint  Hilaire,  tribe  Pilocarpeae,  nat.  ord.  Diosmaceae.  The  tree  is 
very  abundant  in  the  province  of  Minas  Geraes,  Brazil,  where  it  is 
known  as  Tres  folhas  vermelhas  or  Laranjeiro  do  mato.  The  bark  is 
highly  esteemed  as  a  tonic,  febrifuge  and  antidysenteric,  and  is  called 
by  the  natives  China  Piavi,  China  du  Br  hit  (Brazil  bark).  The 
authors  have  discovered  in  this  bark  an  alkaloid,  which  they  promise 
to  describe  hereafter. — Jour,  de  Pharm.  et  de  Chim.,  1874,  August? 
p.  105. 
