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possibility.  Certainly  there  are  some  among  them  that  are  ineffect- 
ive or  uncertain. 
All  the  objections  to  these  tablets  could,  it  would  seem,  be 
avoided  if  there  were  a  standard  list,  made  up  mainly  of  simple 
drugs,  a  few  well-tried  or  rational  combinations,  perhaps,  included, 
which  could  be  prescribed,  if  so  desied,  and  supplied  by  every 
druggist,  and  which  could  be  combined  according  to  the  needs  of 
any  special  prescription  if  the  physician  desired  to  dispense  his  own 
medicine.  A  very  large  proportion  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  is  made 
up  of  substances  that  can  very  readily  be  made  up  into  these 
tablets,  the  convenience  of  which  is  now  being  daily  demonstrated. 
Others  that  are  not  thus  suitable,  but  which  are  now  included  in 
the  manufacturers'  lists,  would  of  course  be  omitted  from  the  stand- 
ard list,  and  it  would  in  this  way  save  both  physician  and  patient 
from  being  misled  into  trouble  and  expense.  The  addition  of  a 
class  of  compressed  tablets  and  tablet  triturates  to  the  regular 
Pharmacopoeia  would  not  hurt  any  business  more  than  is  being  done 
at  present,  and  would  regulate  what  is  at  present  a  somewhat 
irregular  but  widespread  and  popular  method  of  medication,  and 
one  that  has  its  real  advantages  and  merits. 
ON  AROMADENDR1N  OR  AROMADENDRIC  ACID  FROM 
THE  TURBID  GROUP  OF  EUCALYPTUS  KINOS. 
By  Henry  G.  Smith. 
Read  before  the  Royal  Society  of  New  South  Wales,  August  5,  1896,  and 
communicated  by  the  author. 
At  the  general  meeting  of  this  Society,  held  on  June  5th  of  last 
year,  a  paper1  was  read  by  the  author  in  conjunction  with  Mr.  J.  H. 
Maiden,  in  which  was  described  the  new  organic  substance  "  Eudes- 
min,"  found  by  us  existing  in  the  kino  of  Eucalyptus  hemiphloia, 
which  body  (together  with  another  new  organic  substance  existing 
in  the  same  kino,  provisionally  named  by  us  Aromadendrin)  caused 
the  turbidity  of  this  Eucalyptus  kino  when  dissolved  in  hot  water 
and  allowed  to  cool.  We  then  promised  to  make  a  further  com- 
munication to  the  Society  when  the  chemistry  of  this  other  body 
1  A  contribution  to  the  Chemistry  of  Australian  Myrtaceous  Kinos.  Journal 
Royal  Society  of  New  South  Wales,  1895,  Vol.  XXIX,  p.  30;  also  Am.  Jour. 
Pharm.,  1895,  p.  575. 
