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j  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\       Nov.  1885. 
Fresno,  Fraxinus  viriclis,  Michaux;  Oleace^e;  Central  Mexico. 
The  root  is  popularly  used  as  a  diuretic,  and  the  bark  as  a  tonic  and 
febrifuge;  the  juice  of  the  leaves  is  similarly  employed.  The  tree  i& 
indigenous  to  the  greater  portion  of  the  North  American  continent 
from  Canada  westward  to  Dakota  and  Arizona. 
The  following  well-known  drugs  have  been  admitted  :  Fresa  (straw- 
berry root  and  fruit),  Fumaria  officinalis,  Galangii,  Galbano,  Gelsemio 
(Gels,  sempervirens),  Goma  arabiga,  Goma  elastica  (India  rubber)^ 
Goma  guta  (gamboge),  Goma  de  Mezquite,  Goma  quino  (kino),  Goma 
del  Senegal,  Goma  tragacanto,  Gomo-resina  amoniaco,  Gomo-resina  de 
euforbio,  Grama  (Triticum  repens),  Granado  (root-bark^  flowers,  peri- 
carp and  fruit-juice  of  pomegrante),  Grasilla  (sandarac),  Guayacan 
(guaiacum),  Haba  (bean),  Haba  de  Calabar,  Haba  tonca,  Helecho  macho 
(male  fern),  Hiel  de  toro  (ox  gall),  Higos  (fig),  Higuerilla  (seeds  of 
Ricinus  communis  for  extracting  the  oil),  Hinojo  (fennel),  Huevo  de 
gallina  (egg)  and  Huitlacoche  (cornsmut). 
Milk  as  a  Vehicle  for  Iodide  of  Potassium.— Br.  E.  L.  Keyes,  speaks 
highly  of  milk  as  a  vehicle  for  the  administration  of  iodide  of  potassium. 
He  says  that  in  cases  where  a  large  quantity  of  the  drug  has  been  given, 
he  has  found  that  the  stomach  does  not  rebel  when  milk  is  used  as  the 
vehicle.  Ten  grains  or  more  of  the  iodide  in  a  gill  of  milk  make  a  palat- 
aV)le  drink,  and  imjDart  only  a  mild  metallic  taste  to  the  fluid,  which  most 
patients  find  not  at  all  disagreeable.— iV^.  Y.  Med.  Jour.  ;  Cinci.  Lancet^ 
May  23,  1885. 
Intr  a-uterine  Ixjectioxs  of  Corrosive  Sublimate.-- Winter  ("Ctrlbl. 
f.  Gyn.  ;"  "  Cntrlbl.  f.  d.  ges.  Therap.")  regards  solutions  of  corrosive  sub- 
limate as  generally'  employed,  as  being  too  strong,  and  affirms  that  in  the  pro- 
portion of  one  to  five  thousand  all  the  antiseptic  action  of  the  drug  can  be 
obtained,  without  incurring  the  risk  of  occasioning  toxic  symptoms. — N. 
Y.  Med.  Jour.,  May  9,  188.5. 
Ozoxein  is  stated  to  be  condensed  ozone  j^reserved  in  a  permanent  form^ 
and  to  possess  powerful  disinfectant  properties.  Brand  found  it,  when 
evaporated  in  hospital  wards  to  be  a  valuable  means  of  purifying  the  atmos- 
phere. It  was  used  with  excellent  results  during  the  cholera  epidemic  at 
Toulon. — Jour,  de  Med.,  Paris. 
Veratrine  IX  Muscular  Tremor.— Feris  (Jour,  de  mM.  de  Paris,") 
recommends  this  drug  in  muscular  tremor,  especially  when  due  to  alcohol- 
ism or  disseminated  sclerosis.  He  gives  four  pills  daily,  each  containing 
one  one-hundred  and  twenty-eighth  of  a  grain.  A  cure,  he  says,  may  be 
confidently  expected  in  from  a  week  to  two  weeks. — N.  Y.  Med,  Jour.y 
May  23.  1885. 
