604  Gleanings  from  Foi^eign  Journals.       {^"^ilec^isss''^™  ' 
Huinar,  Malva  scoparia,  Cavaniiles;  MalvacejB;  in  temperate  dis- 
tricts.   The  root  has  considerable  reputation  in  the  cure  of  diarrhoeas. 
Incienso  (olibanum),  Ipecacuana  blanca  (Richardsonia  scabra),  Ipe- 
cacuana  de  las  minas  de  Oro  (Psych otria  emetica),  Ipecacuana  oficinal, 
Jaborandi  (Pilocarpus),  Jalapa  oficinal,  Jalapa  macho  (Orizaba  root), 
Jalapa  de  Tampico,  eJaldre  (yellow  orpiment),  Jeugibre  (ginger),  Jito- 
mate  (tomato ;  fruit  used  as  an  anodyne),  Kamala,  Lactucario,  Lanten 
(Plantago  major,  etc.),  Laurel  (Laurus  nobilis),  Lechuca  (lettuce), 
Lenteja,  Lentejilla  or  Panal  (Lepidium  virginicum,  Lin.;  in  diar- 
rhoea), Licopodio  (lycopodium),  Limon,  Linaza  (flax  seed),  Liquen 
Carragalieen,  Liquen  de  Islandia,  Lirio  de  Florencia  (orris  root),  Lo- 
belia (Lob.  inflata),  Lupulo  (hops)  have  all  been  admitted. 
Ipecacuana  del  pais,  Solea  verticillata,  Sprengel;  A^iolaceffi ;  on  the 
hills  of  Santa  Fe,  west  of  the  capital,  etc.  Cervantes  Vicente  found 
it  (the  root  ?)  to  be  a  good  substitute  for  the  officinal  ipecac,  if  taken 
in  doses  double  of  those  of  the  latter. 
Jalapa  de  Queretaro,  Ipomoea  triflora,  Velasco.  The  root  is  met 
Avith  in  circular  fragments,  about  10  Cm.  broad  and  2  Cm.  thick  ; 
color  gray  on  the  flat,  and  darker  on  the  convex  portions ;  superfi- 
cially rough  from  many  gray  fibres ;  odor  and  taste  almost  none.  M. 
C.  Jimenez  ('^  La  Naturaleza,"  i,  338)  obtained  from  the  drug  brown 
extract  (aqueous?)  14,  resin  16,  salts  10*5  per  cent.,  etc.  The  resin  is 
light  yellow,  when  powdered  nearly  white,  insipid,  inodoi'ous,  soluble 
in  ammonia  with  a  green-yellow  color,  partly  soluble  and  partly  insol- 
uble in  ether.  The  drug  is  a  drastic  purgative  ;  dose  of  the  powder  1 
to  2  Gm. ;  the  extract  0-20  to  0-40  Gm. ;  the  resin  O'lO  to  0-30  Gm., 
ixud  the  tincture  2  to  4  Gm. 
GLEANINGS  FROM  FOREIGN  JOURNALS. 
By  Geo.  H.  Ochse,  Ph.G. 
Nerolin. — Under  the  name  of  Nerolin,  Messrs.  Schimmel  &  Co. 
Lave  placed  on  the  market  a  white  crystalline  powder,  soluble  in  30 
parts  of  95  per  cent,  alcohol  and  in  25  parts  of  the  fixed  oils,  sparingly 
soluble  in  water,  as  a  substitute  of  the  expensive  oil  of  neroli.  One 
part  of  nerolin  is  equivalent  to  ten  parts  of  the  oil.  Several  soap 
manufacturers  use  nerolin  in  the  proportion  of  20  to  30  Gm.  to  100 
kilos  of  soap. — Pharin.  Centralhalle,  xxvi,  No.  43. 
Acetic  Ether  in  Poisoning  by  Illuminating  Gas. — Dr.  Leube  states 
that  he  has  used  acetic  ether  where  employees  in  gas-works  had 
