Am,jan.?i893arilJ"}  Abstracts  from  the  French  Journals.  13 
acid  of  other  sources  by  adding  resorcin  and  concentrated  sulphuric 
acid  to  the  alcoholic  solution  of  the  acid,  when  a  beautiful  red 
coloration  is  produced.  This  reaction,  known  as  a  test  for  aldehydes, 
would  indicate  the  presence  of  an  aldehyde  (very  probably  vanillin) 
in  the  benzoic  acid  from  the  resin.; — M.  Gbldner,  Pharm.  Ztg.,  1892, 
697. 
Antichlorin  of  Klebs. — Professor  Klebs  reasoning  that  every 
organism  during  its  life-time  produced  substances  which  if  allowed 
to  accumulate  would  result  in  the  deajh  of  such  organism  (in  the 
case  of  man  and  animals  these  products  are  carbonic  oxide,  bile, 
urine,  etc.)  has  realized  success  in  the  treatment  of  tuberculosis  by 
a  preparation,  "  tuber  culocidin,"  made  from  the  cultures  of  the  tuber- 
culosis bacillus  (Am.  Jour.  Pharm.,  1891,  599) ;  the  failure  of  Koch's 
tuberculin  is  explainable  by  the  presence  of  products  which  have 
specific  toxic  action  upon  man  along  with  the  products  which  are 
destructive  to  the  bacilli ;  by  removing  the  former  substances  (called 
alkaloids)  a  preparation  is  obtained  not  injurious  to  man, -but  fatal 
to  the  bacilli.  Anticholerin  is  a  preparation  in  which  these  reason- 
ings are  applied  in  the  purification  of  an  extract  from  the  culture  of 
the  comma  bacillus,  and  which  has  given  very  encouraging  results 
in  the  treatment  of  cholera  in  a  Hamburg  hospital ;  while  only  the 
most  serious  cases  were  treated  with  it,  the  number  of  fatal  cases 
was  1 6-1 7  per  cent,  less  than  was  the  case  with  other  treatment. 
The  preparation  is  a  clear,  brown-yellow  viscid  liquid  having  an 
odor  reminding  of  cholera  patients;  it  is  injected  into  muscular 
tissue  of  the  stomach,  or  into  the  subcutaneous  tissue  of  the  thigh. 
— Dr.  Manchot  (D.  Med.  IVochenschr.)  Pharm.  Ztg.,  1892,  719. 
ABSTRACTS  FROM  THE  FRENCH  JOURNALS.  - 
Translated  for  The  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy. 
Iodine  trichloride  is  highly  recommended  by  Dr.  Pflueger  of 
Bern  as  an  antiseptic  in  various  affections  of  the  eye  {Ann. 
d' Oculistique,  Sept.,  1892).  In  solutions  of  1:2000  it  kills  within 
one  minute  the  Staphylococcus  aureus,  and  in  from  one  to  five 
minutes  various  cultures  from  pus  and  malignant  ulcers.  For 
subconjunctival  injections  the  new  medicament  was  used  of  the 
strength  of  1  :  1500,  and  as  an  application  in  different  diseases  of 
the  eye  solutions  containing  from  o-i  to  1  per  cent,  were  employed. 
