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or  of  sugar  being  added  for  each  pill  to  the  mixture  of  dried  salts,  to 
render  the  powder  sufficiently  adhesive.  As  a  still  better  method  for 
preserving  these  pills  it  is  suggested  to  introduce  into  the  mould  about 
J  grain  of  powdered  sugar,  then  the  pill,  cover  with  J  grain  of  sugar 
and  compress. 
GLEANINGS  FROM  SCANDINAVIAN  JOURNALS. 
By  Hans  M.  Wilder. 
The  poison  law  in  Denmark,  as  far  as  it  relates  to  morphine  and 
opium,  has  been  (July  20,  1883)  remodeled  as  follows : 
1.  Prescriptions  (whether  for  external  or  internal  use)  containing 
morphine,  its  salts  or  any  other  alkaloid  of  opium,  must  not  be  repeated, 
and  it  is  made  obligatory  to  cancel  the  prescription  with  a  stamp,  cov- 
ering (but  not  making  illegible)  the  writing. 
2.  Prescriptions  (whether  for  external  or  internal  use)  containing 
opium  and  its  (officinal  or  unofficinal)  preparations  must  not  be  repeated 
when  the  single  dose  amounts  to  5  centigrams  or  over  of  opium,  or 
when  the  total  amount  prescribed  amounts  to  more  than  1  gram. 
These,  also,  must  be  cancelled  as  above  stated. 
3.  Whenever  a  prescription  ought  to  be  cancelled  and  repetition 
prevented,  because  the  total  amount  is  more  than  1  gram  opium,  it  is 
not  allowed  to  give  a  fractional  part  (half,  quarter,  etc.),  so  as  to  enable 
the  repetition  of  said  prescription. — Arch,  for  Pharm.,  1884,  p.  94. 
A  Swedish  apothecary  bought  a  seroon  of  Calisaya  cinchona  from 
Jobst,  in  Stuttgart,  which  was  quoted  in  his  price-current  as  "  aller- 
schonst,  electissinia,"  and  at  a  considerably  higher  price.  No  quinine 
was  found  in  the  bark,  and,  on  remonstrating,  Jobst  stated  that  for  the 
last  ten  years  flat  calisaya  contained  very  little  quinine,  scarcely  one- 
third  of  the  2  J  per  cent,  cinchona  alkaloids  generally  present. — Farm. 
Tidskrifl,  1883,  p.  321. 
Filix  mas. — The  rhizome  of  Polystichum  Filix  mas,  Roth,  has  been 
found  contaminated  with  admixture  of  the  rhizomes  of  Asplenium 
Pilix  femina,  Bernh.,  Polystichum  spindulosum,  D.  C,  and  Polysti- 
chum dilatatum,  Hoffm.  —  Farm.  Tidskrifl,  1883,  p.  129. 
Kamala. — Liljenstrom  has  found  the  following  per  cent,  of  ash  : 
4,  10,  17,  33,  35,  40,  45,  49.    Two  samples  of  Lupulin  were  found 
