Ams%Y;S™m'}  Abstracts  from  the  French  Journals.  465 
3  gm.,  to  be  taken  in  the  morning,  fasting,  suspended  in  water. — 
Med  mod.;  L  Union  phar.,  July. 
Micrococci  in  Orange-Flower  Water. — M.  H.  Barnouvin 
(U  Union  phar.,  July),  referring  to  his  previous  researches  on  this 
preparation,  says  that  he  then  obtained  orange  yellow  deposits, 
which  he  now  finds  to  consist  of  masses  of  very  small  yellow  cells 
of  a  more  or  less  globular  form,  motionless,  and  responding  by  their 
characters  to  the  chromogenic  bacteria  described  by  Cohn  as  the 
micrococcus  luteus,  and  by  Schrceder  as  the  bacteridium  luteum. 
M.  Barnouvin  reminds  us  that  at  this  time,  when  the  public  demand 
that  such  preparations  shall  be  carefully  watched  by  the  pharmacist, 
a  knowledge  of  these  points  is  important. 
Dangers  of  Tincture  of  Iodine  Prepared  with  Denaturalized 
Alcohol. — In  the  Union  phar.  of  July,  M.  Sochaczewski  says  that 
iodine  prepared  as  above  is  twenty  times  more  irritating  than 
tinctures  made  with  good,  ordinary  alcohol.  From  a  tincture  made 
with  the  impure  alcohol  he  has  extracted  seven  principal  bodies, 
which  all  possess  a  more  or  less  strongly  marked  irritative  action. 
These  are  hydriodic  acid,  iodic  acid,  iodal,  iodide  of  methyl,  sulfo- 
cyanate  of  allyle  (or  "essence  of  mustard"),  iodo-acetone  and  free 
acetone.  He  is  unable  to  say  how  the  sulphocyanate  of  allyle  is  pro- 
duced, but  thinks  there  is  no  doubt  of  its  presence,  which  was  indi- 
cated during  analysis  "  by  its  odor  sui  generis."  He  says  that  it  is 
not  surprising  that  the  tincture  made  with  denaturalized  alcohol  is 
too  energetic  to  be  safely  employed  in  certain  cases. 
Volemite,  a  Sugar  from  Lactarius  Volemus. — M.  Bourquelot 
(Soc.  de  Phar.  de  Paris,  June  3),  showed  a  sample  of  the  above,  ex- 
tracted by  treating  the  plant  with  90  per  cent,  alcohol,  and  then  taking 
up  the  residuum  several  times  with  95  per  cent,  alcohol,  in  order  to  get 
a  pure  and  crystallized  product.  Volemite  appears  as  colorless 
needles  grouped  in  spheroidal  forms  about  the  size  of  a  millet-seed. 
It  fuses  at  2840  F.  It  is  more  soluble  than  mannite  in  both  water 
and  alcohol,  has  no  reducing  properties,  does  not  ferment,  is  not 
modified  by  diluted  sulphuric  acid,  and  does  not  give  off  osazone. 
Its  rotary  power,  aD  =  -\-  2°4,  is  not  augmented  by  the  presence 
of  boric  acid,  but  is  increased  under  the  influence  of  borate  of 
sodium.  Analysis  has  not  thus  far  decided  whether  volemite  is  a 
glucoside  or  a  mannite,  but  M.  Bourquelot  thinks  it  ranges  with 
the  latter.    With  benzoic  aldehyde  and  paraldehyde  it  gives  crys- 
