582  Progress  in  Pharmacy.  {^kl^Xl' 
25  per  cent,  of  the  fruit  by  weight,  when  freed  from  the  shell,  the 
palm  kernel  oil. 
The  physical  properties  of  the  oils  differ  materially.  Palm  oil,  at 
ordinary  temperatures,  has  the  consistency  of  butter  and  is  used 
extensively  in  the  manufacture  of  candles  and  soap.  Palm  kernel 
oil  is  white  and  resembles  cocoanut  oil. 
The  average  constants  are  as  follows : 
Palm 
Palm  Oil. 
Kernel  Oil. 
.    .  40 
28-9 
■    •  36 
23-5 
.  203-0 
248-6 
•    •  1945 
I3'9 
Per  cent,  of  free  acid,  estimated  as  oleic  acid  . 
•   •  55'4 
367 
Pumpkin  Seed  Oil. — The  oil  content  of  pumpkin  seed  was  found 
by  Strauss  (Chem.  Zeitg.,  1903,  page  537)  to  be  materially  higher 
than  that  given  by  Graham,  from  20  to  25  per  cent.  Strauss  was 
able  to  obtain  from  37  to  47  per  cent,  of  a  fixed  oil,  having  an 
iodine  number  of  from  116-5  to  120-5. 
The  oil  has  a  deep  reddish-green  color  that  is  quite  indifferent  to 
the  ordinary  bleaching  materials  like  sulphuric  or  sulphurous  acids, 
chlorine  or  ozone.  It  can  be  bleached  by  repeated  saponification, 
but  the  resulting  loss  in  oil  is  of  course  very  great. 
Quinaphenin,  a  white,  tasteless  powder,  freely  soluble  in  water, 
very  soluble  in  alcohol,  ether,  benzene,  chloroform  and  acids,  is  said 
to  be  obtained  by  the  action  of  quinine  on  the  hydrochlorate  of 
etoxy  phenyl  carbamic  acid  or  on  etoxyphenylisocyanic  ether. 
Quinaphenin  has  been  recommended  in  whooping  cough  in  doses 
of  from  0-05  to  0-30  grammes.  {Amer.  Med.,  Oct.  17,  1903,  page 
646,  from  La  Medicine  Moderne.) 
Styptol. — Rudolph  Katz  (Ther.  Monatsh.,  1903,  page  314)  de- 
scribes styptol  as  a  neutral  co^arnine  pthalate,  which  occurs  as  a 
yellow  micro- crystalline  powder,  freely  soluble  in  water.  Styptol 
contains  about  the  same  per  cent,  of  the  cotarnine  base  as  the  hydro- 
chlorate  of  stypticin. 
Styptol  has  been  used  in  doses  of  from  0-05  to  o-io  in  hemorrhage 
from  the  womb,  with  reported  good  results. 
Triquors. — This  name  has  been  applied  in  Germany  to  triple 
strength  liquors.    (P/iar.  Centralh.,  1903,  page  772.) 
Patent.  Laws. — A  correspondent  of  the  Chemical  News  (1903, 
