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GLEANINGS  FROM  FRENCH  JOURNALS. 
GLEANINGS  FROM  THE  FRENCH  JOURNALS. 
By  the  Editor. 
Strong  Liquid  Glue. — M.  Knaff(Jbwr.  de  Pharm.,  Mai,  1868) 
gives  the  following  recipe  for  a  liquid  glue  :  Take  3  parts  of  good 
glue  reduced  to  little  fragments,  cover  it  with  8  parts  of  water, 
and  allow  it  to  remain  during  some  hours  ;  then  add  half  a  part 
of  chlorohydric  acid  and  three-fourths  of  a  part  of  sulphate  of 
zinc,  and  expose  the  whole  during  ten  or  twelve  hours  to  a 
temperature  of  178°  to  189°  F.  A  mixture  is  thus  obtained 
which  does  not  gelatinize,  which  keeps  well,  and  is  very  conveni- 
ent for  pasting. 
Santonin  Lozenges. — M.  Guyot  Dannecy  (Jour,  de  Pharm., 
Mai,  1868)  has  observed  that  when  these  lozenges  are  prepared 
with  the  santonin  in  crystals,  unpowdered,  they  are  nearly 
tasteless.  In  avoiding  all  trituration  in  the  process  of  mixing 
the  ingredients,  the  patient  takes  them  without  repugnance  ; 
but  when,  on  the  contrary,  the  santonin  is  powdered  in  a  glass  or 
porcelain  mortar,  the  lozenges  are  very  bitter  and  disagreeable. 
Perfumes. — M.  Stanislaus  Martin,  in  a  letter  to  the  Societe 
de  Pharmacie  (P voces- Verbal,  Avril  ler,  1868),  remarks  on  the 
use  of  perfumes  in  ancient  and  modern  times  as  follows  : 
Perfumes  played  a  grand  part  among  the  ancients.  They 
were  esteemed  among  the  Greeks ;  in  the  East  they  were  em. 
ployed  in  all  their  sacrifices  ;  and  among  the  Gauls  the  Druids 
perfumed  their  altars  with  the  labiateous  plants,  resinous  woods 
and  juniper  berries. 
In  our  day  the  East  is  one  of  the  regions  richest  in  odorous 
resins,  and  where  an  immense  consumption  of  perfumes  is  made 
in  China,  Cochin  China  and  Japan. 
At  Jeddo,  in  the  numerous  palaces  of  the  Emperor,  during  the 
time  of  prayer  they  burn  a  wood  which  exhales  a  delicious 
perfume,  but  the  name  of  the  tree  is  unknown,  because  it  has 
so  many  synonyms.  The  essential  oil  of  this  wood,  of  which 
I  have  the  honor  to  present  a  specimen  to  the  Society,  has  a 
sweet,  tenacious  odor,  is  rapidly  diffused,  and  is  excessively 
dear.  M.  Chardin  Hadancourt,  well  known  for  his  skilful  know- 
ledge of  perfumes,  has  been  unable  to  assign  it  a  place  among 
those  already  known. 
