534  SIPHON  MEDICINE  GLASSES. 
Following  are  four  analyses  of  samples  that  were  actually 
bought  and  sold : 
No.  1.  No.  3. 
Brown  Sugar,       .       .    15-85         Honey,  .       .  94-9 
Honey,         .       .       .    84-15         Pipe-clay,  .       .  4-7 
Turmeric,  .       .  -4 
100-00  100-00 
No.  2.                                No.  4. 
Pea- or  bean-flour,          .    18-7  Sulphate  of  lime,  .  6-3 
Honey,          .        .        .    68-8  Sugar,           .  .  12-5 
Water,          .       .       .    12-5  Honey,         .  .  81-2 
100-00  100-00 
Sugar  is  easily  detected  by  the  microscope,  for  not  only  are 
the  crystals  easily  distinguished,  but  generally  the  sugar-itch  in- 
sects occur  in  the  field  of  vision  in  great  number,  and  in  all  stages 
of  growth. 
I  believe,  however,  that  a  great  deal  of  honey  is  imported  from 
the  Continent  that  is  largely  adulterated  with  starch-sugar ;  this 
being  so  nearly  identical  with  the  true  glucose  of  honey  itself, 
the  imposture  is  almost  impossible  to  prove  satisfactorily. — Loud. 
Pharm.  Journ.,  Sept.,  1868. 
SIPHON  MEDICINE  GLASSES. 
By  Barnaed  S.  Proctor. 
There  are  probably  few  pharmaceutical  fathers  who  have  not 
felt  that  the  system  of  choking  medicine  into  a  child  was  a  barba- 
rous and  sometimes  even  a  dangerous  mode  of  overcoming  the 
infant's  repugnance  to  physic,  and  that  the  old-fashioned,  covered 
medicine  spoons  were  instruments  of  torture,  the  use  of  which 
should  be  punishable  as  a  cruelty  to  animals.  Such  have  been 
my  feelings,  and  in  the  bringing  up  of  four  children  I  have  re- 
peatedly endeavored  to  devise  some  means  of  removing  this  dis- 
grace upon  the  art  of  physic-taking.  But  I  need  not  tell  of  my 
failures,  but  proceed  at  once  to  that  which  has  been  pronounced 
by  mother,  nurse  and  doctor  to  be  worthy  of  general  adoption. 
