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Editorials. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
t       Dec,  1883. 
Louis  ;  Geo.  Ude,  St.  Louis,  and  Dr.  A.  R.  Edmunds,  Miami.  The  various 
standing  committees  were  appointed,  and  the  following  papers  were  read  :. 
by  Prof.  J.  M.  Good,  on  "Articles  Dismissed  from  the  Pharmacopseia  by 
Prof.  O.  A.  Wall,  one  on  "  Spurious  Star  Anise,"  and  another  on  "  Spurious 
Male  Fern  by  Prof.  C.  O.  Curtman,  on  "Artificial  Production  of  Cold 
and  Ice;"  by  Prof.  Oscar  Oldberg,  on  "The  Importance  of  the  Vegetable 
Materia  Medica  ;"  by  F.  W.  Sennewald,  on  "  Syrup  of  Orange  Peel  ;"  and 
by  G.  H.  Chas.  Klie,  on  "  Kairin."  The  Association  gained  nearly  a  hun- 
dred new  members,  mostly  St.  Louisians,  at  this  meeting.  After  installing 
the  new  officers,  adjournment  was  had.  Next  meeting  will  be  held, 
three  P.  M.,  the  second  Tuesday  of  June,  1884,  at  Brownsville;  the  Local 
Secretary  is  C.  M.  Kelly. 
CoRRASSA  Compound. — We  have  lately  again  received  inquiries  con- 
cerning the  asserted  ingredients  of  this  fraud,  by  means  of  which  an  adroit 
swindler  has  for  years  fleeced  thousands  of  credulous  human  beings.  It  is- 
true  the  fraud  has  been  often  enough  exposed  by  letter  and  in  print ;  but 
copies  of  the  recipe  with  barbarous  names  seem  to  be  still  extant  and  to 
turn  up  occasionally.  A  full  and  complete  exposure  of  this  fraud  was  pub- 
lished in  "The  Therapeutic  Gazette,"  of  Detroit,  April  15th,  last,  and  pre- 
viously in  the  "Agents'  Herald,"  of  Philadelj^hia.  From  the  evidence  there 
presented  it  is  shown  that  the  "Rev.  Jos.  T.  Inman  "  is  an  Englishman,, 
by  the  name  of  Allison,  afterwards  associated  with  another  Englishman 
named  Hearne.  While  Station  D  of  the  New  York  Post  Office  was  located 
in  the  Bible  House  in  that  city,  the  precious  pair  had  letters  addressed  there 
under  the  assumed  name,  thus  creating  in  the  minds  of  dupes  the  impres 
sion  that  the  "  Rev."  was  really  a  clergyman  and  was  also  connected  withi 
the  American  Bible  Society  ;  but  there  was  no  possibility  of  compelling  the 
dropping  from  the  advertisements  of  the  words  "Bible  House"  until  after 
the  sub  post  office  had  been  removed  from  that  building.  The  originator  of 
the  fraud  is  said  to  have  gained  over  $200,000  in  the  infamous  business  and 
to  have  lived  in  high  and  fast  style.    His  pretended  recipe  was  as  follows  : 
Ext.  ofcorrassa  apimis  8  drams,  ext.  of  selarmo  umbelifera4  drams,  pow- 
dered alkermis  latifolia  three  drams,  ext.  of  carsadoc  herbalis  six  drams. 
After  the  analysis  of  this  compound  by  Mr.  F.  M.  Goodman  in  1871  (Chi- 
cago Pharmacist,  Sept.  ;  Am.  Jour.  Phar.,  Nov.),  the  ingredients  appear  to 
have  been  somewhat  changed,  as  will  be  seen  from  the  analysis  made  by- 
Dr.  A.  B.  Lyons,  published  in  the  "Therapeutic  Gazette."  We  place  the 
approximate  results  of  the  two  investigations  side  by  side  : 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
Powdered  gentian  about  15  parts  (L.) 
Powdered  licorice      "  15  " 
Powdered  sugar         "  50  " 
Sodium  bicarbonate    "  17'5  " 
Powdered  cochineal    "  2*5  " 
8  parts  (G.) 
24 
1  part. 
