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possible,  until  the  boiling  solution  marks  23°,  when  I  allow  the 
liquid  to  stand.  In  twelve  hours'  time  an  abundant  crystalliza- 
tion (which  continued  for  ten  days)  was  already  deposited,  con- 
sisting of  a  citrate,  which  was  the  bibasic  citrate. 
I  have  submitted  to  the  Society  some  specimens  of  this  salt 
prepared  in  the  way  described,  and  which,  it  may  be  seen,  crys- 
tallize very  distinctly. 
It  is  this  compound  which,  being  very  easily  made  in  Sicily 
itself,  it  would  be  advisable  for  English  and  French  manufacturers 
of  citric  acid  to  import. 
The  object  of  my  note  is  to  make  known, 
1st.  A  new  process  for  making  citric  acid. 
2d.  An  easy  way  of  obtaining  citrate  of  magnesia,  which  has 
not  hitherto  been  obtained,  and  which  is  therapeutically  of  im- 
portance. 
I  obtained  the  same  result  by  using  citric  acid  and  magnesia 
or  sub-carbonate  ;  so  that  for  pharmaceutical  purposes  my  crys- 
tallized citrate  is  very  easily  prepared,  and  for  lemonade  may 
be  used  in  the  proportion  of 
Crystallized  citrate  .       .       .       .        .       80  gr. 
Sweetened  and  flavored  liquid       .       350  to  400  " 
Bicarbonate  of  soda     .       .       .       .       .     4  " 
Lemonade  prepared  in  this  way  will  keep  a  very  long  time. — 
Lond.  Chem.  News,  March  2,  1866,  from  Bulletin  de  la  Societe, 
Ohimique,  January,  1866. 
VERMIFUGE  PROPERTIES  OF  PUMPKIN-SEEDS. 
Whether  the  circumstance  be  due  to  the  inefficacy  of  kousso, 
or  the  high  price  of  the  drug,  pumpkin-seeds  are  again  be- 
coming with  the  profession  a  popular  remedy  for  tapeworm. 
We  may  adduce,  in  illustration  of  this  statement,  two  papers 
published  in  the  month  of  August  by  M.  Bouvier,  a  medical 
officer  in  the  Belgium  service,  and  by  Dr.  Desnos,  of  the  hos- 
pitals of  Paris. 
M.  Bouvier  relates,  in  the  "Archives  Medicales  Beiges," 
that  a  little  German  boy,  aged  5,  and  his  sister,  both  presented 
symptoms  of  tapeworm  after  eating  raw  and  smoked  Westpha- 
lian  ham.    The  little  girl  had  been  cured  two  years  previously, 
