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PREPARATIONS. 
In  addition  to  the  fluidextract,  there  are  two  preparations  now 
used  mainly  by  the  French.  One  of  these,  "Pilula  Potentin  Com- 
posita"  contains  one  grain  of  extract  of  muira-puama  and  one  grain 
of  ovolecithin  to  each  pill.  It  is  employed  as  a  nerve  stimulant  and 
aphrodisiac  in  doses  of  3  to  6  pills  daily  before  meals.2  The  other 
preparation  "Muiracithin"  consists  of  the  residue  in  vacuo  of  100 
grams  of  fluidextract  of  muira-puama  and  5  grams  of  lecithin  with 
a  sufficient  quantity  of  licorice  powder  added  to  make  100  pills. 
The  dose  given  is  three  to  four  pills  daily;  one  pill  morning  and  noon 
and  two  in  the  evening. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1.  Miers,  "Additional  Observations  upon  the  genera  Aptandra, 
Cathedra,  Liriosma,  etc."  Annals  and  Magazine  of  Natural  History, 
ser.  3,  vol.  4,  1859. 
2.  Formulaire  des  Medicaments  Nouveaux,  3  ed.,  191 1. 
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EMPIRICAL  FALLACIES  (AND  OTHERS L* 
John  Uri  Lloyd,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Possibly  it  is  proper  for  one  who  believes  that  to  empiricism  is 
largely  due  progress  in  life's  advancement,  as  both  serviceable  in  the 
beginning  and  supplying  texts  for  subsequent  research,  to  call  atten- 
tion to  some  of  the  fallacies  of  misapplied  empiricism.  A  pleasure, 
is  it  not,  to  look  back  at  the  errors  one  held  in  the  passing  along  of 
life,  and  a  greater  pleasure  to  utilize  such  errors  for  self-reflection 
and  perhaps  record  them  for  the  benefit  of  others. 
A  few  yeas  ago  this  writer,  on  a  special  research  mission,  was 
traveling  through  Asiastic  Turkey.  Observant  was  he  of  much  that 
lay  outside  his  direct  field  of  study — many  were  the  pleasurable  in- 
*From  the  Eclectic  Med.  Jour.,  July,  192 1. 
