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with  which  fluid  extracts  can  be  thereby  made,  I  strongly  re- 
commend it  to  the  consideration  of  the  Committee  of  Revision 
and  Publication  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  believing  that  the 
best  preparations  possible  can  be  thus  obtained,  and  with  the 
greatest  economy  of  labor  or  expense. — Proc.  Amer.  Pharm. 
Assoc.,  1869. 
GOLCOINE,  GLYCONINE. 
By  Joseph  Hirsh. 
The  bottle  labelled  glyconine  excited  some  interest  in  the 
exhibition-room,  at  least  as  far  as  its  name  is  concerned,  and 
the  frequently  repeated  question  of  what  it  was  or  meant  may 
be  my  apology  for  mentioning  it  to  this  learned  body.  Under 
the  name  of  golcoine,  our  literature  mentioned,  some  two  or  three 
years  ago,  an  ointment  consisting  of  four  parts  of  yolk  of  egg 
and  five  parts  of  glycerin,  recommended  especially  as  an  appli- 
cation to  sore  nipples,  where  it  not  only  exerted  a  decidedly 
healing  influence,  but  did  also  not  interfere  with  the  suckling  of 
the  child,  from  the  fact  that  it  is  neither  poisonous  nor  disagree- 
able to  the  taste,  while  its  great  pliability  and  elasticity  render 
it  above  all  ointments  applicable  to  this  especial  purpose. 
Its  recommendation  by  the  pharmaceutical  and  medical  press 
seems  to  have  made  but  a  faint  impression  upon  the  public,  most 
interested  in  this  matter,  if  I  am  to  judge  by  the  rapidity  with 
which  even  its  name  was  forgotten.  Having  sent  a  sample, 
labeled  golcoine,  to  the  last  Exhibition  of  the  American  Institute 
of  N.  York,  which  I  was  prevented  from  attending  personally, 
I  had  the  mortification  to  learn,  upon  a  later  visit  in  N.  York, 
that  a  prominent  chemist  of  that  city,  who  also  exhibited  chemi- 
cals at  the  present  fair  of  this  Association,  had  the  bottle  men- 
tioned very  carefully,  but  very  promptly,  removed  from  the  ex- 
hibition-room, and  thrust  into  some  out  of  the  way  place,  deem- 
ing this  the  smallest  part  of  his  duty  as  member  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  Chemicals.  He  had,  in  his  honest  zeal,  mistaken  the 
name  golcoine  for  glonoine,  and  though  greatly  irate  "at  the 
carelessness  on  my  part  in  exposing  the  valuable  exhibition,  to- 
gether with  the  more  valuable  visitors  and  attendants,  to  the 
danger  of  glonoine  or  nitro-glycerin,  the  tragical  end  of  the 
