Am.  Jour.  Pnarrr>.\ 
August,  1901.  J 
Story  of  the  Papaw. 
383 
industry  of  specialties  had  wonderfully  progressed  and  prospered 
ever  since. 
The  question  of  the  dispensation  of  potent  and  poisonous  sub- 
stances in  prescriptions  and  the  indiscriminate  repetition  of  these 
was  fully  taken  in  consideration,  as  well  as  the  sale  of  morphia  and 
opiates,  and  it  was  agreed  that  a  strict  regulation  is  imperative,  but 
is  mainly  in  the  function  of  medical  and  sanitary  authorities  and  the 
special  legislation  of  each  country. 
Papers  were  read  and  a  lengthy  discussion  took  place  on  the 
questions  of  adulteration  of  food  and  the  quality  and  purity  of 
potable  waters,  and  comprehensive  resolutions  were  passed  for 
instituting  national  and  international  regulations  for  their  control 
and  examination  as  well  as  for  adopting  standards  defining  the 
requirements  to  be  made  upon  water  to  be  considered  of  normal 
and  healthy  condition. 
The  question  of  the  freedom  of  movement  (Freiziigigkeit)  of 
pharmaceutical  assistants  and  some  other  questions  of  the  lengthy 
programme,  more  or  less  irrelevant  to  pharmacy  of  non-European 
countries,  were  briefly  discussed  without  any  definite  result,  or 
altogether  dropped. 
At  the  final  close  of  the  meetings  it  was  resolved  that  the  seventh 
Congress  shall  be  held  at  Milan  in  1888. 
(  To  be  continued.) 
THE  STORY  OF  THE  PAPAW. 
By  F.  B.  Kilmer. 
( Concluded  from  p.  348. ) 
GLUCOSIDE  OF  THE  PAPAW. 
The  Carica  Papaya  contains  a  glucosidal  body,  caricin.  This  I 
have  never  been  able  to  obtain  except  from  the  seed,  in  which  it  is 
fairly  abundant.  From  this  source  it  may  be  extracted  after  boil- 
ing the  seeds  with  75  per  cent,  alcohol.  The  residue  after  alco- 
holic extraction  is  then  exhausted  with  water.  The  aqueous  ex- 
tract after  the  addition  of  barium  carbonate  is  evaporated  to  the 
consistency  of  a  soft  extract  from  which  the  glucoside  may  be  ex- 
tracted with  hot  alcohol.  From  such  a  solution  the  glucoside 
separates  upon  concentration.    This  glucoside  resembles  sinigrin. 
