'^"'slpt'.risso^""" }  Gleanings  from  the  German  Journals.  473 
the  proportion  of  2*25  to  lOO'O  tincture  and  adds  10  parts  of  castor 
oil  and  0*5  Venice  turpentine. — Pharm.  Ztschr.  f.  Russl.^  March  i, 
1880,  p.  147,  from  Pharm.  Ztg. 
The  following  New  Formula  for  Unguentum  diachylon 
Hebrse"  is  published  by  A.  Deringer : 
Dissolve  200  grains  lead  acetate  in  i  liter  distilled  water  and  300  O 
white  Marseilles  soap  in  liter  distilled  warm  water,  filter  both 
solutions,  mix,  wash  the  resulting  precipitate  frequently  with  distilled 
water,  and  after  removing  the  moisture  from  it  as  much  as  possible, 
melt  I  part  of  it  together  with  ij  part  best  olive  oil  on  a  steam 
evaporating  apparatus  and  triturate  into  a  white,  smooth  salve  in  a  mor- 
tar, which  then  possesses  all  the  excellent,  mild  and  healing  properties 
of  Hebrae's  salve. — Pharm,  Ztschr.  f.  Russl.^  Feb.  15,  1880,  p.  103. 
An  Elegant,  Accurate  and  Neat  Manner  of  Dispensing  small 
Quantities  of  Mercurial  Ointment  is  suggested  by  H.  Huelsebusch, 
and  consists  in  pouring  the  previously  sufficiently  melted  ointment  into 
glass  tubes,  allowing  to  cool,  and  then  forcing  them  out  of  the  tubes 
with  a  glass  rod,  when  the  ointment  is  obtained  in  sufficiently  hard 
sticks,  resembling  lead  plaster  in  appearance,  any  desirable  weight  of 
which  can  be  readily  cut  off  and  dispensed. — Pharm.  Ztg..^  March  31, 
1880,  p.  195. 
De  Vrij's  Improved  Method  of  Preparing  Fluid  Extract  of 
Cinchona  is  as  follows  :  100  grams  of  the  powdered  bark  of  the 
trunk  of  East  India  Cinchona  succirubra,  containing  at  least  6  per  cent, 
alkaloids,  are  mixed  with  38  grams  normal  hydrochloric  acid  and  362 
grams  water,  and  are  macerated  for  12  hours,  at  the  expiration  of 
which  20  grams  glycerin  are  added  and  the  whole  mixture  is  transferred 
to  a  percolator.  When  the  clear  percolate  ceases  to  pass  clear  water 
is  passed  through  the  percolator  until  the  percolate  is  onlv  colored,  but 
no  longer  rendered  cloudy  by  soda  lye,  which  usually  is  the  case  before 
800  grams  percolate  are  obtained.  The  latter  is  then  evaporated  to  100 
grams,  the  obtained  fluid  extract  thus  corresponding  in  strength  to  the 
fluid  extracts  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia. — Pharm.  Ztg..,  March  27, 
1880,  p.  187. 
A  Fraudulent  Substitution,  on  a  large  scale,  of  Cinchonia 
muriate  for  Quinia  sulphate  is  again  reported  by  Prof.  X.  Landerer 
of  Athens,  Greece,  who  states  that  all  the  bottles  were  marked  "  Sul- 
phate of  Chinine,"  that  the  contents  of  several  of  them  were  analyzed 
by  him  and  proved  to  contain  not  the  slightest  trace  of  quinia  sulphate, 
that  the  substituted  alkaloid  was  readily  soluble  in  water  and  answered 
all  the  tests  of  cinchonia  muriate. — Pharm.  Ztg..,  March  24,  1880, 
p.  178. 
