5-8 
Varieties, 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Nov ,  1880. 
sists  in  melting  together  5  parts  of  nitrate  of  silver  with  i  part  of  nitrate  of  lead, 
forming  an  argentum  plumbo-nitricum.  Sticks  formed  of  this  are  preferable  to  those 
of  the  ordinary  nitrate,  as  they  are  not  easily  broken,  and  can  be  pointed  just  like  a 
lead  ptncW.-  'Medical  and  Surgical  Reporter^  from  Ibid. 
Oil  of  Mustard  in  Malarial  Fever.— HaberkOrn  ("London  Medical  Record") 
has  very  successfully  used  the  ethereal  oil  of  mustard,  on  account  of  its  anti-bacterial 
properties,  in  the  pernicious  iever-;  of  malaria.  He  gives  two  or  three  drops  a  dav 
in  a  great  quantity  of  distilled  watery  or  better,  from  two  to  four  drops  in  a  ten  per 
cent,  alcohol  solution.  His  results  have  been  "  most  remarkable." — Louisnjille  Med. 
Nenvs,  June  3,  1880. 
An  Innocent  Powder  for  clarifying  and  partially  decolorizing  wines,  liquors, 
vinegar,  etc.,  is  made  by  Dassori  by  mixing  30  kilograms  albumen,  300  grams  neutral 
potassium  tartrate,  500  grams  alum  and  70  kilograms  ammonium  chloride,  and  is 
used  like  albumen,  60  grams  of  the  mixture  being  sufficient  for  2  hectoliters;  it 
ought  to  be  first  beaten  carefully  with  cold  water,  but  never  directly  with  the  liquid 
to  be  clarified.  The  liquids  thus  clarified  never  become  turbid  again. — Pharm. 
Centralh.,  December  25,  1879,  p.  479,  from  Chem.  Ztg. 
A  very  Concentrated  and  at  the  same  time  mild  Soap,  particularly  well  adapteil 
for  washing  fine  fabrics  having  a  delicate  color,  is  made  by  rasping  ordinary  soap  into 
very  fine  shavings  (as  fine  as  sawdust),  drying  the  latter  on  wire  screens  placed  in  a 
warm  place,  grinding  into  a  fine  powder  and  pressing  this,  either  directly  without 
anv  addition,  by  very  strong  pressure  into  bars,  or  adding  to  the  powder  sufficient 
ox  gall  to  make  a  solid  mass,  which  is  then  shaped  into  bars  like  ordinary  soap.  If 
ox  gall  is  added,  it  must  be  previously  beaten  into  a  uniform  mass. — Fharm.  Cen- 
tralh.,  December  25,  1879,  P-  479?  ^rom  B.  Polyt.  Noti%bl. 
Oleoresin  of  Male  Fern  is  considered  a  harmless  tapeworm  remedy  by  many 
practitioners,  while  others  believe  it  to  be  too  powerful  for  delicate  constitutions 
(see  "Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.,"  Dec,  1879,  P-  59^)-  I^'"-  Pfeifer  administers  success- 
fully, in  nine  cases  out  of  ten,  the  following: 
R     Extr.  fil.  maris  aeth.,  .  .  .  .2  drs. 
Mucil.  gum  acaciae,    .  .  .  .  q.  s. 
Aqua-  cinnamomi,  .  .  .  -5  ozs. 
Syr.  aurantii  corticis,  .  .  .  i  oz. 
M.  D.  S.  To  be  taken  in  three  doses. 
Dr.  V.  Hauff  also  claims  successful  removal  of  taenia  by  administering  it,  while 
Dr.  Erlenmeyer  reports  a  very  unsuccessful  treatment,  resulting  in  removal  of  the 
taenia  without  its  head,  followed  by  strong  nausea,  vomiting,  diarrhoea,  fever,  faint- 
ing, diaphoresis  and  intestinal  catarrh,  lasting  for  over  six  weeks. — Pharm.  Ztg., 
Nov.  26,  1879,  P-  734>  from  Wuertt.  Med.  Corr.  Bl. 
Pilocarpin  in  Asthma. — Berkart  lecommends  the  adrninlstration  of  pilocarpin  in 
attacks  of  asthma.    "  The  powerful  revolution  which  pilocarpin  produces  in  the 
