314  PHARMACEUTICAL  GLEANINGS. 
which  is  put  in  a  bottle  with  rectified  ether.  After  two  days  con- 
tact, decant  and  mix  the  ethereal  liquid  with  powdered  sugar. 
This  addition  is  repeated  a  number  of  times  until  the  sugar  has 
a  sweet  odor.  The  seeds  should  be  removed  from  the  juice  before 
treatment  by  ether,  else  the  disagreeable  fixed  oil  they  contain 
is  extracted  with  the  volatile  oil. 
Strawberries  give  a  distilled  water  that  does  not  become 
agreeable  until  five  or  six  months  old  ;  it  is  advisable  to  put  salt 
in  the  water  of  the  alembic.  Distilled  water  of  strawberries 
may  be  employed  to  aromatise  lozenges  and  syrups. 
Diitretic  Wine. — M.  Granel  suggests  the  following  as  a 
diuretic  preparation,  viz :  squill  sliced,  and  digitalis  leaves 
bruised,  each  two  drachms ;  best  cinnamon  three  drachms ; 
acetate  of  potassa  half  an  ounce  ;  Madeira  wine  a  pint.  Macerate 
during  eight  days  and  filter. 
The  dose  is  a  table-spoonful  in  the  morning. 
The  dose  may  be  increased  to  four  spoonfuls  a  day :  two  in 
the  morning  and  two  in  the  evening,  at  least  three  hours  after 
the  last  meal. 
Traumatacin. — Dr.  Eulenberg,  of  Berlin,  gives  this  name  to 
a  solution  of  gutta  percha  in  chloroform.  He  employed  it  in  a 
case  of  inveterate  psoriasis,  and  in  eczema.  It  is  applied  so  as 
to  form  a  shining  pellicle  over  the  part  affected,  which  is  re- 
newed daily.  In  three  or  four  weeks  the  skin  had  lost  its  scaly 
character.  A  similar  application  to  an  eczematous  eruption  in 
the  arm  pits,  cured  it  in  three  weeks. — (Jour,  de  Chim.  Med.} 
Poudre  du  Oaucase — Powder  of  Caucasus.  Under  this  name 
a  powder  is  sold  in  European  commerce  for  destroying  insects,  as 
lice,  fleas,  ants,  and  the  worm  which  eats  furniture,  which  is  de- 
rived from  the  leaves  and  flowers  of  Pyrethrum  caucasicum. 
This  powder  is  said  to  kill  insects  by  its  odor,  which  is  inert 
to  man.  It  is  used  by  laying  it  in  a  bag  near  the  infected  place, 
or  dusting  it  on,  or  it  may  be  made  into  a  tincture  with  six  parts 
of  alcohol,  and  this  solution  applied  with  a  brush.  The  smoke 
resulting  from  the  slow  combustion  of  the  powder  is  said  to  be 
a  sure  preventive  of  these  vermin  when  applied,  which  is 
readily  done  by  holding  a  hot  iron,  on  which  the  powder  is 
thrown,  in  the  places  likely  to  be  infected  with  vermin.  M. 
