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acid  ;  sub-acetate  of  lead,  caustic  potash,  and  tartar  emetic,  throw 
down  white  precipitates. 
Effects  of  Gillenin  on  the  human  system. — One  grain  was  dis- 
solved in  a  fluid  ounce  of  water,  and  taken  in  doses  of  one  drachm  at 
intervals  of  fifteen  minutes;  the  fourth  dose  caused  much  nausea 
and  retching,  though  not  emesis.  I  have  no  hesitation  in  say- 
ing, had  it  been  taken  in  a  dose  of  half  a  grain,  it  would  have 
proved  emetic.  Much  vertigo  was  occasioned  by  the  experiment, 
which  remained  for  some  time.  Judging  from  this  personal  ex- 
periment, the  proper  dose  of  gillenin,  when  emesis  is  desired, 
would  be  half  a  grain,  repeated  if  necessary.  I  think  an  elegant 
mode  of  administering  gillenin,  would  be  in  the  form  of  the 
alcoholic  watery  extractive,  or  a  syrup  made  from  that  corres- 
ponding in  strength  to  that  made  from  ipecacuanha,  as  in  its 
physical  as  well  medical  properties  gillenin  bears  a  marked  re- 
semblance to  that  important  article  of  the  materia  medica.  With 
regard  to  the  less  important  proximate  principles,  I  may  state 
that  I  found  coloring  matter,  fatty  matter,  fixed  oil,  and  wax, 
in  the  alcoholic  extract. 
PHYSICIANS  AND  PHARMACEUTISTS  AND  THEIR  RELATIONS. 
By  J.  M.  Maisch. 
(Continued  from  page  113.) 
It  is  a  bad  practice  for  apothecaries  to  undertake  the  treat- 
ment of  diseases  ;  such  a  course  has  been  denounced  by  all  true 
practitioners  of  medicine  and  pharmacy.  On  the  other  hand, 
physicians  who  set  up  drug  stores  of  their  own  are  equally 
censurable.  Physicians  have  an  aversion  to  allowing  their 
prescriptions  to  be  put  up  at  such  establishments,  if  it  be 
only  for  their  not  liking  to  have  their  recipes  and  mode  of 
treatment  criticised  by  other  physicians  whom  they  do  not  wish 
to  consult.  Such  stores,  therefore,  are  intended  for  the  phy- 
sician's own  practice ;  but  if  their  practice  is  so  large  as  alone 
to  support  an  apothecary's  establishment,  however  small  it 
may  be,  they  certainly  cannot  be  expected  to  pay  much  at- 
tention to  it.  Wherefore,  then,  keep  the  store  ?  A  clerk, 
however  insignificant  his  knowledge  and  experience  may  be,  if 
