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furnished a fluid which when evaporated almost to dryness, 
was found to contain no foreign body." 
In a letter from Mr. Cazenove of London, the agent of 
Mr. Delondre, after stating he had forwarded twenty-five 
ounces of Sulphate of Quinine, as requested by Mr. Delon- 
dre, he goes on to say: 
" The analysis given in the report of pure Sulphate of Qui- 
nine is no doubt correct, but I believe that very little is made 
in a large way which contains less than T -|^. to T ^ of impuri- 
ties, arising from the ingredients used in its manufacture, all of 
which are mentioned in Mr. Delondre's clear and candid 
statement of his process." 
The last document on the subject is a letter from Dr. J. R. 
Chilton of New York, in which he says that Mr. Feidler, 
the agent of Mr. Delondre in New York, states that he has 
ascertained that the article examined by Mr. Farr and others 
was not imported by him, but came last from London, where 
it may have been adulterated and then branded in imitation 
of Mr. Delondre's. 
Dr. Chilton adds, " I have made two or three examinations 
of Delondre's Quinine as imported by Messrs. Feidler 
& Co. at different times, and have uniformly found it to be 
almost entirely free from impurity. 
ART. XXVII.— MEDICO-BOTANICAL NOTICES. NO. XI. 
Lobelia Syphilitica. — This beautiful native plant, like the 
other species of its genus, acts as an emeto-purgative. Its 
principal celebrity, however, has arisen from its supposed 
powers in the cure of syphilis, for which purpose it was 
highly esteemed among the Indians of this country, and the 
knowledge of its powers long kept as a secret among them, 
but was at length communicated to Sir. Wm. Johnson, who 
