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ON THE FERRUGINOUS WINES, ETC. 
ART. XXXII.— THE FERRUGINOUS WINES, AND SOME 
NOTICE OF THE MORE RECENT MARTIAL PREPARA- 
TIONS. 
By Augustine Duhamel. 
Op the wines of a chalybeate character, whether prepared 
from pure or oxidized iron, or combined with an organic 
acid, a variety may be found in the shops of the apothecary. 
These will be found to differ in quality and strength, ac- 
cording to age, manner of preparation, and nature of the con- 
stituents. From the want of a fixed standard, they are pre- 
pared according to the judgment of the apothecary, and are 
selected agreeably to the caprice of the physician for whose 
individual practiee they may be designed. 
This great latitude must ensue where we have no officinal 
direction — which in this case is as much needed as with 
other preparations where pharmaceutic operations are guided 
by an authority we are pleased to recognise. One was ori- 
ginally given in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, 1st edition j but in 
the 2d and 3d editions the framers of the work thought pro- 
per to discard it, for what were deemed by them sufficient 
reasons, though its reintroduction was recommended by the 
pharmaceutic body. 
The latter, in consideration of being obliged to prepare and 
keep it to meet the demands of such practitioners as incline 
favourably towards its tonic powers as a medicine, believe it 
should constitute one of the Preparata of the Pharmaco- 
poeia. 
The rejection of a formula for a preparation not altogether 
obsolete, from the apothecary's guide-book, would seem to 
indicate that it becomes his duty to banish said preparation 
from his shop. It is unreasonable to suppose that this will 
be done, so long as there exists a demand for it. 
The reason assigned for its rejection was its inequality of 
