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hydrochlorate of ammonia, and also some traces of quinine. In two other 
patients to whom quinine had been administered for the cure of inter- 
mittent fevers, M. Landerer endeavored to discover this alkaloid substance 
in the blood. One was bled for a pleurisy which supervened ; the blood 
was inflammatory, and the coagulum covered with a thick bufFy coat. 
When first drawn from the vessel, and so long as it preserved its heat, it 
had but a very slightly bitter taste ; but after it had become cold, and the 
formation of the clot had taken place, the bitterness was very marked. 
A perceptible difference was discernible between the serum and the coa- 
gulated portion, the bitter taste being most marked in the former, and the 
quinine could be obtained from it by evaporation ; then digesting the 
residue in acidulated water, filtering, and precipitating it by ammonia. 
In the second patient the analysis of the serum gave exactly similar re- 
sults. 
London Med, Gaz. July, 1842, from Repertorium fur die Pharmacie, 
Manna. — " In the mountains above Tropcea, are large tracts of chest- 
nuts, and the small leaved ash, the omas, which produces the manna. 
They do not plant it, but cut down the strong stems, and spring it from 
the old stocks. In July they make a small gash, leaning upwards ; the 
second day another, and form cups with maple leaves, into which the gum 
exudes. 
The tyranny exercised on the poor peasants in this article is very great. 
The manna is farmed out, and a certain number of countrymen are ap- 
pointed to gather it, during which time they are not at liberty to absent 
themselves, or undertake the most necessary labors for themselves. They 
scarcely derive any benefit from their work, as they are paid five carlini 
for a rotulo of manna (thirty-three ounces) which the farmers sell in Na- 
ples for nine carlini a pound (twelve ounces.) If they burn or destroy 
the trees, though wild, their punishment is very severe, and if the smallest 
quantity is found in their houses, they are sent to prison. Eight hun- 
dred poor men, thus oppressed, contributed two carlini apiece, for a me- 
morial to the king, but no notice was taken of it." — Swinburne's Courts of 
Europe at the end of the last century, T. R. B. 
Amer, Journ. of Med, Sciences, 
Nature of the fat substance of Milk, — M. Romanet asserts that the glo- 
bules of the milk are entirely formed of butter, which exists as a pulp 
enveloped in a white, translucent, elastic, and resistant pellicle; and that 
this cyst is broken in churning, by which the butter is allowed to escape, 
and the pellicles floating about separately constitute the white particles 
which give consistence to the buttermilk. 
Compks Jie?idus, April 4, 1842. 
