Digest of Comments on the Pharmacop Ia of the United States of America (Eighth Decennial Revision) and the National Formulary (Third Edition) for the Calendar Year Ending December 31, 1908 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...Gaz., Detroit, 1908, v. 32, pp. 19-23. HOMATBOPIN-ffi HYDROBROMIDUM. Duane, Alexander (N. Y. State Jour. Med., July, 1908) discusses the use of homatropine in refraction work and asserts that the cases in which homatropine proves inefficient as a cycloplegic are few.--Merck's Arch., N. Y., 1908, v. 10, p. 303.' HUMULUS. Schneider, Albert, asserts that hop culture is one of the most important industries in California. The plant has escaped from cultivation in different parts of the State.--Pacific Pharmacist, 1908-9, v. 2, p. 212. The report of the Bureau of Plant Industry points out that the hop-breeding work undertaken on the Pacific coast has been continued with very interesting results.--Ann. Hep. U. S. Dept. Agric, 1908. 1909, p. 282. The report of the therapeutic committee of the British Medical Association in suggesting the deletion of hops and its preparations asserts that the drug is unnecessary.--Suppl. Brit. M. J., Lond., 1908, v. 2, p. 320. Chapman, Alfred C. (J. Inst. Brew., 13, 646), reports results of his estimation of hop tannin based on the fact that gallotannic acid forms precipitates with the alkaloids.--Chem. Abstr. Am. Chem. Soc., 1908, v. 2, No. 10, p. 1477. Beringer, George M., outlines a formula for fluid glycerate of hops, with the procedure to be followed, and asserts that this product at once deposited a small amount of sediment which was readily strained off, and the liquid has remained clear from sediment, but having an opalescence. It possesses in a marked degree the bitterness and aroma of hops. It mixes clear with diluted alcohol and cloudy with water or sirup and turbid with alcohol.--Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 1908, v. 56, p. 995. Additional references on the cultivation and the use of hops will be found in Exp. Sta. Rec. HYDRAR...