. American journal of pharmacy . in the upper extremity of theglass tube or lamp globe, piercing it with a metal tube, and attachingto this an ordinary rubber pipe connected with a bulb, such as are usedin the small atomizers or syringes. By compressing the bulb air isforced into the tube, and the increased pressure rapidly increases theflow of filtrate. By this means an ordinary 4 oz. or 8 oz. mixture canbe filtered in a very few minutes, and dispensed with satisfaction to thepharmacist and of pleasing appearance to the patient. This is not offered as entirely new, as the credit of the idea b
. American journal of pharmacy . in the upper extremity of theglass tube or lamp globe, piercing it with a metal tube, and attachingto this an ordinary rubber pipe connected with a bulb, such as are usedin the small atomizers or syringes. By compressing the bulb air isforced into the tube, and the increased pressure rapidly increases theflow of filtrate. By this means an ordinary 4 oz. or 8 oz. mixture canbe filtered in a very few minutes, and dispensed with satisfaction to thepharmacist and of pleasing appearance to the patient. This is not offered as entirely new, as the credit of the idea belongsto Messrs. Sykes and Newton, of Hartford, Conn., who have longused a similar apparatus with such evident success as to make theirneighbors copy the same. The apparatus exhibited was manufactured from a lamp globe andan atomizer, the total cost of the same being, without including theretort stand, the sum of 65 cents. Actual use at the laboratory hasproved its utility in a small way,and for such purposes it is Am. Jour. Pharm. 1Mar., 1878. [ The Tinctures of the U. S. P. 106 NOTE ON THE TINCTURES OF THE U. S. P. By Theodore G. Davis, From observation and experiment, I think it would be preferable inthe coming Pharmacopoeia to have officinal Alcohol dilutum containing50 per cent, of alcohol, Alcohol containing 70 per cent, of anhydrousalcohol and Alcohol fortior as at present. An alcohol of 50 per cent, is preferable in most instances to aweaker spirit, and could be substituted to advantage for the presentdiluted alcohol, as in most of the tinctures prepared with it there is acloudiness which becomes clear on the addition of some alcohol; thisis particularly noticeable in the tinctures of roots and leaves containingresin and volatile oil. Valerian is a good example, and I can corrobo-rate in every particular the facts set forth by Mr. George W. Ken-nedy in the February Journal, in the article on Tincture of Can-tharides. Capsicum, if the percolation is p
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