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155 QUINOVIA COCOA AND QUINOVIA CHOCOLATE.
Quinovia,
or
bark without its
woody fibre, is,
as
already
stated, far less bitter than sulphate of quinine ; and, when mixed with cocoa or chocolate, this bitterness is very much so that in these forms the alkaloids can in most be administered without difficulty even to children. A shilling packet of cocoa contains fifteen grains of quinovia flava, and a like quantity is present in the shilling box of
concealed; cases
chocolate.
PATENT EXTRACT FOR PREPARING MILK.
LIEBIG’S
CONCENTRATED
This extract has a malt-like odour and a very agreeable It consists mainly of grape sugar, obtained by the action of malt on the starch of wheat flour, dextrine, and bicarbonate of potash. The objects of its use are, to enrich milk with sugar; to diminish, by dilution with water, the casein of cow’s milk; and to correct acidity by the addition of the alkali. In this way, it is contended, a mixture is obtained very closely resembling human milk. The following is Dr. F. Kussmann’s analysis of a sample of the fluid extract: Grape sugar, 27’07; dextrine, 959; bicarbonate of potash, 1’82; soluble phosphoric acid, 0 41 (equal to soluble phosphate of lime, 0 79) ; nitrogen, 2’56; insoluble fixed residue, 0 32 per cent. But the liquid extract was found not to keep well, and its manufacture has been abandoned for the preparation of the solid extract, the subject of the present notice. This extract differs from the former only in the absence of the water, and is therefore in a form of higher concentration, and one which doubtless will keep sound and sweet for long periods. It may be purchased of Liebig’s Concentrated Patent Milk Company, 10, Tichborne-street, taste.
diluted mixtures of sugar, starch, and cocoa, so extensively vended, and which we believe have done much to lower cocoa as an article of diet in the estimation of the public. To the number of these pure preparations of cocoa of superior manufacture and quality must be added Messrs. Dunn and Hewett’s Bromatine. NEW BISCUIT FOR BABIES.
We have received a sample of a new biscuit intended by the inventor, Mr. Ulrich, of Hamburgh, for general use as babies’ food. We have carefully examined them, and find them light and good. These biscuits are best used by pounding and soaking in cold water, adding milk in due quantity, and then allowing the whole to boil; when the liquid cools, the food, sweetened at pleasure, can be given through a bottle, or in any other convenient way. Two or three biscuits may be given twice or thrice a day. There is no subject in which more mistakes are made than that of infants’ diet. Half the things mothers give their infants are either improper or deficient in nutritive quality. It is, therefore, satisfactory to meet with wholesome and at the same time simple foods like the biscuits under notice.
New Inventions.
GEORGE’S PATEN
CALORIGEN.
GEORGE’S PATENT CALORIGEN. is either a very great nuisance or a great inventor of a really satisfactory thing of and the comfort, the kind deserves every encouragement. We are glad, Regent’s Quadrant. therefore, to call attention to " George’sPatent Calorigen," BARNES’S DISINFECTING PERFUME. we believe, the public will find free from the objecThis article is a combination of a powerful disinfectant which, of tion gas-stoves in general. In this the products of comwith an agreeable and refreshing perfume. It will prove of value in the sick room, especially for washing the person bustion appear to be effectually disposed of, while a stream and for diffusion through the atmosphere of the room by of pure air, conveyed by a pipe from the exterior of the means of a spray-producer. It will also be found a pleasant building, passes through a cylinder of heated wrought iron, substitute for aromatic vinegar or the ordinary smelling and is then distributed into the apartment. The cylinder salts. is in a well-made outer case, also of wrought iron, contained BARNES’S NEW EXCIPIENT FOR PILLS. and this case contains the gas-burner for heating the cylinder. Mr. Barnes, pharmaceutical chemist, Knightsbridge, in a The products of the gas-combustion are discharged into communication to the Pharmaceutical Society, has recently a pipe communicating with the flue or chimney, the enproposed the use of soluble cream of tartar as a new ex- trance to which is closely fitted with a thin sheet of iron, cipient for making pills of substances not readily brought into the pill state, as sublimated and precipitated sulphur, so as completely to prevent the return of noxious vapours hydrate of chloral, Dover’s powder, chlorate of potash, into the room, thus preserving the atmosphere in a state nitrate of potash, gallic acid, &c. Soluble cream of tartar i of purity. Mr. Farwig has one of these stoves in constant consists of a solution of bitartrate of potash in biborate of and it seems to work very successfully. soda, boracic acid; or biborate of soda and tartaric acid. use, This solution, when evaporated to the consistence of mucilage, is heavy and tenacious. We have examined speciDR. HUSBAND’S CAPILLARY TUBES FOR mens of a variety of pills admirably prepared with the VACCINE LYMPH. with the above in most described, cases, addition, excipient of a small quantity of gum tragacanth. WE have received a sample of these tubes from the manufacturer, Mr. Robert Somerville, 10, Spring Gardens, YEATMAN’S YEAST-POWDER. Stockbridge, Edinburgh, from whom they can be obtained, There can be no question that the use of baking and and we have no hesitation in strongly recommending them. yeast powders is perfectly legitimate, and that they are The tubes are excellent in calibre and tsrength, most reasonvaluable articles in rendering unfermented bread and pastry light and consequently more digestible. When used in able in price, and well adapted for practical employment. Tubes are, we believe, preferable to points and glasses. By place of eggs their employment is more questionable. As in the case of most articles of this kind, there are good their aid lymph can be preserved fluid and active in differ. and bad varieties, some of these powders especially being ent climates for long periods of time. We can endorse adulterated with alum. We have therefore tested Yeatman’s that these tubes melt readily in a flame, and the statement Yeast-powder, and find it to be perfectly pure, harmless, and free from alum or any other adulterant. The manu- are sufficiently strong to prevent their being easily broken facture of this article has of late been very much improved. in handling. A
GAS-STOVE
BROMATINE.
The numbers of preparations of cocoa and chocolate are almost endless, and yet for each kind some special quality or excellence is claimed. It must be no easy task to find names for all these several kinds and varieties. We hail with satisfaction, amongst these varieties, an increasing proportion of samples on behalf of which it is urged that they consist only of pure cocoa of the best description. The use of such genuine preparations is much to be preferred, on the score of flavour and general excellence, to the largely
IN reply to a statement recently made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as to the number of students who came to London after passing the medical examination at Edinburgh University, the Council of the Edinburgh University Club in London have published a minute declaring that since 1839, when the degree of Doctor of Medicine was first conferred by the London University, the names of only fourteen Edinburgh medical students have been enrolled in its calendar.
Quinovia,
or
bark without its
woody fibre, is,
as
already
stated, far less bitter than sulphate of quinine ; and, when mixed with cocoa or chocolate, this bitterness is very much so that in these forms the alkaloids can in most be administered without difficulty even to children. A shilling packet of cocoa contains fifteen grains of quinovia flava, and a like quantity is present in the shilling box of
concealed; cases
chocolate.
PATENT EXTRACT FOR PREPARING MILK.
LIEBIG’S
CONCENTRATED
This extract has a malt-like odour and a very agreeable It consists mainly of grape sugar, obtained by the action of malt on the starch of wheat flour, dextrine, and bicarbonate of potash. The objects of its use are, to enrich milk with sugar; to diminish, by dilution with water, the casein of cow’s milk; and to correct acidity by the addition of the alkali. In this way, it is contended, a mixture is obtained very closely resembling human milk. The following is Dr. F. Kussmann’s analysis of a sample of the fluid extract: Grape sugar, 27’07; dextrine, 959; bicarbonate of potash, 1’82; soluble phosphoric acid, 0 41 (equal to soluble phosphate of lime, 0 79) ; nitrogen, 2’56; insoluble fixed residue, 0 32 per cent. But the liquid extract was found not to keep well, and its manufacture has been abandoned for the preparation of the solid extract, the subject of the present notice. This extract differs from the former only in the absence of the water, and is therefore in a form of higher concentration, and one which doubtless will keep sound and sweet for long periods. It may be purchased of Liebig’s Concentrated Patent Milk Company, 10, Tichborne-street, taste.
diluted mixtures of sugar, starch, and cocoa, so extensively vended, and which we believe have done much to lower cocoa as an article of diet in the estimation of the public. To the number of these pure preparations of cocoa of superior manufacture and quality must be added Messrs. Dunn and Hewett’s Bromatine. NEW BISCUIT FOR BABIES.
We have received a sample of a new biscuit intended by the inventor, Mr. Ulrich, of Hamburgh, for general use as babies’ food. We have carefully examined them, and find them light and good. These biscuits are best used by pounding and soaking in cold water, adding milk in due quantity, and then allowing the whole to boil; when the liquid cools, the food, sweetened at pleasure, can be given through a bottle, or in any other convenient way. Two or three biscuits may be given twice or thrice a day. There is no subject in which more mistakes are made than that of infants’ diet. Half the things mothers give their infants are either improper or deficient in nutritive quality. It is, therefore, satisfactory to meet with wholesome and at the same time simple foods like the biscuits under notice.
New Inventions.
GEORGE’S PATEN
CALORIGEN.
GEORGE’S PATENT CALORIGEN. is either a very great nuisance or a great inventor of a really satisfactory thing of and the comfort, the kind deserves every encouragement. We are glad, Regent’s Quadrant. therefore, to call attention to " George’sPatent Calorigen," BARNES’S DISINFECTING PERFUME. we believe, the public will find free from the objecThis article is a combination of a powerful disinfectant which, of tion gas-stoves in general. In this the products of comwith an agreeable and refreshing perfume. It will prove of value in the sick room, especially for washing the person bustion appear to be effectually disposed of, while a stream and for diffusion through the atmosphere of the room by of pure air, conveyed by a pipe from the exterior of the means of a spray-producer. It will also be found a pleasant building, passes through a cylinder of heated wrought iron, substitute for aromatic vinegar or the ordinary smelling and is then distributed into the apartment. The cylinder salts. is in a well-made outer case, also of wrought iron, contained BARNES’S NEW EXCIPIENT FOR PILLS. and this case contains the gas-burner for heating the cylinder. Mr. Barnes, pharmaceutical chemist, Knightsbridge, in a The products of the gas-combustion are discharged into communication to the Pharmaceutical Society, has recently a pipe communicating with the flue or chimney, the enproposed the use of soluble cream of tartar as a new ex- trance to which is closely fitted with a thin sheet of iron, cipient for making pills of substances not readily brought into the pill state, as sublimated and precipitated sulphur, so as completely to prevent the return of noxious vapours hydrate of chloral, Dover’s powder, chlorate of potash, into the room, thus preserving the atmosphere in a state nitrate of potash, gallic acid, &c. Soluble cream of tartar i of purity. Mr. Farwig has one of these stoves in constant consists of a solution of bitartrate of potash in biborate of and it seems to work very successfully. soda, boracic acid; or biborate of soda and tartaric acid. use, This solution, when evaporated to the consistence of mucilage, is heavy and tenacious. We have examined speciDR. HUSBAND’S CAPILLARY TUBES FOR mens of a variety of pills admirably prepared with the VACCINE LYMPH. with the above in most described, cases, addition, excipient of a small quantity of gum tragacanth. WE have received a sample of these tubes from the manufacturer, Mr. Robert Somerville, 10, Spring Gardens, YEATMAN’S YEAST-POWDER. Stockbridge, Edinburgh, from whom they can be obtained, There can be no question that the use of baking and and we have no hesitation in strongly recommending them. yeast powders is perfectly legitimate, and that they are The tubes are excellent in calibre and tsrength, most reasonvaluable articles in rendering unfermented bread and pastry light and consequently more digestible. When used in able in price, and well adapted for practical employment. Tubes are, we believe, preferable to points and glasses. By place of eggs their employment is more questionable. As in the case of most articles of this kind, there are good their aid lymph can be preserved fluid and active in differ. and bad varieties, some of these powders especially being ent climates for long periods of time. We can endorse adulterated with alum. We have therefore tested Yeatman’s that these tubes melt readily in a flame, and the statement Yeast-powder, and find it to be perfectly pure, harmless, and free from alum or any other adulterant. The manu- are sufficiently strong to prevent their being easily broken facture of this article has of late been very much improved. in handling. A
GAS-STOVE
BROMATINE.
The numbers of preparations of cocoa and chocolate are almost endless, and yet for each kind some special quality or excellence is claimed. It must be no easy task to find names for all these several kinds and varieties. We hail with satisfaction, amongst these varieties, an increasing proportion of samples on behalf of which it is urged that they consist only of pure cocoa of the best description. The use of such genuine preparations is much to be preferred, on the score of flavour and general excellence, to the largely
IN reply to a statement recently made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as to the number of students who came to London after passing the medical examination at Edinburgh University, the Council of the Edinburgh University Club in London have published a minute declaring that since 1839, when the degree of Doctor of Medicine was first conferred by the London University, the names of only fourteen Edinburgh medical students have been enrolled in its calendar.