May 5, 1900
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British Medical Journal
Abstract
MEDICINAL AND DIETETIC PREPARATIONS. Fortoin, Preparation of Cotoin.-Overlach (Centralbl. fur Inn. Med., March ioth, igoo) has found true cotoin, which is a crystalline substance extracted in 1875 by Jobet from coto bark, all that has been claimed for it by Albertoni, Yeo, and others, in the treatment of the most diverse forms of diarrhoea. But he considers fortoin better than cotoin. Fortoin is formaldehyde cotoin or methylendicotoin, the formula being: