THE ALUMNI JOURNAL HI 



Oscar Goldman, '83, has returned to Germany on September 

 20th, to be with his daughter, Erna, who is under treatment of 

 Dr. von Hessing at Goggingen, near Augsburg. The treatment 

 is quite successful, the young lady being able now to walk a short 

 distance with the aid of a cane. 



Jerome R. Herbig, '04, who graduated as M. D. from Bellevue 

 a few years ago, has now taken up the practice of medicine. 



Gordon Evans, '98, of Philadelphia, N. Y., was in town recently. 

 He reports that his business is in a prosperous condition. 



DIFFICULT DISPENSING OF OILY SUBSTANCES.* 



By J. Leon Lascoff, New York. 



{Continued.) 



I^ 14. 01. Gaultheriae 2 dr. 



01. Terebinth 2 oz. 



Alcohol q. s 4 oz. 



In compounding this prescription in the order it was written it 

 will turn out a cloudy mixture but by mixing the oil of winter- 

 green in the alcohol and by adding the latter to the ol. terebinth, 

 little by little, it will form a nice clear mixture. 



I have a good many more prescriptions of similar nature but 

 will leave same for a future date. All these prescriptions which 

 I demonstrate to you were presented in our store for dispensing 

 and written by various medical men with the exception of one by 

 Mr. Vogt mentioned heretofore. 



It is true that some of these difficulties might be easily over- 

 come by any experienced pharmacist or even a student of a college 

 of pharmacy, yet we must consider the fact we are not all experts 

 and that when we strike a snare it is always our duty to experi- 

 ment, with the prescription at hand, and if our first efifort is not 

 crowned with the desired success we should try again and repeat 

 as I have shown to you that with a little care and more persever- 

 ence we might obtain brilliant results. There should be nothing 

 to discourage our repeated experimenting in our profession. We 

 owe that to ourselves, to the prescriber, and to the patient. The 

 every day pharmacist, in the rush of his work is not expected to be 

 an expert nor does he pass as a "cracker-jack," yet I am positive 

 *Read before Kings County Phar. Association. 



