154 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



LECTURE, JANUARY nth, 1911. 



The Entertainment Committee wishes to announce, that special 

 arrangements have. been made to give a lecture in the Lecture Hall 

 of the College of Pharmacy on January 11th, 1911, at 8.30 P. M. 

 The lecture will be delivered by C. E. Vanderkleed, B. Sc. A. C. 

 Phar. D., chief chemist of H. K. Mulford & Co., and also Professor 

 of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Medico-Chirurgical College of 

 Philadelphia 



As the lecturer is coming on from Philadelphia it is especially 

 desired that every one who possibly can, should be present. 



SYRUP OF WILD CHERRY. 

 By H. a. B. Dunning. 



Syrup of wild cherry prepared in accordance with the formula 

 appearing in the Pharmacopoeia, 1890 revision, produces a prepara- 

 tion essentially superior to the product obtained if 1900 revision 

 formula be used. 



I make use of the term essentially in this connection because I 

 believe syrup of wild cherry should be regarded as a very desirable 

 vehicle or solvent for certain drugs and chemicals to allay coughing 

 and that therapeutically the syrup is of little value. 



As a vehicle the 1890 preparation is superior because, due to the 

 dififerent mode of preparation, it is a beautiful wine-red solution, 

 while in strong contrast the 1900 preparation is a sickly reddish- 

 brown tinged with yellow. Furthermore, the 1890 preparation is 

 more highly flavored, both as to odor and taste. It keeps quite as 

 well as the 1900 preparation, and may be criticised only as regards 

 the greater percentage of extractive matter, particularly of tannin 

 character held in solution. It seems to me that there can be no 

 great objection to the presence of tannin in the syrup because it is 

 rarely used in combination with anything which is incompatible 

 with it. 



I therefore most earnestly suggest to the Pharmacopoeia Com- 

 mittee that they consider the advisability in the next revision of 

 substituting the 1890 formula for the 1900 without change, except 

 perhaps that the moistened wild cherry be macerated the required 

 time loosely packed in a suitable percolator in which it is subse- 

 quently packed without removal. 



