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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



]V[iscellaT>eoas Itcn^s. 



CURIOUS PRESCRIPTIONS. 



Having slight pecularities of interest to dis- 

 pensers: 



No. I. 



R Quin. Sulph : gr. iij. 



Ac. Hyoroch Dil hi v. 



Am. Carb gr. v. 



Aq. ChloroL 3j. 



The only satisfactory way of dispensing this 

 is to neutralize the acid with the am. carb., rub 

 the quinine down with mucilage, and add one 

 to the other. 



No. 2. 



R Bismuth Carb gr. 120. 



Potass. Bicarb gr. 90. 



Sp. Am. Arom 3 iij. 



Tr. Cardam Co 3 iij. 



Aq. Calcis ad 3 viij. 



The color of the tinct. card co. in above is 

 discharged. 



No. 3. 



R Liq. Potassse 



Sp. other Nitres, aa 3j- 



This requires an amber color with a slight 

 precipitate. 



No. 4. 



R Zinci Broiii gr. 16. 



Sodii Brom 3ss. 



Tr. Nucis Voni m 64. 



Aq. ad 3 viij. 



A flocculent precipitate occurs in this, as two 

 drops of acid hydrobrom is sufficient to clear it, 

 the addition is recommended. 

 No. 5. 



R Cocain Hyd gr. iij. 



Argent Nit gr. J<. 



Aq. Dest 3 ss. 



In dispensing this, silver chloride is precipi- 

 tated, which is evidently not intended, there- 

 fore nitrate of cocaine should be used in place 

 of the hydrochlorate. — Ph. Journal. 



The Metrological Society of America have 

 introduced a Bill at Washington, to make the 

 metric system of weights and measures the legal 

 standard of the United States in 1901. 



A Washington drug clerk was lately put in 

 jail for receiving mail under a fictitious name. 

 A decoy letter from the secret service entrapped 

 him. 



There is a street in the aristocratic portion 

 of the city of Canton, China, called "Physic 

 street." It is the abode of the wholesale drug- 

 gists. 



The Oi^dest Prescription in the Wori.d. 

 — In the course of a deeply interesting lecture 

 by Prof. Macalisher, at Firth College, Sheffield, 

 on "Studies in Ancient Egyptian Literature," 

 the lecturer stated, that, among the earliest 

 prescriptions was one for a "hair wash", for 

 promoting the growth of the hairs for the mother 

 of Chata, second King of the first dynasty, who 

 reigned about 4000 B. C. It is as follows: 



Pad of a dog's foot i 



Fruit of date palm 1 



Ass' hoof I 



Boil together in oil in a saucepan. Direct- 

 ions for use: Rub thoroughly. — Montreal Ph, 

 Journal. 



[When were saucepans first used? Ed.] 



The Oldest Botanical, Work is sculptured 

 on the walls of a room in the great Temple of 

 Karnak, at Thebes, in Egypt. It represents 

 foreign plants brought home by an Egyptian 

 Sovereign, Thothmes III , on his return from 

 a campaign in Arabia. The sculptures show 

 not only the plant or tree, but the leaves, fruit, 

 and seed pods, separately, after the fashion of 

 modern botanical treatises. — 



Newcastle Chronicle. 



Pharmacology is the basis of therapeutics, 

 and of all rational treatment, and that medical 

 man who does not know the principles on 

 which he prescribes, is an empiric, and little 

 less than a qnack.. - - Murrell. 



The Western Chemists' Association (of 

 London), have unanimously adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolution, and sent it to the various 

 Medical Colleges: 



"That this meeting is of opinion that the prac- 

 tice of prescribing proprietory medicines is be" 

 coming so extensive as to be seriously injurious 

 to the progress of pharmacy and detrimental to 

 the best interests of the medical profession, and 

 considers it to be most desirable that all pres- 

 cribers should adopt the practice of writing 

 prescriptions without the name of any particular 

 maker attaclied, so that they may be dispensed 

 by any pharmacist from recognized and pub- 

 lished formulae. " 



Deep and rapid breathing is recommended 

 as a means of stopping hiccough. 



In the new edition of the British Pharmaco- 

 poeia, the metric system of weights and meas" 

 ures will be adopted. 



