THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



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'94 NOTES. 



Ex-Secretarv Wurthman matriculated 

 before the College of Physicians and vSurgeoni 

 of this city a short time ago. As he will attend 

 the Alumni lectures this winter we will have an 

 opportunity of personally hearing of his pro- 

 gress. 



Frank Kellar is another of the '94 Boys 

 ■" who never care to wander." He has a nice 

 position in Patterson, N. J. 



Max Auerbach is down in Old Virginia 

 preparing to take the medical course in the Uni- 

 versity of that State. 



Geo. F. HoIvLA^D, who secured a position 

 in the Catskills for the summer, has returned, 

 and at present is located at Flushing, L. I. He 

 will probably spend the winter in California. 



Geo. R. SaGar is practicing the profession 

 at 9th ave. and 59th st. 



Col. Wade says that we are like thermo- 

 meters, because we were graduated by degrees. 



Nelson S. Kirk, 



9 East 59th St. 



^ PERSONALS. 



Charles Theodore Wolff has moved to 

 47 East 125th St. His fellow -classmates are 

 requested to note this as he is desirous of at- 

 tending the next annual banquet and re-union 

 of his class. 



Harry Heller, Ph. G., class of '93, and 

 Secretary of the Alumni Association, is now do- 

 ing a flourishing business of his own, at 157 7th 

 ave.; he is as jovial as ever, or even more so, 

 -due probably to his recent marriage. 



"Doc" Benjamin P\ Williams, class of 

 '94, is still with the W. B. Riker & Son Co,, in 

 their prescription department, with whom he 

 bas been connected now for the past two years. 



J. Horton UhlE, Ph. G., the tallest mem- 

 ber, but one, of the class of '93, is now doing 

 business under his own name at Rockland Lake, 

 N. Y. 



Eugene C. Webb, the able valedictorian of 

 the class of '93, is about to open up a business 

 of his own at the corner of 87th st. and Lexing- 

 ton ave., together with his cousin, Mr. A. P. 

 Stevens, under the firm name of Webb & 

 Stevens ; the opening will be early in Novem- 

 ber. 



Charles F. Cubik, class of '93, is now head 

 clerk in the prescription department of the 

 Hegeman & Co. Corporation concern, on lower 

 Broadway. Work seems to agree with him, as 

 lie is getting stouter every day. 



TO THE SENIORS. 



In reading over some old English literature 

 came across the following, which gives us an 

 insight into the Materia Medicaof the 13th, 14th 

 and 15th centuries. 



In the poem the selection is spoken by the 

 "Poticary." 



What would my friends, the Seniors— who 

 groan when they see such a word as " Aspidos- 

 permum qaebracho bianco" — what would they 

 say to the following : 



" Here have I diapompholicus 



A specyall oyntment as doctours discuse 



For a fistula or for a canker." 



' ' Here are others, as diosfialios, 

 Diagalanga and sticados, 

 Blanka, inatina, diospoliticon. 

 Mercury sublynie, and inetridafieoii ; 

 Pellitory, and arsefetida ; 

 Cassy and colloquintita. 

 These be the thynges that brek all stryfe 

 Between mannes syckness and his lyfe." 

 Respectfully inscribed to the "Seniors" by 



C. B., '93. 



The Senior and Junior columns will be open- 

 ed with the next issue when officers will have 

 been elected. We anticipate interesting notes 

 as the boys are aware of their duty and privilege 

 regarding The Alumni Journal. 



PAPERS FROM THE ANN ARBOR 

 SCHOOL OF PHARMACY. 



Examination of Kola. By C. O. Topping. 

 Six Samples of Kola were examined for total 

 alkaloids, for individual alkaloids (caff"eine and 

 theobromine), also for tannin. 



Three methods for estimating total alkaloids 

 were employed, viz., Heckel's, Squibbs', and 

 modified ProUius'. 



Lowenthal's method for tannin was adopted. 



Mr. Topping also performed experiments to 

 prove indirectly the presence ot a ferment in 

 kola, which, acting upon a glucoside " kola- 

 min," under suitable conditions of heat and 

 moisture, produced caffeine, glucose, and kola 

 red. 



The paper is accompanied by a tabulated 

 statement of results obtained. 



Reduced Iron — The quality dispensed by 

 pharmacists. By G. C. Steventon. The work 

 confines itself mainly to the per cent, of metal- 

 lic iron in the free and uncombined state, the 

 per cent, of insoluble residue, together with the 

 question of certain impurities within specified 

 limits. 



