THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



59 



Published under the auspices of the 



Alumoi Associatioo of tde Collep of Pliarnacy 



OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 



209 EAST 33d STREET. 



Vol. I. 



April I, 1894. 



No. 3. 



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THE SUPPLEMENT. 



With this issue of The Ai^umni Jour- 

 nal we commence a departure which 

 has for its object, primarily the care and 

 interests of the students of the College of 

 Pharmacy. It so happens that all of the 

 journals published by or in connection 

 with the authority of our college do not 

 receive the support of the students. This 

 arises because the students are not ready 

 to peruse what is in many cases too diffi- 

 cult for them to comprehend. In order to 

 make The Alumni Journal a students' 

 journal it has seemed necessary to create 

 "The Supplement," which shall be 

 issued from time to time, and contain 

 such matters as will assist the students 

 in their studies and which are of interest 



to those who are not inclined to dwell 

 too long upon matters that are too exact- 

 ing and thorough. In this way we hope 

 to bring the more solid matter into the 

 hands and eventually into the heads of a 

 large number who may care little for the 

 scientific aspect of pharmacy. In this 

 country we are almost too practical to 

 the exclusion of scientific research. To 

 meet practical people we must use prac- 

 tical means to accomplish the purposes 

 of The Alumni Journal. At the same 

 time to those of our readers to whom 

 "The Supplement" may not be of such 

 great interest, we trust that they may 

 see that in this way we do not take away 

 from the dignity and character of the 

 Journal, whose aim is "to be a valuable 

 publication to all tlio?e interested in 

 pharmaceutical advancement." 



IPECACUANHA. 



Last month we referred to the concen- 

 tration of the labors of so many investi- 

 gators in the examination of chloroform. 

 This month we desire to call attention to 

 some of the most recent developments in 

 the examination of ipecacuanha. This 

 drug has received the most careful study 

 of both pharmacognosists and chemists. 

 E. M. Holmes, in a paper recently pub- 

 lished, has produced a key to the micro- 

 scopical structure of the commercial ipe- 

 cacuanhas. It is based upon a paper on 

 this subject by Tschvisch and Ludtke, 

 is as follows : 



I. Woody coliunn containing chiejly 

 tracheids, bid no vessels. 



A. Root bark containing starch and 

 raphides. 



1. Parenchyma of bark uniform = Rio 

 Ipecacuanha. 



2. Parenchyma of bark forming two 

 laj^ers ^=- Carthagena Ipecacuahna. 



B. Root containing 710 starch, but 

 sugar. Woody centre not visibly por- 

 ous = Greater Striated Ipecacuayiha . 



