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IV. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERI- 



MENTAL THERAPEUTICS : 



SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING 

 John Auer, Secretary. 



The sixth annual meeting of the Pharmacol. Soc. was held in 

 St. Louis, at the Washington Univ. Med. Seh., on December 27-30, 

 1914. There were five scientific sessions, three of them being Joint 

 meetings with the other members of the Federation. At the two in- 

 dependent sessions the following papers were read. 



Scientific program. First Session. Monday, Dec. 28, 2.00 

 p. m. S. Amberg and H. F. Helmholts: The fatal dose of various 

 substances on intravenous injection in the guinea-pig. — G. W. Crile: 

 Experimental and cHnical research into alkalescence, acidity and 

 anesthesia. — P. J. Hanzlik: Effects of cheHdonin on surviving 

 Organs. — T. SoUmann^ W. L. Mendelhall and /. L, S tingle: The 

 effect of temperature on the response of frogs to ouabain. — E. D. 

 Brown: Artificial cerebral circulation after circulatory isolation of 

 the mammalian brain. — Worth Haie: The uterine action of quinidin, 

 cinchonin and cinchonidin. — C. D. Edmunds: Some vasomotor re- 

 actions in the liver. — T. S. Githens and S. J. Meltser: Distribution 

 of Solutions in cardiectomized frogs with destroyed or inactive lymph 

 hearts. — F. L. Gates and S. J. Meltzer: The influence of intra-intes- 

 tinal administration of magnesium sulfate upon fhe production of 

 hyalin casts in dogs. 



Second SESSION. TuESDAY, Dec. 29, 9.00 a. m, W. deB. Mac- 

 Nider: A study of the relative importance of the vascular mechanism 

 of the kidney and of the epithelial element of the kidney in deter- 

 mining the efficiency of various diuretics. — H. B. Myers: Cross- 

 tolerance of drugs. — H. B. Myers and G. B. Wallace: Vascular re- 

 actions in poisoning from diphtheria toxin. — A. D. Hirschfelder: 

 The action of digitalis in experimental auricular fibrillation. — A. D. 

 Hirschfelder: The effects of drugs upon the circulation in the Pia 

 mater and the retinal vessels. — Clyde Brooks and /. D. Heard: The 

 action of camphor on the circulation. — Don R. Joseph: The effect 

 of carbon dioxid upon the convulsant action of acid fuchsin in 

 frogs. — Carl Voegtlin: The mechanism of the toxic action of heavy 



