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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



of the replies received in answer to a cir- 

 cular letter issued to a very large num- 

 ber of schools and boards of pharmacy 

 throughout the country. The curricu- 

 lum is here appended : 



PHARMACY. 



Assistant: Physical laws applied in 

 pharmacy ; the balance ; different kinds 

 of thermometers ; specific gravity ; spec- 

 trum ; weights and measures and differ- 

 ent systems ; percentage-solutions, etc. ; 

 percolation and maceration ; vehicles and 

 excipients ; preparation of prescriptions. 



Pharmacist: Potent drugs and their 

 strength ; alkaloidal drugs ; incompati- 

 bles ; solubility ; assaying ; all official 

 preparations, their ingredients ; difficul- 

 ties in preparing them and how to over- 

 come them ; reading and preparing of 

 complicated prescriptions. 



Mode of extracting" alkaloids, gluco- 

 sides, resins, etc. 



MATERIA MEDICA (BOTANY AND PHYSI- 

 OLOGY) . 



Assista?it : Vegetable morphology ; 

 parts of a plant and their function. 



Primary physiology ; different organs 

 of the human body, their uses and func- 

 tions, especially respiratory and ailiment- 

 ary organs. 



Official drugs ; habitat and medicinal 

 properties. 



Therapeutic terms, simple pharmacog- 

 nosy. 



Pharmacist: Systematic botany and 

 vegetable physiology. 



Natural orders of all official drugs ; 

 growth of plants and their chemical con- 

 stituents ; history of each drug from 

 gathering to dispensing. 



Therapeutic terms continued ; pharma- 

 cognosy, microscope. 



CHEMISTRY. 



Assistant : Inorganic chemistry ; sym- 

 bols and terms, atomic and molecular 

 weights ; chemical equations ; chemical 



incompatibles ; formulas of all official 

 chemicals ; qualitative analysis. 



Pharmacist : Inorganic chemistry; pre- 

 paration of all official chemicals ; their 

 possible adulterants, testing for and de- 

 tecting adulterants. Quantitative an- 

 alysis ; examples in stoechiometrv. 



Organic chemistry ; notation ; hydro- 

 carbons ; ethers and alcohols ; chemistry 

 of alkaloids, glucosides. 



Analysis of water, urine, food, etc. 



TOXICOLOGY, PRESCRIPTION, DOSES. 



Assistant: Prescription with potent 

 drugs ; doses of all drugs ; antidotes of 

 potent drugs. Prescription Latin ; defi- 

 nition of Latin terms and abbreviations 

 used in prescriptions ; translations of 

 Latin prescriptions into English and vice 

 versa. 



Pharmacist: Symptoms of poisoning 

 by drugs or chemicals ; antidotes and 

 how to apply; prescription difficulties ; 

 testing for poisons in food or water ; ex- 

 amining contents of stomach ; bacteriol- 

 ogy ; ptomaines and leucomaines. 



The reading of this report and recom- 

 mendation met with enthusiastic yet at 

 the same time well-considered reception. 

 Only one or two feeble objections were 

 urged against their adoption, and, know- 

 ing the individuals who objected, we feel 

 assured that their objections would dis- 

 appear after a more careful consideration 

 of the subject. Nearly all the speakers 

 were very strong in their assertions that 

 the action here recommended was in the 

 direct line of the requirements for im- 

 proving the condition of pharmacy. 



Space forbids that we should, in this 

 number, attempt an analysis of these 

 recommendations of Mr. Alpers, or at- 

 tempt to point out in detail the results as 

 affecting the welfare of the profession by 

 their adoption, but we shall take occasion 

 to do so in the next number of The 

 Alumni Journal. For the present it is 



