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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL, 



* * * "The value of all things exists, not indeed, 

 In themselves, but in man's use of them, feed- 

 ing man's need." 



And in tnis connection we believe, the 

 college in adopting a post-graduate course 

 will do more to bind her sons about her 

 than she dreams of. 



Why do so many of our students, and 

 usually the brightest and best men, for- 

 sake the ranks of pharmacy for some 

 other profession ? Does the practice of 

 pharmacy fall short of the theory ? Or, 

 is it, having once tasted of the fruits of 

 knowledge, their appetites are aroused 

 for a further repast, and they seek in 

 some other profession to satisfy the crav- 

 ings which their studies have awakened? 



A post-graduate course will remedy 

 this. It will teach them that the prac- 

 tice of pharmacy holds problems deep 

 enough to absorb all the skill and thought 

 that they can bring to bear, and in work- 

 ing out their own career, they will ele- 

 vate the standard of pharmacy. 



REACTIONS OF SOME OF THE NEWER 

 REMEDIES. 



Messrs. G. & R. Fritz have published for 

 the Austrian Pharmaceutical Society (Pharm. 

 Post, Vol. xxviii) the following tests of identity 

 of some of the newer remedies : 



Agathin (Salicylic Alehyde-Methylphenyl- 

 hydrazine): White (tinged light-greenish), lus- 

 trous, odorless, tasteless scales ; insoluble in 

 water, very soluble in ether or hot alcohol, 

 slightly so in cold alcohol or ligroin ; melts at 

 74° C. (165. 2° F. ), is not discolored even on 

 prolonged exposure to light ; heated upon pla- 

 tinum foil it burns without leaving a residue. 



Alumnol (Aluminum Naphtoldisulphonate) : 

 Fine, light-reddish, nonhygroscopic powder, 

 readily soluble in cold water : acts as a reduc- 

 ing agent ; precipitates silver, producing a black 

 coloration, from a solution of silver nitrate ; 

 ferric chloride produces with it a deep-blue 

 coloration, even in very dilute solution ; its 

 solutions have an acid reaction, and precipitate 

 albumen and gelatin from their solutions, 

 which precipitates however, are redissolved on 

 addition of excess of albumen or gelatin. 



Ammonium Sulphoichthyolate (Ichthyol) : 



Brownish-red, syrupy liquid, of a characteristic 

 empyreumatic odor and taste ; charred by heat, 

 and if strong heat is continued, it volatilizes 

 without residue : water dissolves it, forming a 

 clear, reddish -brown solution, showing a weak 

 acid reaction, as does also its solution in a mix- 

 ture of equal volumes of ether and alcohol ;pure 

 alcohol or pure ether dissolves ichthyol but 

 partially ; hydrochloric acid added to its aque- 

 ous solution separates from it a resinous body, 

 which is soluble in ether, as also in water ; but 

 from its watery solution it is again precipitated 

 by hydrochloric acid or sodium chloride ; on the 

 addition of potassium hydroxide to ammonium 

 sulphoichthyolate the odor of ammonia is 

 evolved ; this mixture, when dried and ignited, 

 produces a sulphide of carbon, which yields 

 hydrogen sulphide on the addition of hydro- 

 chloric acid. 



Argentamine ( Solution of Silver Nitrate and 

 Ethylenediamine) : Colorless, strongly alka- 

 line liquid, miscible with water in all propor- 

 tions ; hydrochloric acid produces a precipitate 

 of silver chloride ; this solution, freed from 

 silver chloride by filtration, emits, on heating 

 with chloroform and potassa, a strong odor of 

 carbylamine ; the same solution, freed from 

 silver chloride, leaves, on evaporation, a crys- 

 talline mass composed of hydrochlorate and 

 nitrate of ethylenediamine. 



Aristol (Dithymol Diiodide) : A brick-red 

 powder, having a resinous feel ; heated care- 

 fully it melts to a brown mass, emitting vapors 

 of iodine ; ignited on the platinum foil, it burns 

 up completely with a sooty flame ; carefully 

 heated with lime, it produces a sublimate of 

 dithymol, recognizable by its characteristic 

 odor. 



Chloral-caffeine : Crystalline mass made up 

 of thick leaflets, readily soluble in water; on 

 boiling its solution a separation takes place of 

 chloral-hydrate and caffeine, the latter, on cool- 

 ing, crystallizing in the well-known fine long 

 needles. 



Dermatol (Bismuth Subgallate): Fine, yel- 

 low, odorless, tasteless, insoluble powder; con- 

 centrated hydrochloric acid converts it into 

 bismuth chloride; concentrated sulphuric acid 

 has but little effect upon it in the cold, but dis 

 solves it on warming; it is quickly soluble in 

 ammonia water ; hydrogen sulphide decom- 

 poses it with the production of bismuth sul- 

 phide. 



Furophen (Isobuytlorthocresol Iodide): Yel- 

 low powder of a saffron-like odor and a resin- 



