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pensatory and sometimes called " The father of American materia 

 medica." Doctor Lloyd also contributed a case of 115 rare chemicals, 

 which he himself prepared and which was awarded first prize at the 

 sixth Cincinnati Industrial Exposition in 1875; a pharmaceutical 

 counter balance with cup and block weights, in common use in drug 

 stores of this country about 1860 ; one of the first suppository molds 

 made by Prof. W. B. Chapman, fourth president of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association; an ophthalmoscope which had been 

 owned and used by Dr. John King ; a bottle of emetine believed to be 

 the type specimen of this drug. 



Due to the efforts of Doctor Lloyd the following material, which 

 was presented to the donors by Dr. John King, was received as con- 

 tributions from the persons named : An ophthalmoscope and a model 

 of a human eye from Dr. William N. Mundy, Forest, Ohio; 30 am- 

 poules of medicinal solutions and one case of " 13 pure elements," 

 from Dr. H. W. Felter, Cincinnati, Ohio; an ophthalmoscope from 

 Dr. T. T. Sidener, Lima, Ohio; a spectroscope from Dr. John J. 

 Sutter, Lima, Ohio; a barometer from Mrs. Hallie Stephens Caine, 

 North Bend, Ohio ; and Dr. John King's diary from Dr. Louise East- 

 man, Cincinnati, Ohio. An interesting old surgical instrument, 

 called a scarificator, was presented by Dr. D. H. Welling, of Worth- 

 ington, Ohio. This instrument was in vogue when bloodletting was 

 a popular operation for many human ailments. The instrument con- 

 sists of 10 blades set upon rotary axes, and was used for making shal- 

 low incisions in the skin, from which might be withdrawn, by means 

 of an " exhausted cup," any desired quantity of blood. 



The medals and decorations conferred on the late Maj. Gen. Wil- 

 liam C. Gorgas, Surgeon General of the United States Army during 

 the World War, were loaned by Mrs. William C. Gorgas, Washing- 

 ton, D. C; and Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y., pre- 

 sented through Mrs. Gorgas a copy of the book " William Crawford 

 Gorgas — ^His Life and Work," by Marie D. Gorgas and Burton J. 

 Hendrick, for exhibition with the Gorgas medals. 



The Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, made for 

 the Museum and transferred to this division an exhibit consisting of 

 21 specimens to show steps in the bacteriological examination of 

 water supplies to prove the absence or presence of pathogenic micro- 

 organisms. 



One hundred and sixty-one colored posters bearing important 

 health lessons to be observed from infancy to adult life were pre- 

 sented by the National Child Welfare Association, New York, N. Y. 



Digitalis leaves vary in activity as mlich as 600 per cent, and a test 

 is required by the United States Pharmacopoeia, to insure uniform 

 therapeutic activity of the tincture made from this drug. The H. K, 

 Mulford Co., Philadelphia, Pa., donated seven charts outlining the 



