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At a late meeting of the Edinburgh. Chemists’ Assistants’ and Apprentices* 
Association, also, the new Pharmacopoeia was adversely commented upon by Mr. 
C. E. Henry, whose paper on ‘'The Pharmacy of the Hew Pharmacopoeia” was 
chiefly a protest against the non-inclusion of practical pharmaceutists among the 
compilers. 
In presenting the prizes won by successful competitors at a meeting in 
connection with the South London School of Pharmacy, the secretary (Mr. 
Baxter) complimented the prize-takers upon their general politeness. £t That,” 
facetiously said Mr. Baxter, “was a virtue in most cases, but in theirs it was 
an especial virtue, because it would enable them to sell people what they did 
not want.” 
The Birmingham and Mineral Water Makers’ Association's annual meeting 
agreed to appoint an analyist to report upon the Association’s manufactures, in 
consequence of recent excise prosecutions. This action arose out of a confec- 
tioner having been fined for selling port and sherry which had been supplied 
to him by Messrs. Turley, Wall & Co. as “ temperance wines,” but which had 
been found to contain from 17*4 to 19*6 per cent, of proof spirit. It was 
said ar the hearing of the case that the liquors in question, which were much 
stronger than ordinary champagnes, were largely affected by persons of teetotal 
professions. 
At a meeting of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association on 11th February, Mr. R. M. 
Sumner read a paper, in which he referred favourably, from personal experience, 
to the efficacy of cocaine as a remedy for sea-sickness, more especially in the 
form of lozenges which he obtained from Messrs. Meggeson and Co., London, 
containing one-twelfth grain of cocaine hydrochlorate, four of which, taken after 
sea-sickness had set in, produced magical effect. Mr. Sumner expressed the 
opinion that less than this quantity, one-third grain, will hardly answer in the 
majority of cases, and that “ the centesimal doses of which we have read will 
not bear the test of practical experience.” 
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Dead Shot for Tape-Worm. — Bernard Persch says that after having given 
a fair trial to all the taenicides usually recommended, including kousso, male 
fern, pomegranate, etc., he found nothing to equal the following treatment, which 
is as certain as anything in medicine generally gets to be. In the morning early 
he gives a drop of croton oil dissolved in chloroform and the solution mixed 
with an ounce of glycerin. On retiring that same night the patient is given a 
mild laxative. The Rev. des Scien. Med. says that the treatment never fails, 
the taenia being rapidly and completely expelled. — St. Louis Med. and Surg. 
Jour. 
For Baldness.— R. White liquid vaseline, 100 grms. ; pilocarpine, 50 grms. 
Mix and dissolve with light heat. This solution makes the finest kind of a cos- 
metique. Ho “ brilliantine ” can be compared to it; it glosses the hair. The 
idea of its use is derived from the fact that pilocarpine acts on the glands of 
the skin. — Amer. Pharm. 
Barium Sulphide Depilatory. — Professor Bartholow says that barium sul- 
phide is the best depilatory for ordinary use, its long continued action often 
resulting in the permanent removal of the offending hairs. He advises the 
following to be made into a paste with sufficient alcohol and applied, being 
allowed to remain until some pain is felt and then removed: — R. Barium 
sulphide, lime, of each, 1 drachm ; powdered starch, 2 drachms. 
