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and conclude that the official German method for detecting the pres- 
ence of methyl alcohol is thoroughly satisfactory. — Arb. a. d. pliarm. 
Inst. d. Univer., Berl., 1906, pp. 243-260. 
6. DECOMPOSITION. 
Caspari, Chas. E., discusses the preservation of galenical prepara- 
tions and the precautions to be observed. — Proc. Am. Pharm. Ass., 
1906, v. 54, pp. 261-264. 
Hallberg, C. S. N., points out that it would be advisable to include 
in the U. S. P. lists giving the names of articles with special refer- 
ence to their preservation. Such lists, presenting the necessary infor- 
mation in a concise way, would be of considerable practical value. — 
Ibid ., v. 54, p. 260. 
The section on commercial interests of the American Pharma- 
ceutical Association adopted a resolution calling the attention of the 
Committee of Revision of the Pharmacopoeia to the practicability 
of incorporating in the appendix lists of the articles of the phar- 
macopoeia with reference to the particular methods for their best 
preservation. — Ibid., v. 54, p. 260. 
Smith, F. A. Upshur, discusses the preservation of medicinal and 
chemical substances and calls attention to the detailed directions for 
keeping, embodied in the pages of the U. S. P. VIII. He points 
out that the worst conditions for storing drugs and chemicals are 
in large white glass bottles, partially filled, on shelves exposed to a 
strong light and to heat. — Pharm. J., Lond., 1906, v. 22, pp. 31, 33, 
63, 86. 
“ Gnomon ” discusses the precautions included in the U. S. P. for 
the preservation of medicaments and points out that,- curiously 
enough, the stock of the elegantly fitted and well lighted modern 
establishment must tend to deteriorate much more rapidly than did 
the contents of its less attractive and more gloomy predecessor, and 
this fact doubtless explains why we hear so much more nowadays 
about the relative inertness of drugs, chemicals, and galenicals. — 
Ibid., v. 22, p. 64. 
Gane, E. H., suggests that systematic tests be made from time to 
time, over a long interval, of standard samples of assayed alkaloidal 
preparations to learn what impairments they are subject to. — Proc. 
Am. Pharm. Ass., 1906, v. 54, p. 351. 
7. INCOMPATIBILITY. 
Dunning, Morgan, and others discuss the incompatibilities of alka- 
loids. — Proc. Maryland Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 65. 
For a list of incompatibilities of some new remedies, see the “ Re- 
port on new remedies,” appended to Proc. New York Pharm. Ass., 
1906, pp. 51-53. 
