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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[February 22, 18/3,. 
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Intern! f imutfras. 
HALIFAX AND DISTRICT CHEMISTS AND 
DRUGGISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
At a meeting of this society on Thursday, February 
13th, Mr. Jonathan Jessop, president, in the chair, the 
treasurer read a report respecting the state of the 
finances, which showed a balance in favour of the societ, 
of £5. 15s. 10 cl. The report was adopted. 
The President then drew the attention of the members 
to a circular referring to the Pharmaceutical Conference 
to he held at Bradford, and suggested that either in¬ 
dividually or as an association the members might do 
something to assist the Local Committee in that town. 
Mr. Farr was of opinion that the society should 
subscribe to the fund which is being raised, and stated 
that at the next meeting he would move that the sum of 
two guineas he voted for that purpose. 
On the motion of Mr. Dyer it was resolved that the 
secretary take steps to ascertain the opinions of the 
country members as to substituting- October for December 
in which to hold the annual meeting and dinner, so as to 
obtain a better attendance of members for the future. 
|toatWstgs irf JMentitic jSurietus. 
PARIS SOCIETE DE PHARMACIE. 
This society met on Wednesday, January 8th, when 
M. Stanislas Martin ceded the presidential chair to M. 
Regnauld, in the absence of M. Grassi, w-ho was unable 
to attend. After the preliminary business M. Planchon 
read some letters which had been received from Messrs. 
Phoebus, of Giessen, and Fliickiger, of Bern, relative to 
the proposed Universal Codex. A discussion ensued, 
and the society added MM. Buignet, Lefort, Mayet, 
Jungfleisch, Duquesnel and Mehu to the commission 
already nominated to consider this subject. M. Bussy 
was also nominated president of this commission. 
M. Limousin brought under the notice of the society 
a new method which he had devised for the administra¬ 
tion of pulverulent medicines. It consisted in enclosing 
them in envelopes of unleavened bread about the size of a 
five-franc piece, and closed at the edges. Some speci¬ 
mens were shown containing sulphate of quinine, sub¬ 
nitrate of bismuth, and rhubarb. 
M.. Jungfleisch communicated to the society the result 
of his researches upon the various transformations of 
tartaric acid and of the synthesis of that body by means 
of (bibromosuccinic acid. Starting with a substance of 
mineral origin, so to speak, and which did not possess, 
rotatory powers, he had obtained tartaric acid, having, 
an action upon polarized light. 
M. Buignet called attention to the importance of this 
result which might lead at some future time to the syn¬ 
thesis of the active alkaloids. 
M. Bourgoin having remarked that he had not been 
able to ^obtain bibromo3uccinic acid at a temperature 
below 170° C., M. Jungfleisch said that by taking the 
precaution of placing the tubes transversely instead J of 
vertically, in the oil bath, he had obtained it at 130° C.’ 
M. La-tour read a note upon the preparation of the 
syrups of tolu and of tar. 
At the sitting of the society on Wednesday, February 
oth, under the presidency of M. Regnauld, a note from 
M. Husson was read upon a combination of iodine and 
blood, and proposing the therapeutic employment of 
iodine combined with hamiatoglobulin, a dry product in 
the. form of. spangles, and according to the author very 
easily assimilated. M. Coulier was appointed to report 
upon the note and the product. 
M. Saint-Martin presented a specimen of concrete- 
aromatic oil, extracted from Tonqua beans, which he had 
had occasion to prepare during a comparative study of 
the wild and cultivated beans. 
M. Boudet in calling the attention of the society to 
the subject of propylamine, expressed a regret that 
medical men should be using so variable a substance, 
and proposed that it should be remitted to the investiga¬ 
tion of a commission. 
M. Adrian shortly described the communication that 
he had made to the Societe de Therapeutique (printed 
at p. G71) ; after which the proposition of M. Boudet was 
agreed to, and Messrs. Baudrimont, Bourgoin, Jungfleisch, 
Adrian, and Boudet were nominated members of tho 
commission. 
PARIS SOCIETE DE THERAPEUTIQUE. 
SuLFHOVINATE OF QuiXINE. 
At the meeting of the above society on Friday, Ja¬ 
nuary 24th, M. Limousin exhibited various specimens of 
Sulphovinate of Quinine. One, which was in the form 
of scales, .was obtained by decomposing sulphovinate of 
baryta with sulphate of quinine. Another, which was. 
very white and well crystallized, was obtained by treat¬ 
ing an alcoholic solution of sulphate of quinine with am 
alcoholic solution of sulphovinate of soda. M. Limousin 
pointed out that this last process, besides yielding a very 
fine product, had the great advantage of avoiding the- 
use of a salt, of baryta in the preparation, especially 
since the poisonous effects of baryta would be very 
dangerous in hypodermic injections. He said that he 
had profited by the labours of M. Schlagdenhauffen, 
professor in the new School of Pharmacy at Nancy,—who 
had, in a recent paper on the comparative solubility of 
the salts of quinine, indicated the sulphovinate as dis¬ 
solving in the largest proportions,—to prepare the present 
specimens as especially suitable where it was desired to 
administer a large dose of quinine subcutaneously. Thm 
sulphovinate is so soluble that it deliquesces if exposed 
in a humid atmosphere, and he thought it would be of 
great advantage to have a salt sufficiently soluble with¬ 
out the necessity^ of having recourse to an acid. 
M. Bourdon said that he had successfully employed 
sulphate of quinine acidulated by tartaric acid in sub¬ 
cutaneous injections. The solution so obtained did not 
provoke inflammation around the puncture, as was often 
the case when a solution acidulated by sulphuric acid 
was used. 
M.. Constantin Paul said that by-the use of the sul¬ 
phovinate of quinine, a very large dose of the alkaloid 
could be administered; five or six times the quantity of 
