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PIIAEMACEUTICAL MEETING, EDINBURGH. 
the medicine was supplied, as well as the number of the transcription into the register. 
This register must be preserved for at least twenty years, and must be shown whenever 
it is demanded by the authorities. Before sending out the medicine, the pharmaceutist 
will place upon it a label indicating his name and residence, and reminding the patient 
of its destination, whether it be for internal or for external use. Arsenic and its com¬ 
pounds cannot be sold for other than medicinal purposes, without being combined with 
other substances. The formulse of such preparations will be determined, with the ap¬ 
probation of one Ministre, Secretary of State for Agriculture and Commerce: namely, 
for the treatment of domestic animals, by the advice of the Professors of the Royal 
Veterinary College of Alfort; for the destruction of noxious animals, and for the preser¬ 
vation of skins and objects of natural history, by the School of Pharmacy. The above- 
mentioned preparations can be sold and sent out only by pharmaceutists, and only to 
persons known and householders. The quantity obtained, as well as the name and resi¬ 
dence of the purchaser, are to be inscribed in the special register, the keeping of which is 
ordered by Article G. The sale and employment of arsenic and its compounds are for¬ 
bidden for steeping grain, for embalming bodies, and for the destruction of insects. 
We have thus, Mr. President, scrambled over the ‘Codex Medicamentarius,’ dipping- 
in a little here and there, but at no part deeply. I think that we must all be ready to 
express our thanks to those eminent and hardworking men who have produced this 
noble work. It is a book worthy of study, and I trust that the very superficial manner 
in which I have been able to bring it before the Society this evening will only tend to 
turn the attention of your members from this paper to a careful jperusal of the Codex 
itself. 
Some discussion took place at the close of the paper, and on the motion of the 
President a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Dr. Jackson for his excellent and 
interesting communication, which was seconded by Mr. Mackay, and carried with accla¬ 
mation. 
The Secretary then introduced Mr. Kemp, one of the members of the Society, but 
resident in Bombay, who had come on a short visit to his friends in Edinburgh, and who 
had very kindly brought with him one or two articles to be found in the Indian bazaars, 
and which he thought might interest the Society here. 
Mr. Kj 3MP then made the following remarks:— 
The few specimens now before the meeting I brought home from Bombay for Mr, 
Mackay to place, if he thought they w'ere worth it, in the Society’s Museum. There are 
not many drugs among those sold in the bazaars of Western India that possess characters 
very interesting to the pharmaceutical chemist. Those on the table, howevei', I thought 
would be looked upon with curiosity by such as ourselves. 
Kaladana. —There are two specimens of this drug. An interesting article on it by 
Dr. Waring v/ill be found in the last volume of the ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal.’ It is 
noticed also in Pereira and other Materia Medica bocks, as “Pharbitis Nil,” the seeds of 
the Ipomcea cceridea. In one of the specimens the seeds are small, and correspond in 
size with Pereira’s description ; in the other, they are about half as large again. Both 
are got in the Bombay bazaars, but I believe the larger kind is imported from Persia. 
The drug forms an excellent substitute, when powdered, for jalap, and yields to spirit 
an extract which, when purified by boiling water and a salt of lead, leaves a pure hard 
resin of jalap or jalapiue. It also contains a bland fixed oil, about G per cent, of 
jalapine and 10 per cent, of oil. The proportion of oil is, of course, far too small to 
extract by pressure. 
Cocum Oil. —A hard vegetable fat, got by boiling the berries of Garchiia purpurea. 
Found in the bazaars in long egg-shaped pieces, very hard, and capable of pulverization 
at ordinary temperatures, but melting at the temperature of 108° F. It is equalled by 
nothing as a material for suppositories or pessaries, a mass for which can be made with 
great facility by rubbing up the cocum in a mortar with a few drops of olive oil as an 
excipient, the active ingredients being previously mixed in as in a powder.^ Many 
more uses would suggest themselves if the drug were obtainable in this market. It does 
not, however, answer for ointments, causing early rancidity. 
The other three drugs are specimens of Elaeoptene and Stearoptene of volatile oils. 
Liquid Camphor .—Got from the Borneo camphor-tree at an early stage of its growth. 
A description will be found in Pereira’s ‘ Materia Medica.’ The drug found in the- 
