Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1908. 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
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MAY  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  last  of  the  series  of  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  for  1907-8  was  held  Tuesday,  May 
19th,  at  3  p.m.  Among  the  visitors  present  was  Mr.  S.  A.  D.  Shep- 
pard,  of  Boston,  the  well-known  treasurer  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  who,  upon  invitation,  acted  as  chairman  of  the 
meeting.  „ 
T.  C.  Ladakis,  professor  of  pharmacy  in  the  American  College  at 
Beirut,  Syria,  who  has  just  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  in  Pharmacy  (P.D.),  described 
the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  Egypt. 
Professor  Ladakis  said  that,  in  considering  the  conditions  of  phar- 
macy in  Egypt,  it  should  be  remembered  that  the  country  has  been 
under  English  rule  only  since  1882.  He  said  that  the  regulation 
requiring  those  who  practice  pharmacy  in  Egypt  to  be  licensed 
pharmacists,  dates  back  to  1888. 
The  Egyptian  Government  conducts  a  school  of  medicine  and 
pharmacy  at  Cairo,  which  at  the  present  time  is  well  attended,  for 
the  reason  that  each  graduate,  whether  of  medicine  or  pharmacy, 
is  assured  a  Government  position.  At  first  the  instruction  given  in 
the  school  was  in  Arabic,  but  now  it  is  in  English,  the  professors 
being  mostly  Englishmen.  The  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  is  re- 
quired alike  of  the  applicants  for  admission  to  the  courses  on  phar- 
macy and  on  medicine. 
Very  few  of  the  pharmacies  in  Egypt  are  conducted  by  natives, 
most  of  them  being  under  the  management  of  foreigners,  including 
Englishmen,  Greeks,  Frenchmen,  Italians,  Germans,  Syrians  and 
others. 
Professor  Ladakis  stated  that  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  Egypt 
is  rendered  more  difficult  by  the  two  factors  that  the  country  has  no 
pharmacopoeia  of  its  own,  and  the  physicians,  being  also  mostly 
foreigners,  prescribe  the  preparations  of  their  own  pharmacopoeias. 
Under  the  pharmacy  law  adopted  in  1904,  the  pharmacies  of 
Egypt  are  regularly  inspected,  and  samples  of  preparations  analyzed 
at  the  Government  chemical  laboratory  in  Cairo,  and  when  a  pre- 
paration is  found  deficient,  that  is,  not  of  the  standard  required  by 
the  pharmacopoeia  according  to  which  it  was  prepared,  the  pharma- 
cist is  fined — for  the  first  offense,  fined  and  imprisoned  ;  for  the 
