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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
A.m.  Jour.  Pharm 
July,  1908. 
second  offense  and  for  further  offenses  may  have  his  store  closed, 
or  his  permission  to  practice  pharmacy  revoked. 
Graduates  of  practically  all  foreign  schools  or  colleges  of  pharmacy 
are  allowed  to  practice  without  examination. 
Professor  Ladakis  said  that  pharmacists  in  the  near  East  handle 
practically  nothing  but  medicines,  the  only  side  lines  being  perfumery, 
toilet  articles  and  photographic  goods.  He  said  that  if  pharmacists 
were  to  attempt  to  sell  cigars,  cigarettes,  etc.,  the  people  would  lose 
the  respect  which  they  have  for  pharmacists,  and  the  present  high 
position  of  the  calling  would  be  greatly  lowered. 
Proprietary  preparations  are  used  to  some  extent,  and  those 
manufactured  in  Egypt  are  either  preparations  for  diseases  of  the 
eye  or  general  tonics. 
The  practice  of  pharmacy  in  Turkey  is  about  on  the  same  plane 
as  in  Egypt,  except  that  the  professors  in  the  medical  and  phar- 
maceutical schools  regard  the  French  pharmacopoeia  as  the  official 
guide. 
In  Turkey,  certain  chemicals,  for  one  reason  or  another,  are  not 
allowed  either  to  be  manufactured  or  imported,  and  of  these  the 
following  were  mentioned  :  nitric  acid,  all  nitrates  (except  silver 
nitrate)  and  chlorates,  cocaine  and  its  salts,  sulphonal,  potassium 
cyanide,  picric  acid,  nitroglycerin,  gun  cotton,  bismuth  subsalicylate, 
cotton  seed  oil,  and  essence  of  cognac. 
Other  interesting  points  were  also  brought  out  in  the  discussion 
of  the  paper. 
Mr.  M.  I.  Wilbert  gave  an  interesting  resume  of  some  of  the 
Recent  Advances  in  Pharmacy  (see  p.  287),  and  exhibited  and  com- 
mented upon  a  line  of  pharmaceutical  preparations  which  had  been 
prepared  by  members  of  the  local  branch  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  for  exhibition  at  the  recent  meeting  of  the 
American  Therapeutic  Society,  held  in  Philadelphia. 
Mr.  Wilbert  alluded  to  the  spread  of  prohibition  and  local  option, 
and  said  that  pharmacists  should  take  cognizance  of  the  movement, 
as  it  is  likely  to  cause  a  lessening  of  the  amount  of  alcohol  used  in 
medicines  and  the  employment  of  other  means  of  preserving  phar- 
maceutical preparations. 
The  speaker  then  enumerated  a  series  of  preparations  which 
should  be  made  by  pharmacists,  and  in  this  connection  spoke  of  the 
introduction  of  sterilization  processes  by  European  pharmacists. 
