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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(Am.  Jour.  Tharm. 
\  December,  1908. 
must  be  considered  as  being,  largely  at  least,  of  an  academic  char- 
acter, inasmuch  as  the  nation  with  a  preponderance  of  delegates 
present  must  control  the  issues. 
Gnomon  (Pharm.  Jour.,  London,  October  10,  1908),  in  discussing 
the  same  subject,  asserts  that  "  Congresses  are  being  sadly  over- 
done." He  further  discusses  the  attempts  that  were  made  to  estab- 
lish acceptable  definitions  for  various  food  products  and  says :  "  It 
cannot  be  said  that  uniform  success  attended  the  efforts  in  this 
direction,  for  while  some  of  the  definitions  recorded  are  obviously 
incomplete  or  wrong,  others  which  were  submitted  proved  to  be  of 
such  limited  applicability  that  no  two  manufacturers  of  certain 
articles  could  agree  as  to  their  fitness." 
The  next  congress  will  be  held  in  Paris,  in  1909,  and  it  is  thought 
that  a  greater  and  more  representative  collection  of  delegates  will 
assemble  at  that  time  and  that  more  definite  results  may  be  expected. 
The  eightieth  meeting  of  the  German  Naturalists  and  Physicians 
was  held  this  year  at  Cologne,  during  the  week  following  Septem- 
ber 21. 
The  section  on  Pharmacy  and  Pharmacognosy  was  presided  over 
by  Dr.  Frerichs,  of  Bonn.  The  program  for  this  section  was  an 
unusually  meagre  one  and  included  but  three  papers. 
The  International  Congress  on  Tuberculosis,  which  was  held  in 
the  city  of  Washington,  during  the  week  following  September  28, 
1908,  has  very  properly  been  characterized  as  a  convincing  demon- 
stration of  the  wide-spread  interest  in  the  tuberculosis  problem  and 
a  most  promising  showing  of  the  success  that  has  attended  the  com- 
bating of  this  dread  disease. 
Not  the  least  interesting  portion  of  this  congress  was  the  exhibit, 
which  demonstrated,  as  words  never  could,  the  work  that  is  being 
done  in  all  parts  of  the  world  to  prevent  infection,  to  recognize  the 
disease  at  an  early  period  so  as  to  prevent  its  progress  and,  when- 
ever possible,  to  effect  a  cure. 
Next  in  importance  to  the  several  meetings  and  congresses  that 
have  been  held,  during  the  past  three  months,  few  occurrences  have 
attracted  more  wide-spread  attention  than  the  publication  of  the 
new  French  Pharmacopoeia. 
French  Codex. — According  to  the  reviews  that  have  appeared  in 
the  European  pharmaceutical  journals  the  new  Codex  is  in  many 
ways  an  improvement  on  its  predecessor.  The  latter  had  728  pages 
while  the  present  edition  has  999  pages.    In  the  present  edition  the 
