roo  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
are  given  a  list  of  the  common  official  medicines  which  should 
always  be  kept  in  every  dispensary;  a  list  of  the  official  medicines 
which  belong  to  the  class  of  poisonous  medicines,  which  should  be 
kept  with  special  care  and  separated  from  others ;  a  list  of  the 
official  medicines  that  belong  to  the  class  of  strong  or  energetic 
medicines,  and  which  also  should  be  kept  with  care  separated  from 
others ;  and  a  list  of  medicines  together  with  their  doses  for  an 
adult. 
In  commenting  on  some  of  the  features  to.  which  Professor 
Kraemer  called  attention,  Prof.  I.  V.  S.  Stanislaus  said  that  he 
thought  it  rather  remarkable  that  antitetanic  serum  and  tuberculin 
should  have  been  made  official  in  the  Japanese  Pharmacopoeia  when 
they  are  used  so  little  in  practice  as  curative  agents.  With  regard 
to  the  preparation  of  aromatic  waters,  he  said  that,  generally  speak- 
ing, the  oil  does  not  represent  the  drug  or  contain  all  of  the  odorous 
principles,  as  in  the  case  of  oil  of  rose  where  the  benzene  alcohol, 
one  of  the  constituents  which  gives  to  rose  its  peculiar  odor,  does  not 
come  over  with  the  distillate. 
Mr.  Thum  expressed  the  opinion  that  medicated  gauzes  should 
be  admitted  to  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  and  stated  that  the  official 
standards  for  ether  are  not  sufficient  to  insure  an  ether  of  proper 
strength  and  purity  for  anaesthesia.  He  said  that  the  best  ether  on 
the  market  varies,  and  that  the  next  edition  should  recognize  an 
ether  for  anaesthesia,  the  standards  for  which  should  be  very  high 
regardless  of  cost,  although  he  thought  that  ether  could  be  manufac- 
tured more  cheaply  now  than  formerly.  Remarks  were  also  made 
by  Professor  Lowe  and  Messrs.  Boring  and  Poley. 
Florence  Yaple. 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
