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quite  fully  embodied  in  the  Pharmacopoeia  itself  and  each  one  of 
the  included  articles  is  specially  designated  (F.  L). 
Centenary  of  the  Journal  de  Pharmacie. — The  centenary  of  the 
universally  well  known  "  Journal  de  Pharmacie  et  de  Chimie,  Paris," 
was  recently  celebrated  by  a  dinner  given  at  the  Palais  d'Orsay 
Hotel  by  Professor  Jungfleish,  president  of  the  Editorial  Committee 
of  the  journal,  to  his  colleagues.  The  history  of  the  journal  was 
reviewed  and  its  influence  on  the  evolution  of  pharmacy  in  all 
portions  of  the  world  was  commented  on. — Chem.  and  Drug.,  Lond., 
1910,  76,  p.  37. 
The  Transactions  of  the  Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Thera- 
peutics of  the  American  Medical  Association,  at  the  sixtieth  annual 
session,  held  at  Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  June  8  to  11,  1909,  have  just 
been  published  and  constitute  a  larg'e  8vo  volume  of  252  pages. 
Much  of  the  material  presented  in  this  volume  is  of  unusual  inter- 
est to  pharmacists,  as  it  includes  all  of  the  papers  and  discussions 
on  the  Pharmacopoeia  that  attracted  such  attention  at  the  time.  The 
book  is  printed  by  the  American  Medical  Association  Press,  Chicago. 
Serums  and  Vaccines. — A  recent  number  of  the  Journal  of  the 
American  Medical  Association  (Jan.  22,  1910)  is  devoted  largely 
to  a  discussion  of  serums  and  vaccines,  no  less  than  eleven  separate 
communications  being  included.  For  two  of  the  preparations, 
vaccine  virus  and  tetanus  antitoxin,  the  plea  is  made  that  they 
should  be  included  in  the  next  edition  of  the  U.S. P. 
Serotherapy  and  the  Pharmacopoeia. — An  editorial,  commenting 
on  the  above  series  of  papers  on  sera  and  allied  products,  calls 
attention  to  the  great  importance  of  these  substances  and  the 
desirability  of  having  a  number  of  them  recognized  in  the  Phar- 
macopoeia, with  proper  directions  for  their  preservation  and  an 
enumeration  of  the  precautions  that  are  necessary  to  guarantee 
uniform  efficiency. — /.  Am.  M.  Assoc.,  19 10,  54,  p.  295. 
Vaccine  Virus. — Dr.  M.  J-  Rosenau  believes  that  vaccine  virus 
is  deserving  of  official  recognition  because  it  is  the  oldest  and  best 
known  specific  preventive.  It  is  a  drug  in  the  broadest  sense  of 
that  term,  and  official  recognition  at  this  time  would  tend  to  estab- 
lish for  it  an  official  and  legal  name  and  avoid  future  confusion  with 
the  bacterial  vaccines  and  other  so-called  "  vaccines  "  that  are  now 
being  used  in  the  prevention  and  cure  of  disease.  Another  advan- 
tage would  be  secured  from  the  calling  attention  to  the  need  for 
keeping  this  preparation  in  a  uniformly  cool  place." — Ibid.,  54,  pp. 
250-251. 
