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Btfaetions,  piles  and  diabetes.  It  consists  of  the  root  of  Casearia  esculenta, 
bearing  a  native  name  owing  its  origin  to  a  "  supposed  property  of  drying  up 
the  sea."  According  to  an  analysis  by  Mr.  D.  Hooper  the  root  contains  3  per 
cent,  of  neutral  resins  soluble  in  ether  and  partly  soluble  in  spirit,  an  organic 
acid  having  the  characters  of  cathartic  acid,  and  about  10  per  cent,  of  a  tannin 
giving  a  green  color  with  ferric  chloride,  which,  however,  dees  not  prevent  the 
drug  from  acting  as  an  aperient. 
The  officers  elected  are:  President,  C.  Tmney,  F.  I.  C,  F.  C.  S. ;  Vice- 
Presidents.  If.  Carteighe,  F.  I.  S.,  F.  C.  S. ;  L.  Plowman,  F.  E.  C.  S.,  A.  Kinnin- 
mont.  TV.  Smeeron  :  Treasurer,  W.  Martindale,  F.  C.  S. ;  Hon.  General  Secre- 
taries, W.  A.  Naylor,  F.  I.  G,  F.  C.  S.,  and  J.  C.  Thresh,  D.  Sc.,  M.  B. ;  Local 
Secretary.  F.  W.  Branson.   Next  vear  the  Conference  will  meet  in  Leeds. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCIATIONS. 
The  Georgia  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  14th  annual  meeting  July  23d 
and  24th.  President  W.  S.  Parks  in  the  chair.  The  papers  read  were  on  counter 
prt scribing,  therapeutic  use  of  antipyrin,  new  preparations  for  the  pharma- 
copoeia, percolation,  and  preparation  of  fluid  extracts.  T.  A.  Cheatham,  Ph.  G., 
Macon,  was  elected  President :  H.  R.  Slack,  Jr.,  Ph.  G.,  La  Grange,  secretary, 
and  H.  M.  Taylor,  Macon,  Ph.  G.,  treasurer.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in 
Macon,  April  15th,  1890. 
The  Illinois  Pharmaceutical  Association  met  August  10th  in  Quiccy  at  its  tenth 
annual  meeting,  President  Henry  Smith  presiding.  Papers  were  read  on  the 
manufacture  of  glucose  and  grape  sugar,  by  Mr.  A.  E  Ebert,  and  on  the  sta'us  of 
phavma<  y.  by  Mr.  C.  S.  Hallberg  and  H.  C.  Martin.  The  president  for  the  en- 
suing year  is  Hermann  Schrceder,  Qaincy  ;  secretary,  H.  C.  Martin,  Chicago, 
and  treasurer,  D.  J.  Dyson,  B'oomington.  The  next  meeting  will  take  place  at 
Kankakee,  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  August,  1890,  with  Mr.  Freese  as  local 
secretary .  * 
The  Indiana  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  at  its  eighth  annual  meeting 
in  Indianapolis,  June  4th  ;  Prof.  A.  L.  Green  presided.  The  papers  read  were 
on  emulsions,  the  use  of  the  metric  system,  commercial  pancreatin,  liquor  pan- 
creaticus.  quinine  sulphate  and  thymol.  Albert  Allen,  Greencastle,  was  elected 
presiden  ;  J.  A.  Perry.  Indianapolis,  secretary,  and  H.  C.  Pomeroy,  Indianapo- 
lis, treasurer.    Maxinkuckee  will  be  the  place  of  the  next  meeting. 
The  Iowa  Pharmaceutical  Association  assembled  at  its  tenth  annual  meeting  at 
Dubuque,  June  5th  ;  President  R.  W.  Crawford  in  the  chair.  The  topics  dis- 
cussed in  the  papers  were  trade  interests  ;  patent  medicines  ;  night  clerks;  com- 
merrial  C.  P.  acids  ;  and  sodium  sulphate,  etc.  AV.  H.  Torbert,  Dubuque,  was 
elected  president  :  Dr.  Rosa  Upson,  Marshall  town,  secretary,  and  J.  B- 
AYrbb,  De  Witt,  treasurer.  The  executive  committee  will  select  the  day  when 
the  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  DesMoines. 
The  Massachusetts  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  convened  its  eighth  annual 
mt-  ting  in  New  Bedford,  Septpmber  10th  ;  President  B.  F.  Stacey  in  the  chair. 
The  chief  topics  of  discussion  were,  the  license  question  and  the  interchange 
