632  Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meetinr/.     { Dea^issr""' 
Put  into  eight-ounce  bottle  and  fill  up  with  head-light  oil,  175  test. 
Shake  well  and  keep  in  glass-8toi)pered  bottle.  Apply  to  affected  part.s 
with  camel's  hair  bru^h.  For  a  bad  case  of  sciatica  use,  hypodermically, 
three  to  seven  drops  over  seat  of  pain.  Use  freely  for  lame  back  and  lum- 
bago.— 3Ied.  and  Surg.  Rep.^  Sei:>t.  17,  1881, 
BuLLFKOG  Ointment.  —  The  Pacific  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal^ 
August,  1881,  tells  of  a  practitioner  in  Almeda  county,  California,  who 
found  his  patient  using  bullfrog  ointment  made  by  boiling  a  j)int  of  milk, 
then  boiling  a  living  bullfrog  to  paste  therein,  and  throwing  out  the  bones. 
The  "ointment"  thus  prepared  is,  on  the  aforesaid  patient's  authority,  the 
best  application  for  sore  breasts.  This  seems  to  be  a  return  to  the  materia 
medica  of  the  twelfth  century;  the  "science"  of  one  age  surviving  as  a 
superstition  of  another.  The  "Journal's"  zoological  nomenclature  seems  to 
be  as  much  awry  as  the  therajDeutics  of  the  patient  alluded  to,  for  it  calls 
the  bullfrog  Bufo,  tlie  generic  title  applied  by  all  other  zoologists  to  tlie 
toad. — Cldc.  Med.  Bevieu\  Sept.  5. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  November  15,  1881. 
In  absence  of  the  President  Mr.  Robert  England  was  called  to  the 
chair.    The  minutes  of  the  last  ineeting  were  read  and  approved. 
Mr.  Say  re  was  requested  to  communicate  any  information  relative  to 
2Jepsi7i  testing,  but,  as  the  experiments  commenced  were  not  completed, 
he  could  not  report  anything  very  satisfactory. 
Mr.  Wallace  Procter  stated,  in  this  connection,  that  he  had  recently 
examined  some  saccharated  pepsin  that  was  prepared  in  1877,  and  that  it 
was  quite  as  active  as  that  made  within  a  few  days.  This  is  owing,  in 
Mr.  Sayre's  oj^inion,  to  the  dry  condition  in  which  saccharated  pepsin  can 
be  preserved  unaltered,  while  a  concentrated  pejjsin  will  absorb  moisture 
and  become  altered. 
Prof.  Maisch  presented  a  specimen  of  the  bark  called  Cinchona  cu2)rea, 
from  Mr.  R.  V.  Mattison,  with  a  note  stating  that  the  specimen  yielded  3 
per  cent,  of  quinia  sulphate,  and  that  the  bark  had  the  peculiarity  of  con- 
taining no  cinchonidia  and  rarely  cinchonia. 
Prof.  Remington  laid  before  the  meeting  2^,  j^rescrij^tion  which  had  been 
handed  him  by  Prof.  Maisch,  to  whom  it  was  sent  by  one  of  our  graduates, 
stating  the  difficulty  that  he  experienced  in  compounding  it.  It  is  as 
follows : 
R    Strychnise  suli)h.  (crys.),  .  .  .   gr.  i 
Quinine  suli)h.,         .  .  .  .         gr.  xl 
Ferri  pyrophosphatis,    .  .  •  • 
Acid,  i^liosphorici  dil.,  .  .  .  .^ii 
Syrup,  simplicis,  ....  5vi 
Sig.    A  teaspoonful  four  times  a  day. 
