PHARMACEUTICAL MEETINGS. 
311 
January 6th, 1845. 
Professor Bridges in the Chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
adopted. 
Reports of committees being in order, Charles Ellis on 
behalf of the committee appointed to consider the paper of 
John H. Ecky, read a communication from that gentleman 
detailing a careful repetition of his experiments, which has 
fully corroborated his first statements. On motion, it was 
agreed, that the original paper be published, with such ad- 
ditional remarks, as, in his last observations, the author in- 
tended to offer — and that the committee be discharged. 
Prof. Carson read a paper on Matico, prepared by James 
L. Elliot, which was referred to William Procter, Jr., Am- 
brose Smith and A. J. Duhamel as reporters. 
Prof. Carson informed the meeting that Matico had been 
employed in this city, and subsequently at the Naval Asy- 
lum at New York, with marked success, as an injection in 
mucous discharges ; and that its modus operandi was pe- 
culiar. It possesses anti-haemorrhagic powers. It is the 
product of the Piper angustifolia. 
William Procter, Jr., in accordance with his engagement 
at the previous meeting, informed the members that he had 
prepared carefully an extract from each variety of senna, 
the only difference between them being, that the Alexan- 
drian article was without aromatics, whilst the Indian had 
associated a small quantity of the oils of fennel and anise, 
each fluid ounce of extract representing an avoirdupois 
ounce of senna. Having provided the preparations, the 
next step was to get them fairly tested as to cathartic power, 
which was happily effected through the obliging attention 
of James N. Marks, the able pharmaceutist attached to the 
Philadelphia Hospital at Blockley, who reported as follows, 
viz. 
Case l. l2mo. 16. — Wm. Murray, aged 48 years, at 1$ 
