464      Advances  in  Pharmaceutical  Manufactures,  {ADo'ctSberPi9a2rm* 
As  a  teacher  Professor  Procter  came  in  contact  with  a  limited 
number  of  students;  as  editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Phar- 
macy his  field,  of  course,  was  wider ;  but  it  was  through  his  connec. 
tion  with  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  that  the  scope 
of  his  labors  became  truly  national  in  its  character.  This  association 
owes  to  him  more  than  to  any  other  man.  Could  we  ask  him  what, 
if  anything,  he  would  have  us  do  as  a  memorial  to  him,  he  would 
undoubtedly  answer  that  it  would  please  him  most  for  us  to  devise 
a  way  to  perpetuate  the  life  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation. That,  done  in  honor  of  his  memory,  would  surely  gratify 
him  more  than  anything  else  we  could  do.  We  shall,  no  doubt, 
listen  to  a  proposition  for  perpetuating  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  in  the  name  of  William  Procter,  Jr.,  at  this  semi-centen- 
nial meeting.  Whatever  we  can  do  in  aid  of  a  cause  so  worthy 
must  be  well  done.  For  itself  and  in  honor  of  the  memory  of  its 
most  distinguished  founder,  William  Procter,  Jr.,  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  deserves  and  must  receive  the  most  earnest, 
the  most  sincere  and  most  affectionate  thought  of  us  all. 
THE  ADVANCES  MADE  IN  PHARMACEUTICAL  MANU- 
FACTURES DURING  THE  PAST  FIFTY  YEARS.1 
By  Wiujam  Jay  Schieffeun. 
In  their  scale  of  operations,  in  the  use  of  machinery,  and  in  the 
variety  of  their  products,  pharmaceutical  manufactures  have  devel- 
oped more  during  the  past  fifty  years  than  through  all  the  preceding 
centuries. 
In  1852,  when  the  medical  world  was  emerging  from  the  Jalap  and 
Calomel  age,  the  pharmacist  made  his  own  galenicals,  pills  an'd 
elixirs,  and  bought  the  crude  drugs.  Most  of  the  manufactured 
products  purchased  by  him  came  under  the  class  of  heavy  chemicals 
and  were  of  mineral  origin.  Besides  the  common  acids,  alkalies, 
alum  and  sulphur,  the  list  included  the  mercurials,  lunar  caustic, 
arsenic  and  powder  of  Algaroth,  sugar  of  lead,  sulphate  of  zinc, 
magnesia,  bromide  and  iodide  of  potash  and  Labarraque's  solution. 
1  Read  at  the  Special  Jubilee  Session  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, September  11,  1902. 
