46  Pharmaceutical  Meeting.  { A  jaaSary,Pih9wm' 
nology."  The  address  was  largely  historical  and  devoted  in  the 
main  to  the  nomenclature  of  the  alkaloids,  resins  and  similar  prin- 
ciples introduced  into  medicine  during  the  first  half  of  the  last 
century.  Professor  Lloyd  was  fortunate  in  having  an  intimate 
acquaintanceship  with  Prof.  John  King  and  others  who  were  instru- 
mental in  introducing  these  substances  into  medicine,  and  he  stated 
that  inasmuch  as  the  history  of  these  circumstances  is  fast  passing 
away  he  was  glad  to  be  able  to  give  the  facts  to  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  for  record.  Professor  King  aimed  to  formulate  a  plan 
that  would  accord  with  rule  and  in  which  the  eclectic  concentrations, 
as  they  were  called,  should  be  properly  differentiated  from  the  alka- 
loids that  were  then  beginning  to  attract  attention.  He  first  called 
these  eclectic  concentrations  "  resins,"  and  then,  when  the  demand 
was  for  a  single  word  to  describe  them,  as  podophyllin  for  resin  of 
podophyllum,  the  termination  "  in  "  was  adopted  to  distinguish  these 
preparations  from  the  alkaloids,  which  had  the  affix  "  ia"  uine"  or 
"  ina." 
Professor  Remington  expressed  his  appreciation  to  Professor  Lloyd 
for  having  cleared  up  this  subject  and  said  that  he  had  honored  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  by  giving  this  valuable  paper  here. 
He  then  exhibited  some  specimens  of  the  eclectic  concentrations 
which  formerly  belonged  to  Professor  Procter,  some  of  these  having 
been  prepared  by  Prof.  Edward  S.  Wayne.  He  said  that  the  subject 
of  nomenclature  was  an  important  one  and  that  druggists  are  oft 
times  confused  when  they  receive  a  prescription  for  a  resinoid  when 
there  is  a  corresponding  alkaloid. 
Mr.  Wilbert  said  that  fifty  years  ago  the  discussion  of  the  eclectic 
resinoids  was  a  very  live  question,  and  referred  to  an  article  by  Prof. 
Edward  Parrish  on  "  Eclectic  Pharmacy,"  which  was  published  in  the 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  in  1851  (Vol.  xxiii,  page  329).  In 
this  paper  Professor  Parrish  calls  attention  to  a  paper  by  W.  S. 
Merrill,  in  which  the  latter  claims  to  have  introduced  several  eclectic 
resinoids,  viz.,  those  from  podophyllum,  cimicifuga,  sanguinara,  lep_ 
tandra,  iris  and  certain  other  drugs;  and  in  this  connection  Professor 
Parrish  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  John  R.  Lewis  had  previously 
made  a  study  of  podophyllum  (see  Amer.  Jour.  Pharm,  Vol.  xix 
(1847),  page  165).  Mr.  Wilbert  also  mentioned  the  paper  by 
William  Hodgson,  Jr.,  which  was  published  in  this  Journal  in  183 1 
(Vol.  iii,  page  273). 
