Am.  Jour.  Pharrn.  1 
February,  1904.  J 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
97 
as  he  considered  the  air,  on  account  of  the  carbon  dioxide,  to  be 
prejudicial. 
Mr.  Boring  said  that  his  method  was  to  make  5  gallons  of  lime 
water  at  a  time,  keeping  it  in  half-gallon  bottles,  which  are  tightly 
stoppered,  and  the  solution  being  filtered  as  wanted.  Mr.  William 
Mclntyre  said  that  he  followed  the  usual  method  of  using  the  lime 
over  again  and  marking  the  lots  as  they  were  decanted,  and  he 
thought  that  the  second  lot  was  better  than  the  first.  Mr.  C.  H. 
LaWall  said  that  most  pharmacists  considered  that  as  long  as  there 
wTas  any  precipitate  in  the  stock  bottle  that  it  could  be  employed  for 
making  lime  water.  Mr.  Boring  called  attention  to  the  fact  that 
some  pharmacists  make  up  large  quantities  of  lime  water,  dispens- 
ing it  from  containers  which  are  not  air-tight,  and  which  they  give 
away  free  of  charge.  This  custom  is  to  be  deprecated  not  only  on 
account  of  the  worthlessness  of  the  product,  but  because  good  lime 
water  requires  care  in  its  preparation  and  the  pharmacist  should  be 
recompensed  for  his  skill. 
James  W.  Gladhill  presented  a  paper  on  the  "  Examination  of 
Commercial  Peppers,"  which  was  illustrated  with  a  large  number  of 
specimens  (see  page  71).  Dr.  Lowe  referred  to  the  fact  that  hard- 
tack was  used  at  one  time  as  an  adulterant  of  pepper.  Professor 
Kraemer  stated  that  at  the  present  time  some  of  the  cheaper  grades 
of  ground  pepper  which  he  had  examined  contained  the  endocarp  or 
stone  of  the  olive,  cayenne  pepper  and  pepper  hulls,  and  showed  by 
means  of  drawings  how  these  adulterants  might  be  quite  easily  de- 
tected by  the  use  of  the  microscope. 
Mr.  Gladhill  commented  on  the  Government  standards  for  pep- 
per; and  also  said  that  the  decorticated  black  pepper  was  largely 
used  for  making  commercial  ground  white  pepper. 
Some  remarks,  on  the  making  of  paste  for  the  pharmacist's  use, 
were  made  by  Professor  Lowe,  who  said  that  he  found  a  paste  con- 
sisting of  equal  parts  of  the  following :  Powdered  acacia,  tragacanth 
and  dextrin,  to  be  quite  satisfactory,  i.  e.y  yielded  a  paste  which, 
though  adhesive,  permitted  the  labels  to  be  easily  removed.  He 
also  recommended  the  flour  paste,  the  formula  for  which  is  given  in 
Remington's  Practice  of  Pharmacy.  He  stated  that  in  his  store 
they  had  some  trouble  recently  in  making  this  paste  from  some  of 
the  commercial  flours,  as  it  would  not  properly  thicken,  and  found 
