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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharns. 
April.  1904. 
that  the  old  formulas  for  both  syrup  of  tolu  and  syrup  of  ginger 
would  be  restored. 
Dr.  Carl  Frese,  L.S.A.,  of  Philadelphia,  presented  a  paper,  entitled 
"  A  Physician's  Experience  with  Pharmacists."  The  paper  gave 
rise  to  an  animated  discussion,  which  was  participated  in  by  Messrs. 
Warren  H.  Poley,  E.  M.  Boring,  Wm.  Mclntyre,  C.  B.  Lowe,  Joseph 
P.  Remington,  M.  I.  Wilbert,  Wm.  A.  Lee,  John  Burg,  Charles 
Leedom  and  the  chairman.  Like  in  all  discussions  of  this  kind,  it 
was  shown  that  the  better  the  understanding  between  physicians 
and  pharmacists  the  better  it  is  for  both  professions,  and  that  in 
both  professions  there  are  men  who  do  not  live  up  to  the  code  of  ethics 
of  their  respective  callings.  Owing  to  the  importance  of  this  sub- 
ject, not  only  in  its  relation  to  the  two  professions,  but  as  it  concerns 
the  public  at  large,  it  will  be  further  considered  at  a  later  meeting. 
Mr.  Mclntyre  said  he  thought  that  physicians  who  use  the  metric 
system  should  use  the  line  rather  than  the  point  for  separating  the 
decimal  quantities. 
Mr.  Wilbert  called  attention  to  the  difference  existing  between 
the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  hospitals  in  Philadelphia  and  the  same 
in  the  hospitals  in  Europe,  particularly  in  Paris,  where,  of  the  fifty- 
seven  active  members  of  the  Paris  Society  of  Pharmacy,  twenty-two 
are  hospital  pharmacists,  and  many  of  them  leaders  in  their  profes- 
sion and  well-known  scientific  men. 
Harold  B.  Morgan,  P.D.,  read  a  short  paper  describing  a  uni- 
versal percolating  stand  which  he  had  devised,  and  exhibited  a  stand 
in  connection  therewith.  The  stand  is  capable  of  an  operation  re- 
quiring any  size  of  percolator  up  to  3  gallons,  and  any  size  of 
receiver  up  to  a  5 -gallon  demijohn.  Professor  Remington  said  the 
idea  was  a  good  one,  providing  one  had  plenty  of  room.  He  said 
there  was  no  disadvantage  in  the  iron  ring  if  sections  of  rubber  tu- 
bing are  placed  at  several  places  on  the  ring,  as  originally  suggested 
by  Dr.  Squibb. 
He  further  remarked  that  by  use  of  an  iron  rod,  six  percolators 
could  be  used  at  a  time,  and  said  that  with  a  revolving  stand,  like  a 
castor  or  book-case,  its  usefulness  would  be  increased.  Mr.  W.  C. 
Wescott  said  that  he  used  a  method  suggested  to  him  by  Mr.  Wilbert 
and  employed  by  him  at  the  German  Hospital,  namely,  of  using 
iron  rods  suspended  from  joists  in  the  ceiling. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  presented  some  notes  from  Joseph  Ince's 
book  on  "  Elementary  Dispensing"  (see  page  171). 
