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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Oct.,  1887. 
to  the  though tfulness  of  the  druggists  of  Cincinnati.  The  next  meeting 
takes  place  at  Detroit." 
The  chairman  announced  the  recent  death  of  James  Bowker  of  this  city, 
elected  a  member  in  1872.    On  motion  adjourned. 
W.  B.  Thompson, 
 Secretary. 
PROCEEDINGS  OF  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 
ASSOCIATIONS. 
Kentucky,  p.  72. — Tenth  annual  meeting;  see  July  number,  p.  371.  Next 
meeting  in  Henderson,  May  9, 1888.  E.  Y.  Johnson,  Louisville,  Correspond- 
ing Secretary. 
Massachusetts,  p.  196. — Sixth  annual  meeting;  see  July  number,  p.  371. 
Time  and  place  of  the  next  annual  meeting  will  be  decided  upon  at  the 
special  meeting  to  be  held  in  Boston,  January  10, 1888. 
New  Jersey,  p.  157. — Seventeenth  annual  meeting ;  see  July  number,  p. 
372.  The  volume  contains  an  excellent  phototype  portrait  of  the  late  R. 
W.  Vandervoort,  formerly  president  of  the  Association.  Next  meeting  in 
Morristown,  May  16,  1888.    H.  M.  Smith,  chairman  of  Local  Committee. 
Pennsylvania,  p.  198. — Tenth  annual  meeting;  see  July  number,  p.  373. 
Next  meeting  in  Titusville,  June  12,  1888.  Chas.  D.  Lippincott,  Assistant 
Secretary. 
VARIETIES. 
A  caution  concerning  the  use  of  blisters. — J.  Comby  (Progr.  Med.)  reports 
the  case  of  a  child,  two  years  old,  which,  having  been  attacked  with  double 
broncho-pneumonia  in  the  course  of  measles,  was  treated  by  the  application 
of  two  large  blisters,  one  of  which  was  kept  on  for  six  hours  and  the  other 
for  four.  A  fortnight  afterward,  the  surfaces  to  which  they  had  been  applied 
were  occupied  by  large  suppurating  and  gangrenous  sores,  and  the  child 
died  three  days  subsequently.  In  the  author's  opinion,  its  death  was  has- 
tened by  the  blisters,  and  he  adds  the  general  warning  that  blisters  should 
be  used  only  with  the  greatest  caution  in  children,  especially  where  from 
the  nature  of  the  disease  there  is  reason  to  apprehend  the  super vention  of 
a  diphtheritic  complication,  and  never  in  children's  hospitals. — N.  Y.  Med. 
Jour.,  Aug.  13. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
Poisoning  by  Chromate  of  Lead. — In  the  August  number,  page  431,  we 
have  referred  to  the  cases  of  poisoning  caused  by  the  eating  of  buns  which 
had  been  colored  with  chromate  of  lead.  Professor  J.  J.  Reese  has  since  pub- 
lished in  Medical  News,  August  27th,  the  results  of  the  chemical  examination 
made  by  himself  in  conjunction  with  Dr.  H.  Leffraann.  The  bodies  of  four 
of  the  victims  were  disinterred.    Two  of  these  had  been  buried  about  two 
