Fluidgly cerate  of  Kramer ia. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
1  September, 
completed  the  attendance  on  two  courses  of  lectures,  had  passed  a 
satisfactory  examination  and  were  able  to  fu  nish  satisfactory  proof 
that  they  had  been  engaged  in  the  business  of  an  apothecary  were 
to  be  adjudged  as  graduates  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy. 
On  August  23d  of  this  same  year,  three  candidates,  Charles 
Howard  Dingee,  Charles  McCormick  and  William  Sharp,  were 
declared  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  to  be  graduates  of  the  College, 
and  in  the  month  of  November  following,  these  graduates  were 
awarded  the  signed  and  sealed  diplomas  of  the  College. 
From  these  humble  beginnings,  dating  back  to  within  eight 
decades  of  the  present  time,  pharmacy  in  America  has  made 
tremendous  strides  and  has  developed  into  a  far-reaching  and  highly 
important  science  and  industry. 
The  science  of  pharmacy  is  perhaps  best  reflected  by  the  now 
official  Pharmacopoeia,  and  also  by  the  eighty  or  more  colleges  and 
schools  in  which  systematic  pharmaceutical  instruction  is  being  given 
to  upwards  of  5,500  students,  and  from  which  more  than  1,800 
candidates  are  graduated  each  year. 
The  importance  of  the  more  mercantile  or  industrial  features  of 
pharmacy  are  perhaps  best  illustrated  by  the  untold  hundreds  of 
manufacturing  establishments  devoted  exclusively  to  pharmacy  or 
chemistry,  representing  a  huge  investment  of  capital  and  the  annual 
production  of  materials  worth  many  millions  of  dollars. 
FLUID GLYCER ATE  OF  KRAMERIA.1 
By  George  M.  Beringer. 
Some  years  ago,  the  writer  experimented  with  a  number  of  the 
vegetable  drugs  to  determine  the  possibility  of  preparing  a  class  of 
liquid  pharmaceutical  preparations  of  the  same  drug  strength  as  the 
tinctures,  but  substituting  glycerin  and  water  for  the  alcoholic  men- 
struum. These  experiments  were  confined  to  the  simple  bitter  and 
astringent  drugs,  such  as  gentian,  taraxacum,  quassia,  krameria,  rhus 
glabra,  and  white  oak.  It  was  found  that  if  the  glycerin  was  pres- 
ent in  the  finished  glycerole  in  a  proportion  of  not  less  than  one- 
third  of  the  volume,  the  preparations  were  fairly  stable.    If  only 
1  Read  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, Asbury  Park,  June  13,  1907. 
