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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
1    December,  1907. 
Hospital,  London,  and  that  he  had  spent  about  eight  hours 
there.  He  said  that  he  would  not  undertake  to  discuss  the  value  of 
the  opsonic  theory,  but  would  only  give  the  impressions  received 
when  he  visited  Dr.  Wright.  A  large  number  of  patients  attend 
the  clinics  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital,  the  majority  of  whom  are  suffer- 
ing from  tuberculosis  of  the  bones,  joints  and  lymphnodes. 
To  these  one  injection  of  tuberculin  is  administered  about  every 
ten  days.  He  said  that  the  spectacle  was  truly  impressive,  and  that  the 
results  in  the  hands  of  those  who  are  devoting  themselves  to  this 
special  work  are  really  remarkable.  Dr.  Swan  said,  however,  that 
he  did  not  witness  an  instance  in  which  a  patient  with  pulmonary 
tuberculosis  was  treated,  but  that  some  patients  with  pulmonary 
tuberculosis  had  been  treated  in  the  wards  of  the  hospital. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.  M.,  said  that  in  a  letter  recently  published  in 
the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association  (November  16, 
1907,  p.  1690),  Dr.  Reid  Hunt  reports  that  in  Ehrlich's  laboratory 
special  attention  is  now  being  given  to  the  study  of  "  new  drugs  of 
definite  chemical  composition." 
Others  taking  part  in  the  discussion  were  Professors  Remington 
and  Lowe,  and  Messrs.  W.  A.  Pearson  and  E.  M.  Boring. 
The  programme  concluded  with  a  resume  of  recent  advances  in 
pharmacy  by  Mr.  Wilbert.    (See  page  570.) 
Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
