^io  Commercial  Training  for  Pharmacists.  { AmjuJ1°urj9^7arm* 
dated  May  27,  1912,  and  after  shaking  well  I  put  into  a  quart  packer 
marked  for  1,000  mils  and  containing  10  mils  of  hydrochloric  acid, 
enough  of  the  turbid  tincture  to  make  1,000  mils.  This  portion 
represented  here  by  Sample  A  is  at  this  date,  May  30,  19 17,  en- 
tirely limpid,  showing  that  the  trifle  of  cinchotannic  acid  sediment 
with  probably  some  little  alkaloid  carried  down  in  it  was  entirely 
soluble  in  the  1  per  cent,  acid  menstruum.  The  remaining  portion 
of  the  stock  of  tincture,  about  1,000  mils,  was  turned  unfiltered  into 
the  shelf  bottle  for  observation,  on  November  26,  1916,  pouring  off 
clear  when  needed.  It  has  still  of  course  the  sediment  as  before  or 
a  little  more  about  %  inch  deep  in  a  quart  shelf  bottle.  Shown 
here  as  sample  B.  In  another  quart  packer  on  the  same  date  I 
started  1,000  mils  of  the  same  tincture  including  10  mils  of  acid  to 
macerate  until  wanted  when  I  confidently  expect  to  percolate  a  per- 
fectly clear  tincture  of  the  chlorides  of  the  cinchona  alkaloids  which 
will  remain  clear,  carrying  all  the  alkaloids  as  chlorides,  and  the 
cinchotannic  acid.  After  that  lot  has  been  finished  a  few  months  I 
will  report  on  it  if  I  am  still  in  the  harness.  Perhaps  at  next  year's 
meeting  it  will  be  an  appropriate  time.  I  cannot  at  present  think 
of  any  prescription  combination  in  which  the  slight  trace  of  acid 
here  suggested  would  be  any  way  objectionable. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
May  30,  19 1 7. 
COMMERCIAL  TRAINING  FOR  PHARMACISTS.1 
By  Robert  P.  Fischelis,  B.Sc,  Phar.D. 
The  need  for  commercially  trained  pharmacists  is  an  acute  one 
if  the  trend  of  the  profession  is  accurately  recorded  in  the  phar- 
maceutical press  and  in  pharmaceutical  meetings.  It  is  therefore 
no  longer  necessary  for  those  advocating  commercial  training  to 
apologize  for  usurping  a  place  in  the  pharmaceutical  sun.  On  the 
contrary,  many  close  students  of  the  present-day  pharmaceutical 
situation  are  beginning  to  wonder  whether  the  time  is  not  coming 
when  those  who  have  scientific  papers  to  present  before  pharma- 
ceutical associations  will  not  in  their  turn  open  their  remarks  with 
1  Read  at  December,  1916,  meeting  of  N.  Y.  Branch  A.  Ph.  A. 
