'•}  Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
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For  Committee  on  Publication — Wallace  Procter,  Henry  N.  Rittenhouse, 
Samuel  P.  Sadtler,  Jos.  W.  England. 
' 1  Delegates  to  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association — Alonzo  Robbins, 
Dr.  C.  B.  I,owe,  Jos.  P.  Remington. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  meeting  was  called  to  order,  and  on  motion  of  Prof.  Trimble,  Dr.  C.  B. 
Lowe  was  called  to  preside. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read,  and  no  corrections  being  required 
were  ordered  to  stand  approved. 
The  registrar  reported  that  a  copy  of  the  National  Dispensatory,  and  also  one 
of  the  United  States  Dispensatory  had  been  received,  the  former  from  the 
publisher  and  the  latter  from  Professor  Remington.  A  work  by  Prof.  F.  A. 
Fliickiger,  "  Reactions,"  was  presented  by  Hans  M.  Wilder  ;  also  two  numbers 
of  the  Consular  Reports. 
The  first  paper  announced,  on  Lead  in  Citrates,  by  F.  W.  Haussmann,  Ph.G., 
was  read  and  listened  to  with  much  attention.  It  showed  that  although 
lead  was  a  common  impurity  in  citric  acid  of  commerce  it  was  rarely  so  to  any 
injurious  extent,  and  explained  the  various  ways  in  which  the  contamination 
most  likely  occurred. 
Prof.  Trimble  suggested  that  a  similar  investigation  of  tartaric  acid  would  make 
an  excellent  subject  for  a  paper  for  a  future  meeting. 
The  next  paper  was  one  on  Examination  of  Commercial  Preparations  of  Phos- 
phates of  Iron  and  Alkaloids,  by  M.  F.  Schaak,  Ph.G.,  the  object  being  to 
show  the  care  necessary  to  be  taken  to  secure  the  various  components  of  elixirs 
in  the  required  proportions.  The  reading  of  this  paper  occasioned  considerable 
discussion,  and  the  reactions  that  occur  were  commented  upon. 
Mr.  John  Culley  read  a  paper  upon  the  seeds  of  Sanguinaria  canadensis, 
with  an  analysis  of  the  same 
Mr.  Harold  C.  Barker  read  a  paper  upon  Pycnanthemum  linifoliuni.  It 
traced  the  history  of  the  plant,  the  first  examination  recorded  being  that  of  Dr. 
Ch.  Mohr. 
Prof.  Trimble  read  a  paper  by  Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd,  upon  Solnine,  an  alkaloid 
from  Solanum  Carolinense.  He  exhibited  crystals  of  the  alkaloid  to  be 
deposited  in  the  College  Museum. 
Mr.  Wm.  B.  Thompson  read  a  paper  upon  powdered  vegetable  extracts.  The 
paper  was  accompanied  with  samples  of  several  extracts  in  powdered  form, 
exhibiting  a  most  marked  superiority  over  the  extracts  commonly  offered  in 
commercial  circles. 
Prof.  Ryan  said  powdered  extracts  of  such  quality  were  much  wanted,  but 
that  it  seemed  that  the  trouble  of  obtaining  an  extract  only  twice  the  strength 
of  the  drug,  hardly  paid,  as  double  the  amount  of  the  drug  would  produce  the 
same  result.  There  was  one  peculiarity,  he  thought  commendable,  and  that  was 
that  these  extracts  represented  a  definite  quantity  of  the  drug,  and  not  so  much 
Meeting  on  motion  adjourned. 
Wilxiam  B.  Thompson, 
Secretary. 
Philadelphia,  March  27,  1894. 
