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Colleges  and  Associations. 
/Am.  Jour.  Phar.m 
t      June,  1894. 
next  to  the  Secretary-General  of  the  Congress  (Budapest,  St.  Rochus  Hospital), 
or  to  the  President  of  the  Section  (IV  Zoldfa  uicza-Budapest),  who  signs  this 
communication,  and  who  will  be  most  happy  to  furnish  any  information 
desired. 
For  the  XlXth  (Pharmaceutical)  Section  of  the  VIHth  International  Con- 
gress of  Hygiene  and  Demography. 
Dr.  Julius  Jarmay, 
Budapest,  March  12,  1894.  Presiderit  of  the  Section. 
PROVISIONAL  PROGRAMME  OF  THE  XIXTH  SECTION. 
Pharmacology. 
President,  Dr.  F.  Jarmay  ;  Honorary  Presidents,  Dr.  Arp.  Bokai,  Dr.  Chrl. 
Kiss,  Dr.  Alb.  Lengyel,  Chi.  Than,  Dr.  I,.  Toth,  J.  Torok  ;  Secretaries,  Dr.  S. 
Fischer,  Dr.  J.  Kossa,  Dr.  St.  Moldovanyi,  A.  Torok. 
The  foreign  honorary  presidents  will  be  elected  by  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee, as  soon  as  it  is  known  who  of  the  foreign  celebrities  intend  to  take  part 
personally  in  the  Congress. 
QUESTIONS. 
I. 
(1)  International  pharmacopoeia. 
(2)  Qualification  of  druggists  (apothecaries). 
(3)  System  of  control  for  the  free  establishment  and  control  of  druggist-shops. 
(4)  In  what  manner  would  it  be  possible  to  reduce  the  prices  of  medicine  so 
as  to  make  them  cheap  for  the  poorer  classes,  especially  for  the  rural  population  ? 
(5 )  Latest  notes  on  the  keeping  and  preserving  of  drugs. 
II. 
(1)  The  dispensation  of  drugs  or  medicines  by  physicians. 
(2)  The  proper  regulation  of  State  control  over  druggist  shops. 
(3)  The  sanitary  evils  arising  from  the  selling  of  medicines  of  which  the 
composition  is  kept  secret. 
(4)  The  definition  of  herbs  and  the  anatomical  parts  of  herbs,  as  contained 
in  the  pharmacopoeia. 
(5)  The  appropriate  fitting  up  of  the  several  parts  of  apothecary's  premises. 
(6)  The  comparison  of  the  quantitative  analytical  methods,  as  contained  in 
the'different  pharmacopoeias. 
(7)  The  rational  denomination  of  new  drugs. 
(8)  The  drugs  of  ancient  and  of  present  times. 
(9)  Incompatible  drugs. 
1 1  (10)  Explosive  compositions  of  medicine. 
(11)  International  unity  for  maximal  doses. 
(12)  Uniformity  of  the  form  of  prescription. 
(13)  The  permanganate  of  soda  as  the  antidote  of  phosphorus. 
(14)  Should  the  apothecary  be  examiner  of  food,  drinks  and  other  articles  of 
consumption  ? 
(15)  ]Tokaj-wine  as  a  remedy. 
(16)  Of  the  preparations  of  quinine  and  of  the  quantitative  determination  of 
pure  quinine. 
(17)  The  newest  apparatus  necessary  for  the  examination  of  drugs. 
(18)  Introduction  and  making  known  of  Hungary's  medical  plants. 
