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Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1894. 
cines."  Andrew  Blair  answered  the  query,  "  Who  shall  be  our  Apprentices?" 
He  also  furnished  some  samples  of  official  preparations,  notably,  Basham's 
mixture,  solution  of  magnesium  citrate  and  syrup  of  tolu,  in  which  he  attri- 
buted superiority  of  product  to  be  due  largely  to  first-class  materials.  In  most 
cases,  he  claimed,  the  official  formulas  would  yield  a  reliable  and  permanent 
preparation. 
A.  L.  Beck  presented  a  paper  on  commercial  solution  of  ferric  chloride.  He 
found  the  variation  of  ferric  chloride  from  the  official  requirement  to  be  com- 
paratively small  ;  some  contained  too  much  free  hydrochloric  acid,  and  one 
showed  an  excess  of  nitric  acid. 
William  B.  Thompson  read  a  paper  on  "The  Drug  Business  To-day  and 
Yesterday,"  and  H.  E.  Peters  one  on  Terebene. 
H.  N.  Coxe  recommended  the  preparation  of  mercurial  ointment  by  the  use 
of  a  mutton  suet  that  had  been  carefully  rendered  and  then  preserved  for  six 
months  wrapped  in  waxed  paper ;  •  during  this  time  it  became  white  and 
granular,  and  would  then  extinguish  the  mercury  in  much  less  time. 
MISSOURI  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  sixteenth  annual  meeting  of  this  association  was  held  at  Excelsior 
Springs,  Mo.,  June  12  to  15,  1894,  under  the  presidency  of  William  Mittlebach. 
A  number  of  interesting  and  valuable  papers  were  read,  one  of  which  will  be 
found  on  page  355  of  this  issue. 
THE  MINNESOTA  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  tenth  annual  meeting  of  this  association  was  held  at  the  Hotel  St.  Louis, 
Lake  Minnetonka,  Minn.,  June  12  to  13,  1894. 
The  membership  of  this  association  was  reported  to  be  226,  an  increase  of  15 
during  the  year. 
In  the  discussion  of  trade  interests,  it  was  proposed  for  the  protection  of  such 
interests,  that  a  line  of  household  remedies,  to  be  sold  by  druggists  largely 
in  place  of  patent  medicines,  should  be  manufactured  by  the  State  Association. 
This  proposition  caused  a  general  discussion  and  one  which  waxed  warm  at 
times,  but  no  actual  decision  in  the  matter  was  reached,  although  the  burden 
of  opinion  seemed  to  favor  the  adoption  of  the  scheme  as  proposed.  As 
finally  left,  the  president  was  asked  to  appoint  a  committee  to  prepare  another 
report,  such  report  to  be  presented  at  the  next  annual  meeting.  In  connection 
with  the  subject  of  patent  medicines  further  action  was  taken  in  the  passage  of 
a  motion  instructing  the  committee  on  legislation  to  prepare  a  bill  to  be  sent 
to  the  legislature,  requiring  all  peddlers  of  patent  medicines  to  pay  a  license 
of  $100  per  annum  for  the  privilege. 
The  Secretary,  Charles  T.  Heller,  read  a  paper  on  "Elixir  Phosphate  of 
Iron,  Quinine  and  Strychnine."  A  history  of  the  Minnesota  College  of  Phar- 
macy, by  Dean  Wulling,  was  also  read. 
Mr.  Heller's  paper  will  appear  in  the  August  number  of  this  Journal.  It 
contains  a  practical  formula  for  the  rapid  preparation  of  this  elixir. 
