196  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy.  {Amirif;»rm' 
A.  D.  Thorburn,  Ph.G.,  gave  the  pharmacist's  view  of  the  subject,  stating 
that  he  fully  agreed  with  Dr.  Butler  concerning  the  desirability  of  the  phar- 
macist being  able  to  furnish  a  uniformly  active  and  reliable  medicine,  but 
thought  that  great  care  should  be  taken  that  the  requirements  be  not  too  exact- 
ing. The  personal  equation  enters  so  largely  into  analyses,  especially  with 
the  apparatus  within  reach  of  the  every-day  pharmacist,  that  a  certain  amount 
of  latitude  should  be  allowed.  It  mattered  little  to  the  prescriber,  probably, 
whether  a  fifteenth  or  sixteenth  of  a  grain  of  the  active  ingredient  was  con- 
tained in  the  teaspoonful  dose. 
Professor  W.  A.  Puckner,  delegate  to  the  Convention  from  the  Chicago  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  spoke  from  the  chemist's  standpoint.  He  stated,  inciden- 
tally, that  while  the  pharmacist  and  perhaps  the  ph}'sician  would  care  to  have 
standardized  only  a  few  staple  preparations,  yet  the  manufacturer  would  doubt- 
less be  pleased  to  have  all  standardized  and  this  from  no  selfish  motive,  but 
simply  to  insure  uniformity  of  product.  He  discussed  whether  a  drug  or  its 
preparations  or  both  should  be  standardized  ;  whether  the  preparation  should 
be  diluted  or  concentrated  to  bring  it  to  a  definite  strength,  or  if  stronger  and 
weaker  preparations  should  be  mixed  in  proper  proportions  to  attain  this 
strength.  Also  whether  a  definite  standard  or  maximum  and  minimum  stand- 
ards should  be  adopted,  and  finally  he  discussed  methods  of  assay. 
In  the  course  of  the  discussion  following  the  addresses,  Dr.  H.  N.  Moyer 
stated  that  he  prescribed  few  galenicals, for  he  found  them  frequently  unreliable, 
and  that  he  used  the  alkaloids  largely.  He  thought  that  many  of  the  newer 
remedies  should  find  a  place  in  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  many  of  the  older  ones 
should  be  dropped.  Mr.  A.  G.  Vogeler  urged  that  pharmacists  should  not  clamor 
for  standardization,  but  should  wait  until  the  physicians  should  demand  it  and 
then  make  the  best  of  the  situation.  Prof.  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg  said  that  befoie 
standardization  could  be  made  effective  therapeutists  must  be  able  to  say  which 
of  the  constituents  of  the  drug  represent  its  medicinal  value.  The  effect  of 
drugs  upon  the  lower  animals  might  indicate  the  effect  upon  human  beings, 
but  was  not  so  nearly  identical  with  this  effect  as  to  serve  for  purposes  of 
standardization.  Nor  were  different  individuals  affected  in  the  same  way  by 
the  same  drug,  nor  was  the  same  individual  so  affected  under  different  condi- 
tions. Messrs.  T.  V.  Wooten,  L.  I.  Schreiner,  Bruno  Batt  and  P.  F.  A.  Rud- 
nick  also  participated  in  the  discussion. 
The  third  of  the  series  of  meetings  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Chicago 
College  of  Pharmacy  for  the  discussion  of  pharmacopoeial  revision  was  held  at 
the  Palmer  House,  Chicago,  on  the  evening  of  March  7th. 
The  topic  for  discussion  was  "The  Introduction  of  Protected  Medicines  into 
the  Pharmacopoeia."  Mr.  A.  G.  Vogeler,  editor  of  the  Western  Druggist,  pre- 
sented a  paper.  Mr.  Vogeler  introduced  the  subject  by  referring  to  the  reso- 
lution passed  by  the  A.  Ph.  A.  in  1889  in  favor  of  the  admission  of  important 
medicinal  chemicals,  even  if  prepared  by  patented  processes,  providing  that 
only  those  of  established  worth  be  so  admitted.  And  to  a  similar  resolution 
adopted  by  the  American  Medical  Association  at  the  Columbus  meeting,  the 
sense  of  this  resolution  being  that  admittance  to  the  Pharmacopoeia  should  be 
granted  to  synthetical  chemical  products  of  definite  and  known  chemical  struc- 
ture without  regard  to  patents. 
The  speaker  stated  that  the  principal  points  that  had  been  made  against  the 
