Am.  Jour.  Pharm."! 
November,  1900.  J 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
557 
This  valuable  symposium  on  the  art  of  dispensing  has  been 
entirely  recast  and  has  been  increased  from  288  pages  to  498  pages. 
At  least  two-thirds  of  the  book  is  new.  The  contents  of  the  book 
are :  First  Principles  ;  General  Suggestions  ;  Weights  and  Meas- 
ures; Prescribers  and  Dispensers;  Special  Drugs  and  Dispensing 
Conveniences ;  Pills  and  their  Excipients ;  Ingredients  of  Pills  and 
How  to  Mass  Them ;  Finishing  and  Coating  Pills  ;  Tablets,  Loz- 
enges and  Pastilles;  Capsules,  Powders;  Suppositories,  Bougies 
and  Pessaries  ;  Ointments  ;  Plasters  ;  Pastes  and  Jellies  ;  Mixtures  ; 
Emulsions ;  Supplementary  Notes  on  Emulsions  ;  Applications ; 
Incompatibles ;  Foreign  Prescriptions ;  New  Remedies  ;  Homoeo- 
pathic Dispensing ;  Illegible  Prescriptions ;  Examination  Prescrip- 
tions ;  Appendix  of  Terms  to  Occur  in  French  and  German  Pre- 
scriptions; Abbreviations  used  in  Prescriptions;  Table  of  Doses 
and  other  Valuable  Information. 
The  work  is  just  what  is  needed  by  the  practical  pharmacist,  and 
is  one  of  the  most  rational  books  on  the  subject,  as  it  treats  of  why 
this  and  that  is  done  in  compounding  medicines,  and  brings  the  art 
nearer  the  science  of  dispensing. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING.1 
The  first  of  the  series  of  the  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  for  1900-1901  was  held  on  Tuesday, 
October  16,  1900,  in  the  Museum  of  the  College.  A  number  of 
representative  pharmacists  were  present,  and  all  the  indications 
point  to  a  successful  series  of  meetings.  Dr.  Richard  V.  Mattison 
presided,  and  after  making  some  brief  preliminary  remarks,  called 
^he  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  have 
been  held  almost  continuously  since  January  24,  1842,  on  the  third  Tuesday  of 
each  month,  from  October  to  May,  inclusive. 
The  object  of  these  meetings  is  the  presentation  of  original  communications, 
the  exhibition  of  specimens  and  new  forms  of  apparatus,  and  the  discussion  of 
subjects  of  general  and  practical  interest  to  pharmacists. 
These  meetings  are  open  not  only  to  the  members  and  graduates  of  this  Col- 
lege, but  to  all  who  are  interested  in  pharmaceutical  matters.  Any  one  who 
can  contribute  to  the  value  of  them,  by  written  communications  or  by  the 
exhibition  of  any  specimens  or  preparations  which  are  likely  to  prove  interest- 
ing, is  cordially  invited  to  participate. 
Committee  :  Richard  V.  Mattison,  M.D.,  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Ph.M., 
F.  W.  E.  Stedem,  Ph.G.,  H.  L.  Stiles,  Ph.G.,  and  Prof.  Henry  Kraemer,  Ph.D. 
