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commended  the  paper  and  said  that  one  of  the  needs  suggested  by 
the  comparison  of  the  several  Pharmacopoeias  was  the  necessity  of 
uniformity  in  some  of  the  more  potent  remedies. 
Dr.  Lowe  remarked  that  one  of  the  deductions  to  be  drawn  from 
this  paper  was  the  necessity  for  an  international  Pharmacopoeia. 
Mr.  Beringer  said  that  in  looking  over  the  new  German  Pharmaco- 
poeia there  were  several  things  which  impressed  him,  viz.:  There  were 
some  additions  Of  substances  which  were  practically  unknown  in  this 
country,  as  hydrastinum  hydrochloridum,  arecolinum  hydrobromicum. 
They  have  fixed  definitely  several  points — for  instance,  they  recog- 
nize the  basic  bismuth  salicylate.  It  was  furthermore  interesting  to 
note  that  they  had  not  heretofore  recognized  the  oil  of  sandal  wood, 
the  chemistry  of  which  had  been  so  well  worked  out  by  German 
chemists  and  which  has  been  so  largely  used  in  the  United  States. 
Among  omissions  he  mentioned  the  following  :  Musk  and  tincture  of 
musk  ;  the  absence  of  any  chemical  formulae ;  the  omission  of  potas- 
sium acetate,  although  a  solution  of  the  salt  is  recognized. 
He  also  noted  that  tincture  of  strophanthus  was  a  10  per  cent- 
tincture  and  made  with  dilute  alcohol ;  that  there  were  compara- 
tively few  vegetable  drugs,  as  of  barks  for  instance,  but  ten  are  rec- 
ognized, and  of  these  several  are  of  little  value,  as  cascarilla  and 
condurango,  and  that  it  seemed  strange  that  cascara  sagrada,  which 
is  so  extensively  used  here,  is  not  recognized  by  them.  In  the  matter 
of  the  botanical  origin,  the  authorities  of  the  U.  S.  and  German 
Pharmacopoeias  seemed  to  be  more  progressive  than  Great  Britain. 
Professor  Kraemer,  in  commenting  on  the  German  Pharmacopoeia, 
said  that  a  bold  step  was  taken  in  dropping  the  authors'  names  from 
all,  but  possibly  one,  of  the  vegetable  drugs.  This  would  not  have 
been  so  radical  if  there  had  been  incorporated  in  another  part  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia  an  official  list  of  names  of  plants  yielding  the  drugs 
with  the  author's  name. 
The  next  was  a  communication  by  Lyman  F.  Kebler  on  "  So-called 
Lithium  Bicarbonate."    (See  p.  580.) 
Mr.  Ferdinand  A.  Sieker,  of  New  York  City,  sent  a  valuable  and 
interesting  paper  on  Warburg's  tincture,  which  was  presented  in  the 
absence  of  the  author  by  Professor  Kraemer.  This  paper  is  printed 
in  full  in  another  part  of  this  Journal.    (See  p.  571.) 
Among  specimens  exhibited  were  a  sample  of  ammonium  nitrate, 
sent  by  Mr.  Kebler,  and  a  specimen  of  socotrine  aloes  in  a  monkey 
skin  from  Lehn  &  Fink,  of  New  York  City.  H.  K. 
