Am.  jour.  riiann.|  Pennsylvania  Pliar maceutical  Association.  6\c 
August,  1 918.    >  J  U1J 
"  Hot  Cocoa,"  by  Chas.  H.  La  Wall. 
"  War-time  Topics  for  the  Pharmacist,"  by  Robert  P.  Fischelis. 
"  The  U.  S.  P.  Revision,"  by  E.  Fullerton  Cook. 
"A  New  and  Novel  Method  of  Determining  the  Amount  of 
Methyl  Alcohol  in  Mixtures  of  Methyl  and  Ethyl  Alcohol,"  by  Wil- 
liam G.  Toplis. 
The  following  papers  were  read  by  title : 
"  Organotherapy,"  by  J.  Atlee  Dean. 
"  Which  is  More  Profitable  a  Cash  or  Credit  Business  for  the 
Retail  Druggist,"  by  Harold  J.  La  Wall. 
"  Do  You  Want  to  be  Classed  as  a  Retail  Liquor  Dealer?  "  by  B. 
E.  Pritchard. 
"  Normal  Salt  Solution,"  by  Louis  Gershenfeld. 
"If  the  Druggist's  Landlord  Raised  His  Rent,  Would  He  Be 
Justified  in  Accusing  the  Landlord  of  Profiteering?"  by  Franklin 
M.  Apple. 
"  Notes  on  the  Action  of  Oxygen-bearing  Compounds  Upon 
Flavoring  Oils,"  by  Ivor  Griffith. 
"  The  Therapy  of  Heavy  Magnesium  Carbonate  and  Reports  on 
Its  Use  as  a  Cathartic,"  by  St.  Clair  Ransford-Gay. 
Immediately  after  the  reading  of  the  paper  on  Conservation  of 
Fats  the  Secretary  brought  up  for  discussion  the  matter  of  con- 
servation of  drugs  and  the  revision  of  formulas  containing  alcohol, 
sugar  and  glycerine  as  proposed  by  Mr.  F.  A.  Upsher  Smith  and 
others.  After  due  consideration  of  the  subject  Mr.  Hunsberger 
moved  that  it  was  the  sense  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutial  As- 
sociation that  present  formulas  in  the  U.  S.  P.  and  N.  F.  remain 
unaltered  unless  the  revision  committees  of  these  respective  works 
deemed  such  changes  necessary. 
The  following  resolutions  on  the  Edmonds  Bill  were  adopted : 
WTe  recommend  that  the  following  resolutions  proposed  by  the 
War  Defense  Committee  be  approved  by  the  Association  and  that 
copies  be  forwarded  by  the  Secretary,  to  President  Wilson,  Secre- 
tary of  War  Baker,  Surgeon-General  Gorgas,  Honorable  S.  Hubert 
Dent,  and  Representative  George  W.  Edmonds : 
Resolved,  That  this  Association  hereby  pledges  itself  anew  to 
the  cause  of  justice  and  liberty  and  its  resources  in  fullest  measure., 
that  early  and  complete  victory  may  rest  upon  our  arms,  and, 
Resolved,  That,  through  our  concern,  lest  the  health  of  our 
troops  when  sick  or  injured  be  endangered  by  the  present  lack  of 
