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Minutes  of  Pharmaceutical  Meetings.  { 
Am.  Jour.  Fhabx, 
April  1,  1872. 
Corresponding  Secretary,  Alfred  B.  Taylor. 
Trustees,  Robert  Bridges,  M.  D.,  Jos.  P.  Remington,  T.  Morris  Perot,  Wm. 
B.  Webb,  James  T.  Shinn,  Danl.  S.  Jones,  John  M.  Maisch,  T.  S.  Wiegand. 
Publishing  Committee,  T.  S.  Wiegand,  W.  Procter,  Jr.,  J.  M.  Maisch,  Jas„ 
T.  Shinn,  Charles  Bullock. 
Committee  on  Sinking  Fund,  Thomas  S.  Wiegand,  T,  M.  Perot,  James  T. 
Shinn. 
Editor,  John  M.  Maisch. 
Librarian,  T.  S.  Wiegand. 
Curator,  Jos.  P.  Remington. 
On  motion,  then  adjourned. 
Charles  Bullock,  Secretary. 
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A  pharmaceutical  meeting  was  held  on  the  afternoon  of  March  19th,  1872, 
Prof.  Maisch  presiding. 
The  minutes  of  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 
Messrs.  Rosengarten  &  Sons  presented  samples  of  Cinchona  Barks  grown  in 
the  Government  Gardens  at  Ootacamund,  Presidency  of  Madras.  They  consist 
of  the  so-called  old  mossed  bark  of  Cinch,  succirubra,  and  of  the  unmossed 
bark  of  Cinch,  condaminea  (officinalis),  and  are  such  as  are  now  sold  in  the 
London  markets.  In  reply  to  inquiries,  Mr.  Rosengarten  stated  that  with  the 
exception  of  Calisaya  Bark,  which  is  sometimes  scarce,  the  supply  of  the 
desirable  kinds  from  South  America  is  good.  The  root  barks  imported  in  for- 
mer years  seem  to  have  disappeared.  The  thanks  of  the  College  were  presented 
Messrs.  Rosengarten. 
The  Chairman  presented  the  "Year  Book  of  Pharmacy  and  Transactions  of 
the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  for  1871,"  and  the  19th  volume  of  the 
"Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association." 
A  paper,  by  Allen  Shryock,  upon  the  Strength  of  the  Officinal  Tincture  of 
Opium,  was  read  and  referred;  also  a  paper,  by  Geo.  W.  Kennedy,  of  Potts- 
ville,  Pa.,  upon  the  amount  of  Moisture  contained  in  Dried  Drugs.  (See  pages 
158  and  160  of  this  Journal.) 
Prof.  Parrish  presented,  on  behalf  of  Cramer  &  Small,  a  specimen  of  fixed 
oil  obtained  from  15  pounds  of  Nux  Vomica,  in  the  process  for  making  the 
alcoholic  extract ;  the  weight  of  the  oil  was  two  and  a  half  ounces,  that  of  the 
extract,  after  its  separation,  18  ounces.  The  oil  was  of  a  dark  brown  color 
and  very  bitter  in  taste.  Prof.  Maisch  remarked  that  he  had  not  separated  the 
oil  in  making  this  extract  on  a  large  scale,  on  account  of  its  bitterness,  but 
that  by  mixing  the  tincture,  concentrated  by  evaporation  to  a  syrupy  consist- 
ence with  a  little  water,  and  evaporating — as  recommended  some  years  ago,  in 
some  pharmaceutical  journals — it  may  be  almost  completely  mixed  throughout 
the  mass,.  It  was  further  remarked  that  no  directions  for  its  separation  are 
given  in  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
Prof.  Parrish  exhibited  specimens  of  vaginal  suppositories  made  of  Mr. 
Brady's  material,  consisting  of  3  p.  gelatine,  7  p.  glycerin  and  1  p.  alcohol, 
