Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  } 
Oct.  1, 1872.  $ 
Minutes  of  the  College. 
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The  nicotina  was  administered  in  drop  doses,  in  whisky-punch,  every  half  hour. 
After  the  second  dose  the  paroxysms  were  less  violent;  and  when  he  had  taken 
four  doses  he  was  much  better,  and  eventually  he  recovered.  The  poisoning 
was  caused  by  the  lad  picking  up  and  eating  an  egg  which  had  had  strychnia 
introduced  into  it,  and  been  placed  in  a  garden  for  the  purpose  of  poisoning 
magpies. — Pharm.  Journ.,  Lond.,  Aug.  31,  1872. 
Cotton  Seed  Oil. — There  are  at  present  upwards  of  twenty  mills  in  this  coun- 
try exclusively  operated  in  the  manufacture  of  oil  from  cotton  seed,  and  over 
one  hnndred  and  fifty  thousand  tons  of  seed  are  used  annually.  The  oil-cake 
is  sent  largely  to  England,  where  it  is  used  as  food  for  cattle.  The  oil  goes 
mostly  to  Bordeaux,  Barcelona,  and  other  olive-growing  sections  of  Europe, 
from  whence,  after  "doctoring,"  it  comes  back  as  "pure  olive  oil" — Chicago 
Pharmacist,  Aug.,  1872,  from  Medical  Record. 
A  stated  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  at  the 
College  Hall,  September  30th,  1872  ;  35  members  present.  In  the  absence  of 
the  President,  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  Vice  President,  in  the  Chair. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 
The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  were  read  by  Wm.  C.  Bakes,  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board,  and,  on  motion,  were  approved.  These  minutes  inform  of 
the  decease  of  Prof.  Edward  Parrish,  and  the  election  of  Prof.  William  Proc- 
ter, Jr.,  to  the  Chair  of  Pharmacy,  made  vacant  by  the  decease  of  Prof.  Parrish. 
The  following  report  was  read  : 
To  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy — 
The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  resolutions  of  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians relative  to  dispensing  external  medicines  in  special  bottles  and  the  pro- 
per labeling  of  poisons,  etc.,  respectfully  report — 
The  first  resolution  is  as  follows  : — 
"It  is  recommended  to  all  druggists  to  place  all  external  remedies  in  bottles, 
not  only  colored  so  as  to  appeal  to  the  eye,  but  also  rough  upon  one  side,  so 
that  by  the  sense  of  touch  no  mistake  shall  be  possible  even  in  the  dark." 
In  order  to  render  this  plan  effective  it  will  be  necessary  to  educate  both  the 
public  and  the  dispenser  by  creating  the  habit  of  using  such  bottles  of  a  particu- 
lar color  and  shape  only  for  external  medicines  ;  consequently,  the  apothecary 
must  refuse  to  use  such  bottles  for  internal  medicines  when  brought  to  him  for 
that  purpose,  and  exchange  them  for  others. 
This  concert  of  action,  in  the  absence  of  a  stringent  law,  will  have  to  be  based 
on  an  approval  by  dispensers  of  the  means,  and  a  willingness  to  carry  them  out. 
It  will  also  require  a  liberal  use  of  explanations  to  the  public  by  word  of  mouth 
and  by  printed  circulars,  to  encourage  the  recognition  of  the  plan  by  the  people 
in  home  practice. 
But  by  the  letter  of  the  resolution  the  apothecary  should  not  use  such  bottles 
for  the  most  deadly  poisons  if  for  internal  use.  Physicians  prescribe  fluid  ex- 
tracts of  Ergot,  Belladonna  and  Yeratrum  Viride,  Donovan's  and  Fowler's  So- 
