AMi)ecUM872RM  }        Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc.  567 
Messrs.  Hopkin  &  Williams  exhibited  fine  specimens  of  monobromo-camphor, 
made  by  the  process  suggested  by  Professor  Maisch,  and  of  carbazotate  of  am- 
monia, which  is  intensely  bitter,  and  was  lately  recommended  as  a  substitute 
for  quinia.  Mr.  Williams,  from  the  results  made  many  years  back  upon  a  cor- 
responding salt,  the  carbazotate  (picrate)  of  potassa,  thought  it  somewhat  doubt- 
ful if  it  would  be  found  to  be  of  great  value ;  he  also  pointed  out  that  care 
should  be  taken  in  manipulating  it,  as,  under  certain  circumstances,  it  was 
violently  explosive. 
Mr.  Bland  called  attention  to  a  specimen  of  adulterated  cochineal,  loaded 
with  about  20  per  cent,  of  sulphate  of  barium,  an  adulteration  which  was  com- 
mon enough  years  ago. 
Mr.  Hustwick,  of  Liverpool,  presented  asthma  pastilles  made  from  the  fol- 
lowing  formula  : 
Asthma  Pastilles. 
Pasteboard,  broken  down  with  hot  water  4  oz. 
Nitrate  of  potassa,  2  oz. 
Belladonna,  stramonium,  digitalis,  lobelia,  powdered,  each,  .       20  grains. 
Myrrh  and  olibanum,  of  each,  2£  drachms. 
Incorporate  all  these  with  the  paste,  and  divide  the  mass  into  pastilles  ;  burn 
them  in  a  saucer  in  a  well  shut  room. 
A  paper,  by  Mr.  Haselden,  on  tincture  of  orange  peel,  gave  rise  to  some  dis- 
cussion, in  which  it  was  generally  admitted  that  it  should  be  prepared  from  the 
fresh  or  recently  dried  peel,  carefully  removing  the  white  portion,  but  that,  on 
dilution  with  water,  it  would  become  more  milky  than  when  prepared  from  the 
dried  peel. 
Professor  Redwood  read  a  paper  on  the  proposed  universal  pharmacopoeia, 
and  Dr.  Thudichum,  after  giving  a  history  of  the  various  attempts  at  a  univer- 
sal pharmacopoeia  since  16y7,  explained  that  the  proposal  of  publishing  a  Eu- 
ropean pharmacopoeia  originated  with  Professor  Phoebus,  of  Giessen,  in  1867- 
69.  It  appears  that  Messrs.  Cantini,  of  Naples,  Fluckiger,  of  Berne,  Planchon, 
of  Paris,  Schneider,  of  Vienna,  Thudichum,  of  London,  Trapp,  of  St.  Peters- 
burg, and  several  others,  who  have  constituted  themselves  into  a  "  Pharmaco- 
nomic  Society,"  are  actively  engaged  on  this  work.  The  value  of  the  remedies 
will  be  indicated  by  the  use  of  different  types  ;  the  important  medicines  by 
large  type,  those  of  subordinate  value,  but  still  useful,  by  smaller,  and  those 
which  may  be  considered  as  mere  trash,  by  still  smaller  type. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Antwerp  is  now  engaged  in  the  prelimin- 
ary revision  of  the  Belgian  pharmacopoeia;  and  meets  for  this  purpose  every  two 
weeks. 
The  same  Society  has  prepared  a  memorial  "On  the  necessity  of  reorganizing 
the  pharmaceutical  corps  of  the  army  upon  an  equitable  base,"  and  has  trans- 
mitted the  same  to  the  Secretary  of  War  and  to  Mr.  Decaisne,  Inspector  Gen- 
eral of  the  sanitary  service  of  the  army. 
The  Austrian  Apothecaries'  Society  met  at  Innspruck,  September  9th  and 
10th.  The  transactions  were  mainly  of  local  interest.  The  next  meeting  will 
be  held  the  coming  year  in  Vienna. 
