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PHARMACEUTICAL MEETINGS. 
the appointment of a committee to investigate the subject; 
which was referred for future action. 
On motion, the meeting adjourned. 
April 3d. 1843. 
Dr. Bridges in the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. 
Reports of committees being in order, William Procter, 
jr., on behalf of the commission appointed at the last meet- 
ing to consider the paper of Thomas J. Husband, read their 
report; which was accompanied by the products resulting 
from the experiments contained in the report. After due 
consideration of the report and attached specimens, it was 
adopted. 
William Procter, jr. called the attention of the meeting 
to specimens of ointment of extract of nutgalls, and of the 
extract itself, prepared by Daniel S. Jones, a recent Gradu- 
ate of the College. He stated that nutgalls when treated 
with water by the displacement process, yield 63 per cent, 
of dry extract, about two-thirds of their weight, and pro- 
posed an ointment formed by triturating two scruples of 
the extract of galls, with a little water, and afterwards with 
seven drams of lard as a substitute for the officinal ointment 
made with ordinary powdered galls. 
When thus made, this ointment embodies all the activity 
of the nutgalls, without that gritty, uneven character of the 
ordinary ointment, due to the uneven division of the 
powder, and which amounts to an objection to its use in 
some cases of extremely irritable hemorrhoids. 
The ointment possessed a perfectly uniform consistence, 
but w r as objected to as being too soft. Simple cerate was 
proposed as a substitute for lard. In the ordinary oint- 
ment, the dry bulky nature of the powdered galls com- 
pensates for the softness of the lard. In other respects 
