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As  It  Was  in  i8yo. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1920. 
The  next  important  item  of  news  is  the  Pharmacopoeial  Con- 
vention of  1870  at  which  no  delegates  from  New  Jersey  were  present 
and  at  which  time  there  were  elected  to  the  Committee  on  Revision 
the  distinguished  pharmacists,  A.  B.  Taylor,  Maisch,  Ebert,  J.  Faris 
Moore,  Markoe,  and  Wenzell. 
As  to  colleges,  we  note  that  New  York  had  eleven  graduates  at 
its  commencement,  Massachusetts  six,  the  University  of  Michigan, 
twenty-eight  Ph.C.'s,  and  Philadelphia,  fifty-one  Ph.G.'s.  We  also 
note  that  Chicago  and  Louisville  announced  the  opening  of  their 
colleges  in  the  fall  of  1870.  No  published  record  was  noted  of  other 
colleges,  although  several  others  were  in  operation. 
The  pharmacy  course  at  the  University  of  Michigan  was  then 
in  its  first  years  and  was  viewed  with  disapproval  by  the  "old  line" 
colleges.  At  the  A.  Ph.  A.  meeting,  in  his  presidential  address,  B.  H. 
Sargent  of  Chicago  discussed  the  matter  and  stated  "a  feature  com- 
plained of  and  one  likely  to  create  trouble  hereafter  is  that  a  student 
may  be  graduated  as  a  Master  in  Pharmacy  without  having  any 
experience  whatever  in  the  practical  work  of  the  shop,  thereby  un- 
settling our  notions  as  to  what  constitutes  a  pharmacist."  The 
phrase  "unsettling  our  notions"  is  a  gem.  How  many  things  against 
which  our  orators  rave  as  destructive  are  merely  matters  "un- 
settling our  notions." 
Among  the  "new  medicines"  of  1870  we  find  many  papers  upon 
chloral  hydrate;  phenolsulphonates  as  "wound  dressings"  (the  word 
"antiseptic"  is  met  but  seldom);  phenol  and  its  preparations; 
eucalyptus,  as  an  antiperiodic ;  bromoform;  and  potassium  per- 
manganate for  snake  bite  and  as  a  deodorant.  One  enthusiast 
gives  permanganate  internally  using  raspberry  syrup  as  vehicle! 
Two  new  remedies  that  have  not  stood  the  test  of  time  were  a  tincture 
of  pole  cat  glands  recommended  for  asthma  and  the  sniffing  of  fresh 
sea-weed  for  hay  fever. 
Among  the  "new  preparations"  of  a  half  century  since  we  find 
liquid  pepsin  and  pepsin  wine  (Schaeffer's  classic  paper  on  the  sub- 
ject appearing  that  year)  "dragees"  and  granules;  hypodermic  solu- 
tions; granular,  effervescent,  magnesium  citrate ;  elixir  of  iron,  quinine 
and  strychnine,  which  was  subject  to  much  criticism;  fluidextracts, 
especially  their  preparation  by  percolation,  a  paper  on  the  subject 
by  Campbell  being  widely  discussed;  compound  elixir  of  taraxacum, 
Candidus  recommending  it  as  a  vehicle  for  quinine;  glyconin;  and 
cod  liver  oil  creams,  the  forerunners  of  our  present  emulsions. 
