276  MINUTES  OF  THE  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
remedy.  If  it  is  white,  pasty  or  broad  and  furred,  I  order  bicar- 
bonate of  potassa  and  podophyllin,  the  latter  in  one-tenth  grain 
dose,  four  or  sixt  imes  a  day. 
In  this  duodenal  disturbance  opium  and  iodine  are  splendid 
remedies,  and  aid  the  oil  digestion  greatly.  Thus:  B.  opii  pulv. 
gr.  vi.,  iodine  gr.  ii.,  ext.  nux  vomica  gr.  iv.;  triturate  well  and 
make  into  twelve  pills.  One  or  two  for  a  dose,  repeated  as  often 
as  needed,  but  never  less  than  three  times  a  day. 
In  taking  cod  oil  it  must  never  be  forgotten  that  the  diet 
must  be  of  the  most  nourishing  kind  and  easily  digested.  But 
I  cannot  close  without  referring  to  the  flour  of  malt  as  a  part 
of  the  diet,  especially  of  children,  where  there  is  any  difficulty 
in  the  digestion  of  the  oil ;  the  malt  flour  made  into  pap 
with  wheat  flour  and  used  as  a  constant  food  as  nearly  as  is 
agreeable  and  consistent,  during  the  first  week  and  sometimes 
even  as  late  as  into  the  third. 
By  this  means  digestion  of  the  oil  will  be  most  happily  ac- 
complished. In  very  many  cases  I  have  found  that  in  com- 
bining the  cod  oil  and  the  syrup  of  the  phosphates  of  iron, 
quinine  and  strychnia,  that  both  were  heightened  in  their 
therapeutic  action  and  tonic  effect. 
Hastings,  Michigan,  March,  1867. 
[This  article  was  received  too  late  to  be  placed  among  the 
original  papers. — Ed.  Am.  J.  Ph.] 
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The  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was 
held  at  the  College  hall,  on  the  evening  of  the  25th  March — thirty-four 
members  present— the  President  of  the  College,  Charles  Ellis,  presiding. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved.  The  minutes 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  were  read  by  Mr.  Alfred  B.  Taylor,  Secretary 
of  the  Board.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  inform  that  the  matriculants  of 
the  late  session  of  the  school  of  the  College  numbered  about  160  and  that, 
at  the  commencement  on  the  15th  inst.,  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Phar- 
macy was  conferred  upon  forty-two  candidates,  as  follows  : — 
Allaire,  Charles  B.,       Aurora,  111 ,  Soluble  Citrate  Magnesia. 
Archibald,  Henry  C,     Philadelphia,  Pa.,         Sugar-coated  Pills. 
Bartram,  Ernest,  "  "  Ou,'  National  Pharmacopoeia. 
Blizzard,  Jos.  E.,  "  "  The  Language  of  Prescriptions. 
