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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
X      March,  18S9. 
syrup  which  was  sterilized  and  stoppered  and  kept  in  a  cool  place,  would  keep 
indefinitely,  this  being,  as  he  thought,  one  of  the  features  of  Mr.  Haussmann's 
paper.  Mr.  Haussmann  showed  that  independent  of  these  facts  the  prepara- 
tions made  by  his  formula  possessed  greater  stability  than  those  made  by  the 
Pharmacopoeial  and  other  formulae.  Professor  Ryan  also  alluded  to  the  use- 
fulness of  chloroform  as  a  preservative  for  the  syrup  and  mucilage  of  acacia, 
which  fact  is  quite  generally  known.  Dr.  Wendell  Reber  believed  that  when 
antiseptics  were  employed  they  should  be  innocuous  and  tasteless,  as  otherwise 
confusion  was  likely  to  arise  in  the  mind  of  the  patient.  He  also  alluded  to  the 
possible  use  of  formalin  as  a  preservative  in  pharmaceutical  preparations  ,  Mr. 
Procter  stated  that  he  found  formalin  useful  in  keeping  milk  of  asafoetida. 
Mr.  Frederick  L.  Lewton  exhibited  a  collection  of  cardamoms,  and  in  con- 
nection therewith  made  some  interesting  remarks,  which  will  be  referred  to  in 
a  later  issue  of  this  Journal. 
Professor  Ryan  alluded  to  the  collection  in  the  College  of  seven  specimens  of 
cardamoms  sent  by  Mr.  Daniel  Hanbury  to  the  late  Professor  Procter.  These 
were  interesting,  as  they  were  labelled  in  the  handwriting  of  Mr.  Hanbury. 
Dr.  Wendell  Reber  read  a  paper  on  the  "  Chemistry  of  the  Mydriatic  Alka- 
loids." This  was  based  on  the  more  recent  researches  of  Pinner,  which  aimed 
to  clear  up  the  ambiguity  on  the  nomenclature  of  this  class  of  substances. 
Those  participating  in  the  discussion  of  this  paper  were  Mr.  Kebler,  Dr.  Reber 
and  the  chairman. 
Professor  Remington  exhibited  one  of  the  "  Phoenix  Emulsifiers,"  which  had 
been  presented  to  him  by  Messrs. 
Whitall,  Tatum  &  Co.  The  ap- 
paratus is  intended  for  the  use  of 
the  retail  pharmacist  in  the 
manufacture  of  emulsions  of  cod 
liver  oil,  and  may  be  used  accord- 
ing to  either  the  Continental  or 
English  method.  A  cut  of  the 
apparatus  is  here  presented,  which 
conveys  more  than  a  descrip- 
tion. A  copying  machine  for 
either  writing  or  typewriting, 
and  known  as  the  "Neostyle," 
was  exhibited  and  recommended 
as  useful  for  printing  by  phar- 
macists. Attention  was  called  by 
Professor  Ryan  to  the  "Anchor 
Safety  Stopper"  poison  bottle, 
which  is  the  invention  of  Mr.  Al- 
bert T.  Plummer,  of  New  York 
City.  This  consists  of  a  glass  rod  suspended  in  the  bottle  by  means  of  an  as- 
bestos cord,  which  is  attached  to  the  cork.  This  device  serves  as  a  warning,  if, 
by  mistake,  a  bottle  containing  poison  is  taken,  in  two  ways,  viz.:  The  sudden 
arrest  of  the  cork  and  the  rattling  of  the  glass  against  the  sides  of  the  bottle. 
A  convenient  medicine  dropper,  invented  by  Dr.  W.  R.  Sine,  was  also  exhibited. 
On  motion,  the  meeting  adjourned. 
Thos.  S.  WieGand,  Registrar. 
