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Phar  macen  tic  a  I  M eeting. 
Am.  Tour.  Pbnrm. 
June,  1819. 
Philadelphia,  June  13th  :  Messrs.  W.  H.  Poley,  Jacob  Eppstein,  Chas.  W.  Ry- 
nard,  H.  B.  Morse  andW.  A.  Rumsey. 
It  is  the  wish  of  the  Association  that  all  druggists  in  Philadelphia  should  be- 
come members,  and  at  the  same  time  become  affiliated  with  the  National  Asso- 
ciation. We  want  your  support  and  your  influence  ;  do  not  wait  for  a  represen- 
tative of  the  Association  to  call  on  you  ;  this  takes  time  and  costs  money. 
Kindly  send  in  your  application,  together  with  your  membership  dues,  $r,  to 
the  Secretary,  W.  A.  Rumsey,  920. North  Forty-first  Street. 
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  the  Museum  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  Friday,  June  2d,  at  3  p.m.  At  this  meeting  delegates  and  alternates 
will  be  elected  to  attend  the  National  Convention,  to  be  held  at  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  October  3d,  4th,  5th  and  6th.  W.  A.  Rumsey,  Secretary. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
Philadelphia,  May  16,  1899. 
The  last  of  the  pharmaceutical  meetings  for  the  session  of  1898-99  was  held 
in  the  Museum  of  the  College  with  William  J.  Jenks,  First  Vice-President  of 
the  College,  in  the  chair. 
The  meeting  was  well  attended,  and  was  in  every  way  a  fitting  close  to  what 
ha9  been  a  profitable  series  of  meetings. 
The  Secretary  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  in  this  Journal  for  May, 
page  256,  on  the  twentieth  line  from  the  top  of  the  page,  an  omission  occurs 
in  the  formula  for  Tinctura  Opii  Deodorata  cum  Camphora,  and  that  after  the 
word  odor  the  following  should  be  inserted,  "exhaust  the  opium  by  perco- 
lating with  water." 
Mr.  Otto  de  Kieffer  was  the  first  speaker  introduced  and  read  a  paper  on 
"Distilled  Water  and  its  Uses." 
The  principal  object  had  in  view  by  the  author  was  that  of  showing  the  de- 
sirability and  necessity  of  using  distilled  water  in  all  pharmaceutical  opera- 
tions where  water  is  required,  whether  in  the  compounding  of  prescriptions  or 
for  making  preparations.  He  remarked  that  much  of  the  water  ordinarily 
supplied  is  unfit  for  prescription  work  on  account  of  the  mineral  matter  held 
in  solution,  and  indicated  some  of  the  advantages  in  usiug  pure  water  for  mak- 
ing preparations,  which  not  only  enhances  the  appearance  in  some  cases,  but 
plays  an  important  role  in  their  keeping  qualities. 
A  number  of  interesting  questions  were  brought  up  in  the  discussion  of  this 
paper.  J.  W.  England,  remarking  upon  the  subject  of  the  paper,  said  that  all 
would  agree  that  pure  water  should  be  used  for  pharmaceutical  purposes,  as 
also  for  drinking.  On  the  other  hand,  he  said,  there  appeared  to  be  more  than 
one  side  to  the  question,  and  alluded  to  the  recent  investigations  of  the  Ger- 
man chemist  Koeppe,  reference  to  which  was  made  in  the  January  number  of 
this  Journal,  which  were  to  the  effect  that  distilled  water  acts  injuriously  on 
the  cells  of  the  stomach. 
Mr.  de  Kieffer  thought  that  absolutely  pure  distilled  water,  or  simply  H20, 
was  specified  by  the  German  investigator,  and  said  that  practically  this  is  not 
attainable,  and  that  therefore  the  argument  did  not  apply. 
