1 08  Minutes  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting.  { Am-j^  18Piarm- 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
January  20,  1891. 
The  President  being  absent,  Mr.  W.  Mclntyre  was  called  to  the  Chair.  The 
minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read,  and  no  corrections  being  required,  they 
were  approved. 
After  the  introduction  of  strangers,  donations  to  the  library  and  cabinet  were 
received,  as  follows  : 
Year-Book  of  Pharmacy  for  1890  ;  just  received  from  the  British  Pharmaceu- 
tical Conference  ;  it  is  similar  to  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association,  containing  the  report  on  the  progress  of  Pharmacy. 
Ten  specimens  of  iron  ores,  presented  on  behalf  of  Mr.  Wayland  P.  Young. 
The  fruit  of  Schinus  Molle,  by  Professor  Maisch  from  Professor  Herrera  ;  it 
is  known  as  Arbol  del  Peru  in  Mexico,  and  is  cultivated  in  California  acid  Texas 
as  an  ornamental  tree,  called  pepper  tree,  all  parts  of  the  plant  partaking  of  a 
peppery  character. 
The  Committee  appointed  under  the  resolution,  passed  at  the  last  pharma- 
ceutical meeting,  consists  of  Geo.  M.  Beringer,  Prof.  H.  Trimble,  Dr.  C.  B. 
Lowe,  Jos.  W.  England  and  Wm.  Mclntyre,  and  had  issued  a  circular  to  the 
members,  alumni  and  students  of  the  College,  and  to  the  pharmacists  of  this 
and  neighboring  cities,  calling  attention  to  the  objects  of  these  pharmaceutical 
meetings. 
Professor  Maisch  read  a  paper  upon  Solanum  carolinense,  by  Mr.  G.  A. 
Krauss,  of  Memphis,  Tenn.,  as  a  continuation  of  the  one  on  the  same  subject, 
read  at  the  November  meeting. 
Mr.  Beringer  read  a  paper  upon  Bromoform,  alluding  to  its  use  in  whooping- 
cough  and  discussing  some  of  the  difficulties  of  preparing  *it. 
Prof.  Remington  said  that  from  the  results  reported  the  method  of  purifying 
by  freezing  appeared  to  have  been  successful. 
Mr.  J.  W.  England  read  a  paper  on  the  ownership  of  the  prescription. 
Dr.  Dowe  referred  to  instances  in  which  unpleasant  consequences  and  results 
entirely  different  from  those  expected  had  occurred,  and  the  physician  had 
stated  that  the  prescription  was  improperly  compounded,  when  examination 
showed  that  it  was  properly  prepared.  He  declined  always  to  compound  a  pre- 
scription unless  he  could  retain  the  original. 
Mr.  Boring  said  that  if  a  person  asked  for  the  prescription  it  was  best  to  give 
it,  for  the  more  you  objected  the  more  valuable  would  it  be  considered,  and  to 
refuse  was  generally  to  lose  a  customer.  Prof.  Maisch  stated  that  in  most 
countries  of  Europe  it  was  the  custom  sanctioned  by  law  that  the  prescription 
must  be  returned  with  the  medicine  if  this  had  been  paid  for.  Prof.  Reming- 
ton said  he  thought  the  doctor  did  not  own  the  prescription,  since  he  had  been 
paid  for  it  ;  the  apothecary  did  not,  as  he  had  not  paid  anything  for  it  at  all, 
and  that  the  patient  had  paid  for  it  and  it  was  his  ;  but  that  by  courtesy  of  the 
owner  the  apothecary  is  the  trusted  custodian  of  the  prescription,  and  the  less 
that  the  question  of  ownership  is  discussed  the  better  for  the  apothecary.  Dr. 
Kaye  stated  that  in  his  opinion  pharmacy  was  the  handmaid  of  the  physician 
and  that  the  prescription  was  only  an  order  on  a  pharmacist  to  prepare  for 
some  one  a  certain  remedy  as  the  doctor  might  direct,  and  that  order  should 
only  be  yielded  up  by  his  direction. 
