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Pharmacy  in  the  South. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Dec,  1890. 
Pfeiffer  concludes  by  pointing  out  that  sulphites  are  sometimes 
added  to  wine  in  such  quantity  as  to  be  capable  of  producing  injur- 
ious results.  Kammerer,  in  80  specimens  of  wine  examined,  found 
16  in  which  sulphites  (from  0017  to  -0093  per  cent.)  had  been 
added. 
List  detected  sulphites  in  a  large  number  of  French  wines,  the 
amount  varying  from  -0009  to  -0135  per  cent. 
Since  -08  gm.  of  S02,  even  when  much  diluted,  will  cause  irrita- 
tion of  the  digestive  organs,  the  presence  of  sulphites  in  wine  may 
be  injurious  if  it  contain  a  greater  quantity  than  -08  gm.  in  the  litre. 
The  addition  of  wine  to  conserves  may  also  be  productive  of 
unpleasant  effects  on  the  digestion. 
PHARMACY  IN  THE  SOUTH. 
By  Harry  Vin  Arny,  Ph.G. 
Read  at  the  Social  Meeting  of  the  Alumni  Association,  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy, November  13th. 
As  an  introduction,  permit  me  to  say  that  this  paper  could  be  termed,  with 
more  propriety,  "Pharmacy  in  New  Orleans,"  it  being  a  view  of  pharmacy 
taken  from  a  stand-point  solely  Orleanian.  But,  as  New  Orleans  is  the  leading 
city  of  the  South  and  most  thoroughly  Southern,  it  can,  perhaps,  be  regarded 
as  typical. 
The  general  aspect  of  Pharmacy  in  the  South  is  about  the  same  as  that  in 
the  North  ;  the  Southern  pharmacist  partaking  of  the  same  annoyances  and 
worries,  obtaining  the  same  benefits  and  making  about  the  same  living  as  does 
his  Northern  brother.  It  is  only  in  local  coloring — the  stage-setting  and 
dramatis  personce,  as  it  were — that  there  is  any  noticeable  difference,  and  it  is 
this  phase  upon  which  I  will  chiefly  expatiate. 
As  to  general  aspects,  suffice  it  to  say  that  in  this  city  of  241,000  inhabitants 
there  are  four  wholesale  and  155  retail  drug-stores,  giving  occupation  to  382 
registered  persons,  whose  respective  abilities  range  along  the  whole  gamut  of 
excellence,  from  good  to  bad.  The  average  is  not  as  high  as  in  Philadelphia — 
a  natural  sequence  to  the  lack  of  proper  facilities  for  pharmaceutical  education 
which  has  heretofore  existed  in  this  community.  But  the  want  has  been  filled  ; 
the  Pharmaceutical  Department  of  Tulane  University,  while  still  an  infant,  is 
a  lusty  one,  and  its  class  of  1890  was  a  body  of  young  men  as  well  trained  in 
pharmaceutical  knowledge  as  any  similar  class  in  the  country  ;  so  we  soon  will 
liave  attained  as  high  an  average  as  anywhere  else  in  the  country. 
The  prevailing  prices  for  medicinal  commodities  are  about  the  same  as  in  the 
North,  but  the  cutting  on  proprietary  articles  is  not  so  prevalent.  We  are  for- 
tunate in  possessing  in  this  State  a  just  and  satisfactory  pharmacy  law,  enforced 
by  a  conscientious  and  intelligent  Board. 
For  the  information  of  those  students  thinking  of  settling  down  this  way,  I 
will  say  that  the  diplomas  of  the  P.  C.  P.  are  recognized,  as  well  as  those  from 
all  other  reputable  Colleges. 
