Am.  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
March,  1911.);  / 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
January  13,  it  was  decided  to  erect  a  suitable  memorial  to  Dr.  John 
Morgan,  the  founder  of  the  medical  department  of  the  University, 
the  originator  of  medical  schools  in  the  United  States,  and  the  first 
physician,  in  America,  to  introduce  the  writing  of  prescriptions. — 
/.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  V.  56,  p.  205. 
Paris  School  of  Pharmacy. — Professor  Guignard,  who  desires 
to  devote  himself  hereafter  solely  to  scientific  work,  has  requested 
the  minister  of  public  instruction  to  relieve  him  of  the  directorship 
of  the  higher  school  of  physiology  and  pharmacy,  which  he  has 
carried  on  for  about  15  years,  having  succeeded  Professor  Planchon. 
The  faculty  of  the  school  has  unanimously  elected,  as  the  new  direc- 
tor, M.  Henry  Gautier,  professor  of  inorganic  chemistry  at  the 
school. — /.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  191 1,  v.  56,  p.  130. 
Medical  Curriculum. — An  editorial  note  {Chem.  &  Drug., 
Lond.,  1910,  V.  77,  p.  834)  quotes  the  Lancet  which  suggests  that 
the  reaction  against  studying  materia  medica  in  the  medical  cur- 
riculum has  gone  too  far,  and  although  it  is  hopeless  to  attempt  to 
reintroduce  the  old  materia  medica  a  modified  form  should  be 
tried,  and  outlines  a  course  that  might  well  be  adopted  in  British 
medical  schools. 
Progress  in  Pharmacology. — An  editorial  commenting  on  the 
programme  of  the  Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics  of  the 
British  Medical  Association  asserts  that  pharmacists,  if  they  are  to 
keep  up  to  date,  must  keep  in  close  touch  with  that  branch  of  medi- 
cine which  deals  with  the  study  of  the  composition  and  uses  of 
remedies  of  medicinal  value  and  they  must  therefore  know  about  the 
shifting  of  the  old  landmarks  and  note  the  progress  which  pharma- 
cologists make  in  elucidating  the  action  of  medicinal  agents. — 
Chem.  &  Drug.,  Lond.,  1910,  v.  77,  p.  832. 
Antityphoid  Vaccination. — George  B.  Foster  reports  an  in- 
stance illustrating  the  efiicacy  of  antityphoid  vaccination  in  the 
U.  S.  Army.  Of  92  members  of  Company  A,  First  Battalion  of  En- 
gineers, who  were  vaccinated,  not  a  single  case  of  typhoid  fever 
developed,  while  of  the  total  of  24  men  not  so  protected  six,  or 
25  per  cent.,  developed  typhoid  fever. — /.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  1910,  v.  55, 
pp.  1 808-1 809. 
Essential  Oils  as  Antiseptics. — An  editorial  in  discussing 
the  use  of  essential  oils  as  antiseptics  points  out  that  essential  oils 
or  substances  containing  them  are  the  oldest  antiseptics  that  have 
been  used  by  man,  but  that  it  is  only  within  recent  years  that  any 
