440  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {\^ptimbe!^mT' 
6  per  cent.,  and  that  for  ash  at  5  per  cent.  Several  of  the  members 
present  expressed  the  behef  that  this  standard  was  high,  and  that 
an  iodine  content  of  0.15  per  cent,  would  be  more  in  keeping  with 
the  available  product. 
The  Preparation,  Quality  and  Testing  of  Quinine  Tannate. — 
Puckner  and  Warren,  under  this  heading,  discussed  the  require- 
ments made  for  quinine  tannate  in  many  of  the  foreign  Pharma- 
copoeias and  reported  a  systematic  examination  of  the  product 
available  in  this  country,  giving  the  names  of  manufacturers,  the 
degree  of  purity  of  their  quinine  tannate  and  the  various  contamina- 
tions. This  paper  was  discussed  to  some  extent,  and  on  motion 
a  majority  of  the  members  present  voted  to  delete  the  names  of 
the  manufacturers  from  the  paper  as  printed  in  the  journal  of  the 
Association. 
Alkaloidal  Assaying. — The  assay  processes  oi  the  U.  S.  P.  were 
more  or  less  systematically  discussed  by  Messrs.  Stevens,  Dohme, 
Gordin  and  others.  The  subject-matter  under  discussion  was  sub- 
sequently referred  to  the  U.  S.  P.  Committee  of  Revision,  and  was 
further  discussed  by  the  Sub-Committee  on  Assay  Processes. 
Gelsemium  Alkaloids. — L.  E.  Sayre  presented  an  additional  com- 
munication on  the  alkaloids  of  gelsemium,  and  proposed  the  re- 
naming of  the  several  alkaloids.  This  communication  led  to  a 
general  discussion  on  the  misleading  names  applied  by  manufac- 
turers to  some  of  the  rarer  alkaloids,  but  the  members  of  the 
section  were  apparently  not  willing  to  commit  themselves  to  any 
definite  policy  for  correcting  existing-  abuses. 
Physiological  Standardization. — The  physiological  standardiza- 
tion of  drugs  was  discussed  by  Messrs.  Haskell,  Vanderkleed, 
Edmunds  and  others.  Chas.  C.  Haskell  reported  a  number  of 
experiments  on  physiological  drug-testing,  and  in  connection  with 
digitalis  recommended  the  use  of  the  one-hour  frog  method,  as 
outlined  by  Edmunds  and  Hale  in  Bulletin  No.  48  of  the  Hygienic 
Laboratory,  Public  Health  and  Marine-Hospital  Service  of  the 
United  States.  Chas.  H.  Vanderkleed  presented  a  paper  in  which 
he  recommended  the  guinea-pig  method,  described  by  Reed  and 
Vanderkleed  in  a  previous  paper  on  the  subject. 
Capsicum. — Wilbur  L.  Scoville  presented  a  Note  on  Capsicum, 
showing  the  great  variation  in  the  strength  of  capsicum,  and  sug- 
gesting the  possibility  of  the  pungency  of  this  drug  being  used  as 
a  simple  test  for  quality.    This  paper  elicited  some  discussion  in 
