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f  Am.  Jour.  Phar*u 
1    Mar.  1, 1873. 
otherwise,  aimed  at  you."  Regretting  that  we  interpreted  his  words  in  a  differ- 
ent manner  than  intended  by  him,  it  is  but  just  that  we  should  give  the  entire 
passage  verbatim  to  which  we  had  taken  special  exception.  It  follows  imme- 
diately after  the  quotation  on  page  92  : 
It  is,  indeed,  our  duty  (no  less  than  our  privilege)  to  profit  by  the  sneers  of 
the  uncharitable,  and  so  manage  that,  in  the  future,  all  our  institutions  may 
partake  of  the  nationalism  of  the  city  itself.  They  must  not — nay,  cannot  be 
sectional  to  succeed.  And  to  say  that  the  people  of  the  District  of  Columbia 
do  not  appreciate  their  privilege  in  this  respect  is  an  accusation  much  too 
jejune  to  be  made  in  earnest. 
After  this  correction  in  the  bearing  of  the  foregoing,  we  find  also  the  sen- 
tence, immediately  following,  of  an  appropriate  character,  which  at  first  we 
could  not  discern  : 
Thus  it  is  eminently  proper  that  the  National  College  of  Pharmacy,  situated 
at  the  National  Capital,  should  make  bold  to  compete  with  its  older  sisters 
without  a  churlish  thought  of  unworthy  contention. 
The  New  Pharmacopoeia — Correction. — In  some  copies  of  the  new  Phar- 
macopoeia will  be  found  two  errors,  which  originated  in  compiling  and  tran- 
scribing the  manuscript  for  the  printer,  and  were  overlooked  in  proof  reading. 
As  soon  as  discovered  the  necessary  typical  corrections  have  been  made.  We 
call  the  attention  of  our  readers  to  the  same,  that  they  maybe  enabled  to  make 
the  requisite  alterations  in  case  they  should  have  a  copy  issued  before  the 
errors  were  discovered. 
In  the  article  "  Pyroxylon  "  the  quantity  of  sulphuric  acid  in  the  alternative 
formula  on  page  262  should  be  ten,  instead  of  two  troyounces. 
In  the  formula  for  "  Spiritus  chloroformi,"  on  page  275,  twelve  fluidounces  of 
alcohol  (not  diluted  alcohol)  should  be  used. 
Bay  Rum. — Our  attention  has  been  directed  to  the  two  formulas  for  bay  rum 
which,  on  page  95  of  our  last  issue,  we  copied  from  "The  Chemist's  and  Drug- 
gist's Diary."  Both  formulas  were  contributed  to  the  "Druggists'  Circular"  in 
1869,  and  will  be  found  on  pages  185  and  199  of  that  paper.  One  of  the  for- 
mulas has  been  copied  incorrectly  into  the  "  Diary,"  and  from  it  into  our  last 
number.  Instead  of  -h  lb.  cardamom,  it  should  read  Sem.  Amomi^i.  e.  Pimenta) 
£  lb. 
Elixirs  and  Secret  Formulas. — For  several  years  past  pharmacists  have 
been  annoyed  by  the  continued  introduction  of  new  elixirs,  medicated  wines 
and  similar  preparations,  ostensibly  gotten  up  for  the  purpose  of  exhibiting 
nauseous  medicines  in  a  form  which  should  be  at  once  pleasing  to  the  eye  and 
agreeable  to  the  taste.  The  baneful  effects  of  this  class  of  preparations  have, 
we  believe,  never  been  more  justly  and  more  forcibly  stated  than  by  Dr.  Squibb, 
at  the  Cleveland  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  who, 
after  alluding  to  the  inducement  of  large  profits  held  out  by  the  manufacturer 
to  the  dispenser,  said  :* 
*Proc3edings  of  the  American  Pha  'tnaceutical  Association,  1872,  p.  80. 
