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Pharmaceutical  Colleges ;  etc. 
(  AM.  JoCR.  PHABSft, 
1    Aprii  I,  1873. 
on  the  Universal  Pharmacopoeia,  previously  appointed  :  Messrs.  Buigne'e, 
Lefort,  Mayet,  Jungfleisch,  Duquesnel  and  Mehu ;  Mr.  Bussy  was  appointed? 
honorary  president  of  the  committee. 
Mr.  Limousin  exhibited  wafers  stamped  of  the  size  of  a  five  franc  piece  ;  two 
pieces  of  these  wafers  form  a  capsule,  in  which  pulverulent  medicines  may  be- 
taken, the  name  being  printed  or  written  on  the  wafer. 
Mr.  Jungfleisch  reported  on  his  researches  concerning  various  transformations 
of  tartaric  acid,  the  synthesis  of  these  bodies  by  means  of  bibromosuccinic  acid 
and  the  production  of  tartaric  acid  acting  upon  polarized  light. 
Mr.  Latour  read  a  paper  on  the  syrups  of  tolu  and  tar,  in  which  these  sub- 
stances are  emulsionized  ;  the  syrups  are  of  an  acrid  taste  and,  though  offering 
various  advantages,  must  not  be  substituted  for  the  officinal  syrups.  Th®> 
formulas  are  as  follows  : 
Take  of        Balsam  of  Tolu,  .  .    100  grams. 
Sugar,  .  .  .    300  " 
Powdered  Gum  Senegal,       .    100  " 
Water,  .  .  .600 
Simple  Syrup,  .  .  .  2400  £- 
The  balsam  is  carefully  triturated  in  a  porcelain  mortar  with  the  sugar  an«S 
gum  until  an  intimate  mixture  and  fine  powder  is  obtained,  which  is  then  poured 
into  a  tinned  copper  kettle,  previously  heated  to  100°  0.  A  sufficient  quantity 
of  boiling  simple  syrup  is  added,  afterwards  the  water,  the  trituration  and  the 
application  of  heat  being  continued  until  the  balsam  is  fused  and  thoroughly 
emulsionized  ;  the  remainder  of  the  hot  syrup  is  then  added,  in  small  quantities, 
the  whole  mixture  raised  to  the  boiling  point  and  strained,  to  separate  impuri- 
ties and  a  small  quantity  of  resin.  The  preparation  weighs  three  kilograms,, 
and  a  tablespoonful  represents  30  grams  of  syrup,  or  1  gram  of  tolu. 
Syrup  of  emulsionized  tar  is  made  in  the  same  manner  from  100  grams  of 
tar  which  has  been  washed  with  boiling  water.  600  grams  of  sugar,  100  grams* 
powdered  gum  Senegal,  400  grams  water  and  2000  grams  simple  syrup. 
A  mixture  of  the  two  syrups  is  better  tolerated  than  the  tar  syrup  alone:: 
the  latter  might  probably  be  employed  for  the  extemporaneous  preparation  of 
tar  water. 
At  the  session  of  February  5th,  Mr.  Boudet  directed  the  attention  of  the- 
society  to  propylamina.  which  has  been  extensively  used,  and  which,  as  pre- 
pared by  the  action  of  potassa  upon  herring  pickle,  contains  besides  propyla- 
mina also  trimethylamina  and  ammonia;  he  censures  physicians  who,  before 
undertaking  long  experiments,  do  not  assure  themselves  of  the  purity  of  the* 
products  with  which  they  experiment.  The  society  directs  the  appointment  oi 
a  committee  to  report  on  this  subject.  Messrs.  Boudrimont,  Boudet,  Jung- 
fleisch, Adrian  and  Wurtz  were  appointed  At  the  suggestion  of  Messrs... 
Blondeau,  Boudet  and  others,  the  subject  of  hyoscyamia  was  referred  to  the- 
same  committee. 
Mr.  Guichard  stated  that  he  arid  Mr.  Delpech  suggested,  in  1870,  the  em- 
ployment of  an  alcoholic  solution  of  potassa  in  the  preparation  of  cantharida I 
plaster,  aud  claims  priority  to  the  suggestion  of  Mr.  Rother,  made  last  year. 
After  the  election  of  three  corresponding  members  the  society  adjourned 
The  Pharmaceutical  Institute  of  the  University  of  Strassburg  has  been 
placed  in  charge  of  Prof  Dr.  F.  A.  Fliickiger,  formerly  of  Bern,  Switzerland 
