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Editorial. 
\  Am.  Jotjr.  Pharm. 
\     Oct.  1, 1873. 
In  many  of  the  colleges,  pharmaceutical  meetings  will  be  inaugurated  again* 
dnrinsrlhe  present  month,  and,  if  the  pharmacists  know  and  appreciate  the 
duty  they  owe  to  the  profession,  they  will  not  fail  to  bring  forward,  for  the  ben- 
efit of  all.  such  notes,  observations  and  investigations,  as  they  may  have  beer> 
enabled  to  make  during  the  past  six  months,  or  may  make  during  the  season 
before  us. 
KnTTisn  Pharmaceutical  Conference. — The  annual  meeting  was  held  at 
Bradford.  September  16th,  simultaneously  with  the  meetings  of  two  other 
national  pharmaceutical  societies,  that  of  Austria  and  North  America. 
The  Austrian  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  a  meeting  July  7th,  at 
which  Pr.  A.  TTottot  showed  his  pepsin  exhibited  at  the  Vienna  Universal 
Exposilinn.  This  pepsin  is  prepared  as  follows:  Hogs' stomachs  are  mace- 
rated in  water,  ihp  liquid  is  filtered,  the  filtrate  precipitated  by  acetate  of  lead, 
the  washed  precipitate  dpcomposed  by  sulphuretted  hydrogen,  and  the  filtrate, 
nftpr  concentration,  precipitated  by  sulphate  of  sodium.  After  having  been 
repeatedly  washed  with  water,  pepsin  is  in  small  shining  scales,  of  yellowish- 
grey  color,  almost  inodorous,  not  hydroscopic,  and  insoluble  in  water.  If  one 
centigram  of  this  pepsin  is  digested  for  one  hour,  at  a  temperature  of  45°  0. 
F.).  together  with  ."0  grams  of  water,  45  centigrams  muriatic  acid,  spec, 
prav.  1-18.  and  G  grams  of  fibrin,  the  latter  is  dissolved  and  after  12  hours  com- 
pletely t  ra  nsformed  into  albnminose,  and  the  liquid  yields  no  precipitate  either 
on  boiling  or  by  nitric  acid.  The  same  effect  is  produced,  under  the  same  cir- 
cumstances, using,  however,  six  centigrams  of  pepsin,  upon  six  grams  of  re- 
cently coagulated  albumen. 
Mr.  E.  Pelpeches  exhibited  various  preparations  of  Eucalyptus. 
Mr.  S.  Limousin  demonstrated  the  preparation  of  oxygen  with  an  apparatus 
const  meted  by  him,  and  consisting  of  a  cast-iron  retort  composed  of  two  her- 
metically fining  hemispheres.  By  the  heat  of  a  spirit  lamp  the  gas  is  evolved 
from  a  mixture  of  chlorate  of  potassium  and  binoxide  of  manganese,  the  gas 
is  waRhed  by  passing  it  through  very  dilute  solution  of  potassa,  and  collected 
in  rubber  bajrs.    Oxygen  gas  has  been  employed  lately  in  cholera  hospitals. 
Mr.  E.  Genevois  spoke  about  different  blistering  plasters. 
The  annual  meeting  of  this  Society  was  held  at  Vienna,  September  15th  and 
16th. 
The  German  Apothecaries'  Union  held  its  annual  meeting  at  the  City  of 
Cologne,  September  4th  and  5th. 
(EMtorial  Department 
Bogus  Diplomas. — There  appears  to  be  a  chance  for  this  swindle  to  be- 
legally  checked  at  last.    If  we  look  at  the  facts  that  were  unearthed  about 
