Am.  Jour.  Pkutt  m. 
March,  1886. 
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subsequently,  with  a  10  per  cent,  solution  of  cocaine  hydrochlorate,  the  latter 
application  to  be  repeated  more  frequently. — Lancet,  1885. 
Dr.  Barbillon  (Rev.  des  Mai.  de  V Enf.)  has  used  in  a  similar  manner,  but 
without  resorcin,  a  five  per  cent,  solution  of  cocaine  hydrochlorate  from  two 
to  four  times  a  day.  The  duration  of  the  disease  does  not  appear  to  be  short- 
ened, but  the  paroxysms  of  coughing  are  considerably  diminished  and  vomit- 
ing is  arrested. 
Atroptne  in  doses  of  T^  grain  has  been  used  by  Dr.  R.  Gray  in  acute  coryza 
with  the  effect  of  relieving  the  headache,  reducing  the  temperature  and 
diminishing  the  discharge. — Med.  News,  1885. 
Tupelo  in  Dilatation  of  the  Uterine  Cervix. — Meniere  regards  the  tupelo 
root  as  preferable  to  sponge  or  laminaria  for  the  following  reasons: 
1.  Tupelo  acquires  its  maximum  degree  of  expansion  in  less  than  an  hour 
and  a  half,  while  sponge  and  laminaria  require  from  six  to  seven  hours. 
2.  Its  surface  remains  soft,  pliable,  and  spongy,  and  in  extracting  it  there  is 
no  danger  of  injury  to  the  mucous  membrane. 
3.  It  returns  with  facility  to  its  former  size  and  shape,  and  may  be  used 
several  times  if  subjected  to  disinfection  in  mercuric  chloride  after  each  oper- 
ation.— Gaz.  de  Gyn'ecologie,  Jan.  1, 18S6.   Med.  News.  See  also  Amer.  Jour.  Phar.f 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  fifth  meeting  of  the  present  series  was  called  to  order  by  the  actuary,  and 
Mr.  Clement  B.  Lowe  was  elected  chairman. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read,  and,  there  being  no  corrections 
required,  they  stand  approved. 
The  actuary  presented  for  Messrs.  W.  T.  Baker  &  Co.,  of  this  city,  on  behalf 
of  Messrs.  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  a  cabinet  of  Materia  Medica  Specimens, 
arranged  for  the  use  of  pharmacy  and  medical  students.  The  thanks  of  the 
meeting  were  voted  for  this  donation. 
The  actuary  presented  the  Year-Book  of  Pharmacy  for  1885,  which  work  is 
issued  by  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference,  and  represents  to  English 
pharmacists  what  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
do  to  Americans;  and  also  the  Calendar  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great 
Britain  for  1836.  This  work  contains  a  calendar  showing  the  dates  of  the 
examinations,  meetings  of  council,  legal  holidays,  times  for  opening  and  closing 
museum  and  library,  aud  other  matters  of  general  interest  to  the  society  and 
trade;  a  sketch  of  the  origin  of  the  society,  the  charter,  the  various  acts  bearing 
upon  pharmacy,  the  by-laws,  list  of  officers,  members,  associates  both  those  in 
business  and  not  in  business,  registered  apprentices  or  students  of  the  society, 
regulations  of  the  board  of  examiners,  centers  at  which  examinations  are  held, 
and  a  large  amount  of  other  information  of  interest  to  the  trade  and  those  in- 
tending to  enter  it. 
Mr.  Bullock  exhibited  a  specimen  of  Terpin,  a  stearopten  possessing  medical 
properties  similar  to  those  of  oil  of  turpentine.  This  is  a  hydrate  of  oil  of  tur- 
pentine, having  the  composition  C10H20O2-|-H2O,  it  crystallizes  in  transparent 
1883,  p. 
631. 
