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the  inorganic  chemicals  of  the  1890  edition  that  the  most  valuable 
were  those  made  by  the  chairman  of  that  committee.  He  spoke  of 
the  purity  of  the  cream  of  tartar  on  the  market  and  said  that  the 
product  made  by  the  trust  required  but  little  purification  for  standard 
purposes.  Calling  attention  to  the  salicylates  he  said  that  bleach- 
ing with  sulphurous  acid  gives  them  their  very  white  appearance. 
Professor  Coblentz  stated  that  the  Pharmacopoeia  does  a  great  deal 
of  good  by  compelling  druggists  to  buy  the  better  grades  of  chemi- 
cals. He  recalled  an  instance  where  a  manufacturer  had  failed  to 
sell  one  grade  of  a  certain  chemical  which  was  only  one-half  cent 
more  per  pound  than  an  inferior  grade.  To  illustrate  further,  he 
said  that  the  purest  zinc  oxide  manufactured  goes  to  the  manufac- 
turers of  paints  rather  than  to  druggists.  Another  example  given 
was  that  of  commercial  sodium  phosphate,  which  he  said  contained 
a  large  amount  of  arsenic,  and  yet  some  pharmacists  prefer  this  to. 
the  purer  article  although  there  is  not  much  difference  in  the  price. 
Prof.  Clement  B.  Lowe  read  a  paper  on  the  "  Doses  in  the  U.  S. 
Pharmacopoeia,"  which  will  appear  in  a  later  issue  of  this  Journal. 
In  discussing  the  paper,  M.  I.  Wilbert  said  that  as  generally 
understood  an  average  dose  means  one  that  can  be  doubled,  tripled, 
or  quadrupled  at  the  time,  so  that  a  low  dose  is  desirable.  Only  in 
one  or  two  instances  did  he  consider  the  average  doses  as  given  in 
the  Pharmacopoeia  to  be  high,  and  mentioned  as  one  example  that 
of  acetanilid. 
Dr.  Lowe  did  not  entirely  coincide  with  this  view  of  the  question, 
and  said  that  not  only  should  the  dose  be  taken  into  consideration, 
but  also  the  question  as  to  the  length  of  time  required  for  the  elimi- 
nation of  the  drug  from  the  system. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  presented  a  quarterly  review  of  the  advances 
in  pharmacy.    (See  page  1 29.) 
Professor  Sadtler  referred  to  the  movement  instituted  by  the 
Ladies'  Home  Journal,  Colliers  Weekly,  and  to  the  work  of  the 
Council  on  Medicine  and  Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, and  said  that  if  the  members  of  the  Association  continue 
to  support  it  that  the  nostrum  business  will  eventually  be  dis- 
solved. 
Professor  Remington  thought  that  the  movement  would  lead  to 
legislation  compelling  the  printing  of  the  formula  on  the  label. 
Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
