Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April  1,  1871. 
}    Philadelpllia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
175 
No.  3.    Give  the  officinal  names,  menstrua,  proportions  and  doses  of  the  galeni- 
cal preparations  of  Opium. 
Give  the  process  for  Fluid  Extract  of  Ipecacuanha. 
Give  the  specific  gravities  of  Stronger  Alcohol,  Alcohol,  Diluted  Al- 
cohol, Stronger  Ether,  PJther,  Chloroform,   Acetic  Acid,  Glycerin, 
Spirit  of  Nitrous  Ether,  Syrup. 
Give  an  outline  of  the  process  for  preparing  Sulphate  of  Quinia;  also 
its  solubilities  and  characteristic  tests. 
How  is  Gallic  Acid  prepared  and  how  distinguished  from  Tannic  Acid. 
Give  a  formula  for  preparing  a  Castor  Oil  mixture. 
What  officinal  pills  contain  Aloes?    Give  the  composition  of  each. 
AVhat  three  officinal  preparations  contain  Tartrate  of  Antimony  and 
Potassa,  and  in  what  proportions? 
The  following  specimens  were  submitted  for  recognition  : 
No.  4. 
No.  5. 
No.  6. 
No.  7. 
No.  8. 
No.  9. 
No.  10 
Chemistry. 
Acidum  Nitricum, 
Acidum  Citricum, 
Acidum  Oxalicum, 
Potassii  Bromidum, 
Potassse  Bichromas, 
Sodae  Boras, 
Magnesia?  Sulphas, 
Manganesii  Sulphas, 
Ferri  Subcarbonas, 
^ther. 
j        Materia  Medica. 
I  Senega, 
I  Aconiti  Radix, 
I  Augustura, 
Cascarilla, 
Digitalis, 
Belladonnae  Fol., 
Santonica, 
Anethum, 
Capsicum, 
Galbanum. 
Pharmacy. 
Pulv.  Ipecacuanhse, 
"    Ext.  Coloc.  Comp., 
Mistura  Assafoetidte, 
Syr.  Sarsap.  Comp., 
Tinct.  Cardamom.  Comp,, 
Tinct.  Gentianae  Comp., 
Lin.  Saponis  Camph.. 
Extract.  Buchu  Fluid, 
Spir,  ^theris  Comp. 
Spiritus  JEtheris  Nitrosi. 
The  above  examinations  were  by  the  several  professors. 
In  addition  to  these  the  Examining  Committee,  consisting  ©f  four  members 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  have  also  a  special  examination,  two  of  the  Com- 
mittee serving  each  day,  and  direct  their  queries  to  the  practical  parts  of  phar- 
macy and  the  recognition  of  drugs. 
SrrciAL  Eeport  of  the  Committee  on  Examination. 
The  connmittee  on  examination  respectfully  report,  that  they  have  attended 
to  the  responsible  duty  assigned  to  them,  and  passed  their  judgment  on  seventy- 
one  candidates  for  th-e  honor  of  the  Diploma  of  the  College. 
Your  committee  feel  it  their  duty  to  call  the  attention  of  the  Board  to  a  de- 
ficiency of  information  in  the  case  of  a  large  number  of  candidates,  in  the 
practical  details  of  chemistry  amd  pharmacy. 
The  committee  fear  that  there  has  been  a  growing  laxity  of  attention  on  the 
part  of  employers  in  giving  personal  supervision  to  the  instruction  of  the  young 
men  learning  their  business  with  them,  and  in  encouraging  them  by  study,  and 
cultivation  of  habits  of  earnest  attention  to  details,  to  train  their  minds  to  the 
exercise  of  all  their  faculties,  instead  of  making  their  daily  duties  those  of 
merely  manual  performance. 
When  we  remember  that  an  apprentice  (under  the  code  Ethics  of  the  Col- 
lege) is  taken  for  a  term  of  three  or  four  years,  and  that  his  pecuniary  compen- 
sation is  during  that  time  hardly  sufficient  for  his  support,  there  appears  to  be 
a  moral  obligation  on  the  employer  to  use  due  diligence  in  instructing  his  ap- 
prentice in  such  a  way  that  if  he  is  not  well  qualified  for  the  responsible  duties 
of  his  profession,  the  fault  may  not  lay  at  the  door  of  his  instructor. 
