AjwS!£y^m'}  Pharmaceutical  Meeting.  45 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETINGS. 
(NOVEMBER  AND  DECEMBER.) 
The  stated  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  November  15th,  with 
Howard  B.  French,  President  of  the  College,  in  the  chair. 
The  first  speaker  introduced  was  M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  who  pre- 
sented a  communication  on  "  Progress  in  Pharmacy,"  this  being  a 
quarterly  review  of  the  advances  in  pharmacy  and  materia  medica. 
(See  this  Journal,  December,  1904.) 
In  the  discussion  following  the  paper,  Mr.  Wilbert  said  that  there 
were  some  twenty  odd  names  for  epinephrin — all  trade-marked  and 
each  the  property  of  the  house  applying  it.  He  said  that  likewise 
there  were  almost  as  many  proprietary  names  for  hexamethylene 
tetramine  as  cystogen,  formin,  etc.,  and  although  this  salt  under  the 
true  chemical  name  is  cheaper  in  price  than  the  proprietary  articles, 
these  must  be  dispensed  if  prescribed.  He  therefore  agreed  with  the 
proposition  to  refer  this  question  to  some  scientific  society,  as  the 
American  Therapeutical  Association,  to  see  whether  these  products 
are  identical  in  solubility,  therapeutic  action,  etc.,  and  to  correlate 
the  results  and  select  one  common  name  for  them. 
Dr.  C.  B.  Lowe  was  of  the  opinion  that  manufacturers  would  ob- 
ject to  such  a  proceeding,  each  one  claiming  superiority  for  his 
product. 
George  M.  Beringer  thought  that  in  the  case  of  pharmacopoeial 
articles  it  might  be  safer  to  say  that  the  proprietary  articles  are  said 
to  be  the  same  as  those  in  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
The  therapeutic  properties  of  epinephrin  having  been  alluded  to 
by  Dr.  Lowe,  Wallace  Procter  said  that  he  was  inclined  to  believe 
that  when  this  substance  came  to  be  more  definitely  known  it  would 
be  treated  in  much  the  same  way  as  pepsin  is  at  present.  He  said 
that  pepsin  is  now  recognized  by  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  that 
manufacturers  vie  with  one  another  to  come  up  to  the  official 
standard,  and  that  while  there  are  a  good  many  commercial  kinds 
an  effort  is  made  to  make  them  correspond  to  the  U.S. P.  re- 
quirements. 
President  French  next  called  attention  to  the  historical  scientific 
exhibit  to  be  held  shortly  in  London  by  Henry  S.  Wellcome,  and 
stated  that  Mr.  Wellcome  desired  the  loan  of  historical  objects 
