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and  schools  of  pharmacy.  Another  feature  of  these  prescriptions 
was  the  frequent  ordering  of  proprietary  remedies. 
Professor  Remington  spoke  of  the  pre- requisite  law  now  being 
considered  by  the  Pennsylvania  State  Legislature  and  asked  Dr. 
Beates  to  aid  in  securing  its  adoption.  Dr.  Thrush  added  that  he 
believed  that  the  pre-requisite  law  for  pharmacists  should  be  enacted 
and  should  receive  the  support  of  pharmacists  and  physicians. 
Dr.  P.  N.  K.  Schwenk,  an  attending  surgeon  to  Wills  Eye  Hos- 
pital, was  the  last  speaker  on  the  programme  and  read  a  paper  on 
"  The  Size  of  the  Dropper  as  Applied  to  Eye  Drops  Containing 
Alkaloids."    (See  page  123.) 
Professor  Remington  said,  in  discussing  this  subject,  that  droppers 
are  frequently  used  for  other  purposes  than  as  eye-droppers.  He 
said  there  was  much  difference  in  the  size  of  drops,  depending  upon 
the  kind  of  liquid  used.  He  then  referred  to  the  dropper  which  also 
serves  as  a  stopper  and  said  that  an  attempt  had  been  made  to  make 
this  accurate.    (See  also  page  125.) 
Dr.  Schwenk  said  that  he  favored  sterilization,  and  that  in  pre- 
paring for  operations  on  the  eye  he  had  his  instruments  sterilized 
each  time.  In  preparing  eye-drops  he  said  it  was  his  custom  to  boil 
the  water  and  then  add  the  alkaloid  to  the  cooled  liquid. 
Mr.  Poley  spoke  of  a  case  of  poisoning  resulting  from  the  use  of 
a  dropper  that  had  been  previously  used. 
On  motion  of  Thomas  H.  Potts  a  unanimous  vote  of  thanks  was 
tendered  the  speakers  of  the  evening. 
The  fifth  of  the  present  series  of  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon, 
February  14th,  with  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington  in  the  chair.  The 
meeting  was  well  attended,  and  partook  of  the  nature  of  a  sympo- 
sium, the  alcohol  question  being  considered  from  various  points  of 
view. 
Dr.  H.  W.  Wiley,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry,  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture,  gave  an  address  on  "  Methyl 
Alcohol — what  is  it  and  what  is  it  good  for?  "    (See  page  10 1.) 
Prof.  Samuel  P.  Sadtler  read  a  paper  in  which  he  discussed 
"  Methods  for  the  Detection  of  Methyl  Alcohol  in  Ethyl  Alcohol." 
(See  page  106.) 
A  paper  by  Mahlon  N.  Kline,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
