Pharmaceutical  Meetings. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      March,  1905. 
Legislation  of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association,  on 
"  Some  Reasons  Why  the  Internal  Revenue  Tax  on  Alcohol  Should 
be  Reduced,  and  Why  Our  Government  Should  Provide  Free 
Denaturized  Alcohol  for  Use  in  the  Arts,"  was  read  by  Prof.  Charles 
F.  Parsons.    (See  page  1 1 1 .) 
Dr.  A.  R.  L.  Dohme,  of  Baltimore,  sent  a  communication  con- 
demning the  use  of  methyl  alcohol  for  pharmaceutical  purposes. 
He  expressed  the  hope  that  Congress  would  grant  the  reduction  in 
the  tax  on  ethyl  alcohol,  and  thus  largely  eliminate  this  excuse  for 
the  use  of  wood  alcohol  for  any  purpose  connected  in  any  way  with 
medicine  or  pharmacy.    (See  page  119.) 
The  subject  was  further  discussed  by  Dr.  Henry  W.  Cattell  (see 
page  121),  Professor  Sadtler,  Dr.  C.  B.  Lowe,  Warren  H.  Poley  and 
Dr.  Wiley. 
Mr.  Poley  said  that  milk  which  contained  either  formal- 
dehyde or  sodium  borate  or  boric  acid  would  not  coagulate 
properly  upon  the  addition  of  rennet,  and  he  desired  to  know  if  this 
could  be  considered  in  the  nature  of  a  test  for  these  substances. 
Dr.  Wiley  said  that  his  experiments  had  not  covered  this  point,  but 
that  he  thought  that  any  substance  which  prevented  the  action  of 
ferments  would  interfere  with  the  action  of  rennet,  it  being  in  the 
nature  of  a  ferment. 
M.  I.  Wilbert  read  a  paper  on  "  Camphor  Snow  and  Milk  of  Cam- 
phor," and  exhibited  samples  of  these  preparations.  (See  page  128.) 
Prof.  C.  Lewis  Diehl,  Louisville,  Ky.,  was  present,  and  was  called 
upon  for  some  remarks  by  the  chairman.  Mr.  Boring  said  that  the 
older  members  classed  Professor  Diehl  with  such  men  as  Procter, 
Parrish  and  Maisch,  and  that  he  was  a  veteran  of  the  civil  war,  and 
had  been  left  on  the  battlefield  at  Stone  River  for  dead,  but  that  his 
life  had  been  spared  to  assist  in  the  development  of  American 
pharmacy. 
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  on  Tuesday  evening,  March  21st, 
when  the  subject  of  professional  or  scientific  pharmacy  will  be  con- 
sidered. Papers  will  be  read  by  Prof.  Henry  P.  Hynson,  of  the 
University  of  Maryland;  Dr.  Wm.  C.  Alpers,  New  York  City. 
George  M.  Beringer,  Ph.M.,  will  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Evolution 
of  Nostrum  Vending  and  its  Relation  to  the  Practice  of  Medicine  and 
Pharmacy."  Henry  Kraemer, 
Secretary. 
