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PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  regular  monthly  pharmaceutical  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  November 
2 1  st,  with  Joseph  Crawford,  a  well-known  Philadelphia  druggist  and 
botanist,  in  the  chair. 
Dr.  M.  Clayton  Thrush,  instructor  in  pharmacology  and  thera- 
peutics at  the  Medico-Chirurgical  College,  Philadelphia,  presented  a 
paper  entitled  "  The  Eighth  Decennial  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  from 
the  Physician's  Standpoint,"  in  which  he  commented  on  the  various 
classes  of  medicaments  now  official.  In  conclusion  he  remarked 
that  pharmacists  should  familiarize  themselves  with  the  work,  make 
the  new  preparations  and  distribute  samples  of  them  to  physicians, 
as  also  lists  of  the  important  changes  for  ready  reference.  The 
speaker  considered  it  important  to  give  instruction  bearing  on  the 
Pharmacopoeia  to  medical  students,  for  he  believed  the  older  physi- 
cians would  be  more  or  less  slow  to  take  up  with  it,  and  that  thus 
the  younger  practitioners  would  be  the  ones  to  use  it.  He  said 
that  much  could  be  done  to  popularize  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and  that 
the  efforts  of  druggists  in  this  direction  would  help  °to  do  away  with 
the  prescribing  of  proprietary  preparations. 
C.  P.  Gabell,  a  manufacturing  pharmacist  of  Philadelphia,  read  a 
paper  on  "  The  Protection  that  Should  be  Afforded  the  Pharmacist 
by  the  Law,"  in  which  he  argued  that  all  poisons  or  substances 
containing  poisons  should  be  supplied  to  the  laity  only  by  druggists. 
He  pointed  out  the  inconsistency  of  druggists  having  to  register 
poison  sales  when  other  classes  of  dealers,  who  are  unqualified,  are 
permitted  to  sell  them  indiscriminately  and  without  restriction. 
An  interesting  discussion  followed  the  reading  of  these  two 
papers.  Dr.  C.  B.  Lowe  considered  the  majority  of  the  criticisms 
made  by  Dr.  Thrush  to  be  just,  and  said  that  he  has  adopted  the 
practice  of  dispensing  the  preparations  of  the  new  Pharmacopoeia 
unless  those  of  the  previous  edition  are  specified. 
The  subject  of  the  official  wines  having  been  referred  to,  Warren 
H.  Poley  stated  that  the  use  of  wine  of  coca  was  much  abused,  which 
is  also  the  case  with  vin  mariani,  and  he  regretted  that  the  law  did 
not  also  apply  to  the  latter. 
In  commenting  on  that  portion  of  Mr.  Gabell's  paper  relating 
to  the  qualifications  required  of  druggists,  M.  I.  Wilbert  referred 
