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structural  lesions  of  the  stomach-walls  the  relief  was  of  short  duration  and 
incomplete,  but  in  the  purely  functional  cases  the  pain  was  always  caused  to 
disappear,  however  severe  the  attack,  and  though  the  usual  remedies  had  been 
employed  in  vain.  The  dose  used  was  two  grains  of  the  extract,  every  two 
hours. — Rev.  Gen.  de  Clin,  et  de  Ther. ;  Jour.  Amer.  Med.  Assoc'n,  Dec.  10,  1887. 
MINUTES  OF  THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  meeting  was  called  to  order  and  Mr.  Wm.  B.  Thompson  was  asked  to 
preside. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  having  been  read,  Mr.  Mclntyre  alluded  to 
the  fact  that  no  mention  was  made  of  a  statement  regarding  the  poor  quality 
of  sugar  supplied  to  the  trade;  the  registrar  stated  that  the  matter  had 
been  frequently  up  before  the  meeting  and  the  grades  of  sugar  which  were  unob- 
jectionable had  been  repeatedly  mentioned.  Mr.  Eobbins  said  that  the  state- 
ment about  the  possibility  of  exhausting  huchu  was  directly  different  to  what 
he  intended  to  say  ;  that  while  three-fourths  of  the  percolate  would  contain  the 
activity  of  the  buchu  it  would  require  quite  double  that  quantity  of  liquid  to 
moisten  and  expel  the  liquid  percolate  to  exhaustion. 
Mr.  Lemberger,  of  Lebanon,  made  a  few  remarks  about  the  growth  of  the 
College  and  the  wide-spread  influence  its  graduates  had  upon  the  pharmacy  of 
our  country. 
The  registrar  presented  to  the  library  from  Dr.  Ruschenberger,  U.  S.  N.,  a 
copy  of  the  History  of  the  College  of  Physicians,  for  the  first  hundred  years  of 
its  existence,  for  which  the  meeting  returned  the  thanks  of  the  College. 
A  sample  of  cold-pressed  linseed  oil  was  received  from  Dr.  A.  W.  Miller.  Another 
sample  made  by  Aschenbach  &  Miller  from  seed  ground  out  West  showed  the 
presence  of  copper;  but  the  sample  presented  which  was  made  from  seed 
ground  by  the  firm',  has  none  of  the  appearances  indicating  copper. 
The  query  propounded  was  whether  cold-pressed  linseed  oil  was  in  any  wise 
different  from  the  commercial  oil.  Mr.  Moerk  said  that  much  of  the  commer- 
cial oil  was  purified  by  treatment  with  acids,  and  if  it  has  been  so  treated  it  is 
not  amenable  to  the  same  tests  as  an  oil  obtained  by  percolating  pure  meal 
with  a  solvent  and  evaporating  the  latter;  the  test  of  its  solubility  in  an  equal 
volume  of  absolute  alcohol  is  a  reliable  test,  and  the  test  with  95  per  cent,  alcohol 
is  also  an  interesting  one.  Mr.  Procter  moved,  as  Mr.  Moerk  had  so  tho 
roughly  examined  the  subject,  that  the  committee  be  discharged  from  further 
consideration  of  the  matter ;  this  was  seconded  and  the  motion  was  carried. 
Mr.  Franz,  a  member  of  the  senior  class,  read  a  paper  upon  Eapatorium  perfolia- 
tum.  A  paper  upon  raercurammonium  chlorides  was  read  by  Mr.  F.  X.  Moerk. 
The  paper  was  listened  to  with  close  attention  and  elicited  remarks  from 
several  present.  Prof.  Remington  referred  to  the  compound  which  had  been 
described  as  thrown  down  in  a  granular  powder,  and  said  that  it  was  very  im- 
portant that  the  article  should  be  entirely  free  from  grit  and  should  easily  mix 
into  a  smooth  ointment  as  it  is  employed  frequently  in  granular  eyelids. 
Mr.  J.  H.  Bunting  read  a  paper  detailing  experiments  made  in  the  pharma- 
ceutical laboratory  under  the  direction  of  Prof.  Remington,  upon  the  most  suit- 
able menstruum  for  a  fluid  extract  of  blue  cohosh. 
