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Editorial. 
Am,  Jour.  Pharm. 
Feb.,  1888. 
A  paper  upon  syrup  and  fluid  extract  of  lactucarium  by  Mr.  Geo.  M.  Beringer 
was  read  by  the  registrar.  Mr.  Webb  inquired  whether  benzin  did  not  re- 
move some  of  the  vahiable  principles  of  the  lactucarium  ;  Mr.  Lemberger  said 
that  he  thought  it  did  not  and  that  he  had  been  repeatedly  assured  that  the 
remedy  was  a  valuable  one.  Mr.  Webb  said  that  some  years  ago  Mr.  Hubbell 
sold  a  syrup  of  lactucarium  which  was  as  handsome  almost  as  Aubergier's,  but 
that  it  was  dosed  with  morphine  to  give  it  etficiency.  The  question  as  to  what 
kind  of  lactucarium  was  to  be  preferred,  most  of  those  present  expressed  a 
preference  for  the  English  article.  Mr.  England  had  used  Allen's  in  preference 
to  any  other  and  gave  a  formula  for  the  syruj)  published  in  the  December 
number  of  the  Journal  for  1886. 
Professor  Remington  said  that  he  noted  the  recommendation  in  reference  to 
fluid  extracts  of  tifty  per  cent,  strength ;  that  it  would  be  an  act  of  retrogression  ; 
that  the  late  Professor  Procter  was  the  author  of  the  class  of  extracts  as  they 
are  now  prepared,  and  that  to  introduce  fluid  extracts  of  half  strength  would 
be  an  admission  of  the  inability  of  the  pharmacist  to  make  as  good  an  article 
as  our  present  formulae  directed ;  that  fluid  extracts  represented  progress,  the 
outcome  of  the  studies  on  percolation  by  Dr.  Squibb  and  other  eminent  operators 
in  pharmacy. 
Mr.  Mclntyre  said  he  thought  Prof.  Remington's  remarks  did  not  cover  the 
whole  ground,  the  difficulty  is  for  the  apothecary  to  obtain  pure  drugs  ;  that  the 
wholesale  manufar-turer  had  the  first  chance  and  did  not  have  to  rely  upon 
ground  drugs,  and  that  as  some  physicians  are  now  furnishing  the  medicines  to 
their  patients  we  have  no  chance  to  improve  the  fluid  extract  or  syrup  of  lactu- 
carium. 
Mr.  England  read  a  paper  upon  emulsion  of  terebene,  and  Mr.  F.  B.  Quacken- 
bush,  a  member  of  the  junior  class,  read  a  paper  upon  fluid,  extract  of  yerha  santa, 
giving  the  results  of  experiments  made  in  the  pharmaceutical  laboratory  of  the 
College.  All  the  papers  read  were  referred  to  the  Publication  Committee. 
After  a  short  discussion  a  motion  to  adjourn  was  made  and  carried. 
T.  S.  WiEGAND, 
Registrar. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
Death  of  Professor  Asa  Gray. — This  eminent  botanist  died  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  January  30th,  in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  his  age.  A  biographical 
sketch  will  appear  in  our  next  number. 
Joseph  Roberts,  President  of  the  American  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  dur- 
ing 1885-86,  President  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  died 
January  31st,  after  an  illness  of  one  week,  from  pneumonia;  aged  sixty-three 
years. 
The  Texas  and  Southwestern  Druggist,  published  at  Waco,  Texas,  will  be  un- 
able to  issue  its  February  number,  owing  to  the  destruction  by  fire  of  the 
printing  office  during  the  latter  part  of  January.  We  trust  that  our  con- 
temporary will  soon  be  enabled  to  resume  publication. 
Crowded  out. — A  number  of  books  and  pamphlets  have  accumulated  upon 
our  table  during  the  past  two  months,  editorial  notices  of  the  same  in  the 
pages  of  the  Journal  having  been  delayed  through  other  matters  claiming 
space;  but  we  hope  to  make  room  for  these  reviews  in  the  March  number. 
