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Eleventh  Int.  Phar.  Congress. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
t   February,  1913. 
2.  Is  it  desirable  to  limit  the  sale  of  pharmaceutical  specialities 
exclusively  to  the  pharmacists?  In  what  manner  can  these  speciali- 
ties be  defined  and  how  can  the  sale  be  regulated  by  act  of  Parlia- 
ment? 
3.  The  supply  of  medicines  in  rural  districts. 
4.  International  arrangement  of  the  pharmaceutical  nomenclature. 
5.  National  and  local  organizations  of  chemists. 
6.  International  trade  in  pharmaceutical  specialities. 
7.  Pharmaceutical  education  in  different  countries. 
8.  The  assistants  in  dispensaries.  The  advantages  and  disadvan- 
tages of  assistants,  who  do  not  possess  a  chemist's  diploma  and  can- 
not obtain  one. 
9.  The  military  pharmacist  working  in  behalf  of  hygiene  and  of 
the  chemical  and  technical  service. 
10.  What  measures  can  be  taken  to  enforce  the  observance  of 
laws  regulating  pharmacy? 
11.  The  training  of  and  the  requirements  for  the  analytical  assist- 
ants in  pharmaceutical  and  chemical  laboratories. 
12.  Free  treatises  on  the  subject  of  historical  pharmacy. 
SECTION  2  :  GALENICAL  PHARMACY. 
Committee:  Prof.  P.  van  der  Wielen,  President,  E.  S.  van  Itallie, 
Secretary,  Miss  C.  H.  Hugenholtz,  and  Dr.  J.  S.  Meulenhoff. 
Subjects  Introduced  far  Discussion. 
1.  International  standards  should  be  made  concerning  the  value 
of  those  medicines  for  which  international  requirements  concerning 
quality  exist. 
2.  Preparation  of  galenicals  by  hand  is  a  necessary  preparation 
in  wholesale  laboratories.  It  is  possible  only  if  there  is  a  proper  and 
responsible  control  over  the  materials  and  the  methods  of  preparation. 
3.  The  preparation  of  aromatic  waters. 
4.  Is  it  desirable  to  adopt  a  uniform  method  of  expressing  alco- 
holic strength  in  percentage  by  weight? 
5.  When  a  medicine  has  to  be  reduced  to  its  proper  strength  by 
dilution,  a  limit  should  be  established  for  the  quantity  of  the  neutral 
diluent  to  be  added. 
6.  The  establishment  of  a  minimum  limit  for  the  active  strength 
of  medicines  without  establishing  also  a  maximum  limit,  is  wrong. 
7.  How  does  cultivation  influence  the  activity  of  vegetable  drugs  ? 
