474  The  ipi 3  M eeting  of  Amer.  Phar.  Asso.  { A"k£b£  [^m. 
on  camphorated  oil  in  ampoules  involved  a  discussion  on  steriliza- 
tion which  evidenced  the  fact  that  at  the  present  time  the  import- 
ance of  this  procedure  is  not  always  properly  recognized  by  the 
pharmacist. 
The  Section  on  Education  and  Legislation  had  several  sessions 
largely  devoted  to  the  discussion  of  laws  relating  to  poisons  and 
habit-forming  drugs.  A  paper'by  B.-L.  Murray  on  some  aspects 
of  our  poison  laws  discussed  the  nature  of  poisons  and  suggested 
the  desirability  of  adequately  defining  a  poison.  The  report  of  the 
delegates  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  to  the 
American  Drug  Trade  Conference  was  followed  by  a  paper  by 
Frank  H.  Freericks  on  the  National  Drug  Trade  Conference  and  the 
so-called  Harrison  antinarcotic  bill,  in  the  course  of  which  Mr. 
Freenicks  submitted  a  number  of  resolutions  which,  after  consider- 
able discussion,  were  referred  to  the  house  of  delegates,  but  evi- 
dently failed  to  receive  the  endorsement  of  that  body. 
A  paper  on  the  standardization  of  a  three-year  course  by  H.  L. 
Taylor  was  practically  the  only  contribution  along  educational  lines. 
This  paper,  as  noted  above,  was  referred  to  a  special  committee  to 
report  next  year. 
In  the  section  devoted  to  the  discussion  of  pharmacopoeias  and 
formularies,  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  presented  a  comprehensive 
report  on  proposed  changes  in  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and  also  ventured 
the  statement  that  the  new  Pharmacopoeia  was  now  90  per  cent, 
complete  and  that  printing  would  probably  begin  in  the  very  near 
future. 
The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  National  Formulary  re- 
ported that  the  members  of  the  Committee  present  at  Nashville 
had  held  several  meetings  and  that  the  work  of  revision  was  prac 
tically  completed  so  far  as  formulas  were  concerned.    He  also  pre- 
sented a  copy  of  the  completed  draft  of  the  Formulary. 
The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Unofficial  Standards  re- 
ported that  monographs  for  many  of  the  drugs  needed  in  the 
formulas  of  the  National  Formulary,  and  not  included  in  the 
Pharmacopoeia,  had  been  prepared  and  that  the  few  remaining 
monographs  would  be  ready  in  the  very  near  future,  thus  practically 
completing  the  work  of  revision. 
The  sterilization  of  apparatus  and  of  pharmaceutical  prepara- 
tions was  considered  in  connection  wTith  several  communications 
