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forming  a  precipitate  (salts  of  lime),  or  leaving  syrupy  residua  (adultera- 
tion with  honey  or  simple  syrupj.  In  this  way  an  addition  of  10°|0  of 
syrup  may  be  detected  ;  if  it  contains  less,  on  adding  a  drop  or  two  of  sul- 
phuric acid  to  the  mixture,  a  white  deposit  forms  immediately ;  glycerin 
dissolved  and  boiled  with  water  should  not  be  changed  to  a  darker  hue, 
which  would  indicate  the  presence  of  glucose. — Med.  Reporter. 
cSMiooal  Sep  ailment. 
St.  Louis  Pharmaceutical  Association.— In  the  report  on  the  Progress 
of  Pharmacy,  made  in  September  last  to  the  A.  P.  Association,  it  was  an- 
nounced that  the  St.  Louis  Pharmaceutical  Association  had  virtually  ceased 
to  exist.  It  is  therefore  with  the  greater  pleasure  that  we  are  able  to  pub- 
lish its  reorganization  under  circumstances  that  augur  favorably  for  its 
future  usefulness.  The  following  letter,  from  the  Corresponding  Secretary 
of  the  new  Association,  contains  the  announcement  :> — 
St.  Louis,  Dec.  11th,  1857. 
Mr.  William  Procter,  Jr. — Dear  Sir  : — I  thought  you  would  be 
pleased  to  hear  of  the  re-organization  of  the  St.  Louis  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  under  very  nattering  prospects,  which  occurred  last  night. 
We  adopted  the  Constitution,  By-Laws,  and  Code  of  Ethics  of  the  late 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  elected  the  following  officers  to  serve 
until  the  annual  meeting  in  January,  viz : — 
James  0.  Gallagher,  President. 
Thomas  Scott,  >        tt  -    t>  '  * 
Theodore  Kabb,        [        Vice  Presidents. 
Eugene  L.  Massot,  Corresponding  Secretary. 
William  L.  Maddock,  Recording  Secretary. 
William  H.  Dornin,  Treasurer. 
A.  Godron,  ] 
Joseph  Murphy, 
Frederick  Bohl,         }  Executive  Committee. 
William  B.  Parker,  | 
Charles  Bang,  J 
Yours,  &c,       E.  L.  Massot. 
Glycerin. — As  the  innumerable  uses  to  which  glycerin  can  be  advanta- 
geously applied  became  known,  the  importance  of  its  cheap  production  in  a 
pure  state  becomes  more  and  more  apparent.  The  discovery  by  Tilghman, 
that  fatty  oils  may  be  split  into  fatty  acids  and  glycerin  by  contact  with 
water  at  550°  Fahr.  was  a  great  advance,  and  evidently  led  to  the  discovery 
of  Wilson,  that  when  fatty  oils  are  acted  on  by  superheated  steam  at  550° 
Fahr.,  in  a  properly  arranged  distillatory  apparatus,  the  fatty  acids  and 
glycerin  distill  over  free  from  all  fixed  impurities.  As  the  odorous  fats  and 
