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New  York  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  annual  meeting  of  this  In- 
stitution, held  March  loth,  1866,  the  following  members  were  elected  to 
office  : 
President,  John  Milhau  ;  Vice  Presidents,  Geo.  C.  Close,  Wm.  Neer- 
gaard,  Isaac  Coddington;  Secretary,  P.  W.  Bedford  ;    Treasurer,  Thos. 
T.  Green;  Trustees,  Geo.  D.  Coggeshall,  John  Frey,  Theobald  Froh- 
wein,  Arthur  W.  Gabaudan,  Gustavus  Krehbeil,  Ferdinand  F.  Mayer 
B.  H.  Reinold,  John  W.  Shedden,  Wm.  Wright,  Jr. 
The  following  gentlemen  were  declared  Graduates  in  Pharmacy,  and 
awarded  their  Diplomas,  viz. :  Jas.  G.  Beach,  Herman  Krehbiel,  Charles 
0.  Rano,  Lucien  M.  Rice,  Eugene  J.  Weeks. 
Brahee  Sugar. — A  correspondent  in  North  Carolina,  being  desirous 
of  testing  the  merits  of  this  substance,  has  written  to  us  about  it  ;  but  all 
we  can  learn  through  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal  is  that  under  this  name 
a  patent  medicine  or  nostrum,  put  up  in  papers  as  powders,  under  the 
name  "Brahee  Sugar,"  professes  to  be  a  great  remedy  for  rheumatism. 
The  Editor  saw  the  powders,  which  had  the  appearance  and  taste  of 
sugar  of  milk,  but  the  agent  declined  giving  any  information  regarding 
its  origin  or  composition.  From  its  tastelessness  it  is  not  improbably  a 
mixture  of  hydrochlorate  of  propylamina  and  milk  sugar  ,  a  point  to  be 
easily  ascertained,  however,  by  the  elimination  of  the  fishy  odor  of 
propylamin  on  adding  liquor  potassa.  This  is  a  mere  supposition  and 
suggestion,  however. 
A  hard  case — Polish  physicians  and  apothecaries,  according  to  a  circu- 
lar from  General  Bezak,  published  Dec.  21st,  in  the  <f  Invalid  Russe,"  are- 
commanded  not  to  use  their  native  language  in  their  accounts,  that  their 
books  must  be  kept  in  the  Russian  language,  and  that  the  labels  placed 
upon  their  vials  and  boxes  must  exclusively  be  made  out  in  that  language, 
(which  it  is  presumed  the  peasantry  don't  understand,)  under  a  penalty  of 
50  roubles  for  the  first  violation  of  the  order,  100  roubles  for  the  second, 
and  complete  suppression  of  business  for  the  third.  Physicians  are  to  be 
warned  that  they  must  not  write  their  prescriptions  in  any  other  language 
than  Russian  or  Latin,  under  a  penalty  of  ten  roubles  for  each  prescrip- 
tion in  Polish  ;  and  physicians  in  the  service  of  the  State  will  in  addition 
be  deprived  of  their  appointments.  These  facts,  which  we  derive  from  the 
Pharmaceutical  Journal,  exhibit  an  intensity  of  Imperial  hate  that  would 
wipe  out  the  very  language  of  a  conquered  and  oppressed  people  even 
though  it  be  used  as  a  medium  of  medical  aid  to  the  sick  and  dying. 
Received  :  — 
Food  and  Digestion.  Read  before  the  Albany  Institute,  Feb.  27,  1865,  by 
Howard  Townsend,  M.  D.,  Prof,  of  Physiology  and  Materia  Medica  in 
Albany  Medical  College.  Albany,  1866 ;  J.  Mansell.  pp.  18.  From  the 
author. 
