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tising  subsequent  to  the.  date  laid  in  the  conviction  but  before  the 
date  of  the  information,  might  be  given  as  establishing  or  tending 
to  establish  a  practising  of  medicine.  These  acts,  however,  must 
be  sufficiently  proximate  in  point  of  time  to  afford  evidence  of  prac- 
tising rather  than  tending  to  establish  the  commission  of  a  separate 
offence.    (Apothecaries  vs.  Jones,  I.  Q.  B.  D.,  893). 
Under  the  case  of  Reg.  vs.  Spain,  19  Ont,  315,  and  the  cases 
therein  cited,  it  has  been  held  that  it  is  necessary  that  the  convic- 
tion should  set  out  the  particular  act  or  acts  by  the  defendant 
which  constitute  the  practising.  The  present  convictions  do  not  do 
so,  and  in  this  particular  they  are  therefore  defective." — Canadian 
Pharmaceutical  Journal. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  seventh  of  the  series  of  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  for  19CO-1901  was  held  Tuesday, 
April  16,  1 90 1.  Mr.  James  T.  Shinn,  a  well-known  member  of 
the  College,  presided.  The  meeting  was  different  in  one  or  two 
particulars  from  the  majority  of  meetings,  and  as  interesting  as  any 
that  have  been  held  this  year. 
The  first  speaker  was  Dr.  L.  Napoleon  Boston,  a  well-known  bac- 
teriologist and  physician  in  Philadelphia,  who  read  an  interesting 
paper  on  "  Technique  for  the  Recognition  of  Certain  Animal  Para- 
sites in  Man  "  (see  page  228).  In  connection  with  this  paper  the 
speaker  exhibited  a  number  of  microscopic  slides  of  these  parasites 
in  different  stages  of  development.  Professor  Lowe  said  that  the 
paper  of  Dr.  Boston  was  of  practical  importance,  and  in  comment- 
ing upon  the  subject  of  tape  worms  said,  that  he  had  given  some 
attention  to  their  removal  and  that  he  believed  that  the  taenifuge 
was  not  so  important  as  the  manner  of  treatment. 
In  view  of  the  interest  that  has  been  aroused  in  the  subject  of 
expert  testimony  by  Professor  Lloyd's  treatment  of  the  strychnine 
test  with  sulphuric  acid  and  bichromate  of  potassium,  Mr.  Kebler 
read  a  paper  on  "An  Examination  of  the  Chemical  Tests  for 
Strychnine."  The  speaker  gave  a  brief  review  of  the  general  meth- 
ods for  recovering  the  alkaloids  from  organic  mixtures.  In  refer- 
ence to  color  reactions,  he  said  that  these  were  influenced  by  the 
