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Editorial. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
1  September,  1901. 
ultramarine.  Another  trouble  has  sometimes  been  experienced 
which  is  caused  by  impurities  in  the  glycerin,  such  as  the  presence 
of  compounds  of  fatty  acids,  which  are  liberated  by  the  phosphoric 
acid,  thereby  causing  a  disagreable  odor. 
A  suggestion  as  to  the  avoiding  of  the  coloration,  due  to  cara- 
melization,  which  has  given  satisfactory  results  in  practice,  is  a  very 
simple  one  and  consists  in  making  up  a  preparation  of  the  iron 
phosphate,  quinine,  strychnine  and  glycerin.  This  is  made  up 
according  to  the  U.S. P.  directions  for  making  the  syrup,  but  instead 
of  mixing  with  the  syrup  right  away,  it  is  held  in  readiness  for 
extemporaneous  preparation  of  the  syrup  at  any  time  necessary. 
Divided  up  in  this  manner  it  will  be  seen  that  this  glycerite  makes 
approximately  250  c.c.  and  by  making  it  up  to  that  quantity  with 
glycerin,  which  is  the  amount  necessary  for  1,000  c.c.  of  syrup,  it  can 
be  held  in  readiness  and  used  at  any  time  in  the  proportion  of  one 
part  of  this  so-called  glycerite  to  three  parts  of  pure  simple  syrup, 
both  by  volume.  If  this  suggestion  is  followed  no  trouble  will  be 
experienced  of  having  the  product  caramelized  while  in  stock  and  it 
can  always  be  sent  out  in  a  practically  colorless  condition. 
This  so-called  glycerole  has  been  made  and  kept  in  the  undiluted 
condition  for  three  months  without  alteration,  so  it  is  a  practical 
means  of  overcoming  a  hitherto  unsurmountable  difficulty. 
An  experiment  was  made  using  glucose  syrup  as  a  base  instead 
of  ordinary  syrup,  but  the  presence  of  calcium  sulphite  as  a  preser- 
vative in  the  glucose  made  it  very  objectionable  from  the  liberation 
of  S02  by  the  action  of  the  phosphoric  acid. 
The  best  results  were  obtained  by  the  use  of  a  syrup  made  from 
rock  candy  instead  of  the  ordinary  granulated  sugar. 
EDITORIAL. 
THE  AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
During  the  past  year  a  number  of  writers  have  pointed  out  what 
seemed  to  be  to  them  the  needs  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  and,  in  some  instances,  have  outlined  methods  to  make  it 
more  successful  numerically.  One  writer  considers  that  it  "  needs 
new  blood — good  red  blood  "  and  another  thinks  it  needs  "  the 
transfusion  into  its  veins  of  some  younger  twentieth  century  blood." 
