'septemberJiooL " }         Pharmaceutical  Associations.  457 
ance  Committee,  M.  Bernstein,  Paul  Fleming  and  E.  N.  Roth. 
Examinations  will  be  held  in  February,  May,  August  and  November. 
MARYLAND  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.1 
The  nineteenth  annual  meeting  was  held  July  1 6th,  at  Ocean  City. 
The  President,  Wm.  E.  Turner,  in  his  address  recommended  that 
the  Legislative  Committee  organize  auxiliary  committees  in  every 
county  of  the  State  to  go  to  work  at  once  to  bring  the  passage  of  a 
pharmacy  law  to  a  successful  issue;  that  the  next  semi-annual  meeting 
of  the  Association  beheld  in  Annapolis  during  the  organization  of 
the  Senate  and  House  of  Delegates,  and  that  "we  strive  diligently  to 
more  closely  unite  the  profession  of  medicine  and  pharmacy,  and 
that  we  co-operate  with  other  bodies  of  a  like  character  in  the  erec- 
tion of  a  suitable  memorial  to  Prof.  Wm.  Procter,  Jr." 
The  Association  decided  to  continue  the  agitation  for  a  national 
pure  food  and  drug  law,  as  also  to  endeavor  to  have  such  a  law  en- 
acted for  Maryland. 
The  Treasurer  reported  a  gratifying  balance  in  the  Treasury. 
The  accessions  during  the  year  were  larger  than  any  preceding  year, 
they  amounting  to  33  per  cent,  of  the  membership.  The  report  on 
the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  was  a  most  comprehensive  and  instructive 
paper.  Under  Trade  Interests  an  animated  discussion  arose  as  to 
the  affiliation  with  the  N.  A.R.D.,  ending  in  a  resolution  to  that  effect, 
as  well  as  to  the  adoption  of  the  Worcester  plan,  both  meet- 
ing with  the  approval  of  a  large  majority. 
The  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Adulterations,  H.  P.  Hynson, 
gave  an  account  of  the  examinations  made  by  himself  of  several 
popular  preparations. 
The  subject  of  wood  alcohol  was  touched  upon.  This  dangerous  substitute 
for  grain  alcohol  had  been  found  in  the  product  of  but  one  concern,  although 
several  others  had  been  examined.  One  sample  of  essence  of  ginger  was  found 
to  contain  only  33  per  cent,  of  ethyl  alcohol,  when  the  proportion  should  have 
been  95  per  cent.  Tincture  of  iron  was  examined,  but  none  of  the  seven  spe- 
cimens submitted  to  tests  contained  wood  alcohol.  Several,  however,  con- 
tained not  more  than  55  per  cent,  of  grain  alcohol,  when  75  per  cent,  was 
required  by  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia.  The  quantity  in  one  sample 
was  not  more  than  5  per  cent.  Of  six  lots  of  tincture  of  iodine  examined,  two 
were  made  with  wood  alcohol,  and  all  but  three  proved  to  be  greatly  deficient 
in  iodine.    Much  adulteration  was  shown  in  the  common  seidlitz  powders.  The 
1  Ph.  Era,  p.  112. 
