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the  most  difficult  to  prepare  ;  the  prescribed  manipulation  can  be  simplified  by 
an  accomplished  pharmacist.  Jenner's  is  simple  but  tedious  in  preparation  and 
is  becoming  very  popular  for  blood  examinations. 
In  addition  to  products  used  in  chemical  and  microscopical  examinations 
others,  just  a  little  out  of  the  ordinary,  may  be  supplied.  Physiologically 
normal  salt  solution  may  be  kept  on  hand,  sterilized  in  500  c.c.  and  1  litre 
Florence  flasks,  respectively.  Salt  tablets  for  making  this  solution  are  also 
popular.  Thompson's  bladder  irrigating  fluid  and  Muller's  preserving  liquid 
are  sold  in  large  quantities.  LoefLer's  solution,  used  in  diphtheria,  is  easily 
made  and  keeps  well.  Solution  of  adrenals,  properly  preserved,  is  in  great 
demand.  Mucilaginous  lubricants  for  surgeons  are  a  late  requisite  ;  Iceland 
moss  with  glycerine,  is  most  largely  used,  dispensed  in  collapsible  tubes.  These 
lubricants  must  be  sterile  and  antiseptic.  Green  soap,  in  tubes,  should  also  be 
sterile.  Before  filling  these,  the  screw  of  cap  and  neck  should  be  coated  with 
petrolatum  and  great  care  used  to  keep  an}-  of  the  soap  off  of  the  outside  of 
tube ;  the  reason  for  this  is,  no  doubt,  obvious. 
Nebulizing  solutions  or  liquids  are  more  and  more  used  and  should  be  pre- 
pared by  every  active  pharmacist.  Formulas  can  be  easily  had  from  the  manu- 
facturers of  the  nebulizers  and  good  judgment  and  pharmaceutic  skill  only 
are  necessary  to  win  success  in  their  preparation. 
Ability  and  facility  in  making  chemical  analyses  and  determinations  are  of 
immense  advantage  to  the  retail  pharmacist  doing  a  sufficiently  large  business. 
It  is  a  telling  advertisement  to  be  able  to  examine  and  report  upon  a  questioned 
tablet,  capsulated  powder  or  suspected  solution.  It  is  often  a  protection  to 
one's  self  to  be  able  to  prove  that  doubts  regarding  a  prescription  are  un- 
founded. Very  recent  instances  are  remembered  of  being  compelled  to  examine 
bismuth  and  sugar  powders,  sulfonal  capsules,  solution  of  homatropine  hydro- 
bromate,  tablets  of  cocaine  hydrochloride,  tablets  of  iron,  arsenic  and  strych- 
nine. It  is  also  often  a  protection  in  business  competition.  When  one  proves 
to  a  customer  that  a  competitor  is  supplying  tincture  of  ferric  chloride  con- 
taining but  50  per  cent,  of  alcohol,  or  tincture  of  iodine  made  of  wood  alcohol 
and  containing  but  3  per  cent,  of  iodine,  he  is  doing  a  good  deal  to  help  his 
business  interests.  Quite  profitable  is  it  when  a  pharmacist  can  go  in  the  open 
market  and  buy  chemicals  and  assayable  products  at  25  per  cent,  to  50  per 
cent,  below  the  price  of  standard  brands,  prove  their  purity  and  worth,  mak- 
ing, all  the  while,  a  reputation  for  himself  and  establishing  a  brand  of  his  own. 
These  are  a  few  of  the  possibilities  of  the  pharmaceutic  laboratory  which  I 
believe  are  not  generally  practiced  and  to  which  may  be  added  many  more  by 
others  with  larger  experience. 
All  this,  taken  in  connection  with  the  decline  in  specification,  offers  a  large 
field  for  laboratory  operations  ;  enough,  in  an  establishment  doing  an  average 
business,  to  keep  one  person  profitably  employed  during  regular  business 
hours. 
In  a  second  supplemental  report,  Mr.  Hynson  presented  a  collec- 
tion of  "  Dispensing  Notes  "  which  embody  the  results  of  everyday 
experience  in  the  drug  store. 
William  F.  Kaemmerer  presented  a  paper  which  aroused  a  pro- 
