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Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  {Km'A^\'^vm' 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
FEBRUARY  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  stated  pharmaceutical  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  Tuesday,  February  16,  at  3  o'clock,  with 
Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington  in  the  chair.  Interest  in  the  meeting 
was  heightened  by  the  presence  of  Caswell  A.  Mayo,  editor  of  the 
American  Druggist,  and  of  Otto  Raubenheimer,  the  Brooklyn 
chemist  and  pharmacist. 
Mr.  Mayo  was  the  first  speaker  on  the  program  and  gave  an 
instructive  address  on  "  The  Use  of  Ampuls  in  the  Preservation  and 
Dispensing  of  Hypodermic  Solutions,"  which  will  appear  in  a 
subsequent  issue  of  the  Journal.  All  of  the  processes  involved  in 
the  making,  filling,  and  sterilizing  of  ampuls  was  amply  demon- 
strated, not  only  by  means  of  apparatus  which  the  speaker  had 
fitted  up,  but  also  by  the  use  of  apparatus  and  products  furnished  by 
manufacturers  of  ampuls  at  home  and  abroad. 
In  reply  to  the  question  as  to  whether  ampuls  would  become 
popular  with  American  physicians,  Mr.  Mayo  said  that  this  was 
somewhat  problematical,  for  the  reason  that  American  physicians 
are  not  in  the  habit  of  administering  medicines  themselves,  as  is 
customary  in  France  and  Italy  in  the  use  of  ampuls. 
Professor  Remington  said  that  he  supposed  they  would  find 
more  use  in  army  practice,  as  instanced  by  Mr.  Mayo  in  the  use  of 
ampuls  of  quinine  by  the  Italian  Army,  or  in  hospitals,  where  the 
hypodermic  injections  could  be  made  by  nurses. 
Mr.  Raubenheimer  read  an  interesting  paper  having  the  title, 
"  History  of  the  Medicinal  Earths  and  Cataplasma  Kaolini,"  by  Dr. 
Hermann  Schelenz,  a  German  Apotheker,  of  Cassel,  which  he  had 
translated  from  the  German  (see  March  number  of  Am.  Jour. 
Pharm.,  p.  111).  Before  reading  the  paper  Mr.  Raubenheimer 
called  attention  to  a  copy  of  the  "  History  of  Pharmacy,"  by 
Schelenz  (see  March  number  of  Am.  Jour.  Pharm.,  p.  151). 
In  reply  to  a  query  by  Mr.  Franklin  M.  Apple  as  to  whether  the 
virtues  of  cataplasm  of  kaolin  were  not  due  to  the  glycerin,  Mr. 
Mayo  referred  to  a  statement  by  Mr.  A.  M.  Roehrig  to  the  effect 
that  he  formerly  knew  a  physician  in  Nebraska,  who  sometimes 
prescribed  a  mixture  of  Fuller's  earth,  glycerin,  and  laudanum. 
This  mixture  was  used  in  the  Civil  War,  and  when  the  other  in- 
gredients were  not  obtainable  blue  clay  alone  was  used. 
