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containing  seeds,  which  furnish  a  balsamic  substance  that  is  excel- 
lent in  the  treatment  of  all  kinds  of  wounds. 
Of  further  interest  are  the  illustrations  of  the  town  of  Chinehon 
near  Madrid,  Spain,  and  the  ruins  of  Castle  Chinehon  and  also  of 
the  nine  great  chinologists  or  quinologists,  or  perhaps  still  better, 
cinchonologists.  On  the  extreme  right  in  this  picture  is  the  German 
botanist  Justus  Carl  Haskarl,  who  deserves  special  credit  on  account 
of  transplanting  the  cinchona  trees  from  South  America  to  Java 
for  the  Dutch  government. 
The  controversy  over  the  spelling  of  the  name  "cinchona,"  the 
English  botanist  Clem.  Rob.  Markham  claiming  that  in  honor  to  the 
Countess  of  Chinehon  the  tree  should  be  called  "  chinehona,"  was 
definitely  settled  at  the  Botanical  Congress  held  in  London  1866, 
by  officially  adopting  the  word  "  cinchona." 
The  illustration  of  the  laboratory  of  the  French  chemists  Pelletier 
and  Caventou  in  which  quinine  was  discovered  in  1820  must  appeal 
to  every  pharmacist,  and  as  this  event  dates  back  to  about  the  same 
time  as  the  founding  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
(1821),  the  oldest  in  the  UL  S.,  we  can  therefore  justly  say  that 
quinine  is  as  old  as  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  or 
vice  versa. 
In  connection  with  this  I  beg  to  mention  that  Mr.  Ewen 
Mclntyre,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.,  told  me  a  short 
time  ago  that  he  remembers  Pelletier's  quinine  sulphate  when  it 
sold  for  $25  per  ounce  in  the  American  market. 
In  conclusion  I  wish  to  bring  forth  the  point  that  even  a  little 
knowledge  of  pharmaceutical  history  can  be  utilized  with  advantage 
by  the  pharmacist  in  preparing  interesting  pharmaceutic-historical 
window  displays,  displays  which  are  educational,  displays  which 
must  necessarily  impress  the  public  as  well  as  the  physician,  and 
which  therefore  are  bound  to  raise  the  estimation  and  confidence 
in  the  pharmacist  and  improve  his  standing  in  the  community. 
Such  window  displays  are  much  more  appropriate  for  a  pharmacy 
and  are  far  superior  to  the  ordinary  displays  of  patent  cure-alls  or 
toilet  paper,  so  commonly  seen  in  the  show  windows  of  so-called 
drug  stores.  How  ethical  ( !)  and  how  esthetical  ( !)  these  latter 
displays  are,  I  leave  to  the  judgment  of  the  reader. 
Last,  but  not  least,  it  might  also  be  well  for  the  colleges  of 
pharmacy  to  include  in  their  curriculum  a  course  of  pharmaceutical 
