39. Eriodictyon Californicum is receiving attention for its action in lung diseases and bronchial affections. What is its therapeutical value, and to what is its activity due? Make a chemical examination of it. Accepted by G. F. H. Markoe, Boston. 40. What is the relative therapeutic value of aloin as compared with aloes? Can the former be used as an efficient substitute for the latter? Accepted by A. P. Brown, Camden, N. J. 41. What knowledge of therapeutics should the properly educated pharmacist possess? Continued to Benjamin T. Fairchild, New York. 42. A treatise on Salicylic Acid, its solubilities and pharmaceutical uses. Continued to R. V. Mattison, Philadelphia. 43. According to Z. Roussin, the sweet taste of licorice root is due to an ammoniacal compound of glycyrrhizin (see Am. Jour. Pharm., 1875, Sept.). Query: Can the fluid extract of licorice root U. S. P. be mixed with solutions of alkaloids, so as to mask their taste without precipitating them? Continued to William McIntyre, Philadelphia. 44. How are compressed pills prepared, and what advantages, if any, do they possess? Continued to John Henry Hancock, Philadelphia. 45. What advantages would result from the substitution of parts by weight for absolute quantities in the revision of the Pharmacopoeia, and if any disadvantages other than those incident to change, what are they? Continued to S. P. Sharples, Boston. 46. How does the quality of spirit of nitrous ether of the market compare with the requirements of the U.S. P.? On keeping in half-filled bottles, it becomes acid; is this due to aldehyd, and is the latter of therapeutic value in the preparation? If not, can it be removed economically, and would its removal render the preparation more permanent? Continued to P. W. Bedford, New York. 47. Are the sugar-coated Quinia Pills vended in our markets always what they purport to be? A paper giving the results of an examination of the various makes. Continued to David Hays, New York. 48. The French filtering-paper that is imported at the present time contains an appreciable amount of soluble and a large amount of coloring matter. What substitute can be used, or what can be done to cause an improvement in its quality? Continued to James S. Talbot, Boston. 49. Can any of the decoctions or infusions of the U. S. P. be satisfactorily prepared from the fluid extracts of the U. S. P., and in what particulars do they differ from infusions and decoctions prepared in the prescribed manner? Continued to John Henry Hancock, Philadelphia. 50. What chemicals may be profitably made by the retail pharmacist, and what apparatus is required for their preparation? Continued to James R. Mercein, Jersey City. 51. What is the nature of the union in the combination of equal parts of chloral hydrate and camphor? Continued to Joseph Roberts, Baltimore. 52. The fixed oils of benne and poppy seed are not protected from oxidation, according to Cloëz, by keeping them in colored bottles (Journal de Pharmacie et de Chimie, 4 Ser., ii, 345; Am. Jour. Pharm., 1866, p. 86). Query: How are non-drying oils, such as olive, almond, and lard oil, affected when kept under similar circumstances, and what effect has the summer and winter temperature upon the results? Continued to Thomas E. O. Marvin, Portsmouth, N. H. 53. An essay on the bromine production of the United States. Continued to Henry S. Wellcome, New York. 54. The resin of Leptandra Virginica (the leptandrin of commerce) varies much in appearance and sensible properties. To what causes are these varying results to be attributed? What is the best process for the preparation of the resin, and what is the average yield from the root? Continued to H. G. Keasby, Philadelphia. 55. How far are the so-called resinoids of commerce prepared according to the prescribed formulas, and can better processes be devised for the preparation of some of the more important of them? Continued to W. J. M. Gordon, Cincinnati. 56. In preparing emulsions of almonds and other seeds considerable force is required to reduce the seeds to a uniformly smooth mass, in order to insure their exhaustion with water. Query: What is the best shape and material for mortars adapted to this purpose? Continued to E. Gregory, Lindsay, Ontario. 57. The root of Epilobium angustifolium is said to have been used with success in the treatment of aphtha. Is this opinion well founded, and if so, to what principle in the root is its remedial action to be attributed? Continued to C. J. Biddle, Philadelphia. 58. An essay on Gelsemium sempervirens, embracing the question as to what principle its activity is due, and whether the green root possesses any advantage over the dry? Continued to W. H. Jones, Boston. 59. Can the formula for Scammony Resin (U. S. P.) be improved, and what is the objection, if any, to the exhaustion of scammony by alcohol at ordinary temperatures and simple evaporation of the tincture. Continued to G. F. H. Markoe, Boston. 60. How may concentrated preparations from aromatic drugs be best prepared, so that the preparation shall be permanent, and represent all the active constituents of the drug? Continued to G. F. H. Markoe, Boston. 61. An essay suggestive and critical on the best plan of arranging and managing the store-rooms and cellar of a well-conducted dispensing store. Continued to J. F. Hancock, Baltimore. CONTENTS. PAGE Abstract of a Report upon the Drug Market of California, Report of the Committee on Adulterations and Sophistications, Crude Drugs and Commercial Products, Report of the Committee on Metric Weights and Measures, Supplementary Report by Th. S. Wiegand, Report of the Committee on Legislation, Amended Pharmacy Law of Baltimore, Pharmacy Law of San Francisco, . Liquor Ferri Chloridi Dilutus. By M. S. Bidwell, On Cinnamon Water. By Edward C. Jones, On Emulsions. By Edmund Gregory,. Deodorized Tincture of Opium. By J. D. O'Donnell, On Wine of Tar. By Charles A. Heinitsh, Report of the Permanent Secretary, Minutes of the Second Session, Letters from Foreign Pharmaceutical Societies, Invitations; Report of Nominating Committee, Election of Officers and Committees, Inaugural Address of the President elect, Visitors and Credentials received, Report of Committee of the Revision of the By-laws, Report of Committee on the Ebert Prize, Report of Committee on Maximum Doses, Reports of Committees on Liebig Memorial and on Legislation, Report of Committee on Photographic Album, . Report of Committee on Julius Fehr's complaints, Discussion on the Exhibition of Phosphorus and on Phosphoric Acid, Reception of Guests; Discussion on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia, Minutes of the Fourth Session, Discussion and Action on Amendments to the By-laws, Remarks on the use of Glycyrrhizin with Quinia and Cinchonia, Expulsion of Mr. Fehr; Invitation; Paper on Phosphorus read, Report on the President's Address and Reports of Executive Com. and Secretary, Discussion on substituting Parts by Weight for Absolute Quantities, Report of the Auditing Committee, Discussion on Low-priced Microscopes, PREFATORY NOTICE. IN presenting this volume to the members of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the undersigned express the hope that the change adopted in the typography of the work will meet with the hearty approval of all members. The smaller type, which is now used for the first time (a portion of the volume for 1859 excepted), was considered necessary with the view of keeping the size of the volume within convenient limits, and leaves nothing to desire for clearness, while the saving of space amounts to several hundred pages; so that in the amount of matter contained in it, the present is the largest volume ever published by the Association, and we hope will be found equal in interest and usefulness to those preceding it. The portrait of John Milhau, which embellishes this volume, is an excellent likeness of a man, who though never prominent as a writer or speaker, has always been foremost in the ranks of those laboring for the advancement of pharmacy; he was one of those who, in the New York College of Pharmacy, matured the project of the Convention of 1851, and who in 1852 assisted in founding this Association. As an officer of both the New York College and this Association, he has done good and efficient service. A brief obituary notice will be found in the Proceedings for 1875, page 764. Attention is likewise directed to the very correct and well-executed lithographic plate, which accompanies Mr. Saunders's paper on Cantharides (page 505), and for the execution of which we are indebted to that gentleman's liberality. The plates opposite pages 130 and 134, on Rheum officinale and Eriodyction Californicum, have been prepared, the former after a lithograph accompanying Prof. Flückiger's paper on Rhubarb, in Buchner's Neues Reportorium; the latter by our fellow-member, H. S. Wellcome. We again direct the attention of the members to the following, to which we have repeatedly alluded on former occasions: 1. That all applications for membership be sent in, if possible, a week in advance of the annual meeting. 2. That in addition to the necessary signatures, each application be supplied with the full name of the applicant, either printed or plainly written at the head of the application. 3. That the application be accompanied by the requisite funds, if the applicant is not likely to be present at the annual meeting. 4. That all papers and reports, presented at the meetings, be finished ready for the printer. |