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Title: The Pharmaceutical era
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Drug Industry Drugs Drugs Pharmaceutical industry Pharmacy Pharmacy
Publisher: New York (etc.) D. O. Haynes & Co
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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ecimens of a philosophical treatisewhollv written in aphorisms is the Xovnm Organum ofLord Bacon. As you are particularly interested in medi-cine, I mav add that the word has been used as thetitle of sorue well known works—as the Aphorisms ofHippocrates. the .\phorisms of the School of Salernoand the Aidiorisms of Boerhaave. These works repre-sent respectivelv the medical doctrines of the 5th cnturj>B. C, and the 12th and 17th centuries of the presentera. From the three ancient commentators on Hippo-crates we get a definition of an aphorism which is asapplicable to-day as it was w^ien first penned, a succinctsaying comprehending a complete statement, a definition,bv the wav. which is supplemented by a modern lexico-grapher with the explanatioii—a saying poor in expres-sion, but rich in sentiment. , . . ,, The information was worth the price of admission.The reporter took the book and thoughtfully wended hisway homeward. 4.-5S THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. (September 30, 1S97.
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The Kremlin, Moscow iSppcial to the Era.) PHARMACISTS AT MOSCOW. Tlic twelfth International Congress, under the highprotection of the Czar, was formally inaugurated by thtGrand Duke Serge at the Imiierial Theatre of Moscowon Aug. 19, when speeches were made by M. Lanne-longue, of Paris; Mr. Lauder Brunton, of London; Pro-vessor Yirchow. of Berlin, as well as by their Russianhosts. The proceedings were, of cour.se, mainly medical; but.thanks to the energy of Professor Tichomirov, Professorof Pharmacy at the Moscow University, a section ofpharmacy and pharmacognosy was organized. Its fivewell-attended sessions were successively presided over b.vM. Tichomirov himself; Professor Tschirch, of Berne.Switzerland; Professor Verne, of Grenoble, Prance; M.Bourquelot, of Paris, and M. Belohaubeck. of Prague,Bohemia. THE PHARMACY SECTION. The meetings were held at the University, and, thoughthe Russian element naturally predominated, the Frenchand Germans were in full force. The English and Amer-

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