THE CHEMIST & DRUGGIST - 31 JANUARY 1914

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I.i:ary31, 19U THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST

H profusion, fifteen different styles being shown at Messrs. Boulton Macro, Ltd., of "something for
ranging from lO^d. to 5x. each. On the despatch
-ve saw many general export orders in process of nothing'' has been taken advantage of by a consider-
completed, and, picking up several articles at ran- able number of smart chemists. The offer consists of a
ive noted malted food for Sydney, mosquite cones
ines for South Africa, and meat and m-alt wine gross of tooth-brushes free with each gross of boxes of

w Zealand. We may here add that medicated and tooth-powder at 56.s. per gross. The line is smartly got

Ninee have always been a speciality with Lorimt_- up in bronze lacquered boxes, with purple and gold own-
ill, their " Liebig's " being prepared from genuine name labels. The big -stock of carbolic tooth-powder tins,
ine (not Tarragona), several 115-gal. pipes of which printed with chemists' own names, showed the size of the
n view. This is supplied with plain labels or witli business in this ever-popular variety. Thymolia tooth-
yik aiame, and is bottled in champagne quarts (11?. powder, in slotted canisters with white lettering on Wedg-
r.z.) and champagne quarts (20.J. per doz.). Lorimer- wood blue ground, is one of another dainty series. The
ill claim to be the original and largest fillers of " lola " series of toilet preparations (brilliantine, shampoo-

led collapsible tubes, of which we inspected some powder, bath-powder) are beautifully packed, the stained
ite samples, including the "Wedgwood" series of wooden boxes of the bath-powder being decidedly novel.

tl lastes with embossed figures, the paste being filled A fine band-made showcard is now available with this

ther round or slot (ribbon) nozzle tubes as desired series. Solidified brilliantine is a tubed line in increasing
demand.
per doz. Other tubed goods are in beautiful ai
" Duncan's."
and include rose cold-cream, creme violetta,
II and honey jelly, cajuput jelly, lanoline, and Seventeen years ago Messrs. Duncan, Flockhart & Cs.,
of Edinburgh, decided to open a London branch, this
3 tooth-pastes, the prices of which range from 2.s. 6d.
iniportant step being entrusted to Mr. A. Proctor Atkin-
in. by 4 in. to 5s. 6d. for 1^ in. to 4^ in. per doz.
son, who secured premises on Snow Hill, E.G., which
11 b( On the top floor, containing the steam laboratory, served their purpose for four years. With increasing
business he was compelled in 1900 to seek new quarters
n lung-tonic in jacketed pans in the making, and
at 143 Farringdon Road, E.G., where the firm have since
ixing of lanoline to^et-croams, rose-pink tooth- been located in a six-storied building. Calling upon
Mr. Atkinson recently, a C. <£• D. representative made a
and similar preparations in Bennett's patent mulsers short tour of inspection under his guidanee. The gi'ound
floor we found ch'efly devoted to the general offices and
so. going on. Elsewhere was a number of girls showrooms, and, like all successful businesses, "system "
ed in weighing out seidlitz powdens made with
rd's seidlitz and English acid only, which reminds provides the keynote. Among the office equipment we
the fact that many of the ingredients contained in
noticed an ingenious system of vertical filing cabinets.
packed specialities are prepared from original for-
Each of these contains a portfolio devoted to one client,
(this especially applying to perfumery), and are
this constituting a ready reference in which the sugges-
d out under the personal superinten dance of Mr.
tions and orders of any particular customer are quickly
We may add tHat the City offices, showrooms, and ascertained. Ascending to the first floor, we find the
manager's room, overlooking the street, ledger office, and
g departments of Messrs. Lorimer-Marshall, Ltd., are
Tower Hiil, E.G., which is their postal address.

William laeson's Hair Elixir the private telephone exchange, which links up the variou,=
departments of the building. Behind, a.nd running the
roprietary hair-wash with thirty-four years' reputa-
length of the building, is the tincture floor, surgical-
behind it, and is in constant demand through per- dressings department, and large stocks of medicinal cap-

sonal recommendation by

patrons who know its virtues. sules and tablets, all stored in special dust-proof cup-

, 'SSSa With the object of appealing boards. Capsules are a strong feature of the firm's

V '^h. through chemists to a wider business, and, being manufactured with special gelatin,
circle of persons requiring
they in many instances have distinct advantages over
hair-tonics, the proprietors
pills, as they can be made to contain practically, any drug
are issuing a colour art print
Wein active form for ready assimilation. may here state
in seven colours. Our Town
that all the D., F. & Co. products are only placed on
Traveller found this particu-
the market in bulk for divspensing, and are never
larly rich and artistic in
effect, and our reproduction boxed, bottled, or labelled in such a manner that

gives an idea of the general they can be handed by the retailer to the public

design. We were informed over the counter. The analytical laboratory (in charge

that the print being in a of Mr. Baker) is on the second floor, and here the
pharmacy decidedly stimu-
lates inquiry for the hair examination of oils, ethers, chlorofonn, etc., takes place,

THE HAIR and the every-day control work is done before goods are

elixir. Chemists desirous of passed into stock. Ascending further, wo come to the
ning one of the art prints should send their business
" wet " and " dry " floors, where large stocks of prepara-

'ard to the agent, Mr. M. Lindner, Fleet House, tions are kept in bulk. Here assistants were busy i-eceiving
ingdon Avemie, London, E.G.
goous sent by boat from the Edinburgh factories, where
Amost of the firm's preparations are made.
large quantity

Packed Specialities. of malt and oil in drums was being taken off the lift at
the time of our visit, and other assistants were busy
visit to Messrs. Bnulton Macro, Ltd., packed-good
labelling the date of receipt of other preparations before
ipiaJists, Crayford Mills. Stratford, London, E., pro-
ni\ Our Town Traveller with some striking infor- putting into stock. The firm are doing an increasing

on. Fermaltol, the firm's triple emulsion of malt business in Delectol Liquid (Duncan), several barrels of

ict, cod-liver oil, and chemical food, has caught on to which were being prepared at the time of our visit.
an extent th i orders for twenty gross were sent out Delectol is a pure refined petroleum, the latest panacea

m three days Its nice appearance and flavour (the for constipation which, it may be remembered. Sir William

tly acid taste banishing completely that of the 33 per A. Lane, the eminent surgeon, who recently attended the

of oil) goes far towards making it a favourite Duchess of Connaught, was the first to popularise for
^ internal purposes. On the top floor we found " Typhol,"

ren's tonic. Chemical food is another speciality. It a concentrated antiseptic and disinfectant, in its several
stages of manufacture, from crude material to the neatly
inous to note that in certain districts a much darker-
wrapped product. We learn also that the demand for
jred product is called for. Guarantees are given of
nee of all tendency to deposit, of aniline colouring, and organo-therapeutical preparations is increasing, e.g.,
each drachm contains 0.5 grain of iron phosphate and
pituitary extract is replacin,g ergot to a considerable
of calcium phosphate. The significance of the extent, 'partly on account of its greater reliability, and
ir becomes evident on referring to the analyses of some also owing to the dearnes", of ergot. Messrs. Duncan,

mercial samples of chemical food published in the Flockhart & Co. make .special arrangements for the

& D. for July 5, 1913, p. 34. Last week's offer by

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178 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST Jantary 31. 19-

collection of pituitary bodies fi'o:n .Scots cattle, and in

anipoul-e form the extract is growing more and more in INFORMATION DEPARTMENT

Afavour. new type of medication in tablet form has

been devised for persons of retarded development. This

is a combination of thyroid pituitary and suprarenal ex-

Atracts. new preparation which is being frequently

IJrescribed by West End medical men at the present time

is Aldoform tablets containing one per cent, of formalde-

hyde. In the treatment of the throat and m;uth Aldo-

form tablets find many uses. The flavour is quite Postal Address

p)leasant. Z. £ D. INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, 42 Cannon Street, Looioti.
Telegraphic Address: "CHEMICUS CANNON LONDON " (two »«
BANKTelephone Number:
852 (two lines).

PRESCRIPTION PROBLEM. INFORMATION WANTED.

IN our isnie of December 20, p. 45, we printed an Postal or telephone information as to the names and addrM
of the agrents for or makers of the undermentioned artid ij
Insurance prescription of which we invited post-
card transcriptions. There was a good response, con- solicited. Please address as above.
sidering the obccurc nature of the problem. The follow-
99/42. Aynton's storilisablo 102 6. Sellers' pig-powdl
ing is the correct transcription : enema.
78 100. •• Incognito" wl-
99/420. '-Kill P.-.in" wad-
ing spray.
F[crri] A[mmon.] C'[it.] jij ding.
,
[Liq.] Strych. r^j 99/421. Smedley's ''Verbena
[Liq.] Arsen jj Powder." 78, 101. Syndol cachet.^.

Mag. Sulph. 5j 99/43. Tannesman's " High 81/69. "Hydro - quin-"
Aqua Chlorof. 5^'^
Life "' toilet-powder. (soluble quinine). :
86/63. " Cornelia "

scap.

99/59. Bolding's b:,th- 87/36. "Fixafon."

jss. t.d.s. cleaner. 88/47. " Long Life" t.

It is perhaps hardly necessary to give a list of the 99/590, Fowne'.s liquid iccH. 104/49. Feayer's cam
misreadings, but the most frequent was the rendering of
the third ingredient as sp. amm. arom., which is not 99/591. •• Nazeline," (address of A. H. Wit,
99/592. " Lavatine."
surprising, considering the way it is written, although 99/593. agent). '
99/594. "Serveine." 83/25. " Scarabee .1
the small 'dios© rather m,ilitates against tShdis being " Farley's Food."
brand sterilised va^' e,
correct. Two competitors who sent transcriptions cor- 99/595. Saakey's R. pills. marked " S. R. F.

rect in every detail are : 99/596. Halstead's ointment. Paris."

Mr. C. ICcmsey-Eourne, The Pharmacy, West Brom- 102/7. " Vasoform." 104/49. Goodall's liid
wich, and
102/67. "Lock - Stopper soap.
Mr. R. L. Burrell, c/o Mr. W. E. Plant, 149 Balby
Falcon " smelling-salts 104/490. Gardner's liid
Road, Doncast-er.
(like a kevless watch, ring soap. Clc'
on top pulls up and forms
105/38. "Eyer

lock to keen in stoDoer). brushes.

To each of these we award a copy of any one of our 75/20. "Flax" hair-tonic 104/72. Finch's patent jy.
books other than "Pharmaceutical Formulas," and shall tapes : maker.
be glad if the successful competitors will Lsi U3 kixw their (? Holivhead & Co.).
choice. Four, other competitors came within an ace of 105/55. Lamps for yaps-
winning prizes, but in two cases the letters I'.A.C. were 78/10. " Weanvell" nail-
carried out in words, and in the other cards the preposition
" -rd" was inserted after "aqua chlorof." br-.'.shes. ing perfumes.

The following prescription forms the subject of the INFORMATION SUPPLIED. k
next competition. Postcards should be posted not later
than February 7. Prizes will be awarded at the discre- Inquiries in regard to the following articles have beenansn^d.

tion of the Editor, and in case of close competition the The information will be given to others who send a stampeU

time of posting will be taken into account: addressed envelope for it to the above address^

Allen-Brown's violet soap, Molyform, 103/32

104/3 Pankreon, 103/26

Atlas fluid. 102/35 Peptofer (du Dr. Jaijl),
Barrett's lemon oil, 1C2/8
103/33

Bissulin, 102/37 Peter Return dressingsjo

Borozon tooth-paste, 91/65 dogs, 99/59

Cardamom - clipping Phylacogens, 102/9

machines, 103/6 Pino-Cresol vapoitr,
Cassell's " Instant Relief,"
99/391
99/594 " Prisma " vcllow

" Dappa " book-polish. glove, 104/7

99/593 Quinasp, 103/57

Dcrmemo, 98/21 Rigby. Battcock.
Estes' turned-wood boxes
(address), 105/22

(agents), 105/35 " Sapon " toilet-soap. 9fi92

Hair socks, 102/40 " Silyerette " fly-caters,

Igazcl vaoorisers, 104/50 99 ' 590

Ink-bottles (for Trinidad), Soxhiet's cocoa, 100/64

96/33 |
Krankenhcilor Quellsalzsc:fe,
Spencer's asthma-cure. '(

Stomatol tooth-pasro. If

101/31 Sulphuric acid (in i

Lafittc's perfumery, 99/41 bulbs). 96/13

—Mauritius Pharmacy Ordinance. The revised Phar- Laxigcn. 99/595 Thyroidodin, 100/63

macy Ordinance (No. 19), which consolidates the phar- McKenzic's polygraph, Tu'menol. 103/10
macy laws of Mauritius, contains the following new re-
quirements : In Part I. it is made compulsory for a 102/38 Ung. belladonnse elect., t
pharmacist's shop to be in charge of a competent and " Massarger "
responsible person. In Part II. better provision is made makers, gift's. 98/2
for a board of examiners and the conduct of examina-
tions and the curriculum of studies. Part III. deals 105/8 Vcrgotoninc, 104/39
with the attendance of the pharmacist at his shop, the Mendit, 103/4
mixture of drugs, the dispensing of prescriptions, the
—C.\NDLE-NUT Oil. Writing on the prospect of kuki o
sale of poisons, and the control and inspection of phar-
candle-nut oil, the British Consul at Honolulu state#hii
macists' shops. Part IV. deals with the substances to about 25,000 barrels of oil of very superior quality c »
bs deemed poisons under the Ordinance and the regula- produced annually, but that the export from Hawa .la

tions for the sale of such Doisons. now entirely ceased. The tree is a dominant nativ' r'"'
of the lower mountain zone on all the Hawaiian Islaniti"'

the nuts can be collected in large quantities. It is !>< ''^

that the production may once more become a local ir.'i '>

- Board of I'rauc Journal.

ANUAEY 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 179

OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS.

By Xrayser II.

Result of the Conference, him, he is a strong ass; otherwise, between the "educa-
tional entanglement " and the Insurance Act, he would
60 far as it has been made
|;iivn, does not satisfy me. What modifications of the scarcely carry himself so swankily as he does. He seems,
I'C.titution of the General Committ-ee (if any) may take
pile I do not, of course, know, but at present I do not indeed, in his letter of last week to be a little bowed under
re*d it as really a democratically elected body. There the double load Tie b^'ars, and I cannot but think he allows
is Indeed, a majority (of one) of directly elected members prejudice to exaggerate its weight. Education and Insur-

ujli it, but the fact that they are not elected on the ance are both, in a way., connected w:th the book-keeping
question he discusses, but he has not got them in their true
tectorial principle will greatly injure their lepresentative
jlacter. It is of the essence of democratic government relation to it. It is conceivable that if lie had crossed
th we should be in personal touch with our representa- the pons asiiiorum in his youth he would have found the
Tariff less of a burden than it is. Surely the real difficulty
ti 3. The 'Society that claimed nine seats has secured is not the Tariff, but that very vulgar one to which we
<'i t, instead of the six which the local Associations almost give the name of vulgar fractions. I remember being as
w lOut exception rightly thoug'ht sufficient ; and the h'ccre- an apprentice a good deal bothered by the odd ^halfpenny
fca (who is not even elected to the Council, and who may in the price of patents; our accounts under the Act are
Ix rusted to take the official view) occupies one of them. only the same difficulty, " writ large," and it is not a very
Y r praise of the expedition and smoothness with which formidable one.
th Conference got through its business seems to me, I
lilt confess, to carry a double edge. It was due, you The Local Government Board Statistics

—sai to those who arranged the meeting that is, I sup- relating to public

p( , to the officials of the Society. I may, be thought health are interesting so far as they go, but they, do not
go very far. In order to get a proper idea of the actual
bircritical, but th's has to me an ominous look; I do conditions it is necessary to include the Rsgistrar-General's
returns, and. as with most other official publications, these
m want our business to be arranged by the officials of
tl Society, and I suspect that, being better prepared, they take what always seems to me an altogether unreasonable
time to prepare. I sup.pose w.e may expect, a few months
hi;, in spite of that majority of one on the other side,
hence, the report of the Registrar-General dealing with
bii, in vulgar parlance, one too many for the delegates. the year before last. Surely our well-paid Civil Service
officials could do better than this if they would only.
W may, as the proverb has it, expel nature with a fork, " make an effort." I have not seen the new L.G.B. report,

b she is apt to creep back again. nor any recent report, so that I write from memory ; but
if I am not mistaken the Local Government Beard deals
Old Friend,
only, or at all events mainly, with that class of infectious
a pharmaceutical chemist, in company, with
—diseases that are " notifiable " that is, the diseases which
m I passed the Preliminary, but whom I had not seen
commonly take an epidemic form and which are always
e he set up in business in .a busy London suburb notified to the Public Health Authority in order to
prevent the spread of infection. The immensely, larger
8 forty years ago, called on me last week, and we got number of so-called non-infectious diseases are left out of

wapping experiences. My friend knows nothing of my account.

election with th© C. <£• D., and it was without any The Reduction of t'.ie Death-rate

myIfing question on part that he said, "Well, I've is a matter for congratu-

h a hard struggle for many years, but, thanks to the lation, and I suppose that in the report we shall have this

I ,irance Act, my prospects are brighter now than they assigned to various causes ; but it will always remain a
question for debate whether the reduction is due to the
he ever been; and my son, who had left me with the improved stamina and greater resisting power of the people'
from the better feeding and clothing consequent on a,
ii ntion of learning farming, has come back, and will spell of good trade, to improved methods of sa'nitation, to
a milder season, or to more scientific methc.ds for the
myir stick to the business." This is answer to the healing of disease- The percentage figures quoted by you
are by no means clear', since they do not show whether
' irebrand of Hereford." I may, however', say. further the decrease in the death-rate is due to a fall in the
mortality in relation to the po.puiation or the mortality,
t ; although I am possibly less f amiliar than Mr. Jack- in relation to the number of persons attacked by any

mys with " dry rot " and its effects, acquaintance with .

t drug-trade is rprobably longer than his, and I have given diseases. I take it that .all your figures deal with
rer known .a time when it might not truthfully have the former. In reality, however, the latter aspect is the
much more interesting one. for it alone shows the
In called a "desultory occupation." That it will, as a

0!ct result of the Act Mr. Jackson hates, become lees

s.han it has hitherto been will hardly be cjuestioned by
a|body who has the faculty of deductive reasoning. Our

Iiper business is dispensing, and the more tins increases
t less necessity will there be for cultivating " side-

Is" of doubtful value. At the same time, as my

f nd's experience shows, our general business on

Tj.unerative lines is increasing. Mr. Jackson speaks

\'h lofty scorn of "inflated returns "; perhaps he pre- Progress in the Healing Art

i a depleted till, but I do not think I am " guessing ' which we are making. These
;n I say that most men would rather take a shilling in

eral retail than tsnpence-half penny for a patent. I latter statistics, however, if I remember coixectly. are not
I, however, hazard one guess ; it is that probably the
Whyfound in any official report. they s'hould not be set
Jnt placing of several well-known patents on the
H.T.A. list is not altogether unconnectL.d with the Ir.eur- out in plain type has always been a mystery to me, for

i ~e Act. the material from which they can be calculated, in relation

shall Await with Impatience to notifiable dise.ases, ia all set forth either in the L.G.B.

report or in that of the Registrai'-General. On the other

the receipt of the ledger so hand, there is no means of getting an accurate idea of the

idly promised me by Jay Mack, whose "blessing" I case death-rate from non-notifiable diseases, and every

1 that I already have. Being Jay Mack's, the book medical man will give you a different figure if you ask his

mot fail to be interesting, but simplicity, in the sense opinion on such points. It is high time 'that more scientific

which he appears to use the word, is hardly what one methods were introduced in connection with our public

uld expect in so discursive a writer'. Let us hope he health statistics, and that there should be co-ordination in

s succeeded in keeping King Charles's head out of his the work of our chief public bodies charged with this

'gei' Jay Mack is (if I may say so) an ass between duty. But for this, I suppose, we must wait the establish-

.

0 burdens, ar.d it is foitunate that, like Iseachar before ment of a definite Ministrv of Public Health and Insurance.

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wever, at has often happened in the past that the solicitation, and apart from any special agreement between
mers, tempted by the good prices obtained in the him and the sender, the legal position is far from clear.
ceding year, have rushed to extend their acreage under
it. In 1911 farmers realised high prices for menthol The important question to be decided is, When do the
oil, and in 1912 they considerably extended their acre-
, the result being estimated at about double that of a goods become the property of the consignee ? Tests for
mal crop. There wei'e then only three large buyers
bayashi, Suzuki, and Yazawa), but a fourth appeared determining this question are prescribed by the Sale of
1912 (a British firm), and they helped to break up the
ing monopoly by taking off the market, but at high Goods Act, 1893, of which Section 18, Rule 4, is as
)es, about 150,000 lb. of crude oil. These prices
ilted in an increased cultivation, and the yield of the follows :
3 Hokkaido crop was put at 550,000 kin raw mint and
',000 kin for the Southern districts, estimated at three " When goods are delivered to the buyer on approval
four times as much as that for 1911, and compared
or ' on sale or return ' or other similar terms the pro-
h a total of 500,000 kin harvested in 1912. perty therein passes to the buyer :
jlomplete official returns regarding the exports of
athol and mint oil from Japan for 1913 will not be (nj When he sig-nifiss his approval or acceptance to the

liable for another month. Meanwhile, we have just seller or does any other act adopting the transaction ;
eived those for the eleven months (Jannai'y to Novem- (6) If he dees not signify his approval or acceptance

and estimating the December figures at practically to the seller but retains the goods without giving notice
of rejection, then, if a time has been fixed for the return
, of the goods, on the expiration of such time, and, if no
time has been fixed, cm the expiration of a reasonable time.
t! same amount as those for November we get the
lowing statement :— What is a reasonable time is a question of fact."

Menthol (Kin) Mint Oil (Kin). Let us suppose that a manufacturer has sent certain

1911 1912 1913 1911 1912 1913 goods to a retailer on sale or return. The sending of the

16,019 I goods is an irrevocable offer of them by the manufacturer.
25,729
luary ... 16,482 28,138 20,109 22,124 35.641 This is the first step towards the formation of a complete
oniary 6,963 18,969 37,235 28.610 36,516
ich ... 3,152 15,506 I 12,511 17,455 48,518 contract for their sale, and it remains for the retailer, in
2,837 14,090 15,231 31,757
ril ... 2,201 24,828 2,640 his option, to accept or reject the offer, and until he has
8,506 5,065 31,870 1,469 7,460 9,324 accepted the goods they remain the property of the manu-
J ... 6,950 3,989 21,114 2,385 6,158 2,309
3,770 11,470 8,038 1,249 6,426 facturer. The effect of the section quoted appeai-s to be
le 9,393 932 18,662 5,532 10,061 that the retailer may accept the goods in either of two
10,872 3,000 3,870 10,403 10,845 15,425
;y ... 17,249 7,078 7,578 13,330 21,444 17,122 ways : (1) by doing some act adopting the transaction; or
15,429 13,541 25,747 24,228 (2) by failing to give notice of rejection within a reason-
gust ... 16,527 9,515 32,045 23,330 24,000* able time. What acts, other than an express signification
itember 16,103 15,544
tober ... 25,576 of approval or acceptance, amount to an adoption of the
vember 20,825
cember 20,000' transaction it is not always easy to say. In the case of

i(lilb.) ... 113,646 133,170 220,328 172,330 184,855 261,327 Kirkman v- Attenborough (1897, 1 Q.B. 201) it was held
= lb. Avoir. ... 151,528 177,560 293,770 229,800 246,513 348,436
that pledging the goods constitutes an adoption of the
lesofeOlb. each 2,525 2,959 4,896 3,830 4,108 5,807
sale, since, by his coiidiict, the party to whom the goods
* Estimated.
were sent put it out of his power to return them. In that
The above figures show an extraordinary increase in case Lord Eldon commented upo-n the cryptic wording of
ports of both menthol and oil as compared with the Section 18, Rule 4, of the Act by saying that " the
'0 previous years, but we should think the high-water language ... is unfortunately chosen." In a more recent
ark has now been reached. It will be seen that prac- case it was held that delivering goods, received on sale or
ally 5,000 cases, or 300,000 lb., of menthol and 5,807
sesof mint oil, or 349,000 lb., were shipped, the bulk return, to another person, on sale or return, is "an act
this, of course, having gene into consumption. Since
riting the above we have received an interesting report adopting the transaction." In short, it would appear
Dm a Japanese house reviewing the-situation. This we
al with in the Trade Report. that the party to whom the goods are sent renders himself

"On Sale or Return." liable to pay for them immediately he does any act which
is consistent only with his being the purchaser, or owner,
URiNG the past month we have had an exceptional of them, or which renders it impossible for him to return
the goods to the sender c.f)., if he sells them, gives them
imber of inquiries regarding the law of sale or return, away, pawns them, or destroys them. Unless the retailer
does some such act the goods remain the property of the
appears that the practice is growing of sending goods manufacturer until the retailer has retained the goods for
an unreasonable time without giving the manufacturer
people unsolicited; this may be appreciated when the notice of rejection. What period of retention must be
considered unreasonable is, as stated by the Act, a ques-
nders are known to the receivers and the goods are in tion of fact which can only be decided from a considera-
tion of the circumstances in each particular case. Assum-
cal demand, but there are cases in which the senders are
ing that a jjerson finds himself the recipient of goods,
)t known, then- goods are not wanted, and the receivers sent on sale or return, far which he has no use, what

We•oept deHvery. know instances where legal proceed- course should he adopt to escape liability to pay for them ?
In the case of Moss v. Sweet (16 Q.B. 493), which was
gs have been taken by the senders against the receivers decided before the passing of the Sale of Goods Act, 1893,
it was held that the person receiving the goods must
>r payment of the goods, with or without .success. It is actually return them to the seller if he does not wish to
buy them. Some authorities, however, hold the view that.
pportune to set forth the law of the matter. Moss V. Sweet can no longer be regarded as law, and in

In the first place, it should be noted that the goods are connection with that case and Section 18 of the Sale of
Goods Act, 1893, we find, in "Benjamin on Sale," the
elivered in pursuance of an express contract between
following words :
le parties, who are, in that event, bound by the terms " It appears to be open to grave doubt whether the
Id stipulations to which they have agreed. In cases
'here the goods are consigned to a person without his Code, by providing that the property shall pass if the
goods are retained " witliout notice of rejection,' has not
altered the law. ... It seems quite arguable that under

the Code the buyer may prevent the passing of the

: :

— rTlF.A:i>T AND PrXGGT^T

seDdin^- iiie goods iiack;.'^ •i sr_er ;i go-.xis is l-a_y aware Miai gc-:di are aot V •
"re^.-w a certain price is rot somcfeni. He -
Periaps, imtil liie qaesiiKi 5s deSnitehr scitlri. ihe
sell lie £pods with impunity, at whatever pace
trisesi course is to retTirii or tender tie goods to the sender, wi^es. anless he has expressiy agreed with tie
sning him to maintain a specified price. In an
althoagh ii csems Mgiily imi«asc>iiable that an onwiiliiig
case (Taddy 4: Co. r. Sierioas & Co.. IKW. 1 Ck i>
re^ipseDt of goods should be pat i3 this troable aEd
T. sold goods to X., apon certain terms. Sxiaz Hits::::
pcsssibZe eipesss. FiiallT, ii muss be borne in mind that
retail prices, and providing that in tie case of » ;
£ peisan to "srham fc-c-ds are sait on sale or return most chase by a retail dealer, through a wholesale 4al
the latter shonld be deemed to be the agent of T
take reascHJalde care of thsn "while they aie in his posses- FKold some of the goods to S., who was airai« ci :

saa. si33ce. as a bailee, he will be liable in the event of c(Biditi(His attained to their sale. S. havica soid ^

tSififr being last or damaged in cflissequexce of his negli- goods below the stipulated jHiees, T. sought sa kj-

Wegence. far thai the sameirhai uiiL-exrain state of the tkm, claiming that X. was his agent in ihe saie

law and the right which the slight rii that tie owners and that he was entitled to sae S.. who hid 1

of goods ran. by sesding them on sale or retam are ea-

coiiragisg the practice at the present time. Hence it

"sroiild be of service to the Trhole trade if inionaation of the conditions as to prices. The actio-; iaiLoi.

srere givea to ns in advaiKe of aeiioas that are pnt do\m the gronnd that there was no contract between T. 4

for liearir;;: in C^imrr CoTirts. S.., either directly, or through an agent. In the wol

Law of Price Protection. of Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady, before whcm the t»

T— Conn of Appeal gave las: -^eek .Janoary was heard. " conditions cannot be attached to r

a as to bind all purchasers with notice.'" This

decisioa. in the case of Dualop PseiziQaiie Tyre Co.. of Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady was apprtived

&Isd., r. SeJfridge Co.. Ltd., -R-hich is imerest to Conit- of Appeal in the case of McGmtber r. -

chssnisis ia ^^'i'^ e3iin53r>" iriio eajoy excepaiocaL advan- (1904, 1 Ch. 306|, where it was held that a

tages as to sxed prices lirc'agh tie P.A-TJl. Tie regnlating the price at which goods may be

fac::s in lis case Tspere as follows cannot, in the absence of a special agreement, be -

mThe Itaziiop Cou, ihe plaimife. Ocsx)bei 3911 appointed forced against a purchaser even thoosh, whe:: ptir^;

D. i Co. lo aec as their agents for ilje sale of Dmsiop ing the goads, he tnew of the conditicn. Anoi h

lyres- In ooi^derati<m of eenain disooanis which were be considered in connection with price-maint t

TO be allowed xo Tikesa, J). &. Co. nsdemx^ sot to sell maits is whether they are invalid as being tn :r

any ijres below certain pricK. and uot to sell types to

any peisoQ who woold noe enter into a nnder- of txade. In the case of Ihmlop Co., Ltd.. r. St : .

laiing'. Sabsi^neidy D. i Co. eiiTrrei a wriiam & Co.. Ltd.. Mr. Justice Philiimore held that the as -
ment was not vmd apon that gronnd. and. in rie-^f
asreeanejit wiiii Seifiidge k Co.. lii ^i-is. whereby

ihs laiBsr agreed noi to taaaper wiiii ^z.j ni^rks or numbers Jus and earlier decisions, it may be taken tii:

on Dimlop Tyres, asd not lo sell any Tyres ai piiees bdow

-rKn^ sTjiSciB-r^ III tKp plainti^s" <s2n5ent price-list. The tracts, framed with a view of resulatins •

£i-T? :' ^ - : zreed to pay to the plaintiSs the sam which particular articles shall be eold, air

•: : f ^ 1 T : da^na^es. in respect of every tyre

> -i 1^ V:: : :_e agressnent. bat without prejndice provided their terms are reasonable.

-: 1-7 ir^er rir^s or rea:edic-s whidi D. A: Co.. or xhe and others ^onM, however, bear in mind ths t/

iave asder the agreemeni- The defen-
—: ^^1-7:1:5- will not be able to obtain an injnnciioti. or rec> r
i- r I7 z- r;l£ : •:• tyres below list prioK. ihe p^aaTinM^

-7^1 t^tI-I : : ::-;7LDClicii and damages, damage, against a perain who sells goods below si-

"jie ;isr ;:^e 1 if ere Mr. Jusiee PhilEmoie. who iated prices, n i^esB that person hse expressly ar

ield "rnar the plaintife -a-ere en-iEcd to sae upon the with them, either personally or through their -i;-?

agTe>3!Ki2i ma^e becweea D. & Co. and the defaid- that he will not do so. Ac far as the Fr:c;.-

ants: and iiat the piainiiSs weie entitled to an iajnac- Artieies Trade Association is coocemed the 1- - -

tioai and damages. From tTa^a decision the defendants scarcely applies, as agreements with retailers azz v
saecesfnUy appealed. The Conrt of Appeal painted
©at that, in order 10 establ^ a right to soe tlie entered into when the retailers have been res: «
defeiidazns, it was necessary for the p^a^Titiffs to show
that a ciKHTaccaal relssioiisMp existed brf-weei them- from the \Vhite List : then tie agreements are i :'-

Asand binding. In short, tae P.AT. saccess is >;r r

to law than to mntaal trust between tli -

selves asid tie defeodanis. The omtract iq»on which wholesalers, ana retaiieis 2 the strength :

tlie aeiaai was foazsded was the agreement b^ween ciation lies in combination and the ujttniat-r

&D. Ckil and the defei>dants; but to this doctnnoit of the cutter not getting supplies of tie gt^ ii ir

iSse piaintiSs were not parties. It had beoi said thai. to cat.

D. k Co. Altered inito the agieenjeni as agents for the

p-laiaiife: bai iii3 exissesce of sach a relataimship was Historical Pharmacy.

conSiaTy to the exprsss terms of the agreemait itself. IxxEHEST shown in the historic-ai associati:>ns of tie d^-

The CooTi was ic^^soasly of opinion tSiat ihe plain-

tiSs had failed to prove azn- contiact between thon- trade is not approached in anv other bcsiness.

eelves aai the defendants, and accordingly the defend- history of medicine and chemistrv is bound np with a

ants^ appeal sa^eeaded. and the decision of 3Jx. Ju'^tice of pharmacy, and it is only within modem iMses

PhiHimore was reveised. From a perusal cd the jadg- pharmacy- has as a distinct profession made its apf--
menis in this esse it may be inferred that had D. & Co..
ance. It is not difficult to imagine that the eariy
in ^ct, oixatracted as agents for the plaintiSs. instead titioners of medicine prepared the medicines which Q"

of as prsncjpals. the plaintiSs wonld have beei entitled desired to administer in the treatment of disease, lec

to sae tipcEi the agreemem. since they woald then, in as late as the nineteenth century Fj^gl'^J" and .s^-

^eSeet, have been parties to it. The crax the matter apothecari^ realised their ambititm of being recc r

^q>3ars I3 be that oaly an actual party to a pric-e- as medical practitioners. The sarvivai of disi - -

protectiDr arreemeirt -ran erf rrce :ts terms. The fa<4 that doctors and prescribing diemists is due to th-; i& ' '-

Jantary 31. 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 183

; practices of prescribing and dispensing were at one Wootton's Chronicles.
lie carried out by the same person. If censorious
lividuab kept this in mind we should hear less about We have pleasure in announcing that we have made an

"rights" of chemists to prescribe and of doctors to arrangement with ^Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,

pense. The growth of public opinion and other factors London, publishers of

11 ultimately complete the evolutionary process, " The Chronicles of
lemistry as a distinct profession is even more modern
Pharmacy," by the late

an that of medicine. Until the middle of the nine- A. C. Wootton, which
mth century pharmacy was the only road to chemistry,
enables us to offer this

'd to-day the best anah-tical and research chemists are book in two volumes,
ose who have been trained in pharmacy. Whether the
esent-day chemist and druggist is also descended from bound by ourselves, to »i»QN10LE8 CHRosiaLES
subscribers to The
ie older spicer or pepperer and the grocer is a ques- Chemist and Druggist

m we need not enter into at present, but that was at 7s. bd., carriage

ubtless the route by which the wholesale druggist paid in the United

ivelled to modern times. The antiquity of many Kingdom, or 8j. post

lenical preparations which have survived till free to any part ibroad. VOL.1.
The published price of
e present day is beyond question. It almost inspires the work is a guinea, but Vol II
we have thought thr.t a
^•erence when handling the acetum scillae bottle to

ow that that particular combination was devised by lower pric3 than this

thagoras in the sixth century before Christ. Syrup would bring a- most in-

poppies. Rufus pill, and cold-cream have an antiquity teresting book within the

many centuries, and from the Middle Ages we have reach of a larger number

trvivals such as paregoric, opodeldoc, and tr. aloes co. of pharmacists. After
his retirement from the
he furnishings and appliances used in the pharmacy omi "
editorship of The
ive also a respectable antiquity. The old mortars and Chemist and Druggist

rug-pots which have been referred to in The Chemist

SD Druggist within the past twenty-five years must Mr. Wootton devoted much of his leisure time to
literary pursuits. He had always been much inte-
umber several hundreds. This may be regarded as an

dex of the interest taken in these matters by many in rested in the origin of medicinal compounds, and set

Ale drug-trade. fairly large section of pharmacists about preparing a work dealing with such preparations
in a similar manner to what Fliickiger and Hanbury had
re experts in this branch of archfeology. The study

lUst have received a distinct fillip last year from the done in regard to the history of drugs in their classic
work ' Pharmacographia.'' In the preface to his book
tablishment by Mr. Henry S. Wellcome of the His-
irical Medical Museum in London, with its pharmacy Mr. Wootton said :

;ction, which is unequalled by any Continental museum,

istorical pharmacy has already a fairly extensive My original intention when I bcjan to collect the materials
brarj'. In our own country Wootton's " Chronicles of
for this book was simply to trace back to their authors
'harmacy," the first separate publication on the sub- the formulas of the most popular of our medicines, and
to recall those which have lost their reputation. I thought,
set, has established itself as the English authority. On and still think, that an explanation of the modification of
processes and of the variation of the ingredients of com-
le Continent Kernot's " Storia della Farniacia e dei jjounds would be useful, but I have not accomplished this
design. .1 have been tempted from it into various by-paths,
armacisti,'' Labelonye's " Pharmacie en Europe," and probably in them have often erred, and certainly have
missed many objects of interest.
chelenz's " Geschichte der Pharmacie." Peter's "Aus

harmazeutischer Vorzeit," and many monographs by

•r. Dorveaux, M. Ch. Buchet and M. Reber are well When the book was published after l\[r. Wootton's
nown. Is it not time to form in_^is country an asso-
ation of pharmacists who are interested in the history death, reviewers gave a higher estimate to it than he
f pharmacy? In France last year a. Society of His- (an exceptionally modest man) did himself, and unques-
irical Pharmacy was founded, and the American Phar- tionably it is among modern phamiaceutical books one
of the most interesting historical works. The first volume
Nowlateutical Association has an Historical Section. contains chapters on the following subjects :

lat the British Pharmaceutical Conference has found it IMyths of Pharmacy.
dvLHtageous to establish a Practice Section, it might Pharmacy in the Time of the Pharaoh.s.
Pharmacy in the Bible.
e passible to begin an Historical Section, even if the '1 lie Pharmacy of Hippocrates.
nnual proceedings of the Section only took the form of From Hipocrates to Galen.
resenting a report on the subject. There is a precedent Arab Pharmacy.
From the Arabs to the Europeans.
Jr the interest of the British Pharmaceutical Conference Pharmacy in Great Britain.
Magic and Medicine.
1 historical matters in the report by Joseph Ince, Dogmas and Delusions.
Masters in Pharmacy.
>aniel Hanbury, Sir W. A. Tiklen, and others on old Koyai and Noble Pharmacists.
Chemical Contributions to Pharmacy.
harmacy books which were exhibited at the Liverpool IMedicines from the IMetals.
leeiing in 1870. Chester is the meeting-place of the
Vinference this year, and we question if any city in In the second volume are chapters with the subjoined
'Ugland could be more appropriate for the inauguration
f such an association as we suggest, either in connection titles :
fith the Conference or independently. Ample material
s available, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that Animals in Pharmacy.
hose at the head of such a section as we suggest would Reminiscences of Ancient Pharmacy.
'xhibitmuch that would create interest and promote know- Pharmacopoeias.
Shakespeare's Pharmacy.
Some Noted Drugs.
Familiar Medicines and some Xctcs cf their Histories,
Noted Nostrums.

'184 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST Jan'uaey 31. 1914

Poisons in History. be. Before that is done we should like to see ih'
advantages of local option weighed against the advantage
Pharmacy in the Nineteenth Century. of charging the same prices everywhere for articles an-
Names and Symbols. service that may and do differ in cost according to locality
Whatever the pharmaceutical advantages and disadvai
The Index is complete and exhaustive. The two tages may be, we have the dominating fact to reeko
volumes comprise 770 pages, and are profusely illustrated, with, that the Insurance Commission prefers that eac
Mr. Wootton having gone to immense trouble and great locality should bargain for itself. As therefore the Insui
ance Committee has the first say and chemists and doctoi
expense in order to illustrate every part of the subject the second, any move to substitute the present Englis
that could appropriately be so treated. The book is pre- arrangement for the Scottish one should start locali\
And here is exactly where the new English Executiv
cisely as issued by Messrs. Macmillan & Co., and is Committee of local Associations should come in, espetiall
bound in claret-coloured cloth. As the edition is limited, if members of the Committee are territorial represent;
we strongly advise subscribers to order copies promptly, fives. Such members could come to Bloomsbury with Ih
as there will be no other opportunity of getting this arguments and reasons for local alterations upoK th
most valuable work at the reduced price. Orders for Tariff compiled in Bloomsbury. The}' might also be abi
the volume® should be addressed to the Book Department to explain what the local views are regarding the imnii
of The Chemist and Druggist, 42 Cannon Street,
London, E.C., and should be accompanied by cheques diate consequence of alteration of the Bloomsbui-y Tariff-
or postal orders for the number of volumes required. viz., poorer terms comparatively than when the unalteri-

A National Drug Tariff. Tariff is accepted. So we are informed. It will thus I

The Tariff for drugs, appliances, and dispensing charges seen' that the whole matter is one for inquiry on beha^
supplied to insured persons in England and Wales is not of panel chemists, and most careful consideration befoij
any move is made towards Buckingham Gate.
truly national in the sense that it is in Scotland, where
it is approved by the Commissioners for the whole country. What is a Cure?
This approval, once and for all, is the basic principle of
a national Tariff, and although that of the Pharmaceutical Mr. A. McGiLL, Chief Analyst, iu a report on tl
Standing Committee on Insurance lias been generally
adopted by Insurance Committees with little, if any, examination of 171 samples of headache powders ("Bti

—modifications, the real advantage the unofficial sanction letin " No. 258) makes the following remarks :
—of the Insurance Commissioners has been obscured. The
A highly objectionable statement to the effect that t\
English Insurance Commission has adopted the policy of
allowing the Insurance Committees under its control a powder is a cure is found on many labels. Headache
large measure of self-government so long as the broad
principles of its regulations are carried out. Regulation 8 not a disease, and consequently no cure is needed. Hea^
imposes upon Insurance Committees the duty of drawing
up the list of prices for insurance supplies after consulta- ache is merely a warning of something being wrong, arJ
tion with the Local Medical Committees, the Panel Com-
mittees, and the Pharmaceutical Committees. In the a cure for that fundamental something is what is need©
absence of any knowledge of the subject. Insurance Com-
mittees have been tbankful to accept the ready-made These drugs arc not a cure for indigestion, or fatif^e,
Tariff presented by their panels of chemists, and the
doctors have acquiesced in this arrangement, being on the whatever else this something may be; and it is utterly fah
whole well satisfisd of the fairness of the chemists'
charges. But it by no means follows that this will always to describe headache-powders as a cure. •
be the ease. Already the effect of advice from official
checkers of prescriptions is evident in the new Drug Tariffs This does noi betray a deep knowledge of eithr
for Lancashire and the West Riding. In the former area
economies have been effected by disallowing dispensirrg-f ees medicine or philology. As a chemist, Mr. MoGiH
on certain remedies of the household type and emulsion- \
fees on certain liniments, while some preparations which
ai'e frequently prescribed have bsen added. The Yorkshire not expected to know anj-thiiig about the action of drug'
Committee saves considerably by taking advantage of
modified dispensing-f e:s for stock pills, powders, and oint- but at least he might have turned up a good Englii!
ments, and by removing some pricing anomalies. On the
other hand^ the simple powder annoyance is removed by dictionary to get a definition of "cure." Some of tl'
allowing a dispensing-fee on powders requiring directions. definitions of " cure " from Murray's " Historici
Both these Tariffs thus show improvsments in that the
alterations are fair to all parties. Nevertheless, a national English Dictionary " were given in the C. <fc Ij\
basis is retained, which 'has been accepted all round. November 23, 1912, p. 50, and a perusal of these shouii
Chemists, in the interests of uniformity and a public ser- "cure" Mr. McGill of any tendency of being pontific'
vice, have disregarded differences in rent, rates, and
carriage. The Insurance Commission keeps watch for on subjects outside chemical analysis.
]n"ices or dispensing-f ges that differ from those in the
Pbarmacopoeial Doses.
Tariff it has unofficially considered. It may pass the wit of
man to understand why England should differ from Scot- We remarked a few weeks ago on what seemed to 1
land, but, on the other hand, we are not advocates of
a complete change in opinion in the medical professii
uniformity which is chiefly convenient for central authori-
ties and editors, as a universal Tariff undoubtsdly would regarding the insertion of doses in the British Phsj

macopoeia. The discussion in " The Lancet " has broug|
a contribution on the subject from Dr. C. 0. Hawthoni

who, before taking his medical qualification, passed tl

pharmaceutical examinations. He holds that the creatic,

of an official dosage is not an unmixed boon. On tl
contrary, he states, it involves certain disadvantages ar

dangers; and the claim is submitted that it is the dull
of the Pharmacopoeia to provide safeguards against tl
risks which its official scheme of doses calls into existenc
Dr. Hawthorne's plan is to term these " pharmaceutic
doses " as meaning doses which a pharmacist may safe
dispense without special or personal warrant of tl

prescriber. He suggests, further, that the doses in tl

next edition of the British Pharmacopoeia should 1
stated in terms of the metric system. It is only reaso;
able, he adds, to allow that, at first, the metric tern

may have to be offered merely as an alternative to tl

—

January 31, 1914 rHE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 185

5ses as at present stated. This would both follow pre- ENGLISH AND WELSH NEWS.
^dent and would avoid the risk of detaching the Phar-
acopoeia from the habits and customs of the constitn- Subscribers are invited to send to the Editor newspapers con-
taining: news of trade interest. Please .-nark tlie items.
icy with which it is concerned. An abrupt presentation
Brevities.
' the pharmacopoeial doses in metric terms only would
rtainly mean a separation between the language of the Fleetwood Council propose to made an order fixing
harmacopceia and that of the general body of pre- Wednesday for the weekly half-holiday of chemists,
ribers ; and such a separation would be out of harmony drug dealers, and herbalists.
ith the main purpose of the Pharmacopoeia.
The Hull Retail Grocers' Association last week dis-
More Recommendations of Substitution. cussed the question of canvassers calling from house to
house on the Thursday half-holiday. It was suggested
Ihe Local iMedical Committee for the county of Berk- that a test case should be taken as to whether canvassers
lire (Insuranoe) has issued two printed statements, the could work on half-holidays.

ladings of which are as follows : The completion of a new laboratory and drag-warehouse
for Boots, Ltd., in Island Street, Nottingham, was cele-
(1-) brated by a supper on January 21 to the workmen engaged
in its construction. The total floor area :s 66,000 square
Tkade Names with Suggested Altehnatives. feet, and the cost is given at about 30,000/.
The following trade names of mixtures and compound
bstances are frequently used. The use of a trade name The staff of Messrs. F. Longdon & Co., Ltd., surgical-
lould be avoided when there is an official preparation bandage manufacturers, Derby, have presented the firm's
hich will serve the same purpose. For the use of panel secretary, Mr. H. N. Springett, with an easy-chair and
an address, on his completing forty years' service. Mr.
sul
Springett has also received a purse of gold from [Mr.
(2.) A. F. Longdon.

Identical Substances. Post-graduate Lectures.

The following are declared by the British Pharmaceutical Following the lead of the Fairchild lectures on essential

odex to be identical substances. Medical men who are oils which were held in 1912, the Pharmaceutical Society
a the panel of the county are particularly requested when
rderin^ them to use the official name and not the trade last year inaugurated a short course on bacteriology by
ame. This is to spare the Drug Fund as much as possible,
lecause if the dispensing expenses rise to more than Is. bd. Professor 'Hewlett. This year it has been arranged to give
ler insured person per annum the " floating sixpence " will a series of four lectures on the " Applications of ElectricitT

le encroached upon.

The first of the sheets contains the following " Trade to Medical Practice." The first, by Mr. R. S. Wright,

'J'ames" : A.M.I.E.E., was delivered in the Lecture Theatre at,

Uctris Cordial Chriamol 17 Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C., on .lanuary 27. This
Ammonol' Cystipurin
\ntikam'nia L'a.\oin.. concerned the medical application of low-tension electric
Vrsacetin Eirg-oapiol Capsul-Ci3
jiethraa povvdors (for I.ysol currents. The subjects touched upon included galvanism,
I orniiii'.iii
burning) Laiiiolin'e ionic medication, faradisation, electric cautery, vibro-
Songue's Pa^ito Fuilkrs' Eiai-th
Bay B;im Fibrolysin Licrterin* massage, ultra-violet rays, light and heat baths. The
Bromidia GlycotUjmolm-e Licnior C'ai-hoiiis
lecturer touched upon the sources of the electricity and the
iJasoaiia Evacimns Glywrol of Papain Dii?'>erg<?ri~
Hevvl^tts Liq. Bifi- Ause of the current from the mains. caution, several
ivhlorodyinie (Cullis M«sotan
'Browne's) muthi Novocain. times emphasised, was given in regard to avoiding a pro-
OaJitoraiiMi Syrv.p of Hedonal Phenalgiji
Purgen portional drop of potential. The direct current employed
Kgs H<?m'iir.p f j rmmidon,
>MUio Paste Hazeline Reisinol Ointment should not exceed 70 volts. The various arrangements of
TInzp'inr Ciream Thfocin-Sodiiiim Acc-
the switchboard were described and the dangers presented
Hoz-eline Snow tate

by different methods. It was explained that the modern

igainst each of these is a "suggested alternative" practice is to employ motor converters, with a double-

skcted from the "B.P.C." in twenty-nine cases. wO'jnd armature, in which if the current from the main

fails that generated by the motor gradually dies away, and

Under the second heading is the following list of so avoids the dangerous sudden drop in potential. The

'trade names," "official names" being set opposite them, benefit to be derived from radiant heat and light baths is

Ithough many of the articles are not "official " i.e., in a matter of opinion, said the lecturer, who also adopted a

he British Pharmacopoeia : / pessimist attitude in regard to the Finsen lamps which

Vdironaiin, K.xaJgin Pip-erazine came in a few years ago with such a flourish of trumpets.
Bpimitol Protargol The President (Mr. Edmund White) was in the chair, and
^'tria nt.roin Styptol
S-h-racoii in introducing the lecturer w-as careful to emphasise the
ijoxyl Hvpnospn Trional
^loralamide Tiro h'opin© fact that the instruction given was not intended to encroach
Iclithvol Vcron'aJ
More+one on medical ground. There was a very good attendance,
Jr«liinal V«r.on.aI-Scd.ium.
iJftrmatol the student element predominating.
N<nii-otiropin.
'luretin Standard fcr Vinegar.
^•"^^n® Nnvawpirin It will be remembered that the Local Government
Euc.%ui<; Lactate Pinol Board in 1912 suggested that a 4-per-cent. acetic-acid
standard should be adopted for malt vinegar (C . <£ D.,
The Berkshire Medical Committee may shelter them- January 15, p. 34). This has caused a certain amount
of uncertainty in the vinegar-trade, in view of the fact
elves behind the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, that a 3-per-cent. standard had been generally adopted.
inder whose authority the book which has guided them The question came before the Kensington Borough Coun-
as published, and they appear to have worded the cil last week, in connection with a request from a firm
tatements carefully for the purpose of avoiding not of vinegar-makers to know what standard the Council
mprobable actions for misrepresentation. Thus we have desired. It was decided at the last Council-meeting to
he medical profession in the somewhat ignoble character communicate with the Local Government Board, urging
f stooping very low in order to catch the floating six- the Board to issue regulations fixing the standard at

jence. 4 per cent.

Keeping Stock.—According to "System," a chemist ^^ho

icWl ,^*°'''^"''^'°™« his premises was never sure Alcohol for Motor-ears.
"u^ The following have been appointed on the Alcohol
^'"^ a stock Motor-fuel Committee formed bv the Imperial Motor
vhfn I"" of a chemical in the second room Transport Council: Mr. Bertram i31ount, F.I.C.. F.C.S.,
1? consulting chemist to the Crown Agents for the Colonies ;
hor^ief ti^^'' "^'^ ,"P *h^t Mr. Vivian B. Lewes, F.I.C.. Professor of Chemistry at
first store-room. The the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; Sir Boyerton

Arontiinorl^''l^''^'l^""'^« *he complete stock of which was
the e wa, '.^I- Phfrmacy. green label indicated tr,at

'lanbeeil that ''^ '\'''- stock-room, a blue

tthhefr'e' was stock in the second room

:

1S6 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST Jaxuaby 31. 191:

Eedwood, Bart., Adviser on Petroleum to' the Government cock for 3?. damages, due to alleged negligence of de
and Mr. Thomas Tyrer, r.I.C, F.C.S., member of the fendant in riding a bicycle. This was denied, and i'
Council of the London Chamber of Commerce. It is the was stated the accident was quite a trifling one. Thu
intention of the committee to conduct investigations into Judge held defendant responsible because he did no*
the possibility of obtaining adequate supplies of alcohol sound his bell earlier. However, he had done everything
in his power for the child, and under the circumstances
suitable for motor-fuel at sufficiently low pi'ices. Also,
a verdict for II. damages would be given.
to direct experiments tending towards the production of
engines suited to employ alcohol as a fuel. At Hyde last week, James Harris ^Matthews. 65 Pea

Analysts' Reports. Street, Dukinfield, and Lillie ^Morrison, 26 Delamer<

Twenty drug samples, all except one informal, -were Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, were summoned by Messic

submitted to the Wandsworth analyst (Mr. A. H. ^I. C. E. Fulford, Ltd., for obtaining 2(1. with intent it

iUuter) last quarter. Two wei'e adulterated, one of tinc- defraud. Mr. J. Cooke, for the company, said defen

ture of iodine containing 40.6 per cent, excejs iodine, and dants' method was to call at houses showing the lid of :

a- sample of Epsom ealts coiTtaining 0.23 per cent, magne- box of Zam-Buk and showing a card bearing a Zam-Bo]

Csium chloride. Emmaadvertisement. ^Irs. Simpson said she bought ;
Mr. J. F. Liverseege, F.I
Birmingham analyst, box of ointment upon representations that it was Zan

in his quarterly report states that eight of twenty -two Buk. She was asked to take a box at Sjrf., but onl;
purchased a 2d. box, which the female prisoner said con
samples of ammoniated tincture of quinine were adul- tained a sample of Zam-Buk. Cross-examined, sh

terated two samples were 14 per cent, deficient in
;

quinine sulphate, and the otters deficient in ammonia. denied that the prisoner said it was Zam-Buk formula

Xine informal samples of lime-water were satisfactory —"containing the exact ingredients." At the resnme

in composition, containing from 1.12 to 1.42 grams hearing on January 26 the male defendant said he hai

of lime per litre. Six samples obtained from four drug- studied chemistry, and had made up the ointment fror
a formula from the " Secret Remedies " published by th
stores whose owners were not qualified chemists were

unsatisfactory in composition. In each case the vendor British Medical Association. ^latthews was fined 10?

was cautioned. Carelessness in keeping probably and costs, and Morrison was bound over.

accounted for the deficiencies in four samples, and two

others were unsatisfactory because when sold they con-

tained undissolved lime. Of the twenty-three samples of IRISH NEWS.

camphorated oil analysed, twenty were genuine, and two Subscribers are invited to send to the Editor newspapers con
taining news of trade interest. Please mark the items.
12 per cent, deficient in camphor. The remaining sample

(taken informally) was badly adulterated, being composed

of 13 per cent, of camphor and 87 of mineral oil. It was

bought at a "dental surgery." Bt-evities.

Liverpool Notes. The Irish Lights Board, Dover Street, Dublin, iovi
tenders for medicines, etc., which should be deliver;
The Benevolent Fund will be richer by 36/. 12?., the net before February 5.
profit on the joint smoker of the Liverpool and Bu'ken-
head Chemists' Associations. The stock-in-trade of Messrs. John Watson & Co
wholesale druggists, 52, 54, and 56 Donegall Street, Bt
yir. J. Alexander, sen.. South Road, Waterloo, who fast, is to be sold by auction.
recently had the misfortmie to fall through a trap-door
behind his serving-counter, is now much better, and is Mr. J. Carroll Culbert, Ph.C, Connswater, Belfas
making a rapid recovery.
gave a lantern -lecture to Mountpottinger Literary Sociel,

Alast week on " Hand and Head : Study in Anthrop,'

Stiefiaeld Notes. logy."
Mr. Bernard Ellis, barrister-at-law, read a paper at
Sir Stanley Harrington and !Mr. W. B. Harringti
the Literary and Philosopiiical Rooms on January 28 on
" Pharmacists and the Laws of Contract.'" have been elected on the Executive Committee of t!
Cork Employers' Federation, and the former has al
Chemists in the Sheffield district have been receiving been re-elected a director of the Mur.ster and LeinsT
the attention of the Pharmaceutical Society's inspector
during the last week or two as regards tke proper Bank, Ltd.

exhibition of certificates of qualification. At the quarterly meeting of the Belfast Corporation
January 22, Councillor Workman, in moving the noni:i
j\Ir. H. Antcliffe, the Secretary of the local Pharma- tion of three gentlemen for the position of High Sher::
ceutical Insurance Committee for Sheffield, was appointed
said he regretted that the decision of the General Pu
first Vice-President of the National Poor Law Officers' poses Committee to place the name of Mr. \Villi;>

Association, South Yorkshire Branch, at the annual meet- McMuUan, of Messrs. Thos. INIcMullan & Co.. druggist
ing on January 24.
Victoria Street, second on the list would have to 1
The Sheffield Education Secondary School is providing changed. Mr. McMullan had just retired from the Con
a complete evening course for pharmacy students extend- cil, and had intimated that he did not wish the hor."
ing over three years. In the first year French, English,
and Latin are taken. The second year's tuition consists at present owing to ill-health.
of chemistry. Latin, and botany. During the third year
instruction is given in materia medica and pharmacy The Calendar for 1914
by Mr. E. Preston, Ph.C. in chemistry by Mr. B. M.
Stockwell, B.Sc, and in botany by Mr. iE. Snelgrove, of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland is publis!.
B.A. The classes in the two pharmaceutical subjects are this week. It contains official information regarding !
held at 8 and 9 p.m., so that students may attend after Societv, such as the Acts of Parliament and by-laws uiul
which" it is carried on. Lists are given of pharmaceutic
business hours. chemists, chemists and druggists, registered druggie'-
pharmaceutical assistants, and members and associat.
Poison-licences.
Mr. R. T. Williams, of the Green Shop. Llangedwyn, The examination papers set during 1915 are also iuclud'

Oswestry, has applied to the Shropshire County Council as well as particulars of the Society's schools. Th'

for a licence to sell agi-i-horticultural poisons. features make the Calendar useful to all classes. It

The Taunton Town Council have refused an applica- sold in cloth boards at 2.?. 6d., or 2?. 9d. post free fi

tion from 'Mr. S. A. Bradbury, seedsman, Xorth Street, the Registrar, 67 Lower Blount Street, Dublin.
for a poison-licencs, on the ground that the reasonable
requirements of the public wore already satisfied. Liver-test.—Alx?l and Rountree ('-Journal of Pharmac
and Experimental Therapeutics") propose phenol-tet;
From Various Courts. chlorphthalein as a test for bile secretion. This chemical,
At Chorley County Court, on January 22. Mr. P. K. has been shown, is excreted by the liver into the bile, a
its presence in the faeces serves as an index of the extent
Bottomley, chemist, of .Spendmore Lane, Coppull, was the secretion of bile into the duodenum. In case of liv
sued bv the father of a young boy named Thomas Sil- injury the phthalein is excreted by the urine. The drug

administered hypcdermically.

rANUAEY 31, 19U THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 187

SCOTTISH NEWS. FRENCH NEWS.

jscribers are invited to send to the Editor news^apers con- &(From the " C. D." Paris Correspondent.)
taining news of trade interest. Please mark the items.
—Pakis School of Pharmacy. M. Gautier has ' been
Brevities.
luranimou-jly re-nominated Director of the Paris School of
Ir. David H. Niven, florist and .seedsman, 11 Gordon
iaet, Huntly, is applying for an agri-horticultural Pharmacy for a furt^'.er term of three years.
pbns licence.
Obesity Treatment which failed is reported in the
ilr. Henry Baxter, chemist and druggist, formerly papers. It is stuted that a lady who was induced by
wii Mr. J- H. Fisher, Ph.C, Dunfermline, has com- the promises of a beauty specialist to undergo treatment
niced business on his own account at 7 Hope Street, for obesity, instead of getting thinner increased in weight
21 lb. The lady is bringing an action for damages
Terkeithing. against the beauty specialist.

ohn Leslie (62), 58 Blackscroft, Dundee, who prac- —Claude Bernard. The centenary of Claude Bernard
t d as a botanic druggist, and worked in a calender,
c iplained of sickness when he returned home on Mon- was celebrated recently in Paris by a. " commemorative
.d' evening. His wife found him dead in bed during meeting" of the professors of the College of France.
This interesting tribute to the memory of their ex-
t night. colleague took place in the modest room in which Claude
Bernard long lectured. The Presment of the Republic
Edinburgh.. and the Minister of Public Instruction were both present.

,t Inverleith on Wednesday, January 21, the Eastern —French Army Pharmacists. The Corporative Associa-
btball Club defeated Pharmacy United by six goals
tion of French Pharmacists of the Reserve, or Territorial
t«/7. Army, held its annual meeting and banquet at the Cercle
Militaire, ^L Langrand taking the chair. The usual
)ne of the warehouses of Messrs. Duncan, Flo'ckhart general and financial reports were presented and passed,
Co.'s' manufacturing and wholesale premises in Canon-
€ was damaged by fire on Sunday morning. and Pharmacist Moreau, who has served in Western

Che Merchant Company are to discuss at a special Morocco for several years past, gave a lecture on the
pharmaceutical service, which is one of the features of the
leral meeting " the present unsatisfactory state of French military occupation of that country. The banquet
siness throughout this city." It cannot be said, how- was held afterwards in the han-dsome rooms of the buffet
of the Lyons Railway Station.
3r, that the drug-trade is suffering much from quiet-

ss at present.

Wholesale Druggist Convicted. An All-night Pharmacy.

.\t the Aberdeen Sheriff Court, before Sheriff Young, on (Vaudeville in 2 Acts, by M. Eugene Ileros.)

imary 26, Alexander Robertson Home (55), wholesale The following is a description of an amusing and successful
pharmacy .play given at the Eldorado, Paris, in which
.iggist, 170 Beaconsfield Place, was charged with
M. Dranem, the well-known, comedian, has played the lead-
.bezzlement, the particulars of which were fully, set
th in the C. d.- D., January 10, p, 38. The charge was ing role with marked success :
bstantially that the accused bought essential oils from The curtain rises on a pretty garden scene. M. Minoret,

'ssrs. Evans Sons Lescher k Webb, Ltd., on behalf jjroprietor of a delightful property in the sunny South, is
th© firm of W. Paterson & Sons, of which lie was a
ftner, and re-sold them to Messrs. Evans when the prices taking a hand at the inevitable game of oards known as

id advanced, and did not account for the profits to his " m.anille " with the inevitable provincial dignitaries, tho

m. The witnesses for the prosecution were Mr. W. A. local medical man, the captain of gendarmerie, and the

id, C.A. ; Ernest Ross, assistant in the former witness's sous-prefet, while the young people play tennis with fitting

Jn; David Ross, in the employment of W. Paterson & vigour. Among the latter is Mademoiselle Evelyne,
M. Minoret's charming niece. When we hear her declare
ns, and other employes of the firm ; James Shacklady, that " pharmacists nowadays are savants,'' w© guess that she
retary to Evans Sons Lescher & Webb, Ltd. ; R/obert
GelHe, bank agent; and Mrs. Paterson, widow of the is the fiancee of Maurice Blanchard, a lively young follow,
« Mr. Stephen Paterson, who stated that, as a result of
formation supplied her, she gav^ instructions to have who is a general favourite. The wedding is to take place,
criminal charge brought against the accused. For the
in fact, as soon as the prospective bridegroom has obtained
his 'diploma of " Pharmacien de .premiere classe." Minoret

lingers lovingly on the last three words he is, of course,
;

old enough to remember the time when many local pharma-

fence the accused gave evidence, stating that he had no cists were " second-class " men. Maurice has gone to Paris

.ention of keepirrg the money, and would have accounted to complete his studies, but the final examinations have just

r it before the end of the financial year. It was the first taken place, and he is houily and eagerly expected to arrive
with the diploma which is to " crown the flame " (as our
tnsaction of the kind that he had had. He intended
grandfathers put it) of his own and Evelyne's affection.
mention the matter to Sir Edward Evans (through This little fact is evidently unknown to Pecot, the timid

lom the oils were bought) the first time he went to Aber- and sentimental assistant at the local pharmacy. While

ew. It had been treated as a private matter. He Minoret is left for a moment alone. Pecot arrives, white
gloved, summer-suited, and more diffident than ever. He
nled that he had ever juggled with ]Mrs. Pater-
informs M. Minoret of his skill in pill-making and other
I's money. Joseph Horne, a son of the accused, also
professional duties, and, after beating about the bush hope-
ve evidence, saying that he would have paid the 100/.
lessly for a time, burns his boats and demands Mademoiselle
nself had he known that there was to be a prosecution. Evelyne's hand in marriage. Her dowry, he very frankly
3 was followed in the witness-box by his mother. The
explains, would suffice to buy the business from M. Pelloie,

ry, without retiring, returned a verdict of guilty, his employer, and set up the young couple in life.

le Sheriff, in, passing sentence, said one could He is, of course, dismissed diplomatically in diffidence

t but be sorry for a man like accused, who was so long and dismav, and has hardly made his exit when Maurice
a _respone:ble position. There was no question as to the
arrives, valise in hand, having walked up from the station
a\ity of the offence accused had been found guilty of. with his Meridional friend, to whom we nve introduced as

le trust placed in him by, the other partner of the firm Dr. Claudius Garrigou, of the Faculty of Marseilles. As a

d been grievously abused. He took a very indulgent matter of fact. Dr. Garrigou's profesorship is as mythical

ew of the case when he pronounced a sentence of six as M.a.urico's pharmaceutical proficiency. These two de-

lightful scapegraces have simply been '' having a good

onths' imprisonment. The hearing lasted for several time" at Paris; but the situation must be saved somehow,

or Evelyne will be lost to Maurice. Minoret welcomes them

warmly. "And you have passed, of course?" Passed!

t ^°;*^^"i:isTs' Association-.— A wliist-drive wild bf» hf.'d Maurice hesitates a moment, but there is nothing to do but
Parade, Ealing,
•iRsuota Rt.yt.aurant, Sandrin.ghfim W., on myto brazen it out. " As you say, uncle," and ho is affec-

^Jt"okt™wr:t's a!*''^**' (28. bd. each, inotading pefpeisihments) from tionately embraced. Friends enter, and he is introduced.
Wrr. Weetcm, Ohemist, E.a;limg ; or
Chemist, Acton. Mr. Mv" neT>hew, Maurice, pharmacist of the first class of
;
ma.e, HanwelL Acgylum,
the Faculty of Paris."

m.

ISS THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST Jaxuary 31. 1914

"Thanks." Maurice modestly murmurs, "to the coaching "Let 'em shout," is Blanchard"s fearless reply, and h
shows the doctor the door.
of my friend Garrigou."
" Just one moment. I've designed a new denfifrice.l
Evcrvone congratulates and expresses h:s interest in the whispers the medical man. " Chalk and gum. There
Weprofession, even the captain. " money in it."
gendarmes are the phar-
" Yes. yes. We'll talk it over to-morrow."
macists of society, so to speak," he explains. " Don't -ne
" And a new shaving soap," he breathes through ti
purge it of its criminals? and so on. " gates ajar." But Maurice's muscular arm closes the da
" Tell us all about your exam.." says Minoret to Maurice,
and pushes the bolt'.
and everyone echoes the demand. M. Pelloie, the local
pharmacist, a bland spectacled figure, being among the " Now let 'em all come," he grunts, and dismppea

latter, commences a little exam, of his own, and, in spite of

Maurice's suddenly renewed diffidence, he passed an ex- upstairs.

tremely awkward quarter of an hour. Then Garrigou reappears, his negligent pyjamas agre

"And how do you prepare these medicaments? " inquires ably relieved by hie dress-shirt dickey, collar, and fie. I

the merciless heckler. wants a nightcap, and the poison cupboard draws him lil

" Prepare medicaments, sir, indeed ! I pay assistants to lodestone. "Tincture of digitalis. H'm, let's try
—Good a very mawkish taste (" un petit gout de revenei-y
do that. I am a pharmacist of the first class ! " ')
" And supp* ose a client comes to consult vou. say, for a A knock at the door disturbs his agreeable task. It

cold ? " Pigeonnette, one of Maurice's Quartier Latin •' Barnes

" I reply, sir, that counter-prescribmg is against my prm- "He's given me the slip. Where is he?" Garrigt

ciples." " Hear, hear ! " from the doctor, in which all assures the Parisian Ariadne that her Theseus has left f
Timbuctoo, and briefly indicates the route. She haste
join.

Luckily the local brass band arrives, headed by its to follow him.

standard-bearer, to cut short Maurice's mental torture, and Another lady follows, of a more sentimental mood, on
similar errand. " Maurice has deserted me." she sighs, t{
the curtain falls to the stirring strains of a triumphal march. her roving eye fixes the poison cupboard. " There is

The same strains are echoing along the street as the way but this." and she dramatically swallows a "do
curtain rises on the second act. But the scene is now shifted glass " of " Prussic acid " under the indulgent and ha
envious eye of Garrigou. " Tell him I'm dead," and s
to the interior of the Pharmacie Pelloie, a neat but not flings herself forth from the pharmacy with a vigour vrhi
might have surprised a " feeble female " after such a deal
excessively up-to-dats provincial oflScine. Inscriptions in

whits crystal letters can be read (backwards, of course) on

the window and door, " Pelloie, Pharmacien de Premiere
AClasse," and " Farine Lactee reconstituante."
prescrip- dose.

tion counter, a cash desk, and a few shelves of jars and Garrigou remounts to the upper regions, when the nif
bell's persistent tinkling is heard. Finally. Maur
bottles complete the modest furniture. Pecot is discon- has pulled on a neat pyjama suit. It is the sous-pref

solately xJ^stling in a corner, and Pelloie waiting at the " You've kept me at the door half an hour. I want my na
pick-me-up ; what M. Pelloie always gave me. Don't v
receipt of custom.
Waltzing to the strain of the band, the wedding party —know where the prescriptions are ? Well. I'll tell you vrh

arrives. Maurice, the orthodox French bridegroom, in full it's for, and you'll put me up something one of your up-
date remedies. But smarFs the word."
eveninsr dress, heads the procession with Evelyne. in whito
Maurice proposes pills, which are accepted: and a n>;
veil and orange-blossoms: the doctor, gendarme, etc., follow
all in full fig. Profiting by a momentary lull in the music, amusing but entirely indescribable scene follows. If

Minoret announces, Mv dear nephew. I have bought this theatre rang with peals of laughter. Who has not s-i
Dranem making his pill-mass has (as our French fric j
pharmacy. I have included it in the wedding presents.
say) seen nothing. There is nothing of the homoeopatJ
And BOW we leave you and your wife here, and we will method alx)ut the great comedian's pharmacy. From ph
go and finish the dessert." And they waltz out again, leav- bottles snatched from the shelf at random, but ever fi*
capacious, he liberally pours various powders and liqui
ing Maurice in dismay at the white elephant which has into the lonsr-suflEering mortar, and pounds away witbf
been dropped into his " wedding basket."
— —heartiness which cannot but gratify the impatient s<(
" What am I to do? " he whispers lo Garrigou. " I will
prefet. But it is when the mass a mass indeed is roll
leave the plaguey place to mind itself and cut away with
oat that Dranem's strenuous and allopathic methods 5
my bride." Garrigou hints such discretion would be the best illustrated. The pill-machine and the counter quir

beiter part of valour ; but he has reckoned without the punc- under his efforts, which are those of a Hercules combi:!
tilious and persevering Pelloie. who very properly insists
on Maurice making the " tour du proprietaire " of his new with a lightning artist. He raps his knuckles with the I •
roller; the man squirms under his deadly plunses._ Fina
propert}'.
he pauses, panting, and while the audience holds its achr
" This is the poison cupboard," he explains. " Enough sides, he presents to the sous-prefet four Iwluses. compaJ
here to kill all the town " (which may indeed be ti-ue. for
with which your "horse-balls" are but feeble folk, and ts
the sta^o cupboard is a huge affair big enough to hold four their consistency by playing " bouncing ball " with tin
iieople). " Six months" imprisonment is the legal penalty
on the pharmacy floor. But Dranem knows that pills n t
for the least negligence," he chirrups. " And now come be Tx>wdered ere they are boxed, and a flour caster wield
and see the laboratory and herboristery." And he hales the
with vigour gives the necessarv coating till half the pi'-
luckless Maurice into the back regions.
macy floor has been whitened with the surplus. The rem.v
Pecot, left alone with Garrigou. mourns his shattered
hopes. " And I. who thought Pelloie would leave me thu
pharmacy." Then, practical, " Xine o'clock, and I haven't

lunched yet." (An amusing exaggeration of the pharmacist's is ready.

irregular and interruuted meals, which the audience evi- But the sous-prefet is hardly disposed of. when i9

dently appreciate.) He strides to the poison cupboard, o-endarme captain enters. He is afflicted with a tapewci.
What is to be done ? " Have you courage. Captain? " ;;s
seizes a bottle, and pours out a wineglassful. " Stop, un- the now desperate "pharmacist" "I have." "Thenit
there." He is placed on a chair, some of the "pill-nif"
happy lad," cries Garrigou. " Disappointment and hunger
planted on his forehead, ami mesmerised into immobiv.
are no excuse for such a rash act." Then, grasping a huse rod and line, Dranem approacd
" Hush. hush, old man." rejoins the now gayer Pecot,
and cast his hook, with unerring precision, into his patio s
tossing oft the glass. " I've replaced all these dangerous Amouth.
long tug and a strong tug, and a long wt«
toxics by harmless and delectable pick-me-ups. Name your
object emerges foot by foot, duly hooked, Dranem is
—poison. Try ' Prussic acid ' with a little ' Strychnine ' they
—call it ' vermouth cassis ' in the cafes a capital appetite-

opener." " got a bite" at his first' "cast," and receives his capre

" H'm, h'm." murmurs Garrigou between two long-drawn- in a landing-net in a style Izaak Walton himself wld

—cut sips. " This is Amer Picon a great institution, the approve.

noison cupboard." And Pecot goes out to his late lunch, The Captain naturally betrays himself in thanks, ut
is got rid of as promptly as possible The sous-prefet, ho
leaving the Professor to analyse the remainder.
has assisted, as open-mouthed as the Captain himself, ati's
Pelloie returns with Maurice, who shows a natural and " peche miraculeuse," also decides to leave, taking not jy

proper desire to rid himself of the worthy pharmacist and his pill-mass, but a. stray jar or two of some unoe:
pharmaceuticals, which Dranem insists on his acceptinM
seek the more conq-enial society of Evelyne. Three times
—" a premium a souvenir of their little fete day."
he sees him out; three times he returns. At last Maurice
The weak point of French farces is always their c*-
bolts the door. " Enfin. seul ! '' Xot a bit of it. The This is the last pharmaceutical scene. The author ha of
course, to brinsr all the characters on the stage ei
—doctor rings. " Just two words only two," ho says, and di'shahilW, and Dranem in his nightshirt, with his bres

seats himself comfortably for a long chat. " Your prede-
"
ce.ssor gave me 25 ner cent, on all my prescriptions, so

" I'll give you fifty, sixty, eighty," gasps the impatient

Maurice. orange wreath clapped on his head by error, is not the 'st
" No. no. The patients won't stand the racket. They'll comic figure. But the pharmacy has now been " opeal'

shout." night," and the curtain falls on the various couples.

—

Iancary 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST

SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS. of potash, ninety-four contained 90 per cent., and five

(From " C. & D." Correspondents ) were adulterated with starch and other foreign matters.

irhe Chemist and Drugrgrist" is subscribed for and suppliad No. 265 refers to a collection of 167 samples of Seidlitz
weekly to all the members of the seven Chemists' Societies
powders. The report enumerates the various standards
i
for Seidlitz powders and takes the B.P. as the official
in British South Africa.
guide. The result of the analyses shows that eighty-two
i

samples were passed as genuine, in seventy-three adultera-

The Union. tion is charged, while twelve show carelessness in weigh-

—j ing. The Chief Analyst refers to the result as showing
" an unexpected degree of carelessness or of fraud in the
Trade Eeturns. The imports of goods into the South
.'oican Union for the month of November were manufacture of Seidlitz powders." He considers that

3150,892^., against 3,473,971?. in the corresponding the impression that these are merely a cooling beverage
r nth in 1912. The imports for the eleven months ended
I vember 30 were 39,048,444?., against 36.357,030/. fcr or a mild aperient may have contributed to this.

t| corresponding period of 1912. The e.xports, includ- Measuring can only be tolerated so long as it does
re-exports. during November were 5.153.792?., against
not give results matei'ially different from those attained
52,445?. in November 1912 ; whilst the exports for the
by use of the balance. No. 266 deals with linseed oil,
en months of the year 1913 were 61,180.029?.. against
in which out of fifty-three samples thirty-six were found
264,963?. for the corresponding period of 1912.
to h* genuine, ten of doubtful genuineness, and seven
adulterated. The adulterant used was mineral oil.

Orange Free State. No. 267 refers to meat extracts, and is to be regarded,

—WeIattle-dip Case. reported in the C. li- D., De- states the Chief Analyst, " rather as a study of the

iber 27, p. 77, that judgment was reserved in the subject of meat extracts than as a legal impection of

)eal case of Lennon, Ltd. v. the British South Africa the article as found on the market. " Tllisre are

against damages awarded to the Chartered Company standards for meat extracts in Canada, but the ash. and

, salt limit do not apply apparently to the solid form

account of the death of cattle alleged to have been of meat e.xtracts. Among the extracts examined were

ised by the use of a dip supplied by Lennon, Ltd.

dgment was given on January 6, and in the course of Armour's, Bovril, Brand's Essence, Ivelcon, Lemco, Oxo,

Sir Wm. Solomon said tliat the wrong label had been Vigoral, and Vimbos. No. 268 is a report on 171 sam-

ixed to the drums of arsenate by one of the defend- ples of headache powders. The requirement of the
Proprietary or Patent Medicine Act is that when
ts' employes. It was contended, however, that there acetanilide is present in quantity above 2 grains and
phenacetin above 5 gr:ains, the name of the drug and
d been negligence on the part of the plaintiffs' farm quantity present must be declared on the label. In only

uiager, who had followed the directions on the label,

owing at the same time that the weight in the drums

15 more than was stated on the label. His Lordship nineteen sample.s out of the 139 containing acetanilide

Id that it was the duty of a farm manager, knowing was the amount present less than 2 grains, in nearly all

it this difference existed, to have made inquiries before the other samples the declaration of the presence of

ing the dip, and under the circumstances, notwith- acetanilide and phenacetin wa:, made according to the

mding the error on the label, the defendants could law. It is pointed out that in most cases the dose

t be held liable, and the appeal would be upheld, with prescribed exceeded the maximum amount named in the

its. Sir James Rose-Innes concurred. The Chief British Pharmacopoeia.

stice. Lord De Villiers, in dissenting from the judg-

rut, held that there was no obligation on the part of NEW BOOKS.

8 defendants to make inquiries. The farm manager

ted as 99 out of 100 would have done in similar cir- Austen-Leigh. E. C. Englhh Clubs. 4x6. Pp. 188.

mstances. It did not lie in the mouth of the defend- 5«. (Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd.) [This annual publication

ts to complain because their directions were followed. is becominE: to clubs and clubbable, men as indispensable as

16 greater the reputation of the firm the more likely Who" Who's " is to journalists. It gives all that one

sir directions were to be accepted. His Lordship —wants to know about clubs political, social, sporting, and

reed with the judgment of the Court belo\v. The what not. The information is tabulated and quickly got at.

dgment of the lower Court was thus by a, majority Golf clubs are a feature, and another is the particulars

wsed, with costs. / given in regard to American and Continental clubs and

those in other parts of the British Empire outside the

Lfnited Kingdom.]

CANADIAN NEWS. Calendar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain,

(From the "C. & D." Correspondent.) +1914. 8gx5-i. Pp. 249 list of members and subscribers

Vinegar Staxdard.—The "Gazette" of December 27, to Benevolent Fund. 2.?. (Pharmaceutical Society of Groat

13, cantaini, an Order-in-Council establishing standards Britain, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C) [Contains

, quality and limits of variability for vinegar and similar information regarding the origin of the Pharmacentical

iticles under the Adulteration Act. The " Board of Society, and the Acts of Parliament and by-laws under

l"acle Journal" gives the following particulars: Vine- which the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons are

r IS a more or less coloured liquid consisting essentially regulated in Great Britain. The particulars are given re-
garding the examinations conducted by the Society and the
impure, dilute acetic acid, obtained by the oxidation work carried on in the School of Pharmacy. The Calendar

wine, beer, cider, or other alcoholic liquor. Vinegar did not reach us till January 23, which is unfortunate, as,

ail contain, not less than 3 J- per cent., and not more according to the daily entries in the Calendar for the year,
an IQi per cent., of acetic acid. Various standards
e specified for certain kinds of vinegar {e.g., wine we should, on January 21, have consulted the Society's
"egar, spirit vinegar, grain vinegar, malt vinegar,
" Journal " " for official guidance in Insurance matters."
^
We may, however, keep a careful note that on October 5
c). It is pointed out that vinegar may be made by
—rather a long way off that same oracle is to be con.?ulted
e acetous fermenUtion of dilute alcoholic liquors whose
cohol may have had its origin in the fermentation of ' for official news."]
•uit sugars of various kinds, or of ordinary sugar,
uoh vinegar must bear distinctive names, indicating A Fbllip O. Armour Memorial.- On Wednesday,
le source of the saccharine matter.
January 28, the authorities of the University of Illinois
Inland Revexue Bulletins.—Those recently introduced placed "a portrait of the late Mr. Philip D. Armour in its

Seidlitz powders, and linseed Hall of Fame. The painting was unveiled bv Miss Lolita,
n"• ''^J^No."q2a6*3'," dealing with cream of tartar, states that Armour, a granddaughter, and presented by Mr. J. Ogden
Armour, the present head of Armour & Co., Chic.ago. The
^^^'^ examined, and of these forty-nine Hall of Fame was established by the State of Illinois to
pei-petuate the names of its prominent men who have
eached the B.P. standard of 97.5 per cent, of bitartrate
rendered signal service in the development of its agricul-
tural and manufacturing interests, with which the late Mr.
Armour was intimately connected and of much service. Mr.

J. Ogden Armour is working strenuously to maintain all

the best traditions of his late father.

190 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST •Jaxuary 31. 191;

LEGAL REPORTS. Hlgb Court Cases.

Unless when otherwise stated these cases have been beud is ti
HiKb Court of Justice, London.
TRADE LAW.
^Ii-XROSE Tablets and Iiiitaioks.
IToii-Itenewal of Patent nXedlclne Xiicence. — At Ebbw
In the Chancery Division on January 23 the case .i
Vale (Mon.) on January 22, David Davies, grocer, Ebbw Roberts v. Carter was mentioned to Mr. Justice Aatbuf

Vale, was summoned under the Medicine Stamij Act for Counsel for the plaintiff said his client asked for 3

selling dutiable medicine without a licence. He admitted injunction to restrain the defendant from getting up m

the offence. Mr. C. E. Fitzroy, of the Solicitor's Depart- tain medicine so as to imitate the plaintiffs Melro;

ment, Customs House, London, explained that defendant's Tablets. The defendants had agreed to treat the motic
as the trial of the action. He aeked for a perpeta
licence expired on September 1, 1913, but was not renewed.
injunction in terms of the motion. Defendants we;
He sold a bottle of dutiable medicine on November 13. to pay agreed damages, and the costs.

Defendant was given the option of taking out a licence and His Lordship accordingly granted the injunction.

IDaying 5s. to the compromise fund, which he agreed to do.

He bad taken the licence, but the 5s. had not been paid,

so the case was brought before the magistrates. Defendant

was ordered to pay 5s. and costs. Stolz Electeophoxe.

Pall Bown a Cellar.- In the Lord Mayor's Court, Before Mr. .Justice Joyce on January 27, in the .a.
of Stolz Electrophone Co. (London), Ltd. v. Sto
London, before the Recorder (Sir Forrest Fulton, K.C.) and Electrophone Co. (1913), Ltd., Mr. Ashton Cross, <
behalf of the plaintiffs, asked that a receiver might V
a jury, on Januai-y 27, J. R. G. Hall, an infant', of Corn-
appointed. He said that at the beginning of 1909
wall Street, St. George's-in-the-East, sued, through his
Cfather, Messrs. plaintiff company was formed by Mr. Louis Jo8e£
Zimmermann & Co., 10 St. Mary- Stolz, who sold a large number of electric applianc
for enabling the deaf to hear; one end of these cou
at^Hill. E.C., for damages for personal injuries caused be put in the waistcoat pocket. These appliances seenn
to be very successful, and, according to evidence, ll
through falling down a cellar belonging to the defendants, turnover grew from 12,(X)0?. to 33,000?.

which adjoined the highway. The accident happened on Counsel for the defendants said that he had not h;,
AJanuary 3, 1912. time to answer the statements on the other side. H'
bar for the protection of the public clients contended that they had been induced to purcha
by certain statements.
was not in position at the time, and the boy had a 12-ft.
His Lord,ship said that what Mr. Ashton Cross
fall into the defendants' cellar. His injuries were attended saying seemed a long way off the case. He asked h
came the property out of Mr. Cross's possession.
to first at Billingsgate Mission, afterwards at Guy's Hos-
pital, where ho remained for two weeks, and he was then Ml'. Cross, during further lensthy statement*, sa

treated at the Eastern Dispensary. For the defence, it was that there were negotiations, with the result that 1'
said that the plaintiff had brought about the accident April 16, 1913, the new company was registered, th
being undoubtedly mentioned in an agreement
through his own fault in not looking where he was going. February 6. The object of the new company was
Two flaps to the opening in the cellar were kept open from acquire and take over as a working concern the busine
9 A.M. to 6 P.M. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, of the plaintiff company. The new company issued '
and awarded him 50?. damages. The Recorder said there prospectus on February 26, and invited subscriptio-^
had been a previous trial in that case, and he understood from the public, saving there would be a purchase '

that the costs of the first trial were to abide the result of 50,000?,—25.000?. in cash and 25.0C0 shares of 1?. eac'
the second. The plaintiff would therefore be entitled, Eventually the new company drew a cheque for 17,101
assuming the verdict stood, to the costs of both trials. on account of the purchase price, and that was hand
There would be judgment for the plaintiff, with costs of
the first and the present trial. The Recorder added that to the liquidator of the old company. Counsel alleg
that the balance had not been paid. His clients (t
the jury desired that the 50?. should go to the child, anij plaintiffs) were asking for specific performance.

not be swallowed up in costs. He ordered the damages to After hearing other statements from 'Sir. Ashton Cro

be paid into Court to be invested for the benefit of the his Lordship said he was not so much impressed by t
child. Leave to appeal was applied for and refused.
story he had heard as to think he should be justified
A Question of Xilablllty. —At the Croydon County
appointing a receiver meanwhile. He allowed the ca
Court last week, Boulton Macro. Ltd., Stratford. E.-
to stand over until Friday next to enable the responder
brooight a claim against Mr. Harold Rayne, chemist and to the motion to answer the evidence filed in support
druggist, trading as Rayne's Drug Stores (Ravnes, Ltd.),
the motion.
22 Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath, for 39/. 6s. 5d., the

balance of an account for drugs sold and delivered. Mr.
Horace Samuel, for the plaintiff company, stated that there
had been a High Court action against defendant, who said
that the company was responsible for all the debts. They
were therefore included, but the contention would be that,
while that anight apply to articles at Brigstock Road, it
could not to the shop at Wandsworth, with which the com-
pany had nothing to do. The company had since written

accepting liability for the whole debt, but the curious part Secret Process of a Black Dye.

was that the person admitting it was Mr. Rayne. Evidence The hearing before Mr. Justice Sargant was conclud

was given in support of the plaintiff company's claim by on Tuesday, .January 27 (the eleventh^day) , of the acti
Allan Joseph Boulton, who obtained the order for the goods,
brought by the Actiengesellschaft fiir Anilin Fabril
and stated that Mr. Rayne had told him that Rayne's Dmg
tion in Berlin and the Mersey Chemical Co., Ltd., agaii
Pharmacy at Wandsworth was a private concern. Mr.
Ramsey, leading clerk to the plaintiff company, also gave Levinstein, Ltd., ^Manchester, for alleged infringement

fSidence. For the defence (which was represented by Mr. a black-dye patent, No. 1151 of 1900 (see C. 1- D., J;

\v'Teedy). Mr. Harold Rayne said he is manager of tlie com- uary 17, p. 41, and January 24, p. 40).
,jany. Ho never carried on a business at Rayne's Drug
Stores, because that' would be derogatory. He had a fire Mr. Colefax, K.C, in concluding a two-days' '

last November, and got into financial difficulties. The only speech
way in which he could get assistance was by forming the
business into a company. Wandsworth Road was not in- the plaintiffs, had a passage with his lordship on the p
blem of whether the patent was a pioneer patent, and wl.
cluded in the schedule, because when that was drawn up
was the significance, in respect of originality, of the si
the shop was not taken. The Wandsworth Road shop was
opened on Easter Sunday, and he fitted it from Thornton stitution of boiling in the process of melting. In this, '
Heath. He then obtained a 100?. debenture, and told Mr.
said, was a clear distinction between the plaintiffs' P'
Boulton that he had formed a company, and would let him cess and everything that had been done before. By nc^
have some cash, and all future accouiits should be limited.
of the earlier processes could the plaintiffs' product
In the course of cross-examination, witness said he had by
commercially obtained. The plaintiffs had knocked do-
deed poll borne the name of Rayne four or five years. It
was formerly Isaacs. The Wandsworth shop was carried on the earlier Casella structm-e, he contended, and uf:
with the company's money. His Honour was satisfied that
so far as Brigstock Road was concerned Messrs. Boulton nothing but the bricks to build a house of a quite n:
did not know that was transferred till April 14. Plaintiffs, kind. Here was the parting of the ways. Previou:

therefore, were entitled to judgment to that date. As to there had been a melt at a high temperature ; the plaanti!
Wandsworth Road, _Mr. Rayne admitted he had thereon his patent discovered a commercial advantage in a meth
own name, and plaintiffs were entitled io judgment in tliat
case. Judgment was aocoixlingly entered against Mr. Rayne which dispensed with the high temperature.
for 25?. 13s., and against the company for the balance.

::

NUAEY 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST 191

3 Judt^e : You found boiling would do. That does .showed that since its inception the comjjany had made a
>em to me to be a great discovery. Its results were
tant but would you call that a fundamental dis- gross profit of 17,144/. 9.s. lid. With the deficiency of

Colefax thought so. Dr. Passmore had declared 137,869/. is. 5(1. shown in the statement of affairs there was
verybody, at the time it was introduced, would have
;d the idea of boiling. The plaintiffs' discovery was 155,013/. 13.?. 4(Z. to account for. That amount was accounted
neer invention, .and opened a new era not only for
for as follows: Expenditure in carrying on the business,
,
17,366/. 176'. : bad debts, 3,121/. 2s. 2d. depreciation of furni-
la dyes, but in the products of delicate shades as well, ;
lis Judge : But the inventor addressed himself only to
.lellack-dye manufacture; he was not contemplating the ture, 205/. Os. Id. preliminary expenses. 569/. Is. 2d.
;
vviation of an industry. What was in his mind was
iia 'ial, not what his invention remotely effected. The liability as drawers on bills of exchange, 88,314/. 14.s. Id. ;

Ifcse was surely dealing with certain named constituents losses on investments, 35/. 19.s. 2d. : and goodwill written off,
oai'ticiilar manufacture, and what he did was to intro-
44,400/. 19s. 8c/. The stock appearing on the statement only
a change of method.
Colefax adverted to the defendants' process in his amounted to 940/. at current prices. The remaining 32,000/,

A-ords. The discovery that dye could be formed at worth of stock was in the hands of secured creditors, to
:er temperature was the invention of the plaintiffs, and
0 bmitted that it had been proved the defendants had whom it had been pledged. The inference was that the
' di-nitrophenol and had boiled it with a polysulphide.
company had been doing a large trade with a totally inade-
had boiled it continuously for fifteen hours at a tem-
ure of 107°. TJiis had given them a product identical quate capital. The representative of Messrs. John Knight,

ll the product of the plaintiffs' process, and that, he Ltd., asked whether the failure of the company was due

.siilutted, was an infringement of the plaintiffs' patent. to losses on short sales of glycerin ? The Chairman said he

, Igmeiit was reserved. did not think there was any substance in the rnmours that

the company suffered through short .sales. No resolutions

were passed : therefore the voluntary liquidation will be

continued with the present liquidators.

Cbarges or Mortgages.

Under the Companies (Consolidation) Act, iso8, Section 93, the
mortgagres or charges therein specified are (except in Scot-

land) void against the liquidator and any creditor of the
company unless filed with the Registrar in accordance with

the conditions laid down in the Act. Particulars of the follow-

LIMITED COMPANIES. ing have been filed at Somerset House, London, W.C.

New Companies Registerea. —Chameleon Oil Co., Ltd. Indenture dated January 4. 1914,

',C. means Private Company and R.O. Registered Office. supplemental to trust deed dated September 13, 1911, secur-
ing an unlimited amount of debenture stock, under which
!;co Co., Ltd. (P.O.).— Capital 2,000^ Objects : To take stock to the amount of 4,400/. has been issued. The present
the^ business of manufacture and sale of a medicinal deed provides that no further stock shall be issued without
iration known as " Sacco and Comanga,'' carried on the consent of the trustees and alters the conditions from
a floating to a fixed charge, and otherwise varies the terms
J. Swinglehurst at_280 New Cross Road, S.E., as the of the trust deed. Trustees: A. 'W. Stanton, 108.\ Cannon
Street, E.C. ; and C. E. van Rotten Pole, Hill House, Har--
)Co Co." The first directors are J. J. Swinglehurst and purhey. Lanes.

ockley. S. Cleaver dt' Sons. X?fZ.— Mortgage dated December 24.

1913, to secure 2,500/., charged on certain land and premises

iNTiLM, & Co., Ltd. (P. C.).—Capital l.OOOL. in 11. in Twickenham. Holder F. C. Heffer, The Cottage, West
:

Objects To carry on the business of manufacturers Dean, Sussex.
:
!S.

nd dealers in chemicals, drugs, oils, seeds, manures,

', feeding-stuffs, colours and essences, etc. H. M. AUeyn GAZETTE.

le first managing director. R.O., 5 Llovds Avenue,

:nn, E.G.

R. Shaw, Lid. (P.C.).— Capital 7,000/., in 1/. shares, Partnerships Dissolved.
cts: To carry on the business of wholesale and retail
M.\EPLES, A. N., PovAH, F. S., and S.uipsox, Edith M.,
; and provision merchants, dealers in malt extract, tea Bank Chambers, Fargate, Sheffield, beauty specialists,
manicurists, and chiropodists, under the style of
coffee merchants, bacon factors, grocers, bakers, bakers'
Madame Flexman.
riesmen, etc., and to adopt an agreement with J. R.
The first directors are J. R. Shaw (chairman and Neild, F., M.D., and Gh.^ce, N., M.D., Tunbridge Wells.
Kent, physicians and surgeons, under the style of Neild
agmg dn-cctor), J. H. Shaw, A. E. Shaw, and T. H. k Grace.
ey. R.O., Ribble Road. Blackpool.
WiLLiAJis. H. R., and Hughes, L., Richmond House.
SNUM Co., Ltd.—Capital 12,000^, in 1?. shares. Objects Buckley, Flintshire, surgeons and general medical prac-
titioners, under the style of H. R. Williams & Hughes.
lanufacture an antiseptic fluid and>6owder called Wass-
i,s Sanum, to sell the same and" certain inhalation WooDHE.iD, Ada M., and Vaughan, Ada F.. Morgan Arcade.
lines and other apparatus, and to adopt an agreemenc Cardiff, ladies' toilet specialists, under the name of
Margunte B. Schorr, Catherine C. 'Western, and Marv
. The first directors arc Nugent Chaplin, A. Parrv Aida.
''^iS^S director), Hon. Noel G. Bligh. and Hans Barthel.
The Bankruptcy Acts.
155 Bronipton Road, London, S.W.
Receiving Ohdehs.
Company News.
Atkins, T. E., White Hall, South Norwood Hill. Surrey,
^RiL, Ltd.—The directors recommend a dividend on
ordinary shares at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum medical practitioner.
mvthe second half of the vear and 2
cent, on the Riddall, T. B., Dickinson Road, Rusholme, formerly Pala-
tine Road, Withington, Manchester, physician and
surgeon.

n-ed shares for the year 1913; 10,000?. is placed to
ve, and 5,637/. is carried forward.
COLLEGE NOTES.
•NRY FiNKLEE & Co.. Ltd.— Pursuant to the provisions of
^ompanies (Consolidation) Act, a meeting was held on —Bath College of Phaemact. At the recent terminal com-
laiy <ib at AVinchestcr House. Old Broad Street. B.C..
le creditors of Henry Finkler & Co., Ltd., merchants, petitive examinations held at the above-named institution

nmdi b23^%C"ulIlI iim bankers, carrying on business at the following awards were made: Silver Medal. Mr. Geo.-
Da vis.on. Bvouzc Medeil, Mr. G. H. Fletcher. liejuinfftoji
'^J,^" Mr. A. F. Whinnev, who

Street, B.C.
been appointed to act as one of the liquidators, pre-
Prize (presented by Messrs. Burroughs Wellcome & Co.).
nntini'f fM on""^?"* of affairs .showed gross liabilities
«f ^^'"^'^ 102,198'. is expected to rank, Mr. Cyril B. Peake. Ceriificeites of il/o-)/—Practical
for preferential claims, the assets were
rr^alllloiM^,ng 201/. 14,329/., and as regarded the unsecured Chemistry, Mr. G. H. Fletcher Dispensing. Messrs. Geo.
;
iiated to realise
Davison and C. B. Peake Chemistrv' and Physics, Messrs.
;

1.'l\ ^ehcioncy was thus disclosed of 87.869?. The Geo. Davison, I. David, T. E. Evans, G. H. Fletcher, and

"^'^'^''^ ''"^^ ^-OOO'- As .an indication of the R. G. NichoUs; Pharmacy and Latin, Messrs. Greo. Davison,

unt transacted, Mr. -Whinnev mentioned that G. H. Fletcher, and R. G. Nicholls; Materia Medica,
approximatelv two millions
^tTuurrnnolv»er 'Idfu'r''i'ng 1913 was Messrs. G. Davison, T. E. Evans, G. H. Fletcher, and G. C.
a deficiency account, which
- ne also presented T EWilli ani*^ ; Botfinv, IMessr^s. G. L)?ivison. I, David,

Evans, G. H. Fletcher, and R. G. Nicholls.

192 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST

Jaxuary 31. 10!.i

BIRTHS. PERSONALITIES.

Authenticated notices are inserted witiiout ciiarg-e. Authenticated information for this seecctt-iionn will be received hr
Editor, and published, if not in the nature of advertise„,^'
Davidson.—At 13 Gledhow Terrace, South Kensington
London, S.W., on January 21, the wife of Alexander Mr William Robert Williams, the newlv ekol
Pharmaceutical Assoc'iatir,
Davidson, pharmacist, of a son. President of the Cardiff
WiLSON.-nAt 11 Torrisdale Stree», Blairhill, Caat>-
the son of Captain and Mrs. W. Williams, of Sta
bndge, on January 23, the wife of G. Clark Wilson, Koad, Lardift, where he was born in 1878 '\ft»r Iv'
pharmacist, of a son.
educated at St. Mary's Hall, '
DEATHS,
he was apprenticed to
Authenticated notices are inserted without charge.
Messrs. W. Furnivall & Son,

City Road, Cardiff, in 1892,

and two years later passed

Hewitt.—At Rochester, on January 3, Mr. Joseph the Preliminary examina-

_ tion. He afterwards became

Saunders Hewitt, chemist and druggist, aged seventy- assistant to Mr. John

mthree. Mr. Hewitt, who passed the jNIodified examination Hughes, chemist, Cardiff,

1868, was formerly in business at 175 High Street, and in 1898 he proceeded to
London, where he was an
Rochester, and retired in June 1910.

Moore.—On January 18, Mr. Francis Samuel Moore, assistant to Mr. L. B.

chemist and druggist, Castle Cary, Somerset. Mr. Moore Thornton, Stockwell, and

had been in business in the town since 1859. He was Mr. R. Hughes. While in
Chairman of the Parish Council, a member of the Rural London he studied at the

Council and Board of Guardians, a Council School Imperial College and at the

Manager, and a Charity Trustee. School of Pharmacy, Blooms-

—Shearsmith. ^At Bournemouth, on January 15, Mr. bury Square, and passed the Mil. \y. r. Will

Lewis Shearsmith, chemist and druggist, Whitby, aged Minor examination in 1904.

tliirty. Ill May of that year he started business on his jo

Stieling.—At Arncliffe, South Brae Drive, Jordanhill, account in Cardiff, and the following year was jo:'d
on Januai-y 18, Mr. George Stirling, chemist and drug-
gist, formerly of Dunoon. Mr. Stirling, after passing ill partnership by Mr. F. Lea, the present Hon. SecreT
the Minor examination in January 1883, carried on
a pharmacy in Argyle Street, Dunoon, but some years of the Cardiff Association. This partnership was s-
ago he went into a larger business as a manufacturing
solved in 1908, and since then Mr. Williams has tr.'xi
chemist. on his own account. Throughout his career he has t:''n

—Stjtton. At North Walsham, Norfolk, recently, Mr. great interest in organisation, and has, in additioilo

being on the committee of the Cardiff Association, '"n

Assistant Secretary and Hon. Secretary of it. The an-al

William Sutton, chemist and druggist, Market Place, dinner of the Association took place on Wednesy,
North Walsham, aged sixty-three. The intermerxt took
January 28, when Mr. Williams was supported byiie
place on January 22.
Lord Mavor (Alderman Dr. J. Robinson), the Delv
—Wright. At "Highlands," Bickley Park, Kent, on
Lord Mayor (Dr. J. R. Smith), the Town Clerk, Cii-
January 28, Elizabeth, widow of William Valentine
Wright, aged eighty-eight. Mrs. Wright's portrait was cillor W. B. Francis, the Chairman and Deputy-C!ir-
given in The Chemist and Druggist. July 26, 1913. Mr.
W. V. Wright was the originator of Liquor carbonis deter- man of the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, Dr. Ei>n
gens'. Mr. H. C. Wright, a director of Wright, Layman
& Umney, Ltd., is her son. J. Maclean, Dr. H. R. Vachell, and :\Ir. F. E. B/'n

(Bournemouth). '

Mr. David Haitly Burn, chemist and drugst,
Arbroath, who recently retired from business, ha|ig
disposed of his pharmacy

BUSINESS CHANGES. there, is a native of Thurso,
and his pharmaceutical ex-
Authenticated information for this section will be received by the perience extends over sixty
Editor, and published, if not in the nature of advertisement. years, for it was in 1852 that
he became an apprentice to

Mr. J. Johnstone, chemist and druggist, has opened I he late jNIr. James Watt,
a pharmacy at 327 Ley Street, Ilford. Haddington, who subse-
quently became a member
Me. p. Brusse, cinchona-broker, etc., has removed his of the Pharmaceutical Coun-
offices to Heerengracht 125, Amstei'dam. cil. At the end of his four
years' apprenticeship, Mr.
Boots, Ltd., have taken premises at 18 King Street, Burn went as an assistant
Huddersfield, which will be opened on completion of to Messrs. Berwick, Alloa,
taking charge of a branch
alterations. shop. [n 1858 he went to
Arbroath, having bought the
Mr. Nuttall, the dispenser at Chesterfield and North business of ^Ir. Ross, who

Derbyshire Hospital, has taken premises at Staveley,
which he intends opening shortly as a pharmacy.

The American Drug Supply Company (A.D.S. Co.)

have moved to larger premises at 6 Trafalgar Buildings, for health reasons retired, and afterwards went to

Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross, London, W.C. Zealand. Arbroath was no exception to the Scotchulc

Me. H. G. Fletcher, of Eckington and Killamarsh, in those days that doctors did their own dispeD,ig.

S " held, is disposing of his busin-ess at Heath, Derby- and chemists and druggists had to depend upon the lail
shire, as he finds it mrpossible, through the Insurance trade for their living. Three years after Mr. Burn '"t
dispensing, to give it the necessary time. Mr. S. Taylor, to Arbroath a neighbouring chemist, Mr. Wi mj
late with Messrs. Boots, Ltd., at Stoke-on-Trent and
_

Laurence, died, and Mr. Burn acquired his businessml

Newcastle, Staffs, has taken over the business. the lease of his premises, to which he transferred
stock and continued to occupy until 1900. In that Mr
Mr. H. Bown, of Sheffield, who served his appren-
ticeship with Mr. Bernard Ellis, of Eccleshall Road, and he closed down and removed the stock to a branch ,op
since he qualified has managed the Abbeydale Road which he had established some years before in amjer
branch for Mr. Roebuck, has purchased the business of
Mr. Geo. Holmes, 164 Cemetery Road, Sheffield. Mr. part of the town, and which he disposed of recely.
Bown takes possession shortly, and Mr. Holmes is
Mr. Burn has frequentlv contributed to our coluis,
retiring into private life. chiefl.v under a nom-dc-'plume, his observations recang

those" of the late Mr. Burrell, of Montrose, always l")g

NU .^EY 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST l'J3

Wet and far-seeing. wish him a happy and long Clynol '" ; for an obesity confection (3). By J. V. T.
Daniels, 32 Theobald's Road, London, W.C. 356,310.
rhent.
'" PiNOCENE " ; for an inhalant (3). By H. C. Edwards,
V. Degen has been re-elected to serve on the govcrn-
)dy of the Incorporated Society of Advertising Cen- 17 Queen's Road, Hastings. 356,871.

ts. " Anzytin " : for medical chemicals (3). By Vereinigto
Chemische Wcrke Aktiengescllschaft, Salzufer 16, Char-
A. E. HoBBS, chemist and druggist, has been lottenburg Germany. 357,325.
d President of the Tunbridge Wells Tradesmen's

iation. A Pharmacist's Uniform.

Feed H. Waterhouse, pharmacist, dispenser in A Country J":armacist (49/70) asks us to tell him about
Naval Hospital, Haslar, has been co-opted a member "the shop i-r .orm such as Bell's men wear. What is it?
e Gosport and Alverstoke District Council Free Is it useful v.s well as omamental? Is it suitable for a
country business ? Where obtained ? " These questions we
ries Committee. have submitted to Mr. John D. Marshall, managing
director of Messrs. John Bell & Croyden, Ltd., Wigmore
IsEE is no change in the representation of iMessrs. Street. London. W., and we append his reply, with a sketch
Ill & Hanburys, Ltd., in the North of Ireland and of a C . (( D. man in the uniform.

pool, but Mr. H. G. Grantham is supplementing I have no objection to telling your readers our experi-
ence of the staff wearing a distinctive uniform. It must
avelling over certain districts. be remembered that the chef or cook always wears clean
overclothing when preparing food; surely medicine in-
J. H. Collins, chemist and druggist, Mayor of
ield in 1909, has been placed on the Commission tended for human consumption should receive equal
e Peace for the Borough, and appointed by the
aseptic conditions ; both gx)
ration as a Charity Trustee.
down "Red Lane," and this
J. W. Feanklin, of ]\Iessrs. J. Thompson & Co.,
idea of aseptic conditions,
Japan, has completed liis annual visit to the Old carried out as far as possible,
,ry, and leaves for Japan by the overland route on is a strong argument with
lary 1. Mr. Franklin hopes to return to England
customers who are asked to
September next. pay a fee for dispensing. If
such a thing as price is men-
. W. Turner Ewing, M.A., of Caius College, Cam- tioned, I always remind the
e, son of Mr. J. Laidlaw Ewing, is spending four
hs in the London branch of Duncan, Flockhart & Co., patient that it is not an
factuving chemists, 143 Farringdon Road, E.C., to ordinary commercial transac-
experience of the organiisation and business methods tion, but a fee for skill and
care in compounding under
3d out there by Mr. A. Proctor Atkinson.

J. Thomas Morison Maben, Ph.C, son of Mr. T.
en, F.C.S., of Messrs. Parke, Davis & Co., leaves
Ion next week to take up an appointment with
ITS. Maynai-d & Co., Ltd., Singapore. Mr. Maben
been for the past eighteen months with Messrs.

ry & Moore, Ltd., New Bond Street, London.

the best and cleanest possible

TRADE-MARKS. conditions, 'plus the cost of

figures in parentheses refer to the classes in which the marks materials. Very rarely does
are grouped, for a list of which, with particulars as to registra- the client grumble after-

iion, see " The Chemist and Drug-gist Diary," 1914, P- 237. wards.

ictions to the registration of any of the undermentioned The overalls which we use
applications must be stated on Form T.M. No. 7 (obtam- are made in brown holland,
able at Money Order Offices for £1) and lodged with
Mr. W. Temple Franks, Comptroller-General, Patents Office, they reach well below the
25 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., knees, and have red collars
within one month of the dates mentioned. and cuffs. This combination
was chosen as part of our
colour-scheme of oak and

rom the " Trade-marhs Journal" January 21, 191If.) various shades of red and
brown for boxes, paper,
GANO," for fertilisers (2) ; " Sterole/' for soil sterilisers
etc. ; not only does it give a
md insecticides (2). By E. R. Bugge, Eclipse Works,
distinctive note to the phar-
^'estcombe Hill, Londo'n, S.E. 354,742/3. macy, but is a direct saving

fensit"; for disinfectants (2). By McDougall Bros., in clothes. In the summer
no coat or waistcoat need be
ltd., 66 and 68 Port Street, Manchester. 357,086. worn, and instead of the dis-

B ce of St. George and the Dragon, with words penser's coat being stained
' Hostetter's Celebrated Stomach Bitters," etc. ; for with the marks of his
tomach bitters (3). Bv The Hostetter Co., 59-60 Water
labour, he is always clean
itrcct, Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A. 348,679. and neat.

EET Anchor": for a liver and stomach medicine (3). The coats are made of good material by Messrs.
3y J. P. Young, 4a Westgate, North Berwick. 355,180. Ciardiner, of Edgware Road, and cost 8s. bd. each. With
care, a coat will last at least tw^o years. Each assistant
SSOIDS " for cough-lozenges, etc. (3). By T. Korfoot & has a number, and usually has his name plainly marked on
; the inside. The coats go to the laundry in the ordinary
way, and cost 3cZ. for washing.
Bardsley, Lanes. 355,520.
For a couaitry business there is no doubt they would be
lcedon"; for medicines (3), and for all goods (42). By equally useful. I can remember many jobs I had to do
E. T. Pearson & Co., Ltd., 49 Watling Street, London, as an apprentice, where a coat would have been ideal,
but in those far-off days we all wore white aprons. Then
B.C. 355,675/6. I had some made with a top part that came almost to the
chin, and was held up by a strap round the neck.
IGMATINE"; for a seasickness remedy (3). By H. J.
imith, 557 West 42nd Street, New York City, U.S.A. In hospitals, from the surgeon downwards, every one
wears a coat ; dentists of good class nowadays wear a
555,853. white jacket when operating, so that others find the utility
and neatness of a working coat pay both as a saving of
RNETTOL " {" Burnett " disclaimed) for a nit-destroyer clothes and not a little as an advertisement-.
;

(5), and for perfumery, etc. (48). Bv J. H. Low,

56 Broad Street, Fraserburgh. 355,991, '356,538.

Veethusa' Brand" and device of same, and words

arethusa Brand" alone; for essences and essential

(3, 4, 42. and 43). By Fratelli Jung, Via Alloro 3,

Palermo, Sicily. 356,002/5. 357,113/6.

3CALZOSE8 "; {or medicated pastilles (3). By Moggeson

556 283' '^'^ ^"'^ ^'^^^ ^"""^o"'

'

194 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST Jaxl aey 31, 191,

CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Grignard reaction being the reduction of the tuo-"
chloride and the formation concurrently of diphem-r'
A MEETING was held in Builington House, London, Dr. Hewett communicated a paper by Messrs 'j '
W., on Thursday, January 22", at 8.30 p.m. Pro- Hewett, R. H. Johnson, and F. G. Pope on ''The \b<
tion Spectra of Nitrated Phenylhydrazone."
fessor W. H. Perkin presided.
The first paper read was by ^Messrs. G. Barger, ]M.D., Two papers were communicated "by Dr. Keniiar ..

and W. W. Starling on crystals of J. Kennar and Miss E. Curtis on the " Condensaty-
,i
Glutaconic Ester," and the other by J. Kennar and
\[
^lathews on "fi Hvdrinamine." "'

Organic Compounds Coloured Blue by Iodine.

Dr. Barger said that there are many bodies besides

starch which give a blue colouration with iodine. Some P.A.T.A. and CD.A.

of these bodies give a colloidal precipitate, which, on

standing, coagulates, leaving the liquid colourless, while

others give a blue crystalline precipitate. In all these THE new Council of the Proprietary Articles
Association for 1914 has been elected, the ...
cases a definite quantity of iodine is taken up, which being as follows :

quantity depends on the concentration of the iodine

solution. It has been found that the presence of water is Manufacturers' Section.

not necessary for this combination, since solution of certain Allen & Hanburys, Ltd., Bethnal Green, E.
Beetham & Son, chemists, Cheltenham.
bodies in pyridine gives rise to blue precipitates with

iodine. Also the vapours of many substances combine with Grossmith, J.. Son & Co., Newgate Street. E.C.
iodine vapour to yield a blue compound. Though in many Kutnow, S., & Co., Ltd., 41 Farringdon Road. EC
Mellin's Food. Ltd.. Stafford Street, Peckham, S.K
cases definite crystalline salts were formed, there was Newton, Chambers & Co., Ltd. Thornclifie, Sh'effii\

apparently no similarity in crystalline structure, and the Powell, Thos., Ltd.. 1 Albion Place, Blackfriar^ V. -o

compoimd formed was of the nature of a solid solution or S.E.

mixed ci-ystals. Some groupings of atoms appear to Scott & Bownc, Ltd.. 10 and 11 Stonecutter Street, E.

intensify the colour, though in themselves they do not Sanitas Co.. Ltd.. Lockslcv Street, Limehouse. E.

react in this way. Thus benzene nuclei introduced into a IJmney, J. G. (Wright, Layman & Umnev, Ltd.). 43 .^^h-
wark Street, S.E.
body which gives a colour reaction considerably increase

Athe delicacy of the action. substituted flavone gave a Wholesalers' Section.

distinct reaction at a concentration of N/ 50,000, at which [

dilution nothing is visible when using starch. In some Barclay & Sons, Ltd.. 95 Farringdon Street. E.C.

Burroughs, G. H. (John Thompson, [

cases the colloidal precipitate, on standing, becomes Ltd.), 58 HaJr«

Street, Liverpool. '

crystalline and colourless. It has been foimd that the Butler & Crispe, 82 Clerkenwell Road, E.C.
i
bodies yielding the reaction contain a ringed structure,
Edwards, W., & Son. 157 Queen Victoria Street. E'
and it is deduced that, since erythrodextrin (a derivative (

Evans. Gadd & Co., Ltd., 97 Fore Street. Exeter. '

of starch) gives a similar reaction, starch contains at least Hirst, Brooke & Hirst, Ltd., Millgarth Mills, Dyer EjeeH

Leeds. '

one ring in its constitution. j

May, Roberts & Co., Ltd., 9 Clerkenwell Road. E.cl ]
I

Formic Acid. McCaig, J. (Evans Son Lescher & Webb. Ltd.). 56|an^

Two papers by Mr. A. J. Ewings were next communi- over Street, Liverpool.
cated together on "The Preparation of Pure Formic
Acid " and " The Mutual Solubility of Formic Acid and Newbery, F., & Sons, Ltd., 27 Charterhouse SquareK.CJ
Woolley, James, Sons & Co., Ltd., Victoria BlgM
— —Benzene and the System : Benzene Formic Acid Water."
Manchester.
The author referred to the various figures to be found in
scientific literature for the constants of formic acid, and Betail Section.
concluded that up till now anhydrous formic acid had
never been obtained. The method he adopted for deter- Allen, C. B., 20 High Road, Kilburn, N.W.
mining the purity was the observation of the critical
solution-temperature of f ormic acid and benzene ; that Atkinson, J. G., 27 Lunhani Road, Upper Noiwooct.Kl
is, the temperature at which the two bodies become per-
fectly miscible. He found that it is extremely difficult Barnes, A. J., 1 Charlemont Street. Dublin. |
to separate the last traces of water from the acid, and, Bunker, C. J. G., 50 York Street, Tivickenham.
having done so, special precautions must be taken to
prevent contamination by water, owing to the great Clarke, R. Feaver, 9 The Avenue, Gravcsoiul.
hygroscopic powers of the pure acid. The method adopted
was to fractionally distil the purest commercial formic Colley, H. W., 253 Cleethorpes Road, Grimsbv.
acid, using a still head. The fractions were mixed with
benzene, and that giving the lowest solution-temperature Pickard, S. N.. Ossett. Yorks.
was fractionally crystallised till a point was reached when
further crystallisation produced no decrease in the critical Pond, G. P., 68 Fleet Street. E.C.
iolution-temperature. This sample was taken as being
pure foi-mic acid. The temperature observed was 73.2° C. Rowsell, P. F., F.C.S.. 74 High Street. Exeter.
With this acid it was found that very slight supercooling
Sutherland, J. W., 127 Buchanan Street, Glasgow.
is necessary to produce solidification, while in the ordinary
acid several degrees below the true freezing-point are In the Wholesale Section, there were also eleveiaiB
required before solidification takes place. It was found
didates nominated, and, as a result of the ewionj
,
jMessrs. Sangers have been replaced by ]Messrs. Bu^t 1
that the effect of water on the critical solution-temperature
is strictly additive. This was determined by mixing the Crispe. There w-as no contest in either the Majfsoj
formic acid containing varying quantities of water with
benzene in a small bulb tube, warming till completely turers' or Retail Section.
miscible, and noting the temperature at which they i
separate on being cooled. j
The vacancy in the Retail Section, caused bv thepati

of Mr. W. R. Barnes, has been filled bv Mr. C. B.

of Kilburn. '

At the first meeting of the new Council, held ovtmj

uary 8, !Mr. J. Godber, of Newton, Chambers ii(3o.<

Ltd., Thorncliffe, Sheflield, was elected Presidenl and

Mr, Benjamin Hirst, of Hirst, Brooke & Hirst, teds^

was elected one of the Vice-Presidents, the othi two

—Vice-Presidents namely, Messrs. Grossmith an ^t*,
—Barnes, Dublin remaining as before.

At a meeting of the directors of the Chemists' I(ei«*

Association, held on January 8. jMr. P. F. Rf'sell,'

Exeter, was unanimously elected Chairman, anlM'-.

C. J. G. Bunker, Twickenham, was re-elected ViceJiair-

Aman for the ensuing year. large number of newpare?

Other Papers. were allotted, and a considerable number of oljones

Mr. E. C. Turner described the attempts he had made transferred. Several claims were passed for pa|ien''
to obtain organo-derivatives of tungsten, and came to the
conclusion that, although a body of the formula W(CH,),,I and in two instances instructions were given thatjauB-"

—has been described, it has no existence the effect of the made on members be resisted on their behalf. |^'*f^'

of the claims (blackmailing cases) were in counecti''i^"''

the Insurance dispensing. '

m- 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST 195

ise rare occasions when the Thames is frozen tageous that a 100-per-cent. profit is gained on every tin sold

the printing-press has always claimed the prior of Eucryl tooth-powder. The retail price is protected, too,

the frost fair held on the ice. The last " great on the Proprietary Articles Trade Association plan
as exactly a hundred years ago, and the com-
ve pieces produced from the ten printing-presses (Pp. 64 and 65.)
re set up in mid-Thames are sufficiently rare to
special class of collectors. That was bef ore the Freeman's Cblorodyne, Iitd., 70 Kennington Park
nent of The Chemist and Druggist and the in-
Df our system of insets in the Winter Issue, Road, London, S.E., insert a circular in the Colonial and
journal been founded in 1814 our printer would
Foreign copies of this issue, in w^hich they urge that, apart

from the undoubted merits of Freeman's chlorodyne, the

proposition placed before retailers is the excellent profit

yielded on the sale.

Horllck's Malted nillk Co., Slough, Bucks, place a

have moved his press to the middle of the circular in this number which deals with Horlick's malted

d by now connoisseurs would have been out- Amilk and Horlick's malted milk lunch tablets. facsimile

ni'each other for specimens of the insets of that of the package, the trade prices and terms are given, and
'he insets of the present day are certainly attrac-
gh, and the mann-er in which the advertisers em- an offer is made of attractive advertising matter. The

lunch tablets are a capital idea, as they appeal to a different

stic typography has resulted in a fine collection section of the public than does the malted milk itself.

We have had the opportunity of examining Cases displaved on the counter promote the sales wonder-

lars and price-lists, and the observations which fully. (Pp. '64 and 65.)

id are designed to give our readers a sort of first Xchtbyol Gesellscbaft, Cordes Hermanni & Co., Ham-
, the contents, in anticipation of more leisurely
burg, tell of ichthyol and ichthyolate. The products which
ion prior to filling orders for the goods advertised. bear these registered trade-marks are produced by dis-

tilling a mineral deposit found near Seefeld. in the Tyrol.

i. Hanburys, Xitd., Bethnal Green, London, E., The undefined chemical combination, containing a high
i very handsome insets. One of these bears on the
percentage of sulphur thus obtained, cannot be successfully

beautifully printed reproduction in colours of a imitated, as the proper raw material is not found elsewhere,

>an liner going full-speed ahead to its overseas and beloTigs to the company. (Pp. 32 and 33.)

111. This cover encloses what may be described as lUcKesson it. Robblns, manufacturing chemist's, New
York (London agents, S. Maw, Son & Sons, 7 to 12 Alders-
I ated monograph on " Allenburys " factories, fields,
gate Street, E.C.), provide a four-page inset which gives
iji nets. The illustrations are engravings from photo-
particulars of the McK. & R. capsuled pills and Calox.
liisrhich are printed in black with a buff background,
Atlas supporting an ovoid capsuled pill on the front page
r collection of views is embodied in the Diary
p. 197, but to these are now added interiors and will serve to fix the inset. The inside pages give the prices
piucts. The second of Messrs. Allen & Hanburys' and formulae of a selection of the pills made under the
" McK. & R." system, chiefly those in which reductions or
an exhaustive price-list, supplemented by illustra- changes have been made or which are new. Calox, the

isentially this is devoted to drugs and packed goods,

ud • perfumery, toilet-articles, and toilet-soaps. It oxygen tooth-powder, the British depot for which is with
!d in a brown cover imprinted with gold-leaf, in
G. B. Kent & Sons, Ltd., 75 Farringdon Road, London,

with the high-class character of the products, E.G., occupies the fourth page, a reproduction to size being

loose.) given of a package of Calox. (Pp. 146 and 147.)

&onnley Co., ttd., Acton Vale, London, W., Mikado Toilet-paper is a high-class sixpenny lino

n inset to toilet-soaps. The albu-myl basis is em- supplied in sheets and rolls. The sample given in this issue

or three of these soaps, this being claimed to bo conveys more accurately and directly than printed descrip-

nij perfect soap-basis produced. In bath-soaps there tion the physical properties of the paper, and also serves
ni'lties shown, such as the " Aerolette " bath-tablet,
;ni|_al but convenient shape, and " Bathodomes," very as a medium to bear the list of wholesale houses from whom

the Mikado paper is obtainable. (Pp. 64 and 65.)

atifor use in the bath and with a good range of odours. A. &. P. Pears, ltd., 71-75 New Oxford Street. London,

. 3Lncl 33.) W.C., have an inset the first page of which brings homo
the glories of mediaeval illuminated manuscripts. The
Mondin ier, &. Co., Xitd., chemical manufacturers,

fnph, Cheshire, insert a circular regarding mineral- bread-and-butter side is conveyed in the condensed price-list

iT, carbonate of soda, which is strongly recommended and terms for Pears' soap, and an offer is made of the full

ne tontion of manufacturers of aerated water who are price-list and showcards, which are obtainable not only
from tho head office in London, but at the depots which
II le chalk or whiting age. The advantages of sodium have been established all over the world. The latter is a

ftjate as a source of pure carbonic-acid gas are duly _

moi! the circular. (Pp. 146 and 147.) point which our I'eaders in the Colonies and foreign

ttl'r &. Tanner, Selwood Printing Works, Frome, countries should note. (Pp. 32 and 33.)

Ypples of commercial printing to those who are con- Postlip Mills, have a utilitarian inset. It takes tho
form of a sample of seidlitz blue, " perfectly fast, self-
"ing- the issue of price-lists or other advertising coloured paper, unaffected by acids, strong and reliable."
to which are attached samples of two varieties oi English-
'c The remark is made in the inset that printers only made filtering-papers. The last-named are chemically pure,

Pipally advertise their own wares; but if that is so
M'lty, when they can produce such bright announce-

rs the one given by this firm. {Pp. 146 and 147.) and there is a full range of sizes. (Pp. 146 and 147.)

lai;on &. Towett, ltd. .essence distillers, Liverpool, Otto Rosenstlel, 4 Charles Street, Hatton Garden,
London, E.C. . inserts a specimen sheet of the " Geisha "
inset descriptive of their two special soluble brand crepe toilet-paper, which it is claimed is the strongest
and softest on the market. The rolls retail at Z^d.
for flavouring aerated water. These are the Gold

'!M.P.'') brand soluble essence of lemon (illustrated

",']^ ounch of lemons in facsimile of the natural (Pp. 146 and 147.)

' the acnie of purity and fruitiness," and "Gold The Standard Tablet and Pill Co., Xitd., Hove.

Aff catalogue is pub-
tuh^e c"" ^'"o®'-'"^!'' essence. which, in the words of Sussex, use this issue as the means of distributing their
essences,
Gold Seal " two price-lists to buyers in the Colonies and in foreign

J, "can only bo estimated and appreciated in the countries. These most attractively produced lists cover the
1
manufacture of the beverages and at their full —whole range of the manufactures of the company tablets,

"iient after maturation in bottle at least one week." solvellae, hydermoids, tasteless pills, flexible capsules, and
ne necessity of applying for samples. (Colonial and
"own-name" medicinal preparations.' Prices, illustrations,
copies only.)
and full particulars are given of each line. The descrip-
yl, Xtd„ 6i-63 Lant Street, Southwark, London,
tion of the premises and the various manufactures carried
isert a folder, in which is made an offer so advan-
on will interest all practical pharmacists, just as the prices

196 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST Jaxuarv -31

will appeal to keon buyers. (Colonial and Foreign copies & Son, Stevenson c& Howell, Ltd., !Mandall & C<A-
Newball & Mason, Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.,
only.)
'J .ij
Stevenson &. Howell, Ztd., Southwark Street,
London, S.E., insert a circular scintillating with gold, but Ltd., Potter & Clarke, Ltd., Fassett & JohusoiLii
Standard Tablet & Pill Co., Ltd., " Daisy," Duncai'ln
not too brilliant to convey the richness of the " Perfect " hart & Co., and Parke, Davis & Co.

soluble essence of lemon. This essence is made entirely Which is the Most Tempting Advertise;.:
from lemons, which is important, for the product shows no
sacrifice of the flavour of the natural fruit, and is entirely was the second question. The votes were m<'.,
devoid of that " cheap " suggestion common to lemonade
made with essences strengthened " with citral foreign to diotributed than in the case of the first quest i .
the lemon. The soluble lime-juice and soda which was used i-

by a successful competitor in a beverage competition is the the place of honour is given to !Messrs. Wrighi.
other speciality described in the circular. (Pp. 64 and 65.) & Umney, Ltd., on account of their six pagi -

Tbackeray anl Kln^sley Hotels arc both very suit- to 47), which, it will be observed, are entirely .1,
able as a loge a pied to visitors to London from the Con- Wright's Liquor Carbonis Detergens and its pii i
tinent and the Colonies. A four-page inset in this number
including Wright's Coal-tar Soap. For the se-
describes those two hotels, which are near the Briti-sh under this heading Messrs. Allen & Hanburys.

Museum and conveniently situated for both business and i

pleasure purposes. Both hotels are modern, and the M'S.3srs. Burroughs Wellcome & Co. tie with
arrangements make for the utmost comfort of the guest'. number of votes, and others whose advertis<:i
(Colonial and Foreign copies only.) considered to be tempting are Messrs. H. W. B ..

"W. Woodward, Iitd., Chaucer Street, Nottingham, ,

have an inset telling of Woodward's Gripe Water, the selling Ltd., " Eucryl," " Ucal." Stevenson & Hov
price of which has just been protected under the scheme of " Ovoleo," Newball & ^Ma^on, Avi-ton, Saund;
tho Proprietary Articles Trade Association. The front of
the inset is a reproduction of Sir Joshua Reynolds' " Infant Ltd., W. B. Cartwright, Ltd., Alliance Drui; \
Hercules," upon which one of the trade-marks of the com- Co., Potter & Clarke, Ltd., Wiggles worth" Ac
pany is founded. On another page is a facsimile of the Advertising Co., " Spatula," Hardv Patent 1
Life Guard showcard. (Pp. 32 and 33.) Southall Bros. & Barclay, Ltd., N. W. ilitch. ^

Wright, Iiayman &, TTmney, Iitd., wholesale drug- :
gists, 44 to 50 Southwark Street, London, S.E., provide a
" Daisy," "Viscose," "Erasmic," Cresswell B
supplement in the form of an elegantly conceived inset, dall & Co., Ltd., Aerator-:, Ltd., Yeno Drug LjL:
which consists of specimen pages selected from their price-list and Leath & Ross.
of packed pharmaceuticals, pills, tablets, etc., but is large
enough to represent faithfully the bulk. The illustrations j
show that the style in which these goods are packed is
tasteful and attractive. Wright's coal-tar soap, reproduc- Which is the Most Novel Advertiseme>'

tions of the showcards, particulars of the window-displays The two pages of the Viscose Development Cl ].<
and advertising matter are given on the last four pages.
(Pp. 32 and 33.) (pp. 92 and 93), are the top-scorers in reply i. :
C'Jestion, and there can be little doubt of the
Publisber's Note.

The next occasion upon which circulars, price-lists, and

other insets can be received for insertion in The Chemlst
AND Druggist will be the Summer Number, to be pub-

lished on July 25. Intending advertisers can obtain

printed particulars of the conditions upon which insets

are taken, and expert assistance will be placed at the

disposal of those who desire it.

C. &D. Diary, 1914.

Report on the Competition for Ten Guineas The Most Jsovel ADVEMisEiiEXi.

in Prizes. the verdict. The second place is awarded ;
Burroughs Wellcome & Co., and the third ;
EACH copy of The C'hcmi.<t and Druggist Diary, 1914,
issued to subscribers contained a card entitling the Allen & Hanburvs, Ltd., while others are a-
Messrs. Christy "Strong, J. H. Smith & Co..
receiver to compete for ten guineas which we offered in
& Co., iMandall & Co., Ltd.. Wand Manufarii.
prizes. The card consisted of two parts, the first con- B. W. Hair & Son, F. Schutze & Co., Ltd., I' ^
land & Co., G. B. Kent & Sons, Ltd., F. X<
taining five questions in regard to the advertisementis Sons, Ltd., S. Maw, Son & Sons, H. W. Bn-
Ltd., Paine & Co., Ltd., Stevenson & Howeli,
contained in the Diart/, while the second was for the Forshaw & Son, Ltd., Tokalon, Ltd., Fassett .V
Wright, Layman & Umney. Ltd., "Ovoleo," "1;
construction of synthetic sentences from words contained
Beecham, J. Burrough, Ltd., Howards & Sons.. 1:
in the Diary advertisements. We now report upon the
Dearborn, Ltd.
first part, and in respect to home subscribers only. In
Which is the ;Most Useful Advertisemei i
due course we shall report upon the cards received from
subscribers abroad, and award prizes to them and the jNIessrs. AUen & Hanburys, Ltd., are placetl|rsl
writers of the best synthetic sentences. The first question
the competitors, but ]\Iessrs. Parke, Davis & <
was :
very close second, and some wav behind comes t.
Which is the Smartest Advertisement ? Drug & Chemical Co. The nature of Messi;^
Hanburys' advertisement is shcAvn in the rt-;
By an overwhelming majority of votes Messrs. Bur- of the pages. Parke, Davis & Co.'s pages (pp.
roughs Wellcome & Co. are placed first with their adver-
are not c'apable of adequate reproduction, bure,i-
tisement beginning on p. 143 and continuing to p. 149. will find on turning them up that the advertiseim '
It will be observed from the reduced facsimile which we sists of a dictionary of the medicinal speciali i oi
give of this series of pages that this advertisement
depicts six sections of the firm's business, and concludes firm with notes upon them. The strictly useful ar-.
with a page emblematic of the awards of excellence given
of this advertisement apparently ha« gi^'eW'*-. a la e >
to the firm's products in the world's exhibitions. of popularitv. Other advertisements obtaimntti
tion under tliis heading are those of the followii.
The second place is given to Messrs. Allen & Hanburys,
Ltd., who are closely followed by "Viscose" in third
place. Sequentially come Messrs. Wright, Layman &
Umney, Ltd., " Ovoleo," Christy Strong, H. W. Bush
& Co., Ltd., Wand Manufacturing Co., "Ucal," F.
Newbery & Sons, Ltd., S. Maw, Son & Sons, "Eucryl,"
W. B. Cartwright, Ltd., J. C. Eno, Ltd., B W. Hair

KY 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 197

!i,iin the order of the voting : The " Ucal" Co., | Co., Ltd., Brand & Co.. Ltd., T. Beechain, Ford, Shap-
Wellcome & Co., Wright, Layman & Umney, land & Co., E. Cook & Co., Ltd., W. J. Rendell, Fass€tt
iij; Advertising Co., Ltd., Bayer Co., Ltd., W. B. ! & Johnson, " Erasmic," J. Deighton & Co., The Chemist
B; |

Th^ .Smartest Adtektisemext.

Most Teiipiixg Advertisement.

The Best axd Most Usefiji, Advertisement.

J^'^Sglesworth & Co., Viscose Develop- | and Druggist, Wand Manufacturing Co., F. Kewbery &
r^^"'
^'^"""'"el &
HWr. Co., Chesebrough Manu- Sons, Ltd., G. Cook, Literary Title Page, P. Moller,
Martmdale, Excelsior Printers' Supply
Ltd., J. F. Wilkinson, T. Guest & Co., A. Wander, Ltd..
|

—— .

THE CHE:NnST AND DEUGGIST

'"The -jpatiua," Mrj^-esin to., Ltd., Scott & Bowne, POISONING FATAUXni.
Ltd.. Newball & Mason, Christy Strong, South of England

College, and Wylevs, Ltd.

Which Ajjtebtisesiext is the Best foe Busctess ? Sis deaths due to poison came before our n:
Wednesday night of this week.
Messrs. Allen k Hanburys. Ltd., have the double dis-
Laudanum. —The death at Gotham of Wiifu
tmction of being the first voted in reply to this question.
Powdrill, the nineieen-months' old son of a pla r-i
Their series of pages begins at p. 161 and ends -with
p. 170. Th€ second place in this "best for business" was due to a teaspoonful of laudanum being gi-
section is given to Messrs. Wright, Layman & Umney,
take fof cough-mixture. At the inquest on Jam
Ltd., for the same pages that are reproduced, and for the
mother said that on the previous Monday nig;
third plac-e the United Chemists' Association, Ltd.,
George Hutchinson, the sixteen-year-old son of a
receive a majority of votes beyond those that follow
to the shop of Mr. Samuel Basford. in the ri..
namely, Messrs. W. B. Cartwright, Ltd.. Burroughs
Wellcome & Co., Bell Advertising Co., Ltd.. Parke, Davis pennyworth of laudanum and some treacle, ant'
& Co., " Eucryl," Ltd., the Alliance Drug and Chemical
Co., S. Ma-sv, Son & Sons, "Daisy," Ltd., Xewball & ingredients of the cough-mixture. She put the
Mason, B. W. Hair & Son, Viscose Development Co., Ltd.,
T. Beecham. SouthaU Bros. &: Barclay, Ltd., Schimmel & taming the laudanum next to the cough-mis-
Co., Potter & Clarke, Ltd., Fassett & Johnson, T. & H.
Smith, Ltd.. Avrton, Saunders & Co.. Ltd., Christy Both had previously contained a patent " lung-;
Strong, J. Wooiiey, Sons & Co., Ltd., j. C. Eno, Ltd.',
Cresswell Bros., The British Drug Houses, Ltd., Perken, she gave a dose of laudanum in mistake for
Son & Co., C. E. Fulford. Ltd.. Flugel & Co., Evans Sons
Lescher & Webb, Ltd.. HaU, Forster & Co., Ltd., mixture. Witness said she had not sent bef:
Wigglesworth & Co., Sangers, American Drug Supply
Co., W. Martindale, "Diamond" Gripwell Comb, and Basford for laudanimi. Mrs. Elizabeth Basforc

Berdoe &, Fish. serving the lad Hutchinson with a pennyworth of ^
She said she had no label to put on the botri
AWAED OF PeIZES.
lad did not sign any paper for it. Witness im;.
When it came to an examination of the answers to the
questions we found that there appeared to be something it was for Hutchinson's mother. She had sold no

in the nature of a conspiracy to place the advertisements for two years, but had got some from Nottingha --
of certain firms in good positions by giving one adver-
tiser's name only in reply to all the questions. The net because the farmers used to ask her for it for •
result of this is to exclude the writers of such cards from
the possibility of obtaining a prize because an overwhelm- —The Coroner: "Do you know that you are r.
ing majority of the competitors give their answers accord-
by law to sell laudanum?" The Witness:
ing to what they consider to be the merits of the adver- ' Do you know that you are not allowed to sel^
tisements in each section, so that the consensus in respect
without a label, and without it being in a special Ue;
to the whole five is as follows : "No, sir." Her husband did not know that s'nhid

The smartest advertisement : Messrs. Burroughs Wellcome laudanum until this came up. said the witness.

& Co. Hutchinson explained that the bottle in which 1 f
the laudanum was the property of his mother, 'hi
The most tempting advertisement : Messrs. Wright, Lay-
man & Umney, Ltd. previously let Mrs. Powdrill have the other bottle H»

The most novel advertisement : The Viscose Development never bought laudanum from Basford's shop tw le.
summing up, the Coroner said that the mother d
Co.. Lxd.
a terrible mistake in getting this laudanum, and no
The most useful advertisement : Messrs. Allen &: Han-
that she was dealing with a dangerous poison, n.
burys, Ltd.
ford forgot for the time what her duty was. N ym
The advertisement best for business : Messrs. Allen &
Hanburys, Ltd. the right in law to sell laudanum except a chest

properly authorised medical man, and she woulhi

be dealt with perhaps. The jury returned a verc; to

effect that death was due ro a dose of laudanuir,

—tered in mistake by the mother.
Mercury Perchloride. Charles Murphy, provisi

Fenny Stratford, died from taking some tablets c

—this poison.
Potassium Cyanide. ^Arthur Pickering (27). met

killed himself at Hull from the effects of this poi£o|

SaU of Lemon.—At Keighley. Mrs. Elizabeth L!

mitted suicide with this chemical.

Spirit of Salt^ was used at Stoke Newington fo.-"

purposes by Alice Fletcher (26). married, " while

—Wm.from melancholia after child-birth."'
Vitriol. John Robbins (36). waggoner. ixjTs<!j

self at Wolverhampton with this acid.

One home competitor has named the whole of these

—correctly namely, 'Six. W. T. Symes, c o Messrs. Evans.

Gadd & Co., Ltd., 3 Princes Street North, Exeter. To
him we award the first prize of two guineas.

Sixteen competitors have answered four of the questions
correctly, and to each of them we award five shillings.

They are as follows :

Mr. M. B. Widdiss. Limerick. A TiSTA IX THE BorAXICiL GaBDEXS, TEtXIDAB, B.W.I.
Mr. C. E. Bell. Stapleford. Notts.
Mr. W. Dennis. F.C.S.. Saxilbv. Linc-s. THI LrXCRIAXT Teopicu. Tegetitiox.
Mr. A. T. Reoch, 55a Hawkhill, Dundee.
Mr. W. R. Allison, High Street, Arundel. —Ax Opticux'S CiBcriJkB. According to a corroo«A-
Mr. F. Larder, High Street. Loddon. Norwich.
Mr. C. H. Hacking, 210 Eskrick Street. Bolton. in the " British Medical Journal," a London 'H'
Mr. D. Davison, Ph.C., Pier Pharmacy. Cromer. opticians is in the habit of corresponding with
Mr. J. Richards. 53 Knighisbridge, London. S.W. have had oculists' prescriptions dispensed, aski:
Miss Dorothv Middler, 252 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh. after an interval of, say, two years, whether it i?
Mr. G. T. Hobbis. Oakwood. Oxford Road. Canterbury. to have the eyes re-examined. The objectionabl:
Mr. L. J. Wolverson. Post Office Square. Beeston. Notts. the circular appears to be the mention of the J-
Miss Edith Raper. 5 South End Road. Hampstead. N.W. name, and when the correspondent protested heewf*"
Mr. J. A. McRoberts, Ormeau Medical Hall, 71 Ormeau promises that the conduct would not be repeated.
Road, Belfast.
Mr. J. W. Robinson, 7 Wandsworth Road, West Bridg-

ford. Nottingham.
Mr. F. G. Levitt, c o H. A. Wanklyn, 17 Manchest3r

Avenue, London, E.C.

These awards absorb 6f. 2?. of the ten guineas : the
balance is reserved for synthetic sentences and competi-

tors abroad.

The Chemist and Druo(ji.?t Diary is fW)right Wcl(l)come
to the trade generally. B. yoicell (St. Andrew's, Bristol).

'.Y 31. 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST —

199

Velvet" Developments. De. Feombesg's Joixt-Peepabaiion'.

i^ennity of jlr. H. A. Wanklyn in adapting We mentioned a few weeks ago that the Midland Drug

' indiarubber sponge to practical uses is worthy Co., of Xottingham, who are the sole proprietors of

His latest idea is the "Yelvey"' goif-baii Dr. Fromberg's .Joint-Preparation, were entering upon

which a piece of irrdiarubber sponge is en- a campaign of publicity in regard to it. This has now

. commenced in several of the most important daily

a silver-bright aluminium case that opens by papsrs. The Preparation is a bakn or iinguent put up

e sides. Tne case is circular like a tobacco-

; is just the thing that golfers will buy if it in jars to retail at 1?. 1-^(1., 2.?. 9c/., 4.j. 6d. and 11.?.,

them. It retails at and !Mr. Wanklyn s and the company are protecting these prices : for

. 6d. per dozen. A similar provision for example. Boots Cash Chemists, Ltd., have decided that

the fingers, labels, or envelopes is also made. the prices shall be maintained at face-value at all their

<r the container is a flat glass bowl enclosing Abranches. laige number of testimonials have been

It retails at l-j. and costs 7-;. 6(1. per dozen, received by the manufacturers in praise of the Prepara-

ihese are in Mr. Wanklyn's advertisement in tion, these covering the successful treatment of swollen

lid further information may be obtained from joints, neuritis, chest troubies, rheumatism, lumbago,

Manchester Avenue, London, E.G. Weand other localised pains. have had the opportunity

A3tBcLA^•CE Boxes. of observing a case in which the application of the

iibulance boxes have the advantage of standing Preparation to a swollen and painful joint had a good

. while occupying the smallest space and being effect, the swelling being reduced and the pain much

is any other material. ^lakers of metal alleviated after tw-o or three applications. The Midland

::oxes for the wholesale trade and large dealers Drug Co. will be glad to supply retailers and whole-

- Taylor, Law- & Co., Ltd., Anchor Works, salers with further information in regard to the remedy,

--:t. Great Lister Street, Birmingham. These and to furnish retailers with a neat showcard which

ipanned bla<:k outside and in. or sometimes effectively presents the merits of the article.

:. and lettered "Ambulance" or "Ambulance Xew HoiicEOP.ATHic Show Case.

7 railed. There are four principal patterns, but ^Messrs. Leath & Eoss, wholesale and export homoeo-
pathic chemists, 58 Duke .Street. Grosvenor Square.
. design can be earned out. The interior of London, W., have recently introduced a new style of
upright show case, which we illustrate. This the firm
:5 divided into spaces for splints, dressings. give free with an order for two gross of their l-j. size

?. There is a good and increasing demand for homoeopathic medicines, which, invoiced as they are at

'i for use in factories, schools, private houses.
!or-cars. During this year the "new regulation

force making the provision of ambulance cases

in mines. Messrs. Taylor, Law & Co. are
m metal boxes and cabinets, and are always

;ote for any special work of tliis class.

AxzoEA Advehtisemexts.

-zora Perfumery Co., London. X.W.. are
;:ie attractive showcards which should promote

the sale of Anzora cream for

mens hair. The card shown

r^*' in the illustration consists of

the cut-out h^Sds and shoul-

li^'v- ders of three young men, and

is intended to convey the

lesson that Anzora cream

"masters the hair" for all

occasions. The figures are

arranged on different planes,

so as to obtain a stereo-

scopic effect. Two other

cards have as the motif the

figure of a .voung man in his

M1^ J shirt-sleeves, his hair fault-

llttKijl^^^ lessly arranged, no doubt by
means of Anzora cream, and
^jHt^^^^^ below- are particulars and

fIlI^^WBK^^^^^^^^^^^ prices. These are fitted with

bases and struts so that

I I^^^^^^^B cards stand upright by them-

^ —^^^^^^H^i^^^^LPi selves. One of the ca'rds has

— at each end cut-out bottles 2.J. jcl. per dozen, involve a total outlay of 21. 14*.

/NZORA Aof the product. larger only. The medicines may be assorted i.e. cue gross of

^CREAM^ card in green and white has each of pilules and tinctures at the option of the buyer.
The show case, which is of mahogany, is 26 inches
a space in the centre in which high, 19 inches wide, and 6 inches deep, is well made.

to place a bottle of the It is, of cotu'se, quite understood that with an ofier of

cream. The front part of this character Messrs. Leath & Eoss do not pay carriage

the card stands out from the on export orders, but place the showcase on f.o.b. terms

back, and when the bottle is — i.e» th.e customei' pays the freight and shipping
Jn a good effect is nrcduced. a gold band embossed
charges.
'n^ree.i card enhances the efiect of the whole.

—
,

200 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST Jaxuaby 31, <

Charm and Distinction. Petroleum Emulsion with HypopHosPHn

Theee terms we apply deliberately to the new series of :Mr. Robert Blackie, wholesale and manuf'.
chemist, Shen Works, Tower Bridge Road, Lor. ' ^
coloured illustrated handbills and price-lists which have is well known to the drug-trade at home 'and
been produced by Messrs. Ford, Shapland & Co., label account of his introduction of spun ointments,

and general printers, 6 Great Turnstile, High Holborn, prepares by a process that ensures perfect adn. :
'London, W.C. The novelty of the series is in the employ-
ment of delicately coloured half-tone pictures of pretty absolute smoothness, this being done in a m
women combined with well-displayed letterpress. These
does not involve such friction as to encourage •

can be used for ciTculars and folders advertising the dental Mr. Blackie has just introduced a petroleum em

and optical sidelines, toilet soaps, skin-creams, tooth- taining 50 per cent, of liquid paraffin that ;i

Apowders, and other toilet requisites. set of samples is the British Pharmacopoeia characters and tes'..-

offered to any of our readers who will send a postcard Weemulsion is a perfect blend of the materiak, ui- .rj-.

request to Messrs. Ford, Shapland & Co. and white. understand that it is prepare b\

P.A.T.A. Prices. method as novel as that which ]Mr. Blackie o

The additions to the Pi-oteeted List during January are : making spun ointments. The emulsion is ol -
The British Drug Houses, Ltd., additional preparations
biUk or packed in bottles of any size from 3 oz.
;
Druggists' Sundries List.
Beiersdorf's additional preparations; Boilerine Radiator

tablets ; Faulconer's worm-powders J. G. Ingram & Sons, Messrs. C. J. Hewlett & Son, Ltd., Charl
;

enemas (additional) ; John Bell, Hill & Lucas, Ltd., addi- •

tional preparations; Knoll & Co.'s preparations; Kursalis: and Curtain Road, London, E.C have jni!
,

"Marble" Tin Pastilles; Midland Chemical Industry illustrated price-list of druggists' sundrie-

Co.'s preparations; H. Packer's tar -soap ; Saccharin Cor- instruments, shop-fitting requirements, and
poration's preparations. The f ollowrlng have been removed
supplies, which is notable amongst such put.

from the list : All Hansen's preparations ; Fletcher's presenting an exceptionally generous page whie:

Vibrona ; Renee Louise preparations Mergentheim 12 in. by 9 in. It contains 172 pages, ini \ , :
; prefatory matter and index, and nearly 2,000 w,-

Tablets; Voleated Oxygen Jubes; Soft Palerium; Caxined tions, the whole enclosed in a dark crimson cof. ,
glancing through the list we observe that besi'V'
Buttermilk Emulsion.

Evans's Export List. senting all the well-established, needful, sal> .
The half-yearly export catalogue of Messrs. Evans Sons
Lescher & Webb, Ltd., London and Liverpool, just issued, useful articles pertaining to the retail di'ug-traii-
has been very carefully revised and brought up to date,
Hewlett do not neglect modern developmen;-
both as to prices and as to the latest specialities intro-
duced to the trade. The list consists of over 400 pages, business e.g. shaving requisites are treate<l.

and is divided into drugs, chemicals, pharmaceutical pre- turn over a few pages, to find silver-ware dei

parations, and special products (135 pages), druggists' quoted, especially those articles pertaining to

sundries and shopfittings (194 pages), proprietary articles manicure cases, sprays, cut-glass toilet-ware,
(34 pages), and advertisement section (79 pages). Each
section is printed on different coloured paper, thus facili- Colonial chemists have been quick to realise
tating quick reference. Readers abroad who are not on
public favour the purchase of such things fi
the company's mailing list should write for a copy to
stores, and Messrs. Hewlett are prepared to f
56 Bartholomew Close, London, E.G. supplies on advantageous terms. They will 1

Ingram's New Rubber Goods. send a copy of their list to export buyers wlr-
An Ingram enema selling at 2s. 6d. is included in the
received one and who apply to them for it.
new range of seamless enemas just brought out by Messrs.
J. G. Ingram & Son, London India Rubber Works, Hack- Varnishes and Stains. \

ney Wick, London, N.E. These are price-protected goods Messrs. Thos. S. Jackson & Sons, Corner Wi '
obtainable through the usual wholesale houses. The
"Adaptable" and "Utilema," for self use, retail at 5.?. .
and 3.S. respectively. The former has a separate tube for
Street, Old Kent Road, London. S.E.. a firm .
the pressure bulb, and in the latter the bulb is nearer the
nozzle than usual. The " Sterilendum," retailing at over sixty years ago, specialise in requirements
3s. lOd., is the well-known red-rubber enema sterilisable
by boiling in water. This and the " Utilema," which is tion and renovation of furniture, woodwork,
also sterilisable, are fitted with aseptic glass pipes and
valves. The "Eclipse" and " Atalanta " are large-bulb linoleum, leather, and metal work. INIany _o:
enemas, protected at 4.3. 6d. and 3.s. 5d. respectively. The
well suited for chemists' trade. The followin.
" Zebina," minimum price 3.s. 9f/. ; " Zenith," retailing at
of the points about these goods : Cami-)horate<i
3s.; and " Perfsx," protected at 2s. 6d., are the other
is a perfected form of wax-polish for use on v
enemas included in the series, which affords chemists a
complete range of Ingram enemas in red, black, or leuin. and leather. It is packed in decorated t •
enamelled rubber. They are sent out in labelled card-
board boxes (except the "Sterilendum," in enamelled at from 5d. upwards. Lavender f urniture-cre.i
metal box), complete with fittings. Bed and cot sheets, in jars or glass bottles, is best for those who
with eyeleted corners, are other novelties which chemists
should introduce to medical men, nurses, and mothers. cream form of polish. The jars, of a layen.l-
The cot-sheets ai-e 3 ft. 4 in. by 1 ft. 8 in., and the bed- have been made especially for this preparation. ^Vti
sheets 4 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft., and both are obtainable in hat dyes produce a duirfinish on chip, yedda. n
single or double texture. The strong metal eyelets at the hats. " There are thirty shades, put up in bm:' '
corners allow tying with tape to the cot-frame or bed-
corners. The bed-sheets! are ideal for maternity cases, ing at 6d. There are 'many other enamels and >
for bed-ridden patients, or on invalid-chairs. Mothers
which tint cards are issued. The seiison is a:
will appreciate greatly the use of the smaller sheets for
when house decorating becomes fashionable,
babies' cots and in mail-carts. For those who ^prefer is no reason why chemists should not have at=!:

waterproof sheetings cut to size, the " Satinette " bed- large business which is annually transacted in t:
sheeting is the best, both as regards appearance and The price-list of specialities which Messrs. 1. >
durability. In making up their orders, chemists should & Sons fend out is a handsome production, and

not overlook Ingram's patent "Agrippa" band teat and for this would show the scope of the trade ni
valve, which is one of those lines which make satisfied Aenamels, stains, and varnishes.
copy of the I
customers.
obtained on application to the firm.

A Soap Case.—At Singapore on December 13, ^'
with the m'"
Seng, a Chinese firm, was charged charge was ^
bearing a false trade-mark. The
sold another article as "sandalwood" soap, wi"^
was for many vears on the market as the prod^i

Roger Gallet. " The defendants replied they "
supplied with this soap by a European firm, « ^

failed to see why if the European firm sold |f :
to them they should not sell it to the public. '^'^

was reserved.

—

\|!l!Y 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 201

Iilsurance Act Dispensing. certain circumstances which otherwise requires them to
make their " own arrangements for receiving treatment
^el Record of events and decisions concerning- Chemists' (including drugs and appliances)." Paragraph (7), which
te ts in Medical Benefit administration and practice. governs Paragraph (6), is new and provides : " J' he period

Integbal Paht of the Medical Profession. " for which an insured pierson may be allowed to make his
own arrangements shall be the period up to the end of the
ecfc of the Insurance Act has been to bring the year in respect of which application is made or to the end
it into closer contact with the doctor.
of the succeeding year, as the Committee think fit."
w Medical Benefit Regulations. Begulation 16 (3) provides for eiglit weeks' notice being

National Health Insurance (Medical Benefit) given to panel practitioners of proposed alterations in the
terms of next year's service, but 18 (3) retains that for
ms (England), 1913, dated January 10, 1914, chemists at six weeks.

the National Health Insurance Joint Committee Begulation 17 (2) requires six weeks' notice of withdrawal
from the medical panel, and now allows " any person
i; lintly with the Insurance Commissioners under acting in the interests of the estate " (instead of " legal per-
sonal representative ") to nominate a deputy for a deceased
01 5 of the National Insurance Act, 1911 (1 and 2
practitioner.
55)," is the full title of the Medical Benefit
Rcgrdation 19 (1) now reads : If a person supplying drugs
ms which came into force on January 12, 1914. or appliances, other than one whose name has been re-
moved by the Commissioners from the list of per.sons
statutory Kules and Orders 1914, No. 5, National
supplying drugs or appliances in force in the area of any
price Z^rl. The alterations from the draft regu- Committee in the United Kingdom, at any time makes
application to the Committee for that purpose, the Com-
luf November 7, 1913 (see C. <£• /J.y^November- 15, mittee shall, subject as provided in Part VII. of these
Bcguleitions, include him in the list. [Part VII. deals with
—39), are mainly in details e.(/., the Principal inquiries relating to persons supplying drugs or appliances.}

iw defined as meaning " Parts I. and III. of the Part III., dealing with methods of medical benefit,
contains new provisions relating to transfer from deceased
Insurance Act, 1911," instead of "The National
doctor's list, and for a medical man to give at least six
e Act, 1911." The numbering of the regulations,
weeks' notice before the year's end for removal of an
sions into eight parts, and the schedules, are
insured person from his li.st.
!d, but several new sections are included in some
Part IV., Financial Provisions, contains several minor
gulations. There are also a few somewhat impor-
alterations, such as Regulation 39 (4), seventh line, where
lifications and additions which favour chemists, "that Committee" is replaced by "the Pharmaceutical

WeJfi and "others," such as medical herbalists. Coniinittre." An innovation under Regulation 39 (7) and

^1 these below, giving also other alterations affect- Regulation 42 (4) allows the surplus from the Drug Fund
and the Central Drug Fund, after pa,ying the floating six-
tl conditions of pharmaceutical service. Italics
pence to medical practitioners, to be utilised in payment of
•a changes in wording : In Part I. the definitions of
f t person " and " practitioner " are more accurately flny deficit in the previous year. As this means the drug

—e( Under Part II. the changes include : bills have to be reduced from over 2s. to less than Is. 6i

!htion 7. "Appliances specified" in the Second per insured person, there is little likelihood of relief to

I' replaces ''appliances mentioned." chemists who have been discounted from this provision

1/ ttion 9 (2) now reads: "(2) Subject as hereinafter until any part of the floating sixpence is withheld entirely
, the Committee shall not enter into an agree-
the (hspcnsine/ of medicines with any person, other from medical men until past deficits on the Drug Funds
chemist who undertakes that all medicines sup- have been made good. An addendum to Regulation 41 (3)

f +1™ '"^'"''^ persons under the arrangements is evidently intended to meet the requirements of the Sal-
the shall bo dispensed either by or
Cr?ommittee foi'd scheme. Regulation 44 (special arrangements fund)

le direct supervision of a registered pharmacist or contains new provisions for pa,yment for treatment by a
rson who, for three years immodiatelv prior to the
person other than a duly qualified medical practitioner.-
V «/ December, 1911, has acted as a dispenser to a
These regulations now read :
>ner or a public institution."
—Regulation 39 (7). If in any year there is any balance-
a'ion 14, Paragraph (1) provides for insured per-
standing to the credit of the Drug Fund after payment of
ij? , f,^"^"?' persons being excluded (instead of the amounts aforesaid a sum not exceeding one-fourth of
Jtea ) from the operation of the income limit in the total amount carried from the Panel Service Fund to
the credit of the Drug- Fund in respect of that year, shall
be carried to the credit of the Practitioners Fund for that
year, and if in the previous year the sums paid to persons
supplying drugs or appliances were less than tin amounts
credited to those ^Jcrsci.ns, the Committee may. with the

consent of the Com-missioners, apply the remainder, if any,
of the balance in paying rateably to those persons the whole
or any part of the amounts by which the sums credited
exceeded the sums paid to them, and subject thereto shall

carry the remainder to the credit of the Drug Fund for

the succeeding year.

—Regulation 41 (3). The Commissioners shall ascertain the-

number of cases of disease or disablement of persons on
panel-lists in respect of which they obtained treatment as
teniporarv residents in England, and shall credit to the
Central Medical Benefit Fund and debit, as ti> thirteen-
seventeenths thereof to the Practitioners Fund and as to
four-seventeenths thereof to the Drug Fund, a sum calcu-

lated by multiplying the case-value of persons on panel-
lists b.y the number of cases so ascertained: I'ro tided that
where the Panel Committee make application to the Com-

rnissioiicrs for that purpose, the Commissioners may require
the Committee to make arrangements with the Panel Com-

mittee for debiting the said thirteen-sc renteenths to the
accounts of individual practitioners on the panel in such

proportions or in such manner as the Committee and the

Panel Committee, with the consent of the ommC i.'ssioners,
may agree . or in default of agreement, as the Commissioners
may determine.

Regulation 42 (4), relating to the Central Drusr Fund, is
to all intents and purposes identical with Regulation 39 (7).

Regulation 44 (2). Where an insured person contracts
with a person, other than a duly qualified medical prac-

,

202 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST January

titioncr, to obtain, treat metit {u-Jicthtr inrluding drugs arid Commissioners for approval. The doctors'
appliances or not) from liini for n jij-iil sum for the year .
or any part tlnreof, tin (' oni in ill 1 1_ umii jiinl.r such con-
tribution toicardx the sum roni ni i t < d lo hi ji'iiil. not exceed- were modified to meet with the special arraiicfg,
Salford, and the new !Medical Benefit Reguliir,
ing in amount the maximum ciiiitrihuHnii imyable in ttic
case of a jicrson who conlnu ls iril/i a ihily qiiulified medical also been suitably modified (Regulation 41 (5

practitioner, as the)/ tliinl- fit, hut upon any representation Reports from Local Centres.
being made by a Society that tlic treatment is not such an
will adequately pi^''^tect the funds of the Society, the Com- pielal reference to tlie supply of
appliances. See also Winter Set
mittee may either loithhold the contribution or may make
such a deduction therefrom as they may in any case Aberdeen. —At a meeting of the Statutory

determine. cal Conrmittee held on Wednesday, January 21~,J
son was appointed Chairman and Mr. W.
(3) Sore as aforesaid, the Committee shall not make any
contrihulion in the case of an insured person making his tary. Messrs. C. Simpson, W. F. Hay. and W.
own arrani/i mf nis who obtains treatment otherwise than
from a duli/ qualified medical practitioner. —nominated as members of the Pharmaceutical S(ic»i

(4) Wlicri the contract, if any, entered into between the Committee. The first year's working of Insuranco p(..«

person making his own arrange ments and the person under- is now completed, but the whole of the chemiet ind
Aare not yet rendered.
taking to give treatment docs not require the latter person sufficient number have ;u(j
to comply with the conditions of any scheme for the dis-
tribution of a Parliamentary grant ir/iich must be complied make it evident that 2^. per head per insured ]Kin|
with as a condition of payment of that grant, or where any not be sufficient to meet the accounts. An estimat*

treatment given to a person making his own arrangements of nearly 400/. is apparent. The amount of thj
does not comply with those conditions, and by reason thereof
the sum. 2Myablc to the Committee in respect of that grant for the year is approximately 5,600/. The four
is reduced, the contribution, if any, made by the Com m itti i i
towards the cost of the treatment provided by that person
shows an increase on the previous ciuarters of fi;
shall be proportionately reduced.
cent.
Parts V. (provisions relating to sub-committees),
—Batb, The chemists on the panel number twiir^J
Part VI. (inquiries relating to practitioners), and .

Part VII. (inquiries relating to persons supplying drugs At the meeting of the Insurance Committee on Jjiiil

or appliances) contain only a few verbal alterations. In a member asked if there is any special time fiuail
Part VIII., Regulation 86 contains a new protecting
patients to call on chemists, as complaints had Ih
clause, viz. : to him. The Chairman replied that chemists f|r»
bound to keep open reasonable hours, but a ch istl
—Regulation 86. The National Health Insurance (Ad-
was known to supply medicines at any time, eit)|dM
ministration of Medical Benefit) Regulations, 1912 and night, was likely to prove more popular than on«h«|
1913, the National Health Insurance (Medical Practitioners :
Inquiry Procedure) Regulations, 1913, Part V. of the posed restrictions. There ought to be no difficultysi
National Health Insurance (Panel and Pharmaceutical Com-
mittees) Regulations, 1913, so far as they apply to England, fee is allowed on urgent prescriptions.
are hereby revoked, but such revocation, shall not affect any
right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued ^
or incurred under any of those Regulations, or under any
agreement incorporating any of those Regulations, or any Brighton.—The Medical Service Sub-Committjhd
adaptation, or applicalion of those Regulations in any other
fcrred consideration of a complaint against a dipi,J
Regulations issued by the Com m issioners.
directed patients to take prescriptions to a certaichil
The seven schedules are unaltered.
for the attendance of the two chemists complainii
Inquiry into Excessive Prescribing.
—Gosport. The District Conmiittee on January idJ
The following extract from a resolution passed at a
meeting last month of panel pharmacists in Salford that three panel doctors be allowed to dispense f^im
persons on their lists at Bridgmary.
illustrates the difficulty of gaining evidence of excessive
Hertfordshire.— At the last meeting of the sa
or extravagant prescribing :
Committee it was decidcxl to pay into the Drug Iid
The Section 46 has been frequently used in Salford with to cover the cost of drugs supplied to tuberculofpi
considerable trouble and no satisfactory result. Article 40
of the revised Regulations (referred to) only devolves upon undergoing domiciliary treatment.
the Panel Committee the duty of considering the question
of the cost of prescribing. The Committee may repeatedly Zsle of Wlg-ht.- The first meeting of the Phanp;^
express their inability to find any particular instances which
could be correctly termed "excessive." Such provisions as Committee was held at Newport on January
are afforded by Section 46 and Article 40 are not easy to put E. W. Pollard was elected Chairman, and Mr. H
into operation, and are likely to entail friction between Secretary. Messrs. Woollings, W. T. Deek?.
the Pharmaceutical Committee, the Panel Committee, and
the individual prescribers, whereas the proposed scheme has were elected to the Pharmaceutical Service Su'
the whole-hearted support of the Panel Committee. It is
essential that the best possible spirit should exist between Xanarksblre.— The office-bearers of the Pli.
the pharmacists and the practitioners, and the singling out
of individual cases will tend to disturb that harmony which Committee in each area are as follows: County
at present exists. It is exceedingly difficult to define what
is reasonable or excessive prescribing, but if the fixed See C. A D., January 24. p. 53. liurgh of Mr
limit of 2,^. per insured person be regarded by the Commis- man, Mr. L. Scobie Secretary. Mr. W. S. Cul':
sioners as constituting the dividing line, then only by such
an automatic scheme as the one proposed can all those above —;
the 2s. limit be made financially responsible for the same,
and we believe this scheme wou'd act infinitely better than of Coatbridge Chairman, Mr. James King: Sih

dealing with isolated cases, as suggested in the Regulations. G. C. Wilson. Burgh of Ha m il ton— ChuirmaD. ^ <
In one case where Clause 46 was put into operation it is
certain that friction was caused, and the pharmacist report- Lohoar Secretary, Mr. Balfour Reekie. Burgh nU
ing has thereby safTered loss. ;'

Section 46 refers to the 1912 Medical Benefit Regula- —it't//— Chairman, Mr. D. Taylor; Secretary. Mr. \>.

tions in force last year, and Article 40 to the similar rison. Burgh of Wishau Chairman. Mr. R. D. .'1-

one now in force. The Salford scheme, to which the Secretary, Mr. Hugh B. McMinn.
resolution refers {C. <£• D., December 20, 1913, p. 68),
Liverpool.— The Drug Tarifl: of the Pli.v
was not approved by the Insurance Commissioners, as
ifc was a matter for amicable settlement between the Standing Committee has'becn accepted practu::
Panel and Pharmaceutical Committees, the precise nature
the adherence to the official Tariff following tli.
of whose joint action need not be submitted to the
of opinion among panel chemists that uniformity

would be best. The Insurance Committee has nol?;l

the undermentioned appliances may bo obtained'n

from the Insurance Committee upon applicatio

administrative officer : Ice-bag (rubber, helmci|>l

Thomas hip-splints (right or loft), Thomas doi
splints, Thomas bed-splint (right or left), Thomn

(right or left), Mclntvre splint, Neville's back 'ji

splint and cradle. This means that chemists mustsu^l^

circular check ice-bags in future, and that the more [)'
A'
rubber helmet shape must be obtained on loan. 1;'

allowed on "urgent" prescriptions marked with '

when issued to the patient, as under : Wednesdays i'^

8.50 P.M. and 12 p.m., M. The chemists agre?'

attendance for dispensing between the hours of.'^T-

and 8.30 p.m. on the Wednesdav half-holiday. :

direction is that a local Formulary has been adofO,
"
copies may be had from the Insurance Committee,
•

X.ondon.-A meeting of the Executive of the

London Pharmacists' Association was held a^V^''ill
2c7h,iewfi.tbhatfes
bury Square, London. W.C., on January
sident (Mr. E. White) in the chair. The

Alated to correspondence. complaint by an insi« . ,

son in regard to pharmaceutical service was 'le
to the Pharmaceutical Committee for reply. In ram

—

JARY 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST 203

id account, the Executive (which is the " Pharma- be paid include 181. 5s. 9d. to the Pharmaceutical Standing
Jommittee " under last year's Medical Benefit Regu-
ecided to inspect the prescription-forms and accounts Committee for checking chemists' accounts for July. During
thereto. The Secretary was instructed to reply
rd ^ homoeopathic medicines that ample convenience til© year ended January 11, 1914, the expenditure in drugs
id 'xists for their supply through chemists on the list,
ifi suggestions were put forward in regard to arrangc- charged to Sanatorium Benefit was 57^. 15.s. The payments

s !r dispensing prescriptions after the usual business to chemists for the quarter ended April 14, 1913, amounted
|?hcse were sent to the sjjecial Pharmaceutical Sub-
to 2,472^. 7g. Id., and in each subsequent month as follows :
riilep deaJing with this matter. The Dinner Com-
•etreport shows that arrangements had been made for May, 567;. 6s. 9d. June, 625/. 12s. 2d. July, 890/, 15.t. 6t7. ;
; ;
iijjablc evening. The Secretary presented a balance-
August, 478/. 12s. 5d. : September, 429/. 5s. 8(/. : October,
.Jiwing that a sum of lOd. remained to the credit of
778/. 9s. 11(Z. : November, 726/. 14s. 2d. ; December
. iation. A further sum of 5/. was voted for expenses.
(908/. 14s. bd. recommended for payment). From .July

onwards only 75 per cent, of chemists' accounts have been

paid, the balance awaiting the completion of checking. The,

amount credited to the Drug Fund for the year is 13,506/.,

out of which 6,969/. has been paid to chemists and 1,305/.

(J esbrougli.— The Insurance Committee wore in- to doctors, leaving a balance of 5.232/. to meet the claims

m January 21 that a Mr. Kennin.gton, a member on the fund for last month, 25 per cent, balance due to

<'oresters' Approved Society, complained that on chemists from July, and amounts due to persons making

r 3 last he had been attended at the surgery of their own arrangements for Medical Benefit.

VtsU Benson by Mr. J. G. Dale, chemist, instead of West Bldlnff.— The Drug Tariff in this Insurance area

il(or, and had been given a prescription for some shows evidence of thorough revision. It is based on that

inc . The Medical Servioo Sub-Committee, after hear- —of the Pharmaceutical Standing Committee, but there are

th evidence of Dr. Benson and Mr. Dale, reported only four columns for the various rates viz., ounce, drachm,

Dale examined the patient's arm and filled in a —10 grains or minims, and 1 grain or minim a pricing chart

)fscription-form, which had been previously signed having been adopted (C. cO />., January 24, p. 54), coUod.

tl doctor, and gave it to the patient without flex. moth, and hydrogen peroxide B.P. appearing to b©

it to the doctor, and that in other cases the only additions. Liq. ammon. aoet. cone. (1-7) at Id.

I ions previously signed by the doctor in blank had per oz. replaces liq. ammon. acet. Under liq. picis carb.

rd in by Mr. Dale in the doctor's absence. The the " meth " variety is indicated at l^d. per oz.— a savinjg

iiiiittee recommended that Dr. Benson be censured, of 3^(7. Many prices have been revised up and down to

I lued that any further irregularities will be reported accord more nearly with the standard list prices selected

isurancc Commi.ssioners. The Committee authorised for this area. The Insurance Committee gets an advan-

juiierit of 90 per cent, of the amount of chemists' tage on the price of aromatic waters, Avhich is g'i. per

DU for the quarter ending January 11, together with 4 oz. (or part), while distilled water is jf/. per 8 oz.
.

> H)er cent, balance of the three quarters ended Octo- (or part). The price of expensive infusions is simplified to

r 1' The amount thus passed for payment was 1291. Os. 2d. i(Z. per oz. Emp. bellad. on calico is Id. per 24 sq. in., and

fuie accounts are to be paid monthly, less 10 per cent., poppy capsules are to be priced at jt/. each. Tariff pills

I > balance, if available, half-yearly. The chemists' (except pil. sapon. co. and pil. scamm. CO.. but including

(I'l timbers twenty-five, against twenty-six last year, pil. ferri) are to be charged 2d. for 1 doz.. 3jcZ. for 2 doz.,

ai'lesex.—The Panel Committee, which met on 5d. for 3 doz.. and Id. per doz. over. Tablets are 2d. per

' 15, resolved to ask the Insurance Committee to doz.. except thyroid tablets 4f7. per doz., and potass, chlor.
the Drug Fund the estimated cost of prescriptions
•d under Sanatorium Benefit. tablets and sulphur tablets 2d. per oz. Suppositories are

Is. a doz., except glycerin suppositories 9(/. Tr. ferri per-

^Bi'les.-The first meeting of the County Pharma- chlor. 2d. per oz.. and tr. gent. co. 2^d. per oz., as well as
iti Committee was held in Peebles on Janu.iry 21, when
the expensive tinctures, are excluded from the flat rate
J. Sanderson was appointed Secretary, and Mr.
Walker Chairman. for tinctures. The rules on the second page also provide
that " in no case shall the charge for the smaller exceed

Shield.— A difficulty has arisen from the necessity of that for a larger quantity." The dispensing charges are

ic ? what is a secret remedy, as the arrangements are those generally adopted, with the addition of " modified

7 shall not be dispensed 'in Insurance prescriptions. dispensing-fees " for several unlisted powders, pills, oint-
!j of doubt particulars should be forwarded to the
ments, etc., not prepared extemporaneously, these being
ty of the Pharmaceutical Committee, so that uniform
may be taken on future occasions. At the final usually id. less e.g., pills, discs, tablets, suppositories,

tl:of the old Pharmaceutical Committee on January 19, bougies, and pessaries, not on list and not preiDared extem-
'(est thanks " of. panel chemists w^ere extended to the
an (Mr. H. AntclifTe) and Secretarv (Mr. A. H. poraneously, bear a dispensing-fee of 2d. up to and includ-

lOuse) for their services. Mr. J. G" Jackson, the ing 1 doz. -and 1(7. each dozen (or part) extra; with a
nt of the local Society, is Chairman of the new
ttce, Mr. Culverhouse Vice-Chairman, and Mr. maximum charge for dispensing of bd. for any quantify,

e Secretary. It will be rememberetl that, in conse- 5 doz. or more. The modified dispensing-fees for compound

of a request by the panel doctora'^o the Insurance powders are 2c7. up to 4 oz., and 3(7. over 4 oz. on confec-
;
iiiittee, the Secretary of the local Pharmaceutical
'II, drew up a neat list of chemists' names in alpha- tions, creams, pastes, and ointments, up to 4 oz., 3(7., over",
1C| order, with addresses and hours of business. This on plasters, 2(7. The " Notes on Dispensing-fees
' jw been incorporated in the official panel list. The 4(7. ;
'n|s fix their own hours.
occupy just over a page, and are quite different from those

on the Standing Committee's Tariff. Solids are ckssed in

table form as regards dispcnsing-f ess under six headings,

viz. : • for pills, tablets, otc. : ampoule*,

—Cla« 1. DispoiiGiii'gr-fe*

—capsules; dis'cs (lamwllaD) pillis ; tablets.
;

Oitiport.— The beginning of the year found chemists Cla^'S 5i. Dispensing-fee as for ointments : Creams (solid) ; oint-

ctlict with the medical profession, who disputed the —ments ;confectionis pastes (internal mnd external).
;

(P|'nt in the Drug Tariff that "water" meant "di«- Clas'S 3. Di^pensing-fec »s for euppositories : Bougies pee-savies;
;

"|''**er. This was regarded by the latter as needlessly o'jppoGitories.

• sixpence. They said tap-water was —ciaiES 4. nispen&ing-fee ns for plaster: Plnsters.
—Clase 5. Dispeni9in?-foe ns for powders, mixed, bulk : Powders,

their surgeries in compounding medicine for privats compound; insniBationiS, eompound snuffs, compound; douche
;

^,"''''7 "'''s ?ood rnough for insured patients o.ilts, com.pound.

trihie local Chemists' Association stood out for the right —Clac.s 6. Nn di&pen(?ing-fce : Pow-ders, cimp'.c : off. granules;

^and chargs for, distilled water unless •' Aq. font." lozenges jiastilles.
;

31'cd, and at the e:xl of two conferences this was Powders, simple or compound, bear a dispensing-fee Id.

ally conceded. if directions have to be written. Emulsions Driced as

t'ey.-The reports to be presented to the Insurance finished products from the Tariff or a w'holesale list do not
iij.ttee on January 28 contain the following items of carry an extra fee. Malt extract and malt and oil arc re-
garded as liquids. Lints are priced out by area as well
ilji.l7(A0 Ih, ave °f ^'^S chemists on the Vanel last as weight. Over 216 sq. in. of oiled silk and over 288 sq. in.
renewed their agreements. The Finance
^Jmmittee, owing to the work involved in drawin-^ —of guttapercha tissue are to be priced .at yard rate. The

f 's, asked the Pharmaceutical Committee if chemists Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Committee has sent out a
I accept quarterly payments of their accounts in the
^™wiedical Benefit year. A reply in the negative was circular stating that it has been decided to postpone the
• *he Sub-Committee is of ooinion that the Committee's meeting for a few weeks, as there is no business
, which can be dealt with at present.

It method of monthlv pavments must be continued. Notes.
ccounts recommended for pavment under Sanatorium
include The Boroi'GH of Reading Medical Society, Ltd., has
M. to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. for issued a " Pharmacopoeia " of its own. It contains sixty-

ana aks"." o for to no«n Bros.. Lid., for a knco six pages (half blank), witir 125 formulae, mostlv mixtures.
B</.
drugs, etc. Establishment charges to

THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST :

Ja.vuary 3110^

but also including- collunaria. gargarismata, glvceririum on the first floor, and a portion of the basenjt
; -y^
(bellad.). giittse. haustus. linctus. ILnimenta, lotiones. pig-
for storage purposes. Entering from Chanct L-
mentum (alum c. iod.), pilulse, and pulveres. few steps bring one to the lifts. Ascending t<|ie_..j
floor and turning to the right, the farthest yt
The FtBST Axxital Report of the Joint Committee of
left-hand side brings us to the Clerk's office, %ick
Approved Societies, signed by Mr. J. O'Grady, M.P.. as sents the centre of the Committee's varietiain^j
Chairman, includes among the objects concentrated upon
This occupies the north-west corner at the fr<',,aj^^
the obtaining of a radical alteration of the present will make it the starting-point of our tour oficfn
The arrangement of the different departmentji
system of providing medical benefit." It is stated that
in the following sketch plan of the second flo
little suc-cess "Bras achieved in regard to this, but it is

believed that the present unsatisfactory state of things as

regards panel service cannot for long continue."

AccoEDrs'G to a statement made at the last meeting of

the Southampton Insurance Committee, the Portsmouth Ofi'c^ of

mmInsurance Co ittee has been allowed to make provision

for dental treatment in cases where persons recommended

for Sanatorium Benefit would in the absence of such treat- Cierk Co* At*
ment derive no profit from a stay in a sanatorium, and of Insurance.

where the medical officer certified that dental treatment was (Tonimiffes. -|':|^ lndaSlif>S

Anecessary. similar request from the Southampton Com-

mittee, made some time ago, was refused. It was decided

to axrply again.

Deposif- Corridor
Coniribukin
London Insurance Committee.

CHEMISTS in their business relations w4th the Insur- San a fori um

ance Committees are apt to overlook the varied duties Lift
which the Committees have to perform and the different
interests v.hich they have to reconcile In this article a Cirridor
General outline is given of the scope of the work of the
London Insurancs Committee. This Committee con- PiECDRDS DeP-^ETJIEXT.
sists of eighty members and meets at least once a month.
It is responsible for medical and sanatorium benefits One of the doors in the Clerk's room !<
for one and a-half miUion insured persons, that is, about
one-tenth of the total coming under the National Insurance northern wing of tiiis floor into the regisi-
Act, or double the number of insured persons in Wales.
With such a huge number of insured j!«rsons the varied ments. The first of thess is a smaller roo)m ''aOit*^ii<t
difficulties preventing the smooth working of the Insurance
Act soon showed themselves, and made it necessary to a list of the insm-ed persons who have been
perfect the Committee's organisation as quickly as pos-
sible during the difficult trial period. The standing medical treatment by panel doctor^: or, in oth

orders ruling the Committee's procedure now nimiber card index of doctors" " acc/eptances." ««
about 100, these being fotmd necessary to expedite business
at its meetings. For the Insurance Committee's adminis- arranged alphabetically in the order of the doctc' ju-
tration expenses there is avaDable a sum of approxi-
mately 5f7. per insured person, and with such a large and the list is subsidiary to the records in the st :
Committee as the London Insurance Committee the total Passing on to this we find the register of insiir. p >
accruing from this is sufficient to pay a permanent which is an immense card-index of one and a h m .

staff divided into d/epailments correspondiaig to the index slips arranged in alphabetical order der

jirincipal di\-isions of the work coming within the Com- different approved societies. Different coloured ai-i-
mittee's puri"iew. At periods of stress it is necessary
to augment the staff temporarily : indeed, during Decem- dicate whether the insured person belongs to t nu -
ber the remuneration of the temporary staff was 1.418/.,
exceeding that of the jjermanent staff by 386?. The f emale sex, and whether entitled to medical ben •. :
different Sub-Committees of the Insurance Committee :
indicate the main channels along which its work flows,
If one corner is snipped off. it indicates that s p««*
those corresponding to separate departments being the
Sanatorium Benefit Sub-Committee, the Medical Benefit has chosen his or her panel doctor, and the wk in (ta
Sub-Committee, the Deposit Contributors Sub-Committee,
and the Finance Sub-Committee. The G-sneral Purposes first room we visited is to reconcile th? list docun
Sub-Committee which is an omnium gathtrum for work
not dealt with by other Sub-Committees draws upon the (
whole staff. Each Committee consists of about twentv-five
members and meets, as a rule, once a month. Other acceptances with the snipped cards, a difficu ta»k «
Sub-Committees exist which are directly connected with "

the medical benefit side of the Insurance Committee, times. At present there is, on the floor bel- ' "
viz., the Medical Service Sub-Committee (which met
porary staff of 150 persons engaged in con
thirty-four times in 1913), the Pharmaceutical Service Sub-
Committee (newly instituted) and the Joint Service Sub- index slips with the approved societies' menii -
Committee i.vet to be formed). These Sub-Committees
and as this is being completed it is being used y i
are to investigate and report on complaints sent to them
l)y the Insiuance Committee. The Pharmaceutical Com- creasing number of this temporary staff for fill I n'
mittee and the Panel Committee are outside the aegis
new medical cards for transmission to th« V-
of the Insurance Committee, but are consulted in regard destination. The deposit contributors' slips, mb

to the preparation of doctors' and chemists' agreements, 85,000, are kept separately. Another register nta
and also the drug tariff. list of over 3,200 names of insured persons hn

The Committee's offices are at 5 Chancery Lane, W.C., a made their ''own arrangements'' for Medic: B-
fine new building erected by the Law Union and Rock
Insurance Co., Lt-d. The principal part of the Com- About half of these ars in institutions, the remai er
mittee's offices occupies the front and two sides of the
second floor. Accommodation for temporary staff has treated by private practitioners. Regaining iV-av.
made it necessary to take one side and part of the front we find that the Committee-room is the last "

same sid?. which can be entered from it. Coo;

one of the t.vpists' rooms, and returning a doonnr,

corner on ths left-hand side leads into the

Z^Iedical Benefit Dep.^rtme.vt.

Here doctoi-s and chemists bring real or imagiry -
ances, but the experience gained in the past s<' i-
diminishing these types of visitors. Insured p< on-

come seeking advice as to choice of doctor, or)
transfer from one panel practitioner to anothei >

19UT., -ART 31. THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 205

iiired persons changed their doctor at the end of luidergoing hospital out-patients' treatment. Thus, at the
present time over 2.300 tuberculous persons are being
, ill year. The correspondence indicates the
looked after by this department. The Sanatorium Benefit
t work, the letters, excluding forms, since Sep- side of the Insurance Committee's work suffers somewhat
from lack of funds, owing to 6d. (out of the 1?. 3rf. for
.;t averaging 600 a day. It is this department Sanatorium Benefit) being allotted for domiciliary treat-
ment. So far there has also been some delay in getting
< with the doctors' and chemists" agreements, the the London County Council to co-operate in the beneficent
work of stamping out tuberculosis. The last to be visited
[ of the Drug Tariff, and questions arising out
is the
Xow.eL'pretation. that the policy in regard to
Deposit Contributors' Dep.artment,
,t\ for proprietary preparations has been settled
in which the records show that the Committee, as regards
)laits from chemists are comparatively few.
deposit contributors in this area, is equal to a large
neing from the iledical Benefit Department and
Approved Society, administering all their benefits. Some
.n :he corner occupied by the lift well, passing two 2,000 joined Approved Societies during the year.
Q-'swing doors leading to it. we reach the second
We were glad to find that chemists on the whole have
stsroom at the end of the corridor. It requires
got a very good reputation with the Committee, and we
jnj>"pists to keep pace Avith the reports and corre- hope that in the yeai-s to come both chemists and the staff
will find their relationship more amicable than was possible
dele of the Committae.
in the past difficult trial period.
T;.; Despatch-room .and Inquiry Dep.artmznt
Reerganisation.
p<te the swing-doors opening on to this corridor,
The scheme of reorganisation formulated by the Council
•e |e heavy morning postbag arrives. During the of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and
amended by the meeting of delegates held in London on
f) weeks it has averaged about 3,000 a day, but January 2i, will not be available for publication until
the Council meets on February 4.
Anr^al number is about 1.200. portion of the
The observations appended are the impressions of dele-
drafted from each department in the morning gates who did not speak at the meeting, but listened
intently, and recorded in their minds the mood of the
aiid sort the letters into baskets corresponding meeting, and other things which made for a successful

eparate departments. In the evening the staff meeting.

>nni is again increased to get oif the Committee's IT used to be said that if two GeiTiians. two Frenclmien,
and two Englishmen found themselves together on an
iijiiirers first come to this room, simple routine otherwise deserted island, the two Frenchmen would begin
at once to discuss their affaire.? (h coeur. the two Germans
being dealt with offhand, while more complicated "would proceed without delay to found a social club, and
the two English would betake themselves to a pair of
; are sent along to the proper department. isolated hill-tops and wait till a third person introduced
them. But now, nraig avo)is changi' tout cela.' The
FiN.ANCE DeP.ARTMENT. Englishmen would nowadays, as a preliminary to anything
else •whatever, organise themselves into a committee, and
iption checking is a branch of the finance de-
have we not evidence of tliis in all that has been done
u and about a dozen men and several girls are
under the Insurance Act, especially in the conference which
m separate rooms (one on each side of the dis- was held at the Holborn Eestaurant on January 21? Mr.

in casting up the advice notes and summaries Edmund White and some of the best-known figures in

?:s' accounts. The prescription-checking staff English pharmacy sat on tlie platform. So deeply im-
pressed was the gathering with the idea of the likeli-
- housed on the first floor of the building, and hood of a very long meeting that s^-mptoms of haste,
amounting at times to stampede, were not wanting ; and,
It present of twenty-four, mostly lady dispensers consi'dering the volimie of business to be got through, the
meeting was over earlier (I venture to say) than had been
WeHall" qualification. understand that the anticipated b.v the most sanguine.

hiiical checking of prescriptions is responsible The meeting opened with, some businesslike remarics
from the chair, made witli an admirable economy ( f woids,
one-third of the total labour involved. Com- and with no incongruous rhetorical display. There was not
a great deal of controversy over the fii~st paragraph of the
lie prescription- forms with advice notes and sum- scheme, nor need much be said about the second. Mr.
H. Wolff's amendment to make local associations the
casting out duplicatas and forms belonging to basis of the conference was carried. This and

'suiance Committees, posting to the registers and other slight changes left time for a general talk of
twenty minutes before the luncheon hour, a clever move,
*' r chemists, is the greater part of the task of because it favoured good tempers for the after-luncheon

- chemists' accounts for payment. A series discussion on the redraft of the scheme. The

- governs the procedure for dealing with vital paragraph set out the necessity for the forma-
tion of a Phamiaceutical General Ccmimittee on Insurance
ns, from the numbering on entry to the (agreed 1), and suggested that of its fifteen proposed
membere nine should be appointed from the Pharmaceutical
V in the cellar at the end of the quarter in boxes Council, three should be elected by the Pharmaceutical
iiuling to each name oJi the chemists' list. The Committees, one should represent Scotland, one Wales, and
one limited companies. The main point was that under
tie enables the amount standing to any chemist's ci-edit this pilan the Council had a pennanent majority, a piroposi-
tion which met with the widest opposition immediately.
1^ fniuid at any time. The Finance Department its implication was grasped, no fewer than twenty-five
amendments striking at such supposed usurpation of piower
- situated at the south-west corner of the
by the Council having been put down on the order paper.
rt ior. The magnitude of the work is shown At the outset the Chaini'-an displayed a remarkable power

tact that accounts amounting to 77,761/. 12.?. 4f/.

-*ed for payment at the last meeting of the Com-
The cheques sent out number about 30.000 a year,

these payments has to be entered into the proper

111 the cash-book, which has twenty odd columns,

I- to the Insurance Commissioners" Regulations,

-e-leaf system is used for doctors" and chemists"

' It is interesting to note that doctors' accomits

-ea more trouble than chemists" bills, owing to the
rfirulty of making the index register and doctors'

es agree. If one of the links in the chain coni-
•f'.n insured persons. Approved Societies, Insurance

TO'ttees, and doctors fail, a suspense slip is hung up,
i ' ther the Committee nor the doctors can obtain'pav-
iitiitil the link has been found.

The San.atorium Benefit Department,

^t JOY. is the oldest, having been working for eighteen

"I This department is mainly concenied with the

i!^nt of tuberculous persons. The extent of this is
<J,- trom the fact that 11,357/. was expended between
»r| and December on treatment in thirtv sanatoria
a bspitals. On January 12 there w^ere in" such insti
'i (75 insured persons from the Committee's area.

same time there were 1,045 undergoinc; domiciliary
a«nt, these including 293 discharged from institii-
'11 Another 401 insured persons were being treated

ilerculosis d ensaries, and ninet v-seven niore were

206 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST January 31, 1911

in han<lling au audience by the "way, in which, with the Colour Photography Problem,

aid of a few soothing, explanatory remarks, he removed

friction and opposition and restored confidence and con-

cord it was felt to be impossible to resist his frankness, Pari of a lecture on the Itaydix process dcliieral l-
; the Society of Colour Photogra'pliers by 3Ir. 11
Whatmouejh, B.Sc. P/i.C.
modesty, and logic. The way in which he got the com-
THE LECTURER disclaimed any intention of ent...
mittee to agree to the President and Secretary of the deeply into theories of colour vision. It must sun

Society being ex officio members of the General Committee he said, to state that light is usually regarded as di
undulations of the ether permeating space impingini:
was more than smart. It was the first change agreed to, the retina of the eye. The eye itself is an outgrowt;:
the brain, and the rods and cones composing its r«»
but it was not the subject of any formal motion. The
are connected by nerves with special brain centres. T'.
President assumed that it was agreed, said so, and it was
are good reasons for considering that the cnnes ai.
so. It was agreed that the term " General Committee on media for perceiving colour differences, and that th'
Insurance " be altered to " Executive Committee of the
are light-sensitive, but colour-blind. By means of .
Local Associations" in agreement with the sense of a
fraction grating or the prism spectroscope white ligi:
foregoing amendment. Then came the question. How- be split up into an indefinite number of rays of ni^

many persons shall compose the committee? A majority able wave-length, usually expressed in terms c:
Angstrom unit, which is a ten-millionth of a niilluiu
was shortly obtained for seventeen. Then Mr. Bates, of
The visible spectrum ranges between 7, COO and 4 0
Manchester, wanted twenty-one, because apparently that Angstrom units, but other wave-lengths, known as i-»

was the reasonable figure for territorial representation. red and ultra violet, can be detected by photogPaic
01' thermometric methods. Red-^-iolet such as is repiesei J
The constitution of the Executive Committee has already
by erythrosin, is missing from the spectrum,
been reported. The agreement to increase the nunilu'r spectrum given by a diffraction grating is termed a ni : .
spectrum, as the wave-lengths correspond with m.',
from fifteen to seventeen, and the apportionment of the divisions of the scale; this is I\argely used for scien.c
purposes. In the prism spectrum the red end is )•
interests in the seventeen were not arrived at without densed, while the blue portion is extended. The uoul
spiectTum is rougiily divided into three approximay
weighty interventions by Mr. Glyn-.Iones and others on
—equal portions red, green, and blue, separated by na; •
the platform, especially, in regard to companies. There
Wbands of orange-yellow- and blue-green. If coloured .-
was a wild shout of " No " when it was pro-
of light are superimposed on a screen it does not foi.v
posed to give companies two seats on the Execu- that the mixed light will be coloured. For inst'anc*. ;d
and blue-green lights in proper proportions produce wie
tive Committee, instead of the one mentioned light. Such pairs of light are termed complementary. ,e
complements for red to green being found between
in the scheme. Mr. Glyn-i^lones's intervention green and violet. It takes, however, a mixture of
and purple to neutralise pure green. It is still pos^
was to point out that companies have four seats on
to find a complement of any colour. Any object w
the Standing Committee, and he used arguments which
shows colour has the property of absorbing some of
calmed the opposition. He was followed by several dele- light impinging upon it. Thus the colour of pigmenl
due to the light they reflect. On mixing complemen'
gates, who had good wvrds to^ say for the fair way in pigments black is produced owing to all the light fal
on the mixed paints being absorbed, and black is abs<;e
which companies 'have played the 'Insurance game. This of light-sensation. Red appears black when viewed iird
light, because none of the rays are reflected. If two
settled the matter, and we were all glad to hear Mr. ments which are not complementary are mixed a pignil
of another colour is produced, the exact tint being de i-
Woolcock ask those who wanted tea to hold up their dent upon the proportions of the two pigments.

hands. So all that remains to be said, lapart from the

nominations and ineffectual motions, is a word in appre-

ciation of the masterly chairmanship of the President.

An Essex Delegate's Impressions. R- -B.

Since the meeting I have been taken with a restlessness RIf represents one colour, say magenta pink, ar.'
which is culminating to a disease, Cacoethes scrihendi.
another colour, blue-green, and in the line between t
So I am about to work out my own cure. In the lobby, are put successively all the tints which can be madt
mixing these two pigments, Ave find that the tint mid
—half an hour before the meeting, it waj good to see the
between them is composed of equal percentage proport
members fraternising Northumberland exchanging views
with Essex, Stoke explaimng their deficit to sympathising of the two colour components, and in fact the colour-mi;
London, Middlesex assertive, and Wales everywhere.
•There was no mistaking the North, mingling in groups, line between R and B represents proportions by we

discussing final details, ever mindful of the fact that they of the two pigments. If a third colour,
had been sent with a message, and possibly a fiery cross,
say yellow, be introduced we have a colour- 'i
to the meeting. mixing surface represented by the triangle
RBY, in which all the tints possible by A
Many of the delegates met for the first time, some
known to each other by repute, it is true. Still, the /i >
North, South, Midland, Eastern, and Welsh sections had
mixing these colours can be represented, p
to get the measure of each other, and it is saying little If the pigments are theoretically correct,

in stating that the respect of each county for its confiires black will be found at the centre of the triangle.
was heightened.
Other Coxsideratioxs.
The Conference got to work, and from the start it was
evident that real work was to be done if the Council on Ths question of purity, saturation, and degradatioi !
the one side and the members on the other could accom- colours was next considered. Purity is governed^
plish it. The Chairman never required to pull up a dele- absence of black or white sensation, and pure colours iir
with white, grey, or black are known as sh.ade.*. The
gate for introducing "parochial" matters. or colour is governed by the wave-length of light,
Good as this meeting was, and far-reaching as the when only one wave-length of light is present there '
sense of saturation, which diminishes as the colour-H
effect will be, I venture to predict that the next Con- tends towards white by other wave-lengths of light b^!

ference will result in much more benefit to the trade. present, which, however, increase the luminosity. '
Each county has now the measure of the others, knows examining by a spectroscope light reflected by a
what the others want as Avell as its own, the under-
^
current being that though Insurance matters will occupy
a part of its deliberations at the next meeting, the time mented surface or transmitted by a dyed film or coloio
is rapidly ripening for handling other subjects affecting solution, it is found that a part, 'or parts, of the specti'
the welfare of the trade. The Pharmaceutical Council
recognised the feeling of the meeting, and upon one of
the most important resolutions met the Conference half-

way directly it was approached.
The day of isolated resolutions upon questions affecting

chemists has gone by, and the outcome of the Conference
is concerted action. From whatever platform we look
upon the Insurance Act, political or otherwise, it has been
•the means of making chemiots see that federation is

essential.

January 31, It'ii THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 207

nissing or has been absorbed. These absorption-bands For Tai-COLOTJR Prints,

i in theory, any three colours situate equidistant from
one another on the colour circle would serve as a basis.
; ouiit for the colour of the substance in question, the As a matter of fact, the choice is fixed because yellow
must be a fundamental colour, as it cannot be produced
c )ur beino- complementary to that absorbed. Thus if yel- by mixing pigments. The two other colours required
1 ' light only is reflected by a pigment (the remainder being are blue-green and rose-pink. Of these blue-green (the
; orbed), this will appear yellow-brown, as yellow of distinctive colour seen in peacocks' feathers) also hap-
pens to be one not obtainable by mixing, as green pig-
r'lor luminosity conveys this impression. If the reflected ments always absorb yellow, and with blue give blackish
] t extends a brighter yellow colour results, because shades. The trueness of reproduction in colour depends
cln^e and yellow-green combine to intensify the yello.v. greatly on the nearness ito which actual pigments
I'all the light, except blue-green and blue, is reflected, approach the theoretical. The constant endeavour of
akhe rays which Can form yellow are actively engaged, makers is to obtain permanent ideal pigments. In
a any further extension results in admixture with white colour-printing fairly impure colours such as Prussian
U combination of reflected blue-green and red, and the blue and madder lakes lead to imperfect brownish-
ijensity of the yellow only increases on account of tne blacks. This is put down to the colour-filters or plates
which are rarely at fault, and leads to extensive retouch-
< ra luminosity from this cause. ing of the "red" plate. The choice of colour-filters
is governed by the three printing colours chosen, and
'he sharpness of absoi'ption-bands is of great import- should be complementary to these.

£ 6 in respect to the luminosity of colours'. The edge

tf'ards the red side is generally sharper than that towards

t blue. Colours bounded with sharp edges (red, orange,

\low) are bright colours; those with graduated

tjrgins (blue-green, blue, and Violet) are dark colours,

lies usuallv have U'arrow but intense absorption-bands

ioimting for their brilliancy. Pigments, on the other

1 id, are usually duller, as they possess absorption-bands Colour-screens.
I re or less broad and ill-defined. The requirementj of the various apparatus were then

Synthesis of Colotjb. stated, and on the question of screens the lecturer said

t is possible to synthetise quantitatively any tint by thcGe are part of the optical system, and unless the

r ms of the colour top, or by coloured lights corre- cemented glasses protecting the coloured films are

s nding to that r^flected by pigments. Actual mixing of optically worked, the besit position is immediately in
j: ments gives at times very, different results from those front of the dark slide. The picked glass used for
a icipated theoretically. Thus ultraniarine and ver- making the 'Ordinary screens shows little, if any, shift-

II ion on the top produce shades of violet, but on admixture ing of the image, even if used just before or behind the

I wn is produced. This is due to overlapping of the lens. As the trua tints of coloured objecu:, must be

a orption-bands and makes forecasting of pigment-mixing reproduced, Tl is necessary to use screen with absorption

a lattei- of difficulty except with a few mineral colours curves as abrupt as possible. Wratten & Wain-

s h as chrome yellow, which leaves little to be desired wright's tri-colour screens accord as nearly as possible

a regards purity of colour. Again, when colours tire with the conditions met with as regards tri-colour pig-

:ed over each other another effect, the overlapping ments. Indeed, as regards colour-filters, the solution of

I the problem of colour jihotography may be said to be as
perfect as it can be, and when pure fundamental colours
ciect comes into play, the upper pigment, however t^ans- are available it will be comparatively easy to make
lisnt, preventing the colour below having full effect and screens complementary to them. The necessity of cor-
Hening its brilliance. Yellow pigments are conipara- rect exposure was insisted upon, some form of actino-

t|;ly opaque, so that this is the colour selected for the meter being reqtrired.
'.|t or bottom printing. Further, the less light pene-

1 tes the medium containing the pigment, the greater is

' proportion of reflected rays. There is also less scat-

; iiig of light the neai-er the optical properties of these What Plate to Use.

i iroach each other, the superiority of oil-paintings as The p)hotographic plate must also be sensitised to all
colours. The discovery of the isocyanine dyes,
< ipared with water-colours being due to this pinachrome and pinacyanol, has made possible the
panchromatic plate sensitive to the whole visible
1 nomenon. spectrum from 6,800 re<l to ultra-violet. This is a great
advance, as the same plate can be used for all three nega-
n the artificial-colour scheme shown in Von Hiibl's tives made with red, green, and blue light, and developed
under identical conditions. Different batches of plates,
' 'hise-colour Photography " the outer circle represents
however, vary considerably as regard sensitivity to red,
I e spectral colours corresponding to definite wave-lengths green, and blue, and as regards development. Wratten
f ight to which aniline dyes in transparent films approach
& Wainwright, in issuing a card with each box of plates
iipurity. Permanent pigments, not quite so pure, stand showing its colour sensitivity and time of development to
attain standard density, make tiieir plates an absolute
a ittle nearer the central black. Every line within this
necessity to the tri-colour n-orker unless he is prepared
r :ing circle is intended to represent a mixing of the to bathe and standardise them himself. As to develop-
ment, the lecturer said he preferred developing in total
c )urs 'at each end. Thus the colour of Prussian blue can

t obtained by mixing two-thirds blue-green with one-

t rd of pure rose-lake. Again olive-green is in the

r cing line of chrome yellow and Pruesian blue, and of

sctral green and black. By m.eans of light filters with

E orption-bands corresponding to those of the theoretical

t colour pigments it is possible to imitate any tint by darkness, using Wratten's pyro-scda developer, and the
y-ng proportions of the three coloured lights. With
Atime and temperature standards given on their card.
I ments it is evident that any colour midway bef^ween
a of the mixing lines will be more degraded the nearer time-limit intermediate between that given for architec-
i approaches the centre, and theoretically it would be
ture and landscape seems to suit best. Thus at 65° F.

the times are 3^ minutes and 5 minutes, and the actual

f lost, impcssible to produce a fairly pure green by ad- time for development would be 4^ minutes. The making
i cing blue-green and yellow. Happily pigments whose of the bromide prints required for the Raydex process

; :orption-bands do not collide show the anomaly of was then described. During the evening demonstrations
were given by Mr. S. ^Manners (the inventor) and Mr.
A< rearing purer in admixture than they really are. Pinto Nash.

I Idle green made with equal parts of blue-green and in conclusion, it was pointed out that the most success-
: low should contain 52 per cent, black, but it actually
nears as if mixed with 10 per cent, black. This is due —ful methods of producing colour-transparencies the
—screen plate and the autochrome the colour balance is
f the fact that the addition of black is not felt in the

S(ie degree as its mixing proportion. Equal parts of fixed automatically, the proportions of the red, green,
1 ck and white yield a light grey and not a middle grey, and blue dots or grains being such as to yield white when

' ich can only be obtained by covering half of a white the incident light is transmitted to the full possible
Hace with fine lines or dots. Thus the colour-mixing extent by the coloured elements. Methods of using

Je.sare not straight lines, but arcs approaching nearer the selective absorption of dye by gelatin films, or bleach

' ictral circle. It is this peculiarity of our colour vision out colour processes, are too difticult to regulate to be-

at renders painting and colour-printing possible. come practicable.

208 THE CHEMIST AND DE UGGIST Januaei- 31, 191e

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employed where necessary.
due to its inhibitory action on the putrefactive procics

—which ordinarily reduce the biliverdin of the bile rie

Chemistry : Inorganic and Organic, with Experiments. a first-class testimonial for calomel. Senna, santonin, irf
gamboge cause a yellow colouration, becoming red oUiie
By Charles Lotjdon Bloxam. Rewritten and re- addition of alkali. Iron stools become black on expdu'
vised bv Arthur G. Bloxam, F.r.C., and S. Judd
to the air, while a stool containing blood may be b.k
Lewis, "D. Sc., F.I.C. 10 in. by 6 in. Pp. 878.
Tenth edition. 21s. net. (London : J. & A. Churchill, when fresh. Ipecacuanha causes a clay stool, kino a ^,
while plienolphthalein, now much used as a purgat^,
7 Great Marlborough Street, W. 1913.)
—may cause a bright red if the reaction is alkaline a -t
The first edition of Bloxam's " Chemistry " appeared
to be borne in mind. These stools may be violet after ^•
in 1867, and consisted of 630 pages, in the course of which
wood and intense blue-green after methylene blue, esj i-
the author was able to give a full account of the chemical
facts as they existed at that time. The present is the ally on exposure to the air.

—tenth edition, and contains 878 pages none too many, In the chapter on macroscopic examination the inte;t-

considering the advances that_ have been made within ing and important fact is emphasised that all diets shiid

the forty-six years ; but the authors have employed the contain some indigestible material, in order to pror;e>

space to the best advantage. Comparing the present peristalsis and so prevent constipation, a disease fm

edition with the ninth, which was brought out ten years which the consumers of the products of high-class cooW

ago, the first thing that is noticed is the enlarged size are apt to suffer. After describing the various

of the page. The number of pages is practically the residues found and their significance, the pathological i'-

same, but a deeper page has given the revisers more stituents are described. In enumerating the var's

scope to incorporate the rapid changes of the last ten causes of blood in the stools the author appears to Ire

years. It is a rather remarkable fact that new editions omitted an important cause, hepatic cirrhosis. The foi[h

of several of the standard works on chemistry have been chapter deals in a clear and comprehensive way

called for within the last two years. This has been due parasites and pseudo-parasites, and the illustratioiisif

to various causes, but in the case of Bloxam it appears these are remarkably good. The fifth chapter deals \li
to have been the natural course of events that a new
edition should appear at regular intervals. Professor bacteriology, and is also of a very high order, both a'n
J. Millar Thomson, who contributes a short introduc-
tion, was the chief editor of the ninth. His collaborator, letterpress and illustrations. The sixth, seventh, d
Mr. Arthur G. Bloxam, now takes the leading role, and
is assisted by Dr. S. Judd Lewis. The interesting fact eighth chanters deal in an exhaustive manner with c
that the last-named is a pharmaceutical chemist, and in
addition a consulting and analytical chemist, has not chemical analysis of faeces in the fresh and dried st

escaped our notice, although it has not, generally speak- and with the analysis of concretions. The chapter devid
ing, been possible to differentiate the work of' the co-
to the diagnostic value of examinations of the fr'«
adjutors ; but we should imagine that Dr. Lewis had not focuses all the information obtained by the metis
passed the rather bald statement on p. 381, tliat " Sal described, discusses modern theories, and gives <?
volatile is an alcoholic solution of commercial ammonium
author's well-reasoned views clearly and sensibly. '|e
carbonate." "We have collated various parts of this last chapter, on " Indications for Treatment," is omji

edition with the last and noted many improvements, but the most scientific and most clearly written treatisesln
the skeleton is the same Bloxam which past chemists and diet in health and disease that we remember to have nl
students have been accustomed to consult. The Intro-
It bristles with interest, and is most stimulating. V
duction has been recast in accordance with the develop-
ments in physical chemistry, the same advance tincturing great deal has been written of late, both in medical d
the chapters on water, air, and gases. The Periodic
classification has been followed rather closely, with con- lay papers, as to the importance of not drinking at m:-

sequent rearrangement of chapters. The old' numbered times ; Dr. Cammidge quotes at length some interest^
paragraphs have disappeared, reference by pages being
made in the present work. Inorganic chemistry is still experiments which appear to prove quite the contrar;-
the feature of the book, and it is evident on almost every indicating, indeed, that digestion, absorption, and econo-
cal utilisation of oroteids. fats, and carbohydrates <
promoted by ingestion of water at meal-times. It will?

interesting fo note how long it will take the newspa]:?
to get hold of this and exploit it. The author's views i

stimulants are moderate and eminently reasonable. ;l

we are glad to note a long paragraph devoted to tlip ;
fluence of fatigue, stress, and emotion in producing du-

page that the revisers have endeavoured to include all the tive disorders^, fact which, if more often remember;,
new facts that have accumulated during the last decade. would prevent so many gastric ulcers beins diagnosed'
One gets, for instance, a concise paragraph concerning the absence of sufficient evidence. The section devoted,)

Strutt's "active'' nitrogen, which has only been an- purgatives is uo to date and well worth careful stui^^

nounced recently. Some space has been saved by omitting and +he section on intestinal antiseptics contains s rc-'Ui

articles on such subjects as breadmaking and 'nutrition, of all recent work on the subject, the result of wh'-
so that in reality the book is more encyclopedic in appears to be that none of the more commonly used ar

character than formerly. Of its usefulness as a book of sentics are of much value in the treatment of intesti.,

reference in a pharmacist's library there can be no disease. The apoendix contains a number of diet scneii'

question. for different ages and diseases.

January 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DKUGGIST 209

WINTER SESSION A Soci.\L evening in connection with the North Loi;doii

of Meetings of Trade Associations. Pharmacists' Association was held on January 22, when

Others are reported under " Insurance Act Dispensing: " when Anearly 200 guests were present. first-rate programme had

the subjects pertain chiefly to that SecJion. been arranged for th© concert, Madamo Anita Paggi, who

played the flute, being heartily applauded. Madame Linda

Paggi recited Lasca," while Miss Clara Osmond not only

Arecited, but gave a pianoforte solo, " Ballad in Flat."

irortli Kent.-Mr. R. Feaver Clarke, J. P., presided at Mr. Frank Wilson, with humorous songs, and Mr. Tom

I meeting of the North Kent Pharmacists' Association at Crewys gave groat satisfaction. After the concert, Mr.
Jravesend on January 21, when Mr. Frank Curry {Messrs.
iBurroughs Wellcome & Co.) gave his lecture on the C. A. Hill made a short speech, and refreshments followed.
'f ubcrculins. In addition to a large attendance of members,
ihere were many visitors, the committee having sent invita- A whist-drive, in which twelve games were played, was next
ions to local doctors, nurses, and others interested in a
held, the prizew'inners being Miss Simcock, Mrs. Keith, and
.ubjeot dealing with the remedial treatment of tuberculosis.
Messrs. Walters and Keith. The profits are to be handed
Among those present were the Mayor of Gravesend (Aldcr-
laian Enfield, J.P.) and Dr. _H. A. D. Jowett. The lecture over to the Benevolent Fund.
Svas illustrated with a series of specimens and coloured
Spectacle-malcers' Company.
Iphotographs. The President proposed a vote of thanks to
The annual dinner of the Spectacle-makers' Company was
Mr. Ourry, Mr. W. E. Clarke (Strood) seconded, and the held on January 27 in the Grocers' Hall, London, E.C.
motion was carried with acclamation. The meeting also The Master (Sir Marcus Samuel) was in the chair, and
Dxpressed appreciation of the kindness of the Mayor of there were present many distinguished guests. Representa-
Gravesend in granting the use of the Town Hall, and the
tives of the optical industry present included Mr. J. H.
honour paid to the Association by his presence. Messrs. Raphael, Mr. J. H. Cuff, Mr. F. W. Bateman, Mr. G.

Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were also thanked for con- Bennett, Mr. F. W. Branson, Dr. Max Coque, Mr. W. A.
tributing materials to illustrate the lecture. The Mayor Dixey, Mr. M. W. Dunscombe, Mr. A. E. Grey, Mr. J. B.

and Dr. Jowett replied. Hopkins, Mr. A. R. D. Jameson, Mr. L. Laurence, Mr.
H. Newbold, Mr. G. Paxton, Dr. R. M. Walmsley, and
West Bromwlch.— A meeting of the West Bromwich Colonel T. Davies Sowell. Viscount Peel proposed the
toast of " The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs," to which the
Pharmaceutical Association was held at Mr. Beattie's Lord Mayor replied. The Master proposed the toast of
" Our Guests," to which the Japanese Ambassador replied.
(Boots, Ltd.) on Tuesday evening, January 27. Mr. Beattie The Lord Mayor proposed the toast of " The Spectacle-
was voted to the chair, and Mr. Geo. Hampton (ex-Presi- makers' Company," to which the Master replied. Mr.
dent of the Leicester Association) was introduced and Harry Lawson proposed the toast of " The Livery," to
which Sir William Crookes, O.M. (President of the Royal
addressed the meeting. Mr. Kemsey-Bourne was elected
President, Mr. Withers Vice-President, Mr. Rex Allen Society), replied. He said that the Company of Spectacle-
Treasurer, and Messrs. Beattie and Edgson as members of
makers is one of the most useful institutions for providing
the Executive. Mr. H. Osborae was elected Secretary at remedies for the ravages of time, and the accidents w^hich
the previous meeting. The Parlour at the Y.M.C.A. was
deprived people of a certain faculty. Spectacles, the dic-
suggested as a suitable meeting-place, and it was thought
tionary told them, are instruments to correct defects in
Aadvisable to meet there monthly. report on rules and
vision. Defects in vision are a serious handicap, but if
the annual subscription will be submitted by the Executive.
the Company could provide instruments to 'Correct defects
Mr. Edgson moved, and it was agreed, that a delegate be in mental vision, it would be conferring a still further boon.
The first spectacles were invented to correct long sight.
appointed to represent the Association at the next con-
—Mental long sight or a long imagination the faculty of
ference on Insurance Act matters. The Secretary was ap- —anticipating events does not require correcting, but rather

.pointed. Thanks were accorded to Mr. Beattie for the use intensifying. It would be extremely useful, however, if

l^f his room and for presiding dui'ing the election, and to they could get an instrument to correct mental short sight.
Still more important would be spectacles for correcting
Mr. Hampton.
the short-sighted policy of devoting inadequate funds for
FESTIVITIES.
education and scientific research.

London County Dinner Next Week. Wliist-drives.

The dinner which the London County Pharmacists' Associa- The Bath Chemists' Association held their annual whist-
drive at Fisher's Restaurant on January 22, and a very
tion hae arranged to be held in the Gordon Hall, Restaurant pleasant gathering it proved. The attendance was over
seventy. The prizewinners were Mr. Duck, Mr. James,
Frascati, London, W., on Thursday evening, February 5, Mrs. L. Wilson, Mr. J. Dawes, Mrs. F. E. Cooper, Mrs.
Hood, and Mr. Wills. Those who contributed to the short
promises to be a great success. Mr. Edmund White is to but enjoyable musical programme were Mrs. Sampson,
Mrs. Coe. Mr. Hawes, and Mr. Wilmot (song,s), Mrs. Gedge
preside, and several distinguished publicists will support and Mr. Loveless (recitations).

nim. An excellent musical programme has been arranged. A Highly successful whist-drive, under the auspices of
Comparatively few vacant seats remain, and application for
tickets [Is. 6d. each) should be made to the Secretary, Mr. the South-East London Pharmacists' Association, was held
6. A. Tocher, 191 Manwood Road, Crofton Park, London, at Lewisham on Thursday, January 22. Over a hundred
S.E., by Monday next. pharmacists and friends were present. Mrs. Fairweather

Bohemian Concert. (wife of the President of the Association) presented the
prizes to the following successful players : Mrs. Harris, Mrs.
The West Ham Association of Pharmacists on January 15
Foster, Mrs. Hammerton, Mrs. Sullivan, Mrs. Sinclair. Mr.
held a Bohemian concert at the Alexandra Hotel, Strat-
ford, and it proved to be one of the most successful func- ANell, Mr. Stovell, Mr. C. Martin (Maw's), and Mr. Poll.

tions that the Association has organised. The attendance vote of thanks was passed to Mr. W. T. Tucker and Mr.
of members and friends numbered about 150, and included C. Happold, who organised the proceedings.

a large proportion of ladies. An excellent programme was The whist-drive of the Liverpool Chemists'^ Association held
provided of songs and recitations. Those who provided the at the Gainsborough Cafe, Dale Street, Liverpool, on Jan-
uary 21, attracted an attendance of 172, but this did not
programme were Mrs. Desmond (piano solo). Miss Daisy include as great a proportion of chemists as was expected.
More (songs), Miss Parker (recitations), Mr. Stanley Cook Surprise prizes were distributed at frequent intervals (boxes
of chocoJates for the ladies and boxes of cigarettes for the
recitations), Mr. Alec More (songs), Mr. Harry tollfree gentlemen), and at half-time prizes were awarded to " the
(songs), and Mr. Bert Whitby (songs). The entertainment leading lady " and the best score of lady playing as
gentleman." The players then adjourned to the dining-hall,
was a great success. which is in early Jacobean style, where an excellent
supper was served. Mr. Frank Smith acted as M.C. and
Social Evenings. Mr.' W. F. Laycock as Steward, while Mr. W. Wellings
(steward), Secretary of the General Purposes Committee,
The Middlesbrough Chemists' Association held a successful
—was responsible for the general arrangements. The prize-
social evening on Wednesday, January 21, at the Cafe
Kpya when winners were: Gcni/enicn (1) Mr. Rogerson, (2) Mr. Reston,
, a company of about forty chemists and their
(3) Mr. Gainford ; Ladies— {1) Miss Lockett. (2) Mrs. Hum-
Th t ^''^^^ received by the President (Mr. E. Denis-Owen),
phreys Jones.
''on, °^ evening was a comic sketch, entitled
given by the " Astrophelians," G
iV?V^r"'o^n®g Flat," in which

the chief parts were taken by Mrs. Enoch and the Misses

andi ^"^ Thomas, and Messrs. Billington, Dean, Enoch,
ri^huomas. Songs were also given by the Misses Davies

and Messrs. Stubbs and Thomas. Mrs. Amor and Mr.
tsennison acted as accompanists

)

210 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST Jan-uaev 31, 1914

TRADE REPORT. —ACaltjmba. few bags ex auction have been sold a

27s. bd. per cwt. for fair small to bold washed sifted.

The prices given in this section are those obtained by importers or I
manufacturers for bulk quantities or origrinal packages. To these
prices various charges have to be added, whereby values are in Camphor Oil is about 5s. per cwt. easier, white assen
many instances greatly augmented before wholesale dealers
receive the goods into stock, after which much expense may be tial offering at 50s. on the spot.
incurred in garbling and the like. Qualities of chemicals, drugs,
oils, and many other commodities vary greatly, and higher —Cantharides. Business has been done in Cliina flio
prices than those here quoted are charged for selected qualities
of natural products even in bulk quantities. Retail buyers at 3s. per lb.
cannot, therefore, for these and other reasons, expect to
purchase at the prices quoted here. Carbolic Acid is firmer, a leading maker's quotation fo
390 to 40O C. ice-crystals being from 4^r/. to %d. per It

in large bulk packing on ton contracts, with the usus

premium for detached crystals.

—Cardamoms. Complete returns of the exports fror

Ceylon for the year 1913 are now available. As comparei

42 Cannon Street, London, E.G., January 28. with the three previous years they are as follows :

AS this issue closed for press on Wednesday evening, 1910 " " 1912 1913
later market intelligence will be found in our
Coloured, Supplement. Meanwhile there ha^s been a fair 1911
amount of activity in chemicals and drugs, with few im-
Lb 639,893 555,013 436,475 436,997

portant changes. Menthol has been an uncertain and The chief destinations were as follows, the figures i:
parentheses being those for 1912 : United Kingdom
fluctuating market, endeavours being made to break prices 168,216 lb. (201,896 lb.): Germany. 116,330 It

for forward shipment. Japanese mint oil is quiet, and (115,205 lb.): U.S.A., 52,559 lb. (34,120 lb.); India
shows little change. Cream of tartar has advanced 6c?., 42,387 lb. (44,549 lb.): Turkey, 17,975 lb. (6,331 lb.)
and citric acid is the turn easier. Cocaine is lower from Sweden, 11,200 lb. (8,178 lb.).
makers in the absence of demand. Glycerin as yet shows
Celery-seed is dearer at from 65s. and 70.?. c.i.f.; spo
no prospect of a reduction. In the Sicilian essential oils
the tendency of lemon, orange, and bergamot is in buyers' value is 65s.
favour. Star-anise oil is steady, and for white camphor
—Cinchona. At the Amsterdam auction of pharraaceu

tioal bark held on January 22, 49,094 kilos, of bark out 0
136,389 kilos, offered were sold. The amount sold repre

sented the equivalent of 1,266 kilos, quinine out of 4,161

kilos, offered. The prices paid were from 18 cents ti

oil prices are about 5s. cheaper. Eucalyptus is quiet and 62^ cents per half-kilo.

sassafras dearer. American peppermint in tins is decidedly Citric Acid is the turn easier at from Is. ll^rf. t

stronger, and in better jobbing demand. Sudan acacias Is. ll^d.

to arrive are fiimer. Carnauba wax is easier, and —CiTRONELLA OiL. Cevlon is quiet with drums ofterim

Japanese firm. Cocoa butter is firmer, glucose and tur- at Is. 8f7. and tins at Is. 9f/. per lb. on the spot, and t<

pentine being cheaper. The principal movements have arrive, February-March shipment, drums are quoted a

been as under : Is. b^d. per lb. c.i.f.

Higher Firmer Easier Lower The official figures regarding the exports from Ceylon fo
1913 are now available. As compared with the three pre,
Celery seed Carbolic acid Camphor oil Ammonia
vious years thev are as follows: 1913. 1,586.005 lb.: 1912:'
Cream of Cocoa butter Citric acid sulphate 1,384,628 lb.: 1911. 1,524.275 lb.; 1910, 1,747,934 lb. Las,
Bergamot oil vear tbp U.K. secured first place with imports of 643,485 lb
tartar Gum acacia Cocaine Coconut oil (1912. 601.286 lb.), the U.S.A. followed with 490.605 lb. (1912'
Ipecacuanha
(Sudan) Lemon oil Geranium oil 493.333 lb.), Germany being third with 296,121 lb. (1912,
(M.G.) Peppermint Opium (Bourbon)
167.389 lb.)'.
Mace oil (Amer. (Turk) Glucose
Red lead Shellac —Cloves. At auction 70 bales fair Zanzibar were bough
(W.I.) (Eng.)
Menthol Turpentine in at b^d. for fair ; to arrive the sales include March
Olive oil Lemon oil
Wax May at b^d. c.i.f., sellers on Wednesda.v quoting b^d
(Spanish) Linseed oil
Sassafras oil (carnauba" c.i.f.

Wax (bees') —CocA-LEAVES. At the Amsterdam auctiori held las

(Gambia) week the equivalent of 1,567 kilos, total alkaloids sole
out of 1,570 kilos, offered. The price ranged from 9 cent'
London Markets. to 30^ cents' per half-kilo., and the average unit wa:

—Anise. Russian to arrive is quoted 28?. c.i.f. 16.26 cents, against 16.86 cents.

—Anise Oil (Star). Business has been done to arrive Cocaine.—The lack of demand and keen competitior
have given a weaker tone to the market, makers offerins
the hydrochloride at 4s. bd. per oz., or even a trifle less,

Cocoa-butter is firmer, with spot sellers at Is. 4irf.i
per lb. At auction 26 cases Brazil sold at Is. 3^. tc

M.at 56-. 5^^. c.i.f., and on the spot 65. 2d. to bs. will Is. 3irf.

buy. CoD-LivER Oil.—Several of the Norwegian makers ar<.
now in the market with offers of new Lofoten oil at 90s
—AsAFETiDA. The Gannet, via Antwerp, has brought per barrel c.i.f., a nominal figure pending definite report!
as to the fishing. Meanwhile, 1913 oil is quoted 82s. t(
354 cases. Early next month an auction will be held,
85s. c.i.f., according to brand.
when at least 250 packages new Persian Gulf will be
Copper Sulphate has a firmer tendency with rathei
offered. Fair quantities have lately been sold at steady more demand, the usual Liverpool brands offering foi

prices.

ABergamot Oil.— Sicilian advice, dated January 24, ]\[arch-May delivery at 221. 5s.

states that a hand-to-mouth policy continues to be fol- Cream of Tartar has advanced bd. per cwt. to 94s. foi
lowed ill consuming circles and this acts depressingly on 98 per cent, powder, and to 92s. for 95 per cent.
the position over here, and has, so far, kept speculative
growers from taldng any definite step to try to —Ergot. Quiet, with Russian offering at from Is. 10''
strengthen the position. It has consequently been pos-
to Is. llfZ. c.i.f., and German at Is. 9f/. c.i.f.
sible to obtain further reductions in price on the parcels
which were handled this week and the position remains —Eucalyptus Oil. Quiet with 70 per cent. (B.P.) offer

easy. Pressings are giving very satisfactory results as ing at Is. bd. per lb.
regards quality, as owing to the condition of the market
Geranium Oil is lower for Bourbon, February-March
the fruit has been left to ripen thoroughly, which is
naturally conducive to' a high ester content and a more delivery of which is offering at 14s. bd. c.i.f.
delicate perfume. In London, agents report the market Glucose.—The usual brands of American liquid are

as easier, offering 38 per cent, at 18s. Qd. c.i.f. unaltered at 12s. l^d. spot, but London make is cheaper

at lis. l^d. ex -works.

:

January 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGCIST 211

—Glycerin. Although the Cuiituifntal market has de- A Smyrna correspondent writes on January 16 that the

I sales this week on our market amount to 68 cases for Conti-
nental and English buyers. The figures paid were as fol-
cHn€d, there does not seem any prospect of a reduction in lows: Low mixed grades of uncertain strength, 9«. to lis.;

i current qualities, lUg to 11 per cent., 15s. bd. extra selected
;
the price of chemically pure of British make just yet.

—j
Gum Acacia. Sudan sorts are rather firmer, the busi-

ness done including fair half hard sorts at from 33s. to Tchall, 12j per cent., 15s. 3fZ. Kirkayatch (fine Yerli),
t 35.«. 5i/. per cwt. ; to arrive new crop is offered from ;

—Khartoum at rather higher prices viz., 31s. bd. to 32.?. 125 per cent., 16s. Sellers firmly maintain the position, and

c.i.f., arrd it is believed higher prices will be seen as the nothing will induce them to make the slightest concession.
season advances. East Indian kinds are unchanged, No. i
Ghatti offering at 27s'. bd. per cwt. on the spot. Senegal The arrivals in Smyrna are 4,280 cases, against 2,214 cases

giuii is unaltered, tiie usual Bas de Fleuve quality offering at same date last year.
at 32.-'. f.o.b. Borueaux.
A Constantinople correspondent writes on January 24 that

the market prices are maintained, chiefly on account of

Ipecacuanha.—One of the brokers has cleared his some rather important sales, and in spite of the weather
auction catalogue, and business has been done up to 8s. being favourable for the new crop. If the sales con-
for Matto Grosso, which has since been refused, 8s. 3rf. tinue on the same scale here as well as in Smyrna, we do
being wanted. Minas is quoted 7s. Qd. The A-iturias
has brought 19 package,s of Matto Grosso. not think that the holders will reduce their present prices.
The sales of the week were 58 cases druggists' at from ptrs.

Lemon Oil is from M. to bd. cheaper, with sellers 195 to 205, 40 cases ''softs" at ptrs. 250 to 280, and 33 cases
Malatias at ptrs. 225 to 227 per oke. Our quotations are
the same as those of last week. The arrivals in Constanti-

offering new crop for prompt shipment at from 9.v. to nople are 3,152 cases, against 2,409 cases, and the stock is

1,022 cases, against 1,048 cases.
—AOrange Oil.
9s. 6rt. per lb. c.i.f. terms; on the spot prices vary from Sicilian advice, dated January 24,

10s. M. to 10s. M. for good brands. statss that inactivity again prevailed, and for the few

A Sicilian advice dated January 24 states that " the orders received from Abroad it was possible to buy at

great inactivity of which we spoke in our last report asserted slightly less than the previous week's figures. London

itself still further during this week, the demand being almost agents quote lOs. Zd. c.i.f. for sweet and 10s. 9f/. for

entirely lacking from most consuming places. The market bitter.

has therefore been easy and weak, and those local blank —Oeange-peel. Small sales of fair Tripoli strip have
sellers who have, as usual, requirements to cover before
the end of this month easily dealt in what parcels were been' made at from Is. 4(/. to Is. bd., and the balance of
brought for sale, and they eventuallv obtained some re-
duction on previous figures. However, considering the the parcel offered last week is firmly held at Is. bd. The
small volume of business just at the time, when the pressings
crop will be exceptionally small this year.
are in full swing, it must be said that the resistance of
—Peppermint Oil. American tin oil has taken a distinct
sellers and growers is much more intense than was antici-
pated. The tendency remains easy, and the near future turn for the better, the price of the best brands being

depends on the requirements of foreign consumers and uiDon from 15s. 3(7. to 15s. bd. net, with a fair jobbing demand.
how soon the demand from abroad will set in."
Very strong advices continue to come from the other side.
Menthol.—Our last report closed with spot sellers of
Kobayaehi at 12s. bd., and on the following day (Friday) Bottled oil is also firm at 18?. London terms for H.G.H.
busoness was done at 12s. bd. to 13.s., with 14s. asked
On Monday, however, there was a slight reaction, sellers —Potassium Iodide. Japanese make is quoted lis. Zd.

'Coming forward at 13s. M. to 13s. bd., there being less net and English at 12s. per lb., less 5 per cent.

Quinine is unaltered, with the usual German brands of

sulphate offering at from Is. Q\d. for old' import to

eager buyers. Subsequently the tone became firmer again, Is. Ojrf. for comparatively new from second-hands, and
the market closing on Wednesday with sellers at 16s. bd
to 13s. M. for Kobayashi-Suzuki. The arrival market makers quoting Is. Id. Tnere are buyers of June delivery

Newat Is. 0|(/., and sellers at Is. Ojrf. Java has been

has been less active, fluctuating, and difficiUt to operate in, sold at Is. Q^d.

some attempt being made to break prices, which apparently The exports of '' quinine, quinine-salts, and combinations "
met with little success— e.^., January-March shi,pm6nt was from Germany during the eleven months ending November

were as follows

offered at from 15s. 7,d. to 15s. bd. c.i.f. combined with 1911 1912 1913
192,400 182,900
oil, but the offers were not firm. The sales include : Kilos. ... 190,500 4,968,000 5,274,000
;.. 4,618,000
Januai-y-March shipment (menthol only) at 12s. bd. c.i.f. Marks American is l^d. per lb.
—Oil. Genuine
; Sassafras

'for Kobayashi; also February-March shipment in com-
bcnation with oil at 16s. to 16s. M., and February- April at
dearer at 2s. IQ^d. spot.
15s. 7fZ. to 16s. c.i.f. From Hamburg business is reported
Senega has been in more inquiry, with sales at from
for March-April shipment at 16s. c.i.f. The first-hand
Is. lO^rf. to Is. llrf. per lb. spot.
quotation from Japan comes 17s. M. c.i.f. for March-
TNShellac is easier, with on spot offering at from
April shipment in combination with oil, but on Wednes-
iday there were second-hand sellers here at 16s. c.i.f., with AC81s. to 82s. per cwt., and Garnet at 80s. For delivery

'the market closrlng quiet. Arrivals in London comprise TN has been sold at 78s. to 79s. for March and buyers,

£a cases oil and 5 cases menthol via Hamburg; 53 cases TNMay at 80s. bd. and buyers; sellers of for February-
mint and menthol via Marseilles ; 30 cases menthol from
ACMarch quote 80s. and at 75s. c.i.f.
Kobe.
—Soda Nitrate. Current quotations are from lOs. 2d.

Mint Oil (Japanese) is quiet, with sellers of Kobayashi to lis. for ordinary to refined on spot. Liverpool is

on the spot at 4s. M., which has been paid. To arrive steady but quiet at from 10s. bd. to 10s. 9rf. per cwt.
eellers of January-March shipment quote 4s. V^d. c.i.f.,
—Sulphur. Ex wharf London, flowers are quoted 6/. 15s.

Aat which business has been done. circular has been and roll 5/. 10s. per ton. Liverpool reports refined as

issued to the trade offering an outside brand of Japan oil quiet, flowers for shipment offering at ll5s. and roU at

at 4s., but, being much below current value, it is looked ii7s. bd. per ton c. and f.

upon with suspicion. —Tamarinds. Business has been done in Barbados at

wi•tfhi,f^iln'e^'t~^h^m^-^s°"k^i'n'^ blue ^® sellers remain firm, 18s. per cwt. in bond and in Calcutta kind ai. 15s. bd.,
offering at 70.^. per
Tonquin pod at which more is available.

oz., and old fashioned at 60s. Tartaric Acid is firm at Is. Q\d. for foreign, and

OuBANTJM.— ,Small sales of fair di-op have been made —Is. 0|i. for English.
at Turmeric. Quiet, with retail sales of fair to good
ordinary at 35s., and idftings at from 21s. bd to Madras finger on the spot at from 15s. to 17s. per cwt.
^s. crop there would probably be as to quality, and Cochin at 12s.
per cwt. For new

buyers at 45s., but nothing is so far available.

OPmi,—Turkish is a trifle easier, Smyrna offering the Turpentine has declined about bd. per cwt. since our
M.usual 11 per cent, at from 13s.
to 13s. bd. c.i.f., and last, American closing steady on Wednesday at 32s. Zd.
per cent. 13s. Qrf. to 13s.
irom J.6S to 15s. bd. spot. lOr/. Druggists' is quoted at on spot, and at 32s. bd. for February-April.
Persian remains very firm
at from 19s. to 21s. 6^/. per lb. according to test, the —Wax, Bees'. The higher rate of BZ. 7s. bd.. per cwt.
nigher price having been paid.
has been paid for Gambia ex store Liverpool, but Ql. 5s.

will probably buy.

:

212 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST January 31, 19U

WaXj Carnauba, is easier at 130.s. p«r cwt. spot for thousand cases. The prospects of obtaining high prices for
waxy.
the unsold portion of the 1913 crop would, therefore, nor
Wax, Japanese, is firm at 56-5. bcl. on the spot, and to appear bright, and more likely than not lower offers will
shortly appear in this market.
arrive 51.s. per cwt. c.i.f. is quoted for shipment.
Olive Oil.
—WiTCHHAZEL ExT. American of good quality contain-
In their annual report on olive oil, Messrs. Harpin & Co.,
ing about 15 per cent, proof spirit is quoted at 2?. QfZ. Liverpool, state that the spot market has been exceptionally
per English gal. in bond. The duty equals about Zs. 9d.,
idle for many months, and business has been of a hand-to-
or, say, 6s. 6(1. delivered.
mouth character, but during the past two or three weeks

Cinchona Statistics. improved demand has been experienced, and the limited

Mr. Gustav Briegleb, of Amsterdam, has issued his annual stocks available have been rapidly absorbed, and prices
diagram of cinchona statistics covering the period 1895 to
1913. The figures include a table showing the average units have advanced from A81. to 48/. 10s. for Spanish to 50/. to
at the Amsterdam sales for the years above-named, that for 501. 10s. per tun. Market closes strong, with an upward

—1913 being 4.92c., the highest since 1905. The year 1896 tendency and very restricted supplies. The circular deals
fully with the " arrival market " during the past year.
was the lowest of the series 2.70c.—when the bark ship-
ments from Java were 5,039,500 kilos., and the highest unit iSupplies have chiefly come from Spain, but the prolonged
was 10.10c. in 1900, when the shipments were 5,390,000 kilos.
Particulars are also given on a separate card of the monthly war in the Balkans caused a certain amount of Candia and

—shipments from Java to Europe, and the unit paid at each Levant oil to be exported which otherwise would have been

auction since 1892. Mr. P. Brusse, of Amsterdam, also gives absorbed locally. This year Spain, Candia, the Levant, and
in pamphlet form statistics covering cinchona, quinine, and
coca during 1913. the Ionian Islands are looked upon as the principal sup-

Coca and Cocaine. pliers, but, owing to the comparative failure of the Italian

Mr. Ferdinand Roques, of Paris (whose agents in the and French crops, a great deal of oil must of necessity be
United Kingdom are Messrs. W. Charity & Sons, 14 Harp
Lane, E.G.), has issued his annual circular on coca and diverted to these countries, whose needs are very large.
cocaine during 1913, in the course of which he states that
the decline in hydrochloride of cocaine was much more Spain should have a full crop, Italy and France small crops,
accentuated than that of the coca-leaves, and the year
closed at the lowest price on record. Although there is no and Candia and Levant fair average crops. Latest quota-
official quotation for cocaine hydrochloride, the range during
the year has been between 315f. and 225f. per kilo, for tions are : Gallipoli and Gioja, 58/. 10s. f.o.b. : Malaga,
important quantities. The latter price is quite out of pro-
portion to that of the leaves, and, as the result of com- 501. 12s. 6(7. for February, and 49/. 10s. March-April ship-
petition, yields no profit to the makers. The article has
become of diminished interest to the drug-trade, and has ment, c. and f. Bradford Seville, 50/, c. and f. Liverpool
tempted speculators less and less owing to the restrictions ;
which have been placed on the ti-ade by various legislative
measures. for early shipment; and Candia or Levant, seller's option.

48/. 10s. c.i.f. Hull. Fine oils of low acidity, for edible,

pharmaceutical, and tobacco purposes are in good supply,

and present quotations are : Leucade, 51/. to 51/. 10s.

c. and f. Corfu, 59/. to 65Z. c. and f . ; and Spanish. 55/. to
;

60/. c. and f. In a lengthy statement devoted to " General

Remarks," the circular states there is no doubt that the

recent rise in prices in all producing countries has caught

buyers napping, and it is much to be regretted that, with

few exceptions, they did not take the opportunity of secur-

ing their supplies last autumn, when Malaga offered down

to 42/. 10s. to 43/., Seville 41/. 5s. c. and f., and Candia and

Levant 39/. to 40/. c.i.f. Continuing, Messrs, Harpin & Co.

state: "For years past we have drawn attention to the

fact that Spanish oil is not forced upon the market in the

early spring to pay the taxes, etc., as was formerly the case,

Menthol and Mint Oil. as the financial position in Spain has entirely altered, and

producers of oil and dealers in the interior are able to

Since writing editorially on this subject, the following hold their stocks and choose their own time to place them on

report has been received by the London branch of a Japanese the market ; further than this, certain banks have laid them-

house. This report gives additional particulars of the crops, selves out for the business, and have built stores for oil on

and in the main confirms what we have already written which they are willing to grant full advances, so that even

It will be remembered that the 1912 crop of mint of about holders who are not wealthy are not compelled to sell at an

500,000 kin was the Targest ever harvested in Japan, and unpropitious time. Another important feature is the largely

the consequence was that the artificially inflated prices for increasing manufacture in Spain of the finer edible oils, for

menthol and oil ruling on this market during the summer which the oils of lowest acidity are used. The difficulties

and autumn of 1912 had to make room for a more normal which legitimate traders (shippers, merchants, and brokers)

level of prices. The decline became more rapid when it have had to contend against have been accentuated by the
became known that, stimulated by the high prices realised reckless gambling of some operators, who from time to

for their product, the Japanese farmers had" again nearly time offered and sold at 1/. or 21. per tun below the prices

doubled the area under cultivation for the season of 1913. at which oil could be purchased from reliable shippers.

The total result of the crop on the mainland and in the Doubtless some of those are suffering severe losses, or will

Hokkaido was estimated at 950,000 kin, and, although doubt do before they have covered their contracts, but this is
was expressed in some quarters, this figure was generally
small satisfaction to those who have been forced to stand

accepted as correct, and prices for menthol and oil com"- aside while this ' bear ' selling was going on, unless they

bined declined from about 28s. to 12s. per lb. c.i.f. The were prepared to join in the gamble or to do business at

final figures now to hand confirin the forecast the 1913 crop a loss. This country has also been flooded with offers from
;
may therefore definitely be taken to have yielded 950,000 kin.
many firms entirely unknown here, and some buyers here

It is reported that of this total about two-thirds have been and "in America, tempted by the lower prices quoted, have
taken up by the local refiners, who are not likely, however,
purchased, in some instances much to their subsequent

to have parted with the full quantity to consumers. It Wesorrow. have heard of cases of contracts entirely de-

follows that one-third of the crop, or some 6,000 cases, is faulted upon, of bad quality packages, and losses through

still in the hands of the farmers, and the future course of leakages ; and in one case the buyer, after receiving bill of
prices will most likely depend on their attitude. Should the lading and paying cash against documents, received barre s
farmers be able to hold their stocks for any length of time,
the refiners w"ill be free to manipulate the market as they containing water only. The buyers who have suffered will

please. If, however, the former are compelled to sell out probably confine their business in future to responsible and

well-known firms; there is not only the actual loss on the

shortly, it will be impossible for the refiners to support contracts, but the low prices quoted are apt to influence

the market. In some quarters it was expected that, own'ng the minds of buyers, and to deter them from purchasing

to the lower level of prices, the cultivation in the Hokkaido when they ought to be doing so, and we are quite sure
would be much curtailed
; but from the latest reports received that this is what occui-red last autumn. Again, very heavy

from Japan it would appear that the new plantations will losses have been incurred through leakage on passage in
;

give a still better result in 1914. While the last Hokkaido some cases it is attributable to bad packages and possibly

crop yielded approximately 500,000 kin, the result for 1914 inadequate or improper coopering before shipment, but in

Js expected to be fully 600,000 kin. From the Bingo Bitchiu others it is due to neglect, carelessness, and reckless handlmg

district .no news about the 1914 crop is to hand yet; but, on the part of the shipowners' employes, and it is impossible

in view of the recent smart advance for Feljruary-April to obtain redress from shipowners, as the bill of lading

shipment, it is not likely that farmers will be inclined" to clauses practicallv exempt them from responsibility for any-

reduce their outout. It may be assumed, therefore, that thing. British u'nder\vriters are now refusing absolutely to
insure against leakage, and the only company with whom
the 1914 crop will certainly not fall below the record highest
crop of 1913, which was considered sufficient for two years' we could insure has now given us notice that they will do so

consumption, but may not improbably exceed it by a few no longer."

I

January 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 213

The Japanese Mint Industry.

'N view of the rising markets and the keen interest

- shown in the menthol and Japanese mint oil markets Memoranda for Correspondents.

It the present time, a few notes on the cultivation in All communications must be accompanied by the names and
addresses of the writers, otherwise they cannot be dealt with.
lapan are of interest. The reproduction we give below
Queries by subscribers on dispensingr, legral, and miscellaneous
from a print published by "La Parfumerie Moderne," subjects connected with the business are replied to in these
columns if they are considered to be of general interest.
,
Correspondents are requested to write each query on a separate
nd the original is beautifully, printed in three colours, piece of paper. Every endeavour is made to reply to queries
without delay, but insertion of the replies in " the next issue"
he primitive plough, the fine ox, and the snow-capped cannot be guaranteed, nor, as a rule, can they be sent by post.

lourrtain of Fujino-Yama in the background are features Letters submitted for publication (if suitable) should be written

E the photograph. The bulk of the mint grown in Japan on one side of the paper only. Their publication in " The
mostly cultivated on tlie sides of the hills, but that Chemist and Drugrg-ist " doe.s not imply Editorial agreement

, with the opinions expressed.

fown on low-lying ground, which can alternately be used

)r rice, is the richest in crystals. Although mint is

town in various parts of Japan, the best oil is produced

—1 Okayama and Hiroshima Prefectures, where three crops

re obtained viz.. May, June, and August. The first

op yields on distillation an oil containing about 47 per — Dental Chemists.

;nt. of menthol, the second about 53 per cent., Sir, ?ilr. A. Barritt, L.D.S., and others distinctly

id the third about 60 per cent. In Yamagata say it is. neitliisr ardo'us nor expensive for chemists

refecture two crops are obtained, and in the Hokkaido to qualify for the dental profession. Will they kindly

ily one, but the acreage planted in the Hokkaido say how '! Eight years ago I applied to the Manchester

far larger than that in the other districts, so that Dental Hospital and University, hoping that the iVLinor

7€n though Hokkaido oil contains only about 45 per Pharmaceutical examination would be accepted, as

having had a fair education.? It is not accepted. Most

chemists are not in business until at least thirty to

fifty years of age, so that to follow Mr. Barritt's

advice we must take to Virgii, English history, etc.,

again. Qui h'Hio?

Another Allen (Lancashire). (102/25.)

— mSir, I liave been rather interested the letters re

dental chemists. If either of the parties think about the

matter at all they must recognise that a dental chemist

must possess patients or his dental practice would soon

be non est, and there would be no need to discu>3s the

question. The majority of dental chemists, like myself,

have been accustomed to extracting, etc., during appren-

ticeship. If years uf practice, observation and study do

iiot make us efficient in the ordinary class of dental

operations and mechanical processes, I think nothing will.

Our opponents do not credit us even with common sense,

and do not seem to realise that we are capable of learning

and doing the operations they practised on poor hospital

patients. On second thoughts I had better say "under

CCLTIVATING MiST IN JAPAN. qualified supervision which came in exceedingly useful in

;nt. of crystals and there is only one crop, more than cases of accidents." After qualification a friendly doctor
alf the menthol comes from that province, which, it will is a useful asset. I wonder if " L. D. S." thinks that
3 remembered, was devastated by famine recently. The
rocess of distilling the oil is the same throughout the none of his colleagues are ever guilty of malpractice ''.
ifferent producing districts. It lasts four hours, and
Only a few weeks ago I came across a case in the mairipula-
i lb. of dried herb of the first crop should produce
tion of which the dentist had used his tongue more in
1 oz. of oil, of the second crop 24 oz., and of the third
op 21 oz. of oil. These figures, of course, vary, depend- deriding the unqualified than his skill. Irrespective of
ig on the quality of the herb and the extent to which
registered men excising teeth instead of extracting, with
is dried. It should be mentioned that the second
the resulting diseased mouths, I think he will find a few
—'op is the most plentiful a field, for instance, which
delinquents in his own ranks. Candidly, if any Insur-
ill produce 300 lb. of herb for its first crop will give
ance Dental Benefit is authoi'ised I should be quite willing
X) lb. for the second and 600 lb. for the third. It is
Jrhaps of interest to note that, roughly speaking, one to go in for a modified examination'. ]\ly dental room is
;re produces 5,000 lb. of dried herb, which should open to inspection any time, and I think " L. D. S."
roduc-e 80 lb. of crude oil. The price of herb fluctuates
ith that of the oil, and the distillers' profits are very would find the necessary instruments, antiseptics, etc.,
nail. The oil having been distilled it is sold to the
with absolute cleanliness of room. Moreover, inquiry
.rge refiners, of whom there are several. In the Okujoto,
around here re dentistry would. I think, result in a
ingo, and a few other districts there are " Peppermint
mlde," which examine the oil and give a certificate as to better opinion re dental chemists, whose experience is
e weight and purity, but from many districts the refiner
totally different from a chemist who takes a tooth out
as to tajce his chance. When the oil has been demeir-
lolised in Yokohama or Kobe, as the case may be, the occasionally. I have only been in this district two years

lenthol and oil are put separately in tins of 5 lb. each, and a quarter, and practically do no advertising, so I am
««lve in a case, and are ready for export. It need
ardly be pointed out that the oil is of an inferior quite at a loss to understand, according to opinions re-
haracter as compared with English and American pepper- presented, why I should do any practice at all. The travel-
iint but all the same it enters into cheap confectionery
» a large extent, and competes with the better-class oils. ling dental operators and canvasisers are the biggest blot

and the most dangerous as regards the dental profession.

What with dirty instruments, inserting teeth regardless

of articulation., going from door to door and taking weekly
iiLstalnients, it isn't surprising that " L. D. S." co^mes

across awful cases, and hospitals are just the places they

are sent to. Certainly, what with canvassers, weekly in-

.stalment system, and Che middle-class educated to qualifi-

cation, we shall do very little practice in the future unless

bv reputation. Yours, etc.,

Flint S. Riley.

214 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST Jaxuaey 31, 1S14

— Hampshire Insurance Accounts. almost unlimited fund (for in many cases the Sanatoric

Sm, I have noticed Messrs. Turner & Co.'s letter in Fund is backed up by the Treasury and the Coun

the C. & D., January 17, ajid can amply verify a like Council or Borough rates), these prescriptions go to redu
grievance in my own respect. What are the Hampshire
the Drug Fund. The remedy lies with chemists, w

pharmacists thinking about, sitting at the fire and allow- should see that scripts marked for Sanatorin

ing their fingers to be burnt in this ignominious way ? Benefit are paid out of the proper fund, and do all
Wake up, I say, and insist that the present system of
their power to induce the doctors to mark all sanatoric

•checking in Hampshire shall cease. Jso other comity is prescriptions as such. This is not altogether an impossil

subjected to such treatment. task if treated locally, for in many cases the chem;

Yours truly, knows the patient, or is able to judge from the pi

Basingstoke. D. M. Laidl.\w. scription -the nature of the patient's complaint, and so

—SiE, I was pleased to read the letter from Sir. C. H. able to bring a case of apparent neglect to the notice

Ba-ker, our new secretary for the County of Southamp- the doctor. Practically the same condition of thin

ton. It is largely due to the action of the chemists exists with prescriptions dispensed for temporary re

in the couirty writing direct to the Insurance Committee dents and travellers. In the case of my own Cominitt

instead of to their secretary that the delay in pa\Tnent has there are hundreds of claims from doctors for medic

occurred. The new Pharmaceutical Committee was to treatment in respect of these, yet there is not a sing
meet at Winchester on January 28. Will our friends read
the new regulations published in The Chemist and Druggist prescription to hand on this account. The number of pi
Diary 1914, and note the duties and powers of this
Committee ? The Southampton and District Pharmacists' scriptions issued must be well into the thousands. Th
Association are doing their best- to make arrangements
for 1913 and improve things for 1914. This county is not have undoubtedly been included in the ordinary prescri
an exception, but a good example of the difficulties of
organising a scattered district, and I am surprised but tions sent in by chemists. In my own opinion there
not satisfied at what has been already accomplished.
plenty of money provided by the Act to pay chemisi
We have decided to hold our next quarterly meeting at
bills in full and to distribute a portion of the floati
Basingstoke : will pharmacists in and near attend ? They sixpence among the medical men, if the chemist w
will meet their brethren from the boroughs, who are very but jealously guard the Drug Fund and see that it
willing to help the outlying districts to accomplish what
I Jknow is very awkward for them to do single-handed. ,
I look forward to seeing at least two District Associa-
tions working with the county, which Committee includes not burdened with expenditure properly chargeable agair

the secretaries of Portsmouth. Southampton, and another accoimt. Yours faithfully,

Bournemouth, so that we may speak as one man. I Qtjick. (101/11.)

irat-ernally submit to every pharmacist, whether in busi- Sparks from the Insurance Anvil.

ness or not : —SiE, As a member of the Herefordshire Insuran

Do you subscribe your 21s. to the Pharmaceutical Society ? Committee, which is under the guidance of a very at
Do you subscribe your 5s. to your Borough-, or Cotuity _

Association ? chairman and exponent of the Act, the following ide

Have you received any benefit from the Act? If not, are deeply impressed on my mind :
why?
That the administration expenses are constantly i

creasing.

That no matter what the local committee discuss ,

recommend they are entirely dominated by the Lond<

dictators, and much time and unnecessary trouble wou-^
be saved if they sent down their edicts with the comm^'

I assume that each pharmacist in the county can reply to put them into execution.

in the affirmative, as surely there are none in these Although the authorities will not grant a paltry bu
to pav decent wages to the chemist or to supply ad h
the standard remedies, they can vote hundreds, if n

Westirring times of change who cannot ? want in thousands, of pounds for sanatorium or tuberculin. .

addition their active co-operation. Surely there are men far as I can judge, this tuberculin treatment is only

in each district who can be trusted by their brethren, the experimental stage and at least a dangerous ai
expensive business, ea dangerous in the hands even
and occasional meetings held among themselves and experts that I do not think the patients should be foro
to accept it. except as a last resource. Tuberculm is ;
report to the head Association. How differently we doubt valuable in diagnosis and marking down tlie vicUi
but if I were consumptive I should prefer bemg ma.
think and act toward each other when we become ac- comfortable rather than be treated by Act of Parliame

quainted. Chemists in the past have often been their own

worst enemies. Let us try to change it. I am looking

forward to the time when no doctor will dispense except or wait until statistics prove its value.

in cases of emergency. ^
Should the medical man fall back upon drugs the c
Yours faithfuilv, allowance would be inadequate and the chemist stan

F. B. Weide. the chance of loss. carry out* att sVnicr
1 and 2 The Strand, East Street, Southampton. 1 Government who,

in order to

Sanatorium Benefit Prescriptions. notice an ill-digested scheme, would intimidate threatc
and bring coercive measures to compel the chemists
—Sib, Why should our bUls be discoimted ? Why should accept an unjust contract, would not hesitate to suppJa
the chemists when the time is ripe for ejecutaon.
we suffer because of actuarial blunders ? Such indignant am not giftod with the power of prophecy, but 1 shoo
questions are very much to the front in certain quarters not be the least surprised if when the Government ha
jnst now, and my object is not so much to attempt a full sucked the brains of the chemists, used their premi.
rent free, under the pretence of granting them a stan
answer, but rather to draw the attention to a considerable do not further job out the work by tender or estaDU
leakage in the Drug Fund for which chemists themselves public dispensaries: that the Pharmaceutical bociei)
examinations mav be no longer necessary to quality i
are partly to blame. Before dispensing a prescription and it is not certain that tney
Insurance dispensing, who' have been scrapped in ^
marked "Sanatorium Fund" the chemist should make employ the chemists

snre by questioning the patient that Sanatorium Benefit Howprocess. J-,ou_,r_u»^]

has been granted by the Insurance Committee. This being the Pharmaceutical Society and its gives KM
can sav that this "tuppenny professional fee '
so, the prescriptions should be put on one side, and when passed the esamiL
or encouragement to the man who has
the time for claiming payment arrives should be sum- tions is a mvsterv. Then I that while tne ^
marised on a special accotmt form marked " Sanatorium suppose

Fund." Now I am in a position to state positively that pharmacist is dispensing and booking " ha portns

90 per cent, of sanatorium prescriptions are paid out of strychnine the Eexalls or Eegesans will be appropriati-

the Drug Fund. Why is this? Firstly, because most what little bit of profit might be made out ot i
.chemists' proprietaries. Patent medicines when farst so
chemists include prescriptions- marked "Sanatorium
Fund " in their Drug Fund, accounts, and, secondly, be-

cause in the majority of cas§s, doctors do not indicate
T^hen prescriptions are in respect of Sanatorium Benefit.

.What is the result ? Instead of being paid out of an

— ——
::

Jan-uaey 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST 215

at cut prices 'were a scare, but pharmacy at Insurance return satisfactory to the Surveyor of Taxes. By the way,
prices is the limit, and the last straw shows which way I would suggest Jay Mack prepare a paper on the subject
for the Practice Section, B.P.C, at Chester. Saml. Hogg
the wind is blowing. Yours truly,
(Belfast).
J. J. Jackson.
Xot a Chestn It.
Free Choice of Chemist.
The lady student was translating prescription Latin from
Sia Xow that a year of Insurance dispensing has Mr. Ince's book, and on p. 109 was

passed we all are tempted to think over the advantage Cap. mag. castanece singulis noctibus hora quietis, augendo
jr otherwise of the Act to the chemist. To start with, vel imminuendo quantitatem pro modo operandi.
;he trouble most chemists had was in spending hours in
jxplaining the rights of the insured with regard to This is how she wrote the label

)btaining medicine, then there was the "Eep. Mist." Take a large chestnut each night at the hour of quiet,

]uestion, which has certainly decreased, next the clerical sleep increasing or decreasing in quantity for the operation

Tork. All these are working well, but when the Act only.

listinctly says insured persons have a right to go to Cannot you get a few more of these chestnuts, such,
as dear old Jonathan Pereira was so fond of relating?
my chemist "on the panel it is not right that a doctor M.P.S. (24/90).

iould order the patient to go to a chemist with whom The Semite and the Clinical.

jie does not deal; nor shoiild the doctor order modi- A respectably dressed gentleman of Semitic origiB

toe and himself send the prescriptions to the chemist of entered our shop and asked to be shown a clinical thermo-
meter, at the same time complaining that one he bought
his own choosing. The patient in most cases is some time ago was defective. I elicited the fact that it
was not purchased at our establishment, and proceeded to
frightened to act on his own responsibility, so does as
show him a case of one-minute guaranteeds." He in-
|ie is ordered, passes his own chemist by and grumbles.
quired the price, and when told 3.s. bd. opened his eyes
Yours obediently, very wide and said that the other one was only a shilling'.
I, of course, explained that one cannot expect to obtain a
I really good instrument at that price, and that those ha
was shown we tested ourselves and guaranteed them to
Faie Put. (94, 2.) give perfect satisfaction. He became more interested (I
quite thought he meant to purchase one), and proceeded
Dispensing Difficulties and Notes. to shake one exactly in the manner in which one would
tinkle a toy bell between finger and thumb. He. of course,
Readers are advised to consult " The Art of Dispensing " in regard got no result, and immediately said, " This is no better
than the other one." I hastened to instruct him as to how
Weto difficulties of compounding:. welcome fresh problems a clinical should be shaken, and he tried again. After
repeated trials, and many demonstrations from me, he at
for experiment and elucidation in this column, and invite the length grasped the astonishing fact that it requires a good
sharp jerk to send the tiny column of mercury down. Then
io-operation and correspondence of dispensers. he calmly handed the thermometer back to me, saying,
"Oh! I see; perhaps that's what's the matter with this
Icbthyol, Cocaine, and Glycerin. one at home. Good day." C'hemicus (90/74).

—Sib, I should feel obliged if you can throw any light on

he following prescription :

Cocainse hydroch sj.

lehthyol. ... jiv.

Glycerinum ad ... ... ... Jij.

Vhen first compounding, not anticipating any difficulty, Insurance Dispensing Queries.

j

[ rubbed ichthyol and cocaine together and tried to dilute
With glycerin. Result : the ichthyol seemed to become tough
and greasy, and at any rate quite immiscible with the

glycerin. Neither the addition of small quantities ot

Aimmonia solution or hydrochloric acid had any effect.

iBcond attempt, by diluting the ichthyol with the glycerin Scott's DsESsrs-G.— TI'. T. T. (211/21).—For mode oi

,.nd dissolving the cocaine in a very little water and mixing, pricing see C. <L' D. Diary, 1914, p. 231. under Ointments."
Myfent the same way.
conclusion is that the cocaine has Valentine's MEAT-iricE.—TT. T. G. (105; 18).—This is not
a medicine, and your Insurance Committee has no authority
ome affinity for the ichthyol, a greasy substance resulting to pay for it. Inform the panel doctor of the fact, telling-
him that the insured person must pay for the juice if jou
'Aich will not remain in solution in the glycerin. The

prmula is too expensive to conduct many more experiments

'ith. so I should be glad to learn what you think about supply it to him.

"'. I have suggested to the prescriber using a fatty basis —Poisons Dispensed. .7. -V. (99 74) asks if it is essential

anoline or eucerine) and emploving cocaine (alkaloid) in to use a poison label on mixtures containing poison dis-

>rin of an oleate. Yours faithfullv, pensed for insured persons. [Xo. Medicines dispensed are

Scot. (97/17.) exempt from the labelling conditions, as is clearly explained

[Ichthyol is incompatible with alkaloids, insoluble ichtho- in the paragraph Dispensing." in the C. D.<£• Diary,
p. 475. Read also the paragraph " Insurance Pre-
ilphonates being formed. When it occurs in conjunction

ith cocaine it generally gives rise to much trouble, as scriptions."]

lis alkaloid is prescribed in larger proportion than most Mile Liiiit.--/. R. (102/57).— (1) Medical Benefit Regula-
tion 12 specifies one mile from the chemist ; the distance
Mners. We have already encountered a combination such from the doctor is not specified, and in cases where the

, prescription, and as written it is quite un-

workable. It can be made so as to be usable bv rubbing chemist and doctor are equally distant from the insured
persons, if that distance is more than one mile, and the
iie cocame hydrochloride with 8 or 10 grains of 'powdered
doctor so desires, the Insurance Committee must maka
,agacanth. damping with about 1 drachm of rectified
,>mt,_and addmg very graduallv the mixed ichthvol and arrangements for the doctor to supply drugs and appliances.

:y^e"a triturating steadily while the addition is being This, you will observe, gives doctors so situated the whip-

^ade. There seems little reason, however, to suppose that hand. The Clerk to the Committee was acting within his
,-e compound wdl prove effective, and the suggestion to the
escnber is quite sound, bearing ahvavs in mind that the rights. We would suggest that you should get an Ordnance
Survey map of your district, and having ascertained the
,compatibihty exists, although visible "evidence of it may
.> wanting. By incorporating the cocaine and ichthvo'l names of all the insured persons in your district, draw up

iP"f.™'y a part of the basis, and then mixing, the a list of those persons who are on the border-line, and
.nditions for retarding the reaction will be well ensured. submit to the Committee the names of those whom you con-

e have found that a combination such as that of the pre- sider to be within the one-mile limit, asking that they should

; not be put on the doctor's list. Y'ou might also put the

|ription, when rendered alkaline with ammonia, set aside facts before the Pharmaceutical Committee of the county.
ten
rI to fourteen days, and shaken occasionallv, graduallv (2) Our correspondent adds : " It may interest you to know

jses its lumpiness and becomes a black, smooth liquid, that the dispensing for the whole of the patients on this
pis 13 too slow, however, for ordinary dispensing practice.]
local panel (only one doctor on it) came to about 36Z. last

Subscribers' Symposium. —year. Under the new scheme of divided dispensing the

For questions, answers, incidents, and interchange of opinions amount to be paid to the doctors alone will reach 501.

among " C. & D." readers. enough, as one of the patients said, to pay more than all their

drug bills; yet I suppose that if there was a deficiency in

Chemists' Boolhccping. the drug account I should have ray small account discounted,

AJdverti. ng to Jay Mack's article. I would just like to while the doctors would be paid in full. Is this so?"
irommend McQueen's system of accounts for simplicitv We[Yes.
hope all instances of such results will be care-

fullv recorded, so that they mav be submitted to Parlia-

[^0„"'^'^°- Provided stock-taking is done vearlv. ment in order that some modification of the Regulation may_
,

'*-V!ueens oo•ok covers all, even to the making-out of 'a be secured. It is unjust to chemists.]

— ——

216 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST Jaxuaey 31. 1914

Legal Queries. IL B. (94/75).— Value of a Business.— Our correspondtm'

The majority of difficulties in regard to trade law are anticipated asks us a series of questions regarding a business in a
by the legal information printed in " The Chemist and mining village of 4,000, unopposed, two resident doctors 1

Druggist Diary," 1914. See especially pp. 469-499. stock including optics, photographies, veterinary medicines'
Wepaints, and invalid wines.
—K. S. (101/65). An entire drug put up in capsule form is append the questions and

not liable to medicine-stamp duty, no matter whether it is replies :

recommended for the cure of human ailments or not. ]

—a. W. (102/23). Ung. salicyi. 00. fort, is a known, ad- 1. What should be the yearly takings of a business sucli

mitted, and approved remedy, and you, as a registered as is here described ? [If there is no co-operative store ii
chemist, may sell it unstamped on the conditions specified
in the C. D.dfc Diary, p. 488, under Exemptions. the village the returns should be between 2,000?. and 3,000/.'

Bovril (100/16).—If you refer to the C. d; D. Diary, 2. What proportion should rent, rates, electric lightiii"
p. 494, Sub-section 7, you will find the exact terms upon
advertising, wages, and sundry expenses bear to this,'
which any article whatsoever may be supplied by a shop-
keeper to a customer during closing hours when the article [This depends upon several things. If the shop is in a goot

is required in the case of illness. This applies to Bovril. position and there is a house attached, say, 50/. ; count-

—Analytical (113/70). If you keep open shop as a retail rates, 5/. ; electric light (probably dear, as the shop is in ;

trader and call yourself " Chemist," you are liable to a fine village), 10/.; advertising, 10/., or maybe more; wages. 50/.
of 5/. under the Pharm.acy Act, 1868, whether you sell
poisons or not', because you are not registered under the (youth, apprentice, and girl) sundries (wide term, as i
Act. Numerous retail traders in medicines have been fined ;
for using the title " Analytical Chemist."
—includes tire insurance, carriage, licences, ijhone, smal
—M.P.S. (98/bl). The insurance agent has been labour-
repairs), 30/. a total of 155/. If, on the other hand. ther.
ing under the impression that your apprentices are over
twenty-one, in which case, as you will find by reference to is no house, the rent and rates would be a little lower ano
our Diary, p. 227, the proportions payable by the insured
person and the employer vary. In the case of each of the wages bill higher, a qualified man taking the total u^!

your apprentices, who, we presume, are males, and under by 60/. to 80/.]
twenty-one, the payments are 3cZ. per week by you and Ad.
3. What percentage of profit, gross and net, should b
by the apprentice. expected when the takings average 1,000/. yearly? [Gro.-
profit with a lot of penny trade, own packing, well
Inquirer (95/60) asks: "Would a member of the Dental
Society of Ireland be deemed to be guilty of an infringe- organised shop, low stock, and plenty of N.I. dispensing
ment of the Dentists Act by using M. D.S.I, after his name,
in view of the fact that this name was chosen solely for the 40 per cent. Taking this at 470/., the net profit would b
purpose of avoiding such an inference ? " [This depends upon 315/. if well managed, expenses low, and no assistant. Oi

the conduct of the user of the abbreviation ; if he for the the other hand, if business is done at keen prices on heavie?,
purpose of gain does anything which might be construed
as medical practice, the fact that he used the letters M.D., there is no organisation to speak of, large stock ahvav

which are vyell understood to mean Doctor of Medicine, spoiling and wasting, the gross profits may be as low a

might contribute to his conviction for infringement of 30 per cent., say 370/., and this, less expenses (185/.), woulii

the Medical Acts. There is no objection to any member of yield 185/. net.]"

the Society describing himself as such, but there is a risk in 4. What stock should be carried for 1,000/. yearly returns
using the abbreviation, because it embodies the letters which
are almost solely used with reference to a statutory qualifica- [This depends on whether the town is rising, whether then
tion, whereas membership is not a qualification.]
is a co-operative store in the place, source of supplies, an

number of windows to stock. The stock should be fro:

300/. to 400/., equal to fifteen weeks' sales. In other coi^
'

ditions it may be 600/. to 800/.]

5. How many Insurance prescriptions should such a bus

ness receive ? [No information is given as to number <

insured persons in the district. Taking this at 1,000 nie

and 200 women, it may be 100 prescriptions a week;

could scarcely be 300.]

6. What would be the purchase price of such a business-/

[This depends upon position, whether the stock is excessivf',

and whether other traders sell chemists' goods. If goo

position, returns increasing, the work is done without
man, and the profit good, a fair price would be 550!. (400

Miscellaneous Inquiries. stock, 100/. fittings, 50/. goodwill).] ,
We do not undertake to analyse and report upon proprietary articles,
Retrospect ot Fifty Years Ago.
and when samples are sent particulars should be supplied to
Reprinted from "The Chemist and Druggist," January i5. tU
us as to their origin, what they are, what they are used for
The Colouring-matter of Essential Oils.
and how.
By Charles W. Quin, F.C.S.
We do not as a rule repeat information which has been given in this
Mr. Septimus Piesse has lately been making some t;
section during the past twelve months, as it occupies space

which can be more profitably utilised for other information.

In such cases the numbers are mentioned, and if querists
cannot refer to these they may obtain the numbers from the

&" C. D." Office at the published price, usually 6d.

J. C. (97/16). Cahhie,_ Carrock oh Tetter is a spurious searches into the colouring-matter of essential oils and ottc)
form of ringworm, distinguished from true ringworm by
growing from a centre outwards, and never forming a com- the result of which he laid before the Chemical Society

plete circle at the circumference. In tetter patches of ^

various shapes are seen, while in true ringworm they are short time since. As most of our readers use the.se sui
round. Invariably the trouble is accompanied with indiges-
stances almost daily, a few particulars respecting Mr. Piess(j
tion, it is unsightly, and there is a great irritation, which
causes restlessness and scratching, often putting the animal discovery may not be uninteresting. Mr. Piesse was fiij

off its food. It is also common in man, being conveyed led to experiment in this direction by an accident arisii
from cattle by contact. It is simple to cure when only a small
patch is seen. Usually an application of tinct. iodi, ung. out of the examination of some solid otto of patchoi-

during the performance of his duties as juror at the Inte,

national Exhibition of 1862. In the case of one of the exlj

bitors was a bottle containing a semi-solid substance, aij

labelled " Solid Otto of Patchouli." As none of the juro;

^y*^- carbol. crud. suffices. had ever seen or even hoard of such a product, it was

When^"il*^a'r' ge patches are scatt,ered over the body, and a first supposed to be a mistake. The standing of the exli

number of animals have to be dressed, the following is bitor was, however, so high that the jurors determined

recommended : have an examination of the substance made by Mr. Piessj

Pot. bichrom. 3j. —who at the next meeting of the jury reported that the su
Aquae 5iv.
stance was really what it professed to be 'Solid otto

Solve. patchouli, or, in chemical language, the stearoptene of tj

Apply with a brush; one application is usually sufficient. essential oil. During Mr. Piesse's experiments on this sui

It may be mentioned that before applying a dressing it is stance, he found as a residue in one instance a blue oil

imnerative that the parts be washed with warm water, soap, liquid, which he immediately judged to be the colourir;

and soda and the crusts scraped until blood appears, a ma^tter of patchouli. It is a curious fact that both ^

blunt knife or piece of glass being used for the last named Piesse and Dr. Gladstone have adopted names very simil|

operation. There are the usual thousand cures for this to those already appropriated to a coal-tar colour, in o

disease, and every one has his pet prescription, each of instance AzuHne, and to a new blue pigment in t

course, being the best. When the aflfection occurs in the other Cwruleum. Again, considering the nature of t

human subject, tinct. iodi, ung. hyd. nit., ung. hyd. oleat. product, would not "ol" be a more fitting terminatioij

usually effect a cure after a few applications. Cceriilol savours of cacophony but there seems to be -
;

objection to either azurol, r/laukol, or even sapphiroL
j

\

4 TFIE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 123
Jaxuary 31, 19]

Some of the "Vaseline Specialities

AND THEIR PRICES

" Vaseline " Pure Carbolated " Vaseline."
BLUE SEAL.

PENNY TINS 7/- per gross. Screw-Cap Bottles ... ... ... 5/- per doz.

TWOPENNY TINS 13/- „
18/6 „
No. 1 size, in boxes of 1 gross 18/9 „ Blue Seal Pomade "Vaseline."
18/9
,, 1 ,, 3 dozen 37/- „ SCREW CAPS.
10/6 per doz.
„1 „ „ 1
30/- „
„2 „ „ 1„ 5/- per tin. No. 1 size, in boxes of 1 gross ... 20/6
... 21/-
1-lb. tins, sealed ,, 1 ,, ,, 3 dozen ... 41/-

5-lb. ,, ,, 2 ,, ,, 1 ,,
10-lb. ,, ,,
25-lb. ,, ,, Perfumed White "Vaseline."
50-lb. ,,

New style Hcandsome Bottle with glass stoppers.

We are now offering white and yellow Boxes of ^-doz 12/6 per doz.

" Vaseline " at 115° melting-point at same Metal Cap, 3-oz. size, in card case ... 8/6 ,,

prices as ordinary white and yellow. " Vaseline " Hair Tonic.

No. 1 size, 9/- No. 2 size 18/- per doz.

White "Vaseline." Perfumed "Vaseline" Oil.

METAL CAP BOTTLES. One size, in bottles (for the hair), in boxes of 1 doz.

Blue Seal, No. 1 size ... ... ... 3/6 per doz. 7/- per doz.
...
3-oz. size in cartons, boxes of 5-doz. ... 6/- ,,
10/- ,,
6-oz. ,, ,, ,, |-doz. 20/- ,,
60/- ,,
' 1-lb. tins, sealed "Vaseline" Cold Cream.

5-lb. „ ,. 9/3 per tin. 2d. size, 15/- per gross.
10-lb. „
25-lb. „ ,, 22/- „ Tubes, No. 1 size 4/9 per doz.
50-lb. 41/8 ,, 8/3 .,
,, „ ,, ,,2 size 3/4 „
5/- „
„ No. 1 size, glass jars, in boxes of 1 doz. 8/3 „

Red or Veterinary " Vaseline." 2 ,, „ „ ,, 1„ 19/-
8/3
J-lb. tins, sealed 4/- per doz. „3„ „ „„ i„
1-lb. 16/6
5/6 ,, 4 ,, nickel-plated boxes, in boxes
5-lb.
10-lb. ,, ofA-doz
25-lb.
50-lb. 22/- ,,

Half-Barrels, about IJ cwt. 3/6 per tin. ,, 5 ,, glass jars ... ... ...
Barrels, about 3 cwt. ...
7/6 „ 6,, ,, ,,

13/4

28/- per cwt. "Vaseline" Camphor Ice.

24/6 ,, —" Penny Size " Fancy Tin Box, in 7/- per gross
3/OJ per doz.
Veterinary Carbolated " Vaseline. boxes of 3 doz. ... ... ... 3/OJ ,,

1-lb. tins ... ... ... ... 6/- doz. Fancy Tin Box, in boxes of 1 dcz. ...

Fancy Tubes, in boxes of 1 doz. ...

Capsicum-" Vaseline. Sulpho-" Vaseline"
FOR DOGS.
A PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR MUSTARD AND
OTHER PLASTERS. The latest cure for Mange and Skin Affections in Dogs.
I^end of Pure Vaseline, Sulphur, and Rect. Oil of Tar.
Instantly ready for use. Will not blister the skin.
In Jars, 9/3 doz. : 5-lb. Tins, 4/8 tin ; 10-lb. Tins, 8/3.
Collapsible Tubes, one size only, including Government stamp,

9/- per doz.

" VASELINE " is the Registered Trade Mark of the Co.

Chesebrough Manufacturing

(CONSOLIDATED) NEW YORK,

42 HOLBORN VIADUCT, LONDON, E.C.

Complete Price List sent on Application.

:

Hopkin Manufacturers of

an( PURE CHEMICALS and
CHEMICAL PREPARA-
Williams,
TIONS for DISPENSING.

Limited^ Guaranteed Chemical Reagenb
for ANALYSIS and RESEARCH
16 Cross Street,
Made and supplied to stcmdairds and sptecificadoas
Hatton Garden,
described in the recent publication,
London, E.C.
" Analytical Reagents
Standards and Tests,"

Telegrams : Telephone : EDMUND WH°ITE,'^B!sc.(Lond.), F.LC
** Ceriam London." 604 HolboTO.
Published by ,
\
HOPKIN & WILLIAMS, LTD. j

Octavo, pp. 90, Interleaved, Cloth Bound.

Works : Ilford, Essex. Price 1/- post free,

from the Publishers.

MAGNESIA

1 Ke "patesia" brar\cl of carbonate ar\d

|

calciiAed Magrxesia is distingviisKed for

|

WKiter\ess ar\d pvjritvj. JKe reputatiorv ^

of the " patesia " products Kas beerv

|

obtained or\ these points and main

tained for a long course of vjears.

THE IVASHIXGTOX CHEMICAL CO., Ltd,

WASHIXGTON. COUNTY DURHAM,

ENGLAND.

London Agents : ZJessrs. CLIFFORD CHRISTOPHERSOX <f CO., 21 Mincing Lane, London, E.C

JA.NXAET 3L 1914 THE CHEMIST AXD DEUGGIST 125

HOWARDS'

SODII SULPH.

REFTNT^n. NEEDLES: GRANULAR: PEAS
SMALL: FEATHERY OR "MOCK EPSOMS."

HOWARDS'

EPSOMS.

FREE FROM ARSENIC AND CHLORIDE. DO NOT GO DAMP.

HOWARDS' ;

SODII BICARB.

UNRIVALLED AS THE PUREST AND MOST PALATABLE MADE.

HOWARDS'
CAMPHOR.

PRESSED INTO TRANSPARENT TABLETS AND CUBES.

HOWARDS'

BISMUTHS.

OF THE HIGHEST ATTAINABLE PURITY AND OF BEAUTIFUL APPEARANCE.

NOTE NEW ADDRESS:

HOWARDS & SONS, LTD., ILFORD, nr. LONDON.

126 THE CHEMIST AND DEUOGIfiT January 31, 1914

^blets,lj}fFs, Capsules:

prepared from first class mafer/als,
Accurate in Jesage, perfect in appearance.
San2p/es will be seat on application

^r.yrariz StokrM aVie/212 //.

Spec/a/ opJcps accopi}i'r2^Iy fc ppwatc ^
fopmulas
wi/I be accupate/i/
^"^^^

execufcif.

if i>"i,,iii' "1 ''i„(i"ii, .,iii"< "ii i,iii"i,„ii"ii„t >"i,„(i"i,„(<"i,^

> Y RS XJ F» 1

(RO'BERTS), ROBERTS h CO.
Recognized by the Medical Profession
INVITE
as THE BEST TONIC. INQUIRIES

IN 8 AND 16-OZ. BOTTLES OF ALL For NEW sz RARE
WHOLESALE HOUSES.
MEDICINES
j ROBERTS & Co l
i Pharmaciens, OF
5
FOREIGN
( LONDON. PARIS. )
ORIGIN.
S 76 New Bond St., W. Rue de la Paix, 5. ?
PRESCRIPTIONS

DISPENSED FOR
THE TRADE.

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January 31, 19U THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST

EUGENE DONZELOT
AND SON
ST. LOUIS, Mo., U.S. A.

ESTABLISHED 1844,

Headquarters for

GOLDEN SEAL ROOT
SOUTH-WESTERN SENECA ROOT

SERPENTARIA ROOT
MANDRAKE ROOT
BLOOD ROOT CULVERS ROOT
PINK ROOT SCULL CAP HERB
AMERICAN CANNABIS HERB

THE ABOVE ARTICLES BEING GATHERED IN
THIS SECTION, THIS IS THE PRIMARY MARKET

Cable Address : " Donzelot," ABC, 5th Edition. Correspondence Solicited.

—

128 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST Jaxlary 31, 19U

PURE OXIDE OF ZINC.

^ the following Wholesale Druggists HUBBUGK'S PURE OXIDE

7In BoiteB of lbs, and 14 lbs. stamped by Is made by Sublimatiorii and is Warraatil
to contain upwards of
tk@ Manufaeturers ; also in 1-lb. Boxes and
99 PER CENT.
f'Ib. Glass Bottles :—
Of Pure Oxide ; in fact the impuiitiei Uf
&Allen Hambnry'is (liim.). Hirsii, Brooke & Hirst.
BaiSB Bros. & Stevenson Hodgkinson, Prestons & not traceable.

Bftrron, Harysya & Co. KinK
Bell. Mo., & Go.
Hodgkinsons, Clarke &
WsBBdale (liim.) [(Iiim.).
Ward.
igO'OSs' Pure Drug Co,
Bargoyne. Barbidges & Horner & Sons.
Huskisson, H. O., & Co.
Butler & Crispe [Co.
Inman's Stores (of Edin-
Cl£.y, Dod & Go.
boro').
Oookbuiris <3c Co. (Lim). W,HI1BBUGK&S0N,
Ismay, John, & Sons.
Corbyn, Stacey & Co. Lofthouse & Saltmer.
Oldfield, Pattinson & Co.
Dakin Bio'sheirs. Pinkerton, Gibson & Co. (Established 1765). LTD.
Eaimes, Clark & Co.
&Dii-yey Hill Co. Eaimes & Co. 24 Li ME STREET,
Dnncam, Flockhadi & Co. Eankin & Borland.
&Evans, Q-eidd (Jo. LONDON, E.G.
&Evib^ia Sons ILescber Silversides, B. B. G.

Webb (liim.). Southall Bros. & Barclay.
pemB & Oo. Sumner, E. & Co.

Sale <fe Go. Taylor, James.
Thompson, John (Lim.).
GlMeow ApoShscaiifies' Co.
filSiSgow New Apotte- Willows, Francis, Butler

cfirias' Co. & Thompson. Manufacturers of

BoodaU. Backbonaa & Cc, Woolley, Jas., Sons & Co. WhitG Lead, White Z//se,
&Hi.rkef , Sfeagg Moirgam.
(Lim.). Paints, Oils,
Co. Colours, Varnishes, dio*
Wright, Layman & Um-
Hfiirick. W. & K.. & Oo. Australian OmcB—
Hemiroa, Saair© & B'mncis, ney (Lim.).
34 QUEEN STREET, MELBOURNL
Wyleys (Lim.I
The Manufacturers supply their PnM
Sew, IS. S.. New York. McKesson & Bobbins, New
&OiJkrteir, Oarteif Kilham, Oxide Wholesale only, in quantitisi ol
York. no'u less than 2 cwt.
Bos^OE.
Muth Brothers & Co..
Fmlas' & Branawig. Now
Baltimore.
Orteattc.
Boiler & Shoemaker,
IiK,ugIi&y Ik HioiiMliS, San
Philadelphia.
KffiS. New
Schieffelin, W. H., i; Co..
¥oss< New York.

Shoemaker, B. & tJ©.,

PMladeinhia,

APONAL, "ZIMMER'S," HYPNOTIC, in powder and IS-grain tablets.

EUQUINSNE, " ZIMMER'S," the well-known " tasteless quinine," powder and tablets.

VALIDOL, "ZIMMER'S," antihysteric, antineurasthenic, restorative, stomachic, seasickness remedy. Liquid, tablets,

ALLOSAN, "ZIMMER'S," powder and tablets, antigonorrhoeic. [pearls, &c.

ESTORAL, "ZIMMER'S," powder Estoral Snuff boxes with glass tube. Rapid cure of common cold, &c.
; ;

HYDROQUININE HYDROCHLOR., " ZIMMER'S," new antimalaric for hypodermic use. The solubility is

1 in 3 parts of water. Powder or ampouls of 0 grams, ready for use. Whooping-cough specihc.

OPTOCHIN HYDROCHL. (EthylhydrOCUprcin Hydrochior.) Promising remedy for Pneumonia.

Splendid results in eye diseases (corneal ulcers). Powder.

Aristochin, Bromvalidol Tablets, Dymal, Eunatrol, Eustenin, Lygosin-sodium, Rheumatin, Saloquinine, Urosin.

Stocked by Sole Agents for U.K.—

WIDENMAM, BROICHER & CO., HMD., 1 Fcnchurch Av„ lONDOlV, E.C.

WRITE FOR PRICE LIST AND PARTICULARS.

TRADE MARK. COCAINE "INGELHEIM"

AGENTS: MORPHINE BRAN a
F. W. Beek&Co , Ltd.,
CODEINE
Fonchurch Av.. London, E.G.
APOMORPHINE

COTAHNINE
ETHYLMORPHINE
DIACETHYLMORPHINE

and all other Opium-Alkaloids.

a H. BOEHRINGER SOHN. NIEDER-INGELHEIM, OlRHiNt,

January 31, 1014 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST 129

PELLOWS' SYRUP Of

HYPOPHOSPHITES

Quadraginta per annos et a medicis et ab aegris orbis
tarrarum totius probatus

Compositio sui generis neque imitabilis

Cheap and Inefficient Stibstitutes

I^eject Preparations **Jtist as Good**

NOTICE- CAUTION

The success of Fellows' Syrup of Hypophosphites has tempted
certain persons to offer imitations of it for sale. Mr. Fellows, who has

examined samples of several of these imitations, finds that no two of
them are identical, and that all of them differ from the original in com-
position, in freedom from acid reaction, in susceptibility to the effects of

oxygen when exposed to light or heat, in the property of retaining the
strychnia in solution, and in the medicinal effects.

As these cheap and inefficient substitutes are frequently dispensed
instead of the original, physicians are earnestly requested, when pre-

scribing the Syrup, to write *'Syr. Hypophos. FELLOWS".
SPECIAL NOTE.—Fellows' Syrup is never sold in bulK.

This preparation can be obtained of all reputable chemists

and pharmacists throughout the world

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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST Jaxuary 31. 1914

?!uxley's Syrup of Acid Qlycero-Phosphates. Huxley's Qlycero-Phosphates with Hydrobromides,

Huxley's Oly cero-Phosphates with Formates. Huxley's Ulycero-Phosphates with Pepsin.

Huxley'i Qlycero-Phosphates with HEemogrlobin. Huxley's Qlycero-Phosphates with Red-Bone Marrow.

Huxley's Elixir of Lactated Pepsin and Qlycero-Phosphates. Huxley 's Compressed Glycero-Phospbate Tablets.

Huxley's Nascent Qlycero-Phosphates (1 rituratesi.

HUXLEY'S SMER-VSGOR," " IMER-VIGOR " with FORMATES, " NER-VITA."

—Huxley's Menthol and Wintergreen Cream and "Tubelettes" of Dil. & W. Cream.
Huxley's Sal.-Antisepticus "Hux-Sal." Huxley's Antiseptic Dusting Powder. Huxley's Proteid Food.
Huxley's " 5apo-Lavand " Fluid Antiseptic Soap.
"Minimus" Soap Distributor. Huxley's Mist. Pepsinse c. Bismutho,

Huxley's Plasma Dressing (Veterinary and Human).

"COLCHI-SAL." (C BETUL-OL.' KU-GLOIDS.'

Benzo-Kinone. Benzo-Kinone with Heroin.

Cirrholysin. Glymenstra, various.
" Wintogen.
lodoleine. X-lodo Bismuth Tablets.

"FERMENLACTYL." "PEPTENZYME " p'owder ) " PIPERAZINE-MIDY.'

" TROPHOIMIIME." " PROTONUCLEIN " PANCROBILIN. NEPHRiTIN."

" ZYMOCIDE. " AGAR-LAC.

Laboratories : Galen Works, Croydon, Read, Office i 59 Dingwall Road,
go/gz Beekman Street, New York. CROYDON, LONDON,

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DUTCH Expurgo Anti-Diabetes

HOLLANDSCHE The only reliable and thoroughly
satis'factory Remedy -for Diabetes-
MELKSUI KERFABRIEK Meilitus which has a record of

Amstcrdaitv. complete cures.

REPORT FROM A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN,
I am satisfied your preparation has
cured several of my patients. Ex-

purgo Anti-Diabetes is particularly
effective in combating and neutral-
ising the diabetic poisons and in
completely eliminating the sugar ex-
cretion characteristic ofth is disease.

The Medical Faculty is also recom-
mended to try Expurgo—a particu-

larly valuable preparation in the
treatment of Gall Stones, Kidney

and Bladder Stones and Gravel.

Expurgo Anti-Diabetes, per bottle 8/-, less 25%
Expurgo Lapis - per bottle 6/-, less 25%

Carriage paid on orders of 1 dozen.

THE EXPURGO MANUFACTURING CO.,

815 North Clark Street, CHICAGO; and at WINNIPEG, CANADA.

Distributingr Agrents : Rocke, Tompsitt & Co.,

4 Redcross Street, London, E.C.

fANUABT 31, 1914 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST 131

E. Merck, 'tS Darmstadt

Manufacturer of Pure Alkaloids, fine Chen\icals for Medicinal
Purposes, Organo-therapeutic Preparations and Sera,

Merck s guaranteed Reagents, etc.

View taken from the Zeppelin Airslnip, "Viktoria Luise," October 14, 1913.

Reliability and Purity

When are two essentials in prescription work.

ordering Merck's Chemicals

the Pharmacist is free from doubt as to the Quality of the Goods.

~ls STANDARD AND COST
NO MORE.

The dispensing of Merck's Pure Chemicals guarantees uniformity of

results and efficient action, thereby securing to the pharmacist the confidence of
the Medical Profession and of the public, apparent in the increase in turnover
and in profits. It therefore pays him to

Specify

132 . ,
January 31, ].4
f THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST

DUNCAN, FlOCKHART & dl.

ARE MANUFACTURERS

OF

Pharmacopoeia Preparations . • Guaranteed to comf

with the official
requirements.

Pliysiologically Standardised . . Digitalis,
Preparations Strophanthus,
Ergot,
Pituitary,
Suprarenal, &c. &c.

Organo-tlierapeutic Preparations Thyroid Gland,
Suprarenal Gland,
Vaccines from Primary Virulent Pituitary Gland,
Ovarian Substance,
\r'^lUlllttUlllFISOiCJ Duodenal Substance&c.

B. Coli,
Gonococcus,
Pneumococcus,
Staphylococcus,
Streptococcus, &c, i:

Tuberculins in Standardised Doses of all the standard sfins

for Diagnostic & Cui h e

purposes.

Compressed Tablets . . o • Highly Finished.
Gelatine Coated,
Pharmaceutical Products & Toilet Sugar Coated.
Chocolate Coated.
Articles Packed for Counter Sales
,„

series of Labels ano

Cartons, I

DUNCAN, FLOCKHART & C

Manufacturing Chemists,

EDINBURGH and LONDON.