THE CHEMIST & DRUGGIST - 1 JUNE 1918

THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST, June 1, 1918.

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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST Jone 1, 1918

WE INVITE YOUR ATTENTION

TO THE FOLLOWING:

Salicylic Acid Soda Salicylate

Chloroform Methyl Salicylate

Aspirin Terpin Hydrate

Aubepine Benzyl Alcohol

Urotropin Vanillin

Artificial Violet Terpineol
Phenacetin

Benzaldehyde

Thymol Heliotropine

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June I, 1918 s

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MEDICINAL 1 ABLETS 25's 50' 100's 1000 ENORMOUS
QUANTITIES OF
AND Tl Acetanilide grs.* v. 4/9 7,6 13/- 91-
5/3 8/9 10/- DIFFERENT
TOILET T90' Acetanilide Comp 3/6 5/6 15/6
15/9 29/9 8/9 4/8 FORMULA
SPECIALITIES T2 Aloin Co. 6/- 11/- 45/-
6/- 11/- 57/6 15/- PILLS IN STOCK
Name & Address printed T27 Antipyrin grs. v 2/9 4/6 20/- 13/-
5/9 10/9 20 9
when packed goods to the T83 Aspirin grs. v 4/6 8/- 46
value of £l are ordered. T6 41- 5/9 8/- 12/6
T14 Bismuth, Pepsin &Cbar. 6/3 10/6 20/- 8/-
3/6 6/- 14/9 6/-
T15 Cascara Sagrada grs. 2 10/9 19/6 10/6 13/-
10,9 19/6 19/-
Easton's Syrup •.. dr. 1 6/6 12/3 11/- 71-
5/- 37/- 28/-
II || 3 8/9 ;8/9 37/- 28/-
16/3 23/-
T135 Formalin Throat 16/6 15-
31/6
T150 Hexamine grs. v 9/6
22/-
T28 Laxative Vegetable

T24 Phenacetin grs. v

T25 Phenacetin & Caff. Cit.

T79 Quin. Amnion dr. 1

T72 Quin.'Sulph grs. 2

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ESSENTIAL OILS, DRUGS & CHEMICALS,
To be Sold by PUBLIC TENDER
: SYNTHETICS,
VANILLIN* COUMARIN, HELI0TR0PINE
Contents of 336 bags SULPHATE OF ALUMINA., testing
We Offer
11.55% Alumina LIQUID STYRAX (Not u.s.p.)

Ex SOESTD1JK lying London. CHLOROPHYLL (Alcohol & Oil Sol.)

25 kegs (about 25 cwt.) SULPHATE OF BARYTA (Green OIL PEPPERMINT (Mohawk)

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4 bags (each about2 cwt.) CHEMICAL MIXTURE, consisting

of Sodium Carbonate contaminated with Lead eq ui valent
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20 bags (about 1 ton) SULPHITE CELLULOSE EXTRACT-
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2 cases (each 50 x l lb. bottles) LEVULOSE

Ex OGEECHEE lying London.

8 casks (about 55 cwt.) BICHROMATE OF POTASH

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210 bags (each about 9 lbs.) PRUSSIAN BLUE
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Pharmaceutical & Photographic Products

GREEFFR. W. & CO. offer at lowest prices the following products

manufactured in the United Kingdom, Allied and Neutral Countries

(WHOLESALE QUANTITIES ONLY)

Acetanilid Citric Acid Lecithin Quinidine and Salt!
Acetyl Salicylic Acid Cocain Hydrochlor and
Lithia Carbonate Quinine and Salt»
Amidopyrin Puriss
Lithol (Ichthyol Quinine Ethyl Carbonate
Barbitone Cream of Tartar
Benzoic Acid Creosote Carbonate substitute) Salicylic Acid
Benzoate of Soda Formaldehyde
Benzamine Hydrochlor Gallic Acid Menthol Salicylate of Soda
Beta Naphthol Guaiacol Carbonate
Mercurials Salol
Bromide of Ammonium Heliotropin
Methylene BlueMedicinal Sugar of Milk
Bromide of Potassium Hexamine
Bromide of Sodium Homatropine Methyl Salicylate Tannic Acid
Chloral Hydrate Hydroquinone
Cinchonine and Salts Peppermint Oil Tannin Albuminate
Cinchonidine and Salts Isarol (best Ichthyol
Phenacetin Terpineol
substitute)
Phenazone Terpine Hydrate

Pyrogallic Acid Theobromine
Potassium Sulpho- Thymol Crystalf

Guaiacolate Vanillin

QUININE and QUININE SALTS (Maarssen)

Unexcelled in Uniformity of Quality. Brilliant Crystallisation and Purity of Colour.

CINCHONINE, CINCHONIDINE, QUINIDINE and their SALTS.

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Jone 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST

MEX TVO ADVERTISERS T1HUIMS ^IWW«Jl»*iaM&iJ IN 4*
ll« lOOUE.ISSIIf e A«blc numerals (i tow) in this Index refer to Advertisements in the front of Uterary pa^es
more the Advertisements following the literary pages are numbered in Roman numerals
For complete Buyers' Guide tee " The Chemlat Druggltt " Diary, 1918. (i to xliv). i

W„altyJIarshal, Prize Court Sala .... 2
bk Manufacturing Co.. Plxstera, 4c. xxx'i Dale, J., Mnfo. Co., Collapsible Tubes 22 I Lang Jules, 4 Son, Medical Glassware.... Roberts' Patent Filling Machine Co xl

Stafford, & SoNa, Ld Darton, F.,4 Co.,Optical 4 Scientific Goodsxxvii Lankshear. Wickstead 4 Co., Ld., Tartaric xviii Rollin Chemical Co. Inc., Chemicals . . . .xxlil
Window Display Stands
C< Davis, 2 Laycook, Tom, 4 Co , Bottles xxxli Rooke, Dr., Ld., Proprietaries

hjh J>&vq 4 Chemical, Co., Drags Dee Oil Co., Ld., Petroleum Jellies xxxv Leicester Rubber Co 14

ttDAMiQuiNnra Works, Quinine .... xxi Deoen, F. A., Advertising xxxiii Boques, Ferdinand, Alkaloids, Cacodylates ix
French Drug Co., Ld., French Props, vi xxvi Lennox Foundry Co., Ld., Chemical Plant xxii
Rosenblatt, Samson, Chemicals xvi
Denoual, J., 4 Co., Capsules, Lozenges ..xxix LsacoL Perfumery Co., Perfumes, Soaps.. 14
Perfumery Co., Hair Preparations 18 Rownson, Drew 4 Clydesdale, Ld xliv
Digestive Ferments Co., Pepsine, Peptone 6 Levermore, A., 4 Co., Ld
4 Parsons, Ld., Homceopathics . , xliii xxviii Rudduok 4 Co., IShopflttlngs Col. Supp.
it-Graham, Ld., Window Fittings., xxxvi Eburite Paper Co., Ld., Corrugated Paper xlli Linton, Hubbard 4 Andrew, Essential oils viii
Eley Bros., Ld., Nickelled Tubes, 4c .. 24 Lofthouse 4 Saltmer, Ld., Foods Sanoers, Druggists' Sundries brxxix

n, Saunders 4 Co., Ld., Snndries.. 15 Elliott Optical Co xxx London College of Pharmacy 24 Sanitas Co., Ld., Disinfectants Text

Bobert, & Son, Gauzes xxxi Ellison, H., Ld., London Pharm. Refiners xxvi Schweppes. Ld., Mineral Waters 28
Shadeine Co., Hair Dyes I
Parson C, Chemiata' Valuer. .Col. Supp Disinfectants .'. xl
. . .'.'.'.'xxviii xxviii

sjMnfo. Co., Ld., Toilet Cream .... 14 Elt's College, Educational xxvi M'Glashan, D., Fruit Drink Col.Supp. Sherborne, T., 4 Co., Trusses Col. Supp.

eng Quininb,Faotories, Quinine Salt xv Evans, Gadd 4 Co., Ld., Pharmaceuticals., vii Macnair, A., 4 Co., S.V.R., S.V.M. ..xxviii Slooo, H., Drugs xx
Evans Sons Lescker 4 Webb, Ld., Chemi-
a, B., 4,Son, Infants'Preservatlve xxviii Mack, J., Ledger Col. Supp. Smith, Maurice, 4 Co., Toilet Articles xxlx

R, Shillan 4 Co., Chemicals cals, Pharmaceuticals u, x Macfarlan, J. F., 4 Co., Alkaloids, Chloro- Smith, T. & H., Ld., Alkaloids, Besinoids xii 1

xxii Evan-Williams, Shampoo 18 form, Emetine Salts, Surgical Dressings xiii South of England College of Pharmacy xxvi

John) 4 Croyden, Ld., Ampoules xxxiv Fabra Co., Ld., Chemicals xxl Magnus, Mabee 4 Reynard Inc., Essential Spatula Publishing Co., Books

John), Hills 4 Luoas, Ld., Foods Covei Farris, Charles, Beeswax, Spermaceti .... 10 Oils 30
Farrow 4 Jackson, Ld., Asbestos Filters.. xix
ites, Ld., Benzoates xxxiv Martin 4 Co q Spencer, Isaac, 4 Co. (Aberdeen). Ld. Cod
CoL Supp.
b^&.Fish, Chemists' Valuera, Ac. Col.Supp. Liver Oil 13
Ferry, T., 4 Son. Ld., Medical Glassware xxxiii Martin, W., Photographies \
Sprino 4 Co., Ld., Honey
~, Arthur, Ld., Flaaks Col. Supp. ? 9
18 Mason Bros. 4 Chapman, Catheters xxxviii '

Victor, 4 Co., Chemicals .... xxiv Fink, F., 4 Co., Guma xxviii Maw, S., Son 4 Sons, Druggists' Sundries 11 Squire 4 Sons, Ld., Pharmaceuticals ..Cover

J W., 4 Co., Ld., Epaom Salts xvi Fletcher, Fletcher 4 Co., Ld., Liquors 3, Text Mawson 4 Co., Capsules Stead 4 Co.. Photographies Col. Supp.
Florey, Hartlby, Salicylates
Roberts, A., 4 Co., Ld., Chemicals xviii xvii Suttlet 4 Silverlock. Ld.. Printing 13
F.. Ld„ Chemicals. Olive Oil, 4c. . Ford, Shapland 4 Co., Chemists' Printing xxvit Meade-King, Robinson 4 Co., Petroleum
It) Swales, Thomas, Loofahs, Corn Plasters', .xxxiii
Forshaw, E., 4 Son, Ld., Soap Plant Jellies
ii Frame Food Co., Ld., Foods 26 Swiss Bank Corp., Mercantile Banking
Meyer, W. H., Saccharin Tablets Col. Supp.
"arkino Ink, " Crystal Palace " 12 xli xviii
9
>., 4 Son, Parasiticides xviii, xl .xxxv Millar, A., 4 Co., Ld., Orange Quinine Tanabe, Motosaburo, Syringes ..xxxv
Franses, J. J., 4 Sons, Waxes
. H., Pills xxxviii xix Wine Thermos, Ld., Vacuum Flasks 19 !
Fuerst Bros., Ld., Chemicals xxxviii Thevenaz 4 Co., Drugs
A., 4 Co., Chemicals Thompson 4 Norris Mnfo. Co., Ld xxl
iii Fullwood, R. J., 4 Blasd. Annatto xl Mills, J. (Wigan) Col. Supp. i

Cellulose 4 Chemical Mnfq. Co., MrLNER'3 Chemical Co., Hat Cleaners 22 xxx
Mond Nickel Co xxi
Acetic Anhydride V. viii Galen Mnfo. Co., Surgical Dressings xxviii Thompson. J. L.,4 Co., Japanese Glassware xxxiv

Drug Houses, Ld., Pharmaceuticals 32 Gates, Leslie, Bottle Capping 20 Monsanto Chemical Works. Chemicals . . xxiii Timpson, John, 4 Co. .Ld., First-Aid Outfits xxxiv

iJPasteur-Chamberland Filter Co. 28 Genatosan Co., Sanatogen Foods 29 Morson. Thomas, 4 Sons, Ld., Chemicals., iv Titterton 4 Howard, Brushware (all kinds) 24 1

irtox-Ratoliffk 4 Co., Ld., Saccharin xi General Kaputine Synd., Ld Text Mumford, G. S., 4 Sons, Pile Powders. .Text Tolkowsky, S., Russian Crude Drugs, 4c. . . x
Tomoda 4 Co., Japanese Chemicals, 4c. .."xix
[NO, John, Microscopes xxxvl Gionoux Frbres 4 Co., French Specialities viii National Aniline 4 Chemical Co. . .Col. Supp.
Glew, F. Harrison, Inhalers Townsend, J., 4 Sons, Chemiata' Printing xxx
Warren 4 Bidoley, Ld., India- xxxvi Natural.Food Co., Ld., Foods (Special) .... 9
Goodman, G., Ld., Toilet Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ld., Asbestos xxxiii
bber Goods, Air Cushions xxxv 22 Newball 4 Mason, Herb Extract
Gouoh, Kidstox 4 Co., Chemicals 28
: ,Co., Eucalyptus Oil xxii xvi Newman, H. 4 C, Liqueur Tonic .......... i Tye, J., 4 Son, Capsules and Perles xxxii
Van Horn & Sawtell, Surgical Ligatures j xxviii I
QH, J.. Ld., Absolute Alcohol Text Gower, John. Books (Secondhand, 4c.)Col.Sjpp. North, V. C, 4 Co., Drugs Veldt Laboratory

roHS Wellcome 4 Co., Ld., ' Tabloid ' Grant, Hughes 4 Co., Saccharin 8 Oldfield, Pattinson 4 Co., Opium xviii 20
Greeff, R. W., 4 Co., Chemicals 4
!?3 31 Owbridge. Ld.. Lung Tonic 5 Venesta, Ld., Tinfoil 16 I

Boulton 4 Haywood, Ld., Disin - Griffin. J. J„ 4 Son, Ld., Tablet Machines. . xli P.A.T.A. Notice Text Vichy Co., Mineral Waters 8

:

iants. Sheep pips Cover Harley. T., Rat Poiaon, Proprietary Salt . .xxix Page, Chas., 4 Co., Chemicals Co], Supp. Viking Rennet Co., Ld 8
Baker 4 Co., " Glaciallne " 9
xxiv Vinolia Co., Ld., Soaps. Toilet Articles. ... 1 23 '

Harrison, Alf., 4 Sons, Printing xxxviii Penick, S. B., 4 Co., JStaerican Crude Drugs xxii Viscose Co., Ld , Bottle Capplngs

7. J., 4 Co., Ld., Chemicals, 4c Cover Hasting, Lang 4 Co., Ld xix Perry 4 Hope, Ld., Oils 22 ;

E. H., 4 jSoN, Tablets xx, xxiv Hodoes, Rowland, Ld., Safety Razors . . xxx xxii Waide, Taos., 4 Sons, Chemlsta' Printing 30 J
Hoffmann-La Roche Chemical Works, Ld. v Pharmaceutical Lanoline Co., Lanoiine '.'. 6 j
Y Bros., Ld., Cocoa Cover Holliday, L_B., 4 Co.. Ld., Fine Chemicals! xii Picerno, V. A., Chemicals Wand Manufacturing Co., Pilla, Tablets., xx
Warrington Chemical 4 Drug Co., Salicylic
n>s](1909), Ld xvi xviii

us, J. L., French Proprietaries., xvii Holt, Thompson 4 Co., Salicylic Acid xviii Pickabd, Ive 4 Rankin, Ld.,Acetyl-Salicylic Aci.1 i xvi

rs Foods Co., Foods Howards 4 Sons, Ld., Cinchona Preps., Acid '...xxiii Washin .ton Chemical Co., L4., Magnesia ' !
j
xxxvi Pifco Co., Electrical Novelties ............ 30 anl Salts Cover j
j
^Sundries, Ld.. Bubber Goods ..xxxvii Quinine, Sodium Bicarbonate Cover Pomeroy, Ld., Skin Food 16 Watfo d Manfg. Co., Ld.. Meat Extract . . 9

iouoh Mnfo. Co., Vaseline and Preps. 20 Hubbuck, t., 4 Son, Ld„ Zinc Oxide xv Potter 4 Clarke, Ld., Herbs xxv Watson 4 Co., Photographies

A. D., 4 Co., Ld., Chemical3 xx Huisktno, C. L, American Drugs, Chemicals ix Preston's Liverpool Distillery Co., Ld.. Col. Supp.
Western Dental Manufacturing Co. ..xxix
4 N. Wales College ofPharmacyx xvi Isaaos, L. 4 Co.. Medical Glassware . .Col.Supp. S.V.R., S.V.M Westminster College of Pharmacy
xxxviii Whiffen 4 Sons. Ld.. Emetine Salts
pherson, C, 4 Co., Drugs ix Job Bros.. Cod Liver Oil (Newfoundland) . . 27 xxvi
Price, A. s., 4 Co., Ld Col. Supp Ixiv '
T., 4 Co., Toilet Articles x xviii Johnson 4 Co. (London), Ld , Druza
x Price's Patent Candle Co., Ld., Soaps .. 21 Whipman, P., 4 Co., Drugs and Chemicals £viii
'-Products Co., Vaporisers Pure Russian Liquid Paraffin Co., Ld. xiv
xxxviii Johnson, Matthey 4 Co., Ld., Bare Metala xxiii Whitaker 4 Co., Hat Dyes ,20

t Mitchell, Ld., Disinfectants .... i Johnson 4 Sons (Mfg. Chts.), Ld., Chemlcala 27 Baworth, J. E., Patent Agent xxviii White, J. & J., Bichromates

I 4 Co., Ld., Soaps, Perfumery, 4c. 25 Josephs, Philip, 4 Sons, Ld.. Shophttings xxvii Beddorave, Butler 4 Co., Liquid Paraffin Cover "xxi

Son 4 Co., Ld., Cachets xxviii Kay Bros., Ld., Proprietaries xxvi Reynolds, A. T., Thermometers xxxvl White, Tomkins 4 Couraob, Ld., Hop Oil. .xxii

[thueH., 4 Co., Ld., Pilla, Tableta.. 1 Knox-Walker 4 Co., Ld., Hair Dyes xxviii Richford, C. D., Rubber Stamps xxviii Wilcox, Jozeau 4 Co., Proprietariea Text
|
n 4 Co., Gelatines 2 Kolene Co., Hair Preparations 14 Rioaud-Chapelle, French Proprietaries, 4c. 17 Wood Pulp Vessels, Ld
xxiv

Gerrard 4 Co., Ld., Washing Gloves 2S Kutnow, S., 4 Co., Ld.. Saline Preparation 7 Bobartes, Ld., Toilet Specialities Woolley, Jas., Sons 4 Co., Ld., Galenicala Cover
Yardley 4 Co.. Ld., Perfumery i
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CONCENTRATED WATERS. i£

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LEVIGATED OINTMENTS.
ESSENTIAL OILS.

"Silver Churn" Dairy Specialities. 73

Special Prices to Large Buyers. Write for List.

THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST JuNE,l,.19ia
:

The Digestive Ferments Co.

DETROIT, U.S.A.

BACTOPEPTONE

Acknowledged to be the best and most reliable Peptone for Bacteriological use.

DIASTASE HEMOGLOBIN
OX GALL
PANCREATIN SODIUM GHOLATE

PEPSIN GLYGOGHOLATE
TRYPSIN

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Address inquiries, orders, &c, to

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ADEPS LANjE, P.B.

THE FINEST BRITISH LANOLINE YET PRODUCED

THE IS MANUFACTURED BY CO.

PHARMACEUTICAL LANOLINE

7 Carnwath Road, Fulham, London, S.W.

WHO INVITE INQUIRIES.

We are making Lamp-blown Glassware, such as Ampoules, Hypodermic Tubes, &c, in England.

Let us have your inquiries. You will find our prices competitive and our deliveries smart.

Besides we also have varied stocks of Glass Bottles. Send us your inquiries and ask for our stock u»l

JULES LANG & SON

Charlton Works, Charlton Place, ISLINGTON,
LONDON, N.

Sole

Proprietor:

• FERNAND
BENE LANG.

Telegrams: "Assorted, Nordo, London.** Telephones: Korth 1344.

June 1, 1918 4

THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST

m

Important Notice

INCREASE OF PROFIT TO CHEMISTS

THEAs stated in the Protected List of P.A.T.A.

the Minimum Retail Selling Prige of

Kutnow's Powder

IS NOW PER BOTTLE (FACE VALUE)

This yields a considerable increase of profit to chemists,

nevertheless Messrs. Kutnow are keeping to their wholesale

price, as hitherto, in spite of the enormous rises in the cost
of all the materials, bottles and everything else in connection

with the manufacture of Kutnows Powder. In view of the
above facts, Messrs. Kutnow trust that both the wholesale

and retail trade will co-operate with them in creating a still

greater demand for Kutnows Powder, and that no substitutes
for Kutnows Powder will be offered to the public in future.

Replenish Your Stock SEND THIS COUPON FOR
SHOWCARDS FREE OF CHARGE
The public want the best in business, the best in
To S. KUTNOW & CO., Ld.,
art, the best in literature, the best in everything
41 Farringdon Road, London, E.C. 1.
that lies within their means. The successful
business man caters to supply what the public Please send me Showcards, carriage paid.
demand. Kutnow's Powder is one of the best
morning aperients extant. It is in constant demand NAME
all over the world, and no remedy holds a firmer
ADDRESS
position in the estimation of the public and the
"Chemist & Druggist," Jane I, 1918-
Amedical profession. window show of Kutnow's

Powder is always remunerative. It attracts
attention and sells itself without any trouble.

S. KUTNOW & CO., Ld., 41 Farringdon Road, London, E.C. 1.

s THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST June 1, 1918

SACCHARIN 5SO
COUMARIN
VANILLIN HELIOTROPIN

GRANT, HUGHES & CO.

LONDON,Lane21 Mincing

— —Telephone Avenue 4567.
- E.C. 3.

Teleg. Address " Nitroform London."

VIKING CHEESE RENNET
COMMANDS THE LARGEST SALE IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

Viking Bonnet is guaranteed to be made from Calf Yells only, and does not contain Pepsin or other lubfltitate.

Note our Prices for Pure Rennet in comparison with other coagulates.

Wholesale. Retail.

31/- per gallon tin 36/- per gallon tin

16/6 „ ^-gallon tin 19/- Ion tin
9/9 quart jar
8/3 quart jar 5/- pint jar

4/3 pint jar

2/3 -pint jar 2/9 i-pint jar

These prices include containers and carriage paid. Awarded Silver Medal by the British Dairy Farmers'

Association. Viking Essence of Rennet, Junket Tablets and Powder. Prices on application.

THEManufacturers: VIKING RENNET CO. Ltd., 19 Clapton Square, London, E.5.

IHIIIII!

NATURAL MINERAL

— WATER. —
FRENCH SUBThe

DISORDERS t„e LIVER, GOUT,

Diabetes, Rheumatism, Gravel, &c.

VICHY-ETAT PASTILLES.

Two or three Pastilles after each meal facilitate Digestion.

—CAUTION. Each Bottle from the STATE SPRINGS bears a neck label EE

with the words "VICHY-ETAT" and the name of the SOLE AGENTS: =EE

INGRAM 6? ROYLE, Ltd. Bangor Wharf, 45 Belvedere Road, LONDON, S.E.
,

PROPERTY OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. =

June 1, 1913 TOE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST

rRecommend it for

Convalescence GLACIALINE

Doctors prescribe The Original and Most |
Turtle Soup in all Effective Food Preservative m
cases where the
patient cannot The only Food Preservative that has ever been publicly fj
retain any other awarded Gold and Silver Medals and Certificates of Merit
nutriment. m
for Purity and Harmlessness. m
FREEMANS
TRADE MARK sa

REAL TURTLE EXTRACT m
K
is the real meat of selected West IndianTurtles, Letters
compressed into handy tablets ; it provides Patent 1
all the delicacy and nourishment of soup made
from fresh killed turtles, and is quickly pre- 5S

pared as it requires nothing but boiling water.

For hospitals, nursing and convalescent REGISTERED.
homes it can be strongly recommended as
the best, safest and Full directions for use enclosed in every packrge.
Packed in 6d. and 2/- Packets and 2/3 Canisters.
handiest invigoratOr
^FAVOURABLE TRADE TERMS upon application
obtainable.
Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers :
The trade terms are par-
BURTON, BAKER & CO.
ticularly favourable, and
particulars can be obtained 16 EASTCHEAP, E.C. 3.
by writing to

Tbe Watford Mfg. Co. Ltd.

t Deloctaland, WATFORD

THE MOST ECONOMICAL INFANTS' FOOD.

ON P.A.T.A. LIST. SHOWCARDS FREE.

FRAME FOOD CO., Standen Road, Southflelds, London,

Dr. Allinson's Food Preparations SPRING 8
PACKED TABLE
FOR ALL ACES AND CONDITIONS OF HEALTH AT FIRM AND HONEY
PROTECTED PRICES. All Varieties i.e., "Wliiie Clover," " Heather," etc-

Food for Babies, Prepared Barley, SPRING & CO., Ltd., BRIGG, LINGS.
nt. F. Cocoa, Biscuits, Wholemeal. &c.
(The Largest Collec'or. and Packers of Honey in Gt. Britain)
Set Trade Mark " T. R. Atlinson " on all our goods— None Genuine Without.
Limited Supplies Available.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
We issue a list of WHOLESALE HOUSES who keep above in

stockj; if for any reason you have difficulty in obtaining supplies, please
send postcard direct to us, and a list will be sent to you by return.

NATURAL FOOD COMPANY, Ltd.,
Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green, LONDON, E.

All advertising matter—Booklets, JVindow Displays
W.owcards, etc. free on application.

—N.B. Our goods are to be sold only at prices stated upon the Price

List we issue to the tirade, ani we are pleased to exchange any article
which may be out of condition.

THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST June 1, 1918

» White

English Medicinal Oil,

(PARAFFINUM L1QUIDUM).

Guaranteed to exactly conform to B.P. tests,

RECOMMENDED AND ADOPTED BY THE HIGHEST MEDICAL AUTHORITIES.
ABSOLUTELY ODOURLESS AND TASTELESS.

Consumers should insist upon a thorough test, as there are so-called
white oils on the market which lack the pure ingredients and the

special treatment absolutely essential to produce the B.P. article.

By purchasing from Charles Farris you secure the guarantee of an
old-established House and complete satisfaction.

Bees Wax, Spermaceti, Tallow, Paraffin Wax, Candles, Lubricating Oils.
Insulating Fluid and Wax. Refiner of Oils for the fine Clockwork of

=33 Telegraphic Instruments. OIL REFINER TO H.M. GOVERNMENT.

| Large Stocks always Ready for Immediate Delivery. |

Hj The only actual Manufacturing Wax Chandler and Oil Refiner in the City of London. e=

mJmIm I
CHARLES FARRIS, LONDON, E C.

Works-HELMET COURT, BISHOPSGATE, E.C*

Warehouses & Stores-9i & 93 BISHOPSGATE, and 12 WORMWOOD STREET, E.C.

Telephones— London Wall 9397 & 9398. Telegrams— " Waxiness, Led, London."

mm

June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST 11

AN ENGLISH MADE An enema you can
guarantee for 12

ENEMA at 33/- DOZ. months from date of
supply, and sell at a
UNPRECEDENTED VALUE.
—popular price : Maw's

" Durbar " Enema. An enema of English make, supplied black with

—enamel finish or red with velvet finish Maw's " Durbar " Enema.

Price including elastic gum vaginal pipe and leather shield in attractive box,

337- doz. Usual discount.

MW/'S

DURBAR

ENEMA

WARRANTED ENGLISH MAKE. J

HOURS OF BUSINESS: 8.30 a.m.—5.30 p.m. CLOSE AT 1 p.m. SATURDAYS.

j

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12 THE GHKMiKT AND DRUGGIST June 1, 1916

Alteration of Prices to Retail Distributors of

JOHN BOND'S

"CRYSTAL PALACE" MARKING INK

6d. size. 3/6 per dozen. Minimum protected selling price, 5d.
1/- 6/6 „
9d.

This will show retailers a still larger profit on the 6d. size of no less than

43%. The rate of Profit on the 1/- size will remain the same.

Minimum order at Wholesale rates, one Cross of 6d. size amounting to 37/- or assorted order to same value »
1/- size 68/- per Cross. Carriage paid on parcels of £5 and upwards. Smaller quantities should be ordereu
through any of the Wholesale Houses. When ordering, please specify If Heat or Non-heat Is required.

C, A good assured minimum profit on this Marking Ink which will always make new customers. C. Compar*
NOTE Cwith what you are paying for other makes, and
the difference. Retailers need not fear with tbl*

make competition by cutters.

Manufactory :—75 SOUTHGATE ROAD, LONDON, N.l.

MD I AD E

Vanishing Cream Face Powder

a cream of rare purity and possessed of the elusive fragrance
charm, put up in novel white
globes which have an irre' of Diadem Cream, adheres
sistible appeal and packed in
readily to the skin. Made in
dainty boxes in Robartes'
attractive style. Handsome profits for Blanche, Naturelle, Rachel, and

you in selling. Rosetints. Packed in large artistic

boxes, in the distinctive Robartes

Astyle and colouring. sure seller.

TRADE TERMS

Diadem Cream Advertised and Minimum Window and Counter Materials

Diadem Powder Retail Price - 3/9 free on request.
Write for particular!.'
Trade p;r doz. 30/-

Advertised and Minimum

Retail Price - 2/6

Trade per doz. 20/-

SPECIAL NOTICE AND OFFER TO THE TRADE.
—Each jar of Diadem Cream contains the following notice:

" On returning 6 of these empty Diadem iars to any Chemist or Hairdresser in th«
United Kingdom, a new 3/9 size iar will be given you f.ee in exchange."

Uoon any of our trade customers therefore returning to us 6 of these empty iars. carriage paid,
we will immediately forward in retur.i, post free. 2 (3/9 size) jars of Diadem Vanishing Cream.

ROBARTES, LTD., 128 Jermyn St., London, S.W.I

"HECOLTENE The intelligent depilatory. JJDi An attractive line that
Simple, safe and effective.
X*STht liquid hzirremovei Pleasant and harmless. In enjoys good sales. A grease-
less Cream that ta' es the
valuable during the decollete j% r SSeoSbraat odour out of perspiration.
<£>aiafy Daintily packed in opal iars.
vogue. Daintily packed.

TRADE SJS ffirTERMS. N 3/9 DINKIE. Advertised an J OC/tfjiV Particulars and Show-

mm. Retail price

Trade 30/- per doz. Trade 20/- per doz. cards on request.

t

June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 13

FINEST MEDICINAL

QUALITY NON-FREEZING

FortheCSkXTENTION ofthe

Discriminating Chemis

LABELS T^HE Distinctive Quality of DESIGNS
IN BLACK FOR
AND COLOUR, our Printing & Stationery
for Chemists & Druggists PERFUMERY
BANDS, AND ALL OTHER
SEALS. has received universal
FANCY
ETC. approval for more than PREPARATIONS,

90 YEARS.

SUTTLEY & SlLVERLOCK, LlMD

Chemists & General Label Printers,

BLACKFRIARS, LONDON, S.E.

'

14 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST June 1, 1918

1 DR. ROOKE'S * SOLAR ELIXIR." I

(TABLET FORM.) |

jg J
t
j-j At the request of numerous Patrons we have decided to prepare this well-known medicine in compressed ;
|
J tablet form. }
:
Packed in One Size Only, P A. T. A. Minimum. Retail 2/9. Wholesale 27/- cer doz.
Less 10% for Orders £5 in value, Carriage Paid (cash in 1* days).

| As DR. ROOKE'S " SOLAR ELIXIR " TABLETS will have the advantage of judicious publicity in the

I leading National journals, a large demand is anticipated.

YOUR ORDERSTOCKSEND NOI W.

—Sole Proprietors

DR. CHARLES ROOKE, LTD.!, - - LEEDS.

**+**^^ \ -

P.A.T.A. KOLEME

LOVELY (ABB/T/SH Face Value Only, FOR THE HAIR
scmrmt; rwiMffl
&1/, 1/9 3/6

YELASHES Tram Advts, KOLENEj is sold in all part* of the
round London, United Kingdom.
and at Leeds, TKt GPUwth air the iiaic? *F-f a V-jf
Leicester, SfCKHtS^'i ALSO FOB STSUwGTrlCMkC Vftt Sales ran into millions
*».' BEAUTirYlHD AJ»Cl SOFT r.Mmt THL ft* annually.
idgrown and kept so by the application once daily of the Coventry and
coli ourliess lharmliess eyelj asihrrood. ci . .i eyes Edinburgh, r
Beneficial
to the 2d. Boxes Kolene16/- per grs.
CURLASH CREAM
4d. „ „ 32/- ,.,

1 oz. Jars „ 48/-
3oz 72-

Extensively and continuously advertised. 3oz. „ "96/-

^ .,

indorsed by Mrs. Martin Haroey, Miss Nancy Price, Miss D. Tree, These prices are strictly net.

Miss Elizabeth Risdon, and hundreds of other ladies of discrimination. KOLENE

Testimonials received daily. Stocked by Butler & Crispe, Sangers, oat a rapid If increasing SALE.

and other Wholesalers. Try a dozen 11- size in your next wholesal*

order. We will supply you with dummies and showcards for A ah for one of our traveVter$to call, or order direct from

small window display. MAKES CONSTANT CUSTOMERS, The KOLENE CO., 206 Stewart's Rd., London, S.W.

THE D. BALDWIN MFG. CO., LTD., Wigmore St., London, W. 1-

LESCOL" FLORAL PERFUMES

NOTICE !

We strongly advise Chemists before

purchasing their Toilet Specialities to
send us particulars of their require-

ments, and complete Price List will be

sent, or one of our representatives will

call with full set of samples when in

lir vicinity.

re are holding a large stock at remunerative prices

LESCOL PERFUMERY Lomond Grove, Camberwell Green,
CO., LONDON, S.E. S.

Telephone: 810 HOP. (Proprietors I The London Essence C».i Teleerams: "VANILLIN, CAMBER, LONDON.'

J«NE 1, 1918 15

1868 "0 thou that hast the

TO most welcome service

1918 of the feet." -Sophocles.

Keep your mind I

off your feet I

First put a Foot Tablet
into the foot bath and
then put your jeet in.

Comfort is

your's

at once I

We pay carriage on ' Welcome ' is a correct description of ' the service the

Assorted Dry Sundries feet give after they have felt the beneficial effects of
& Packed Goods orders a good Foot Tablet.

to the value- of 50/- to After a hard day's work there is no more grateful
any part of Gt. Britain
and Ireland. and comforting experience than the luxury of a hot
foot bath, and a Foot Tablet dissolved in the water
AYRTON, enables one to forget about the feet on the following day.

SAUNDERS Antiseptic Foot Tablets

& CO. L™ 30 Tablets in a smartly decorated tin, 12 tins in an outer,
and a good Card with each order. Name and address on 6 doz.
LIVERPOOL Per dozen tins - - 4/6 ; Per gross - - 51/-

——

16 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST June 1, 1918

Important to the Trade

Pomeroy —Several letters accompanied by orders

Skin Food have been received from ladies who state they
were informed by their Chemists that Pomeroy
can be Skin Food was not now obtainable.
obtained
as before We do not know how this impression has

there never got abroad, but it is quite erroneous.
has been any
Pomeroy Skin Food and most other
real Pomeroy preparations can be obtained from
difficulty. Sundries Houses and direct, as before. Any

—trifling delay and when it occurs it is trifling

can be put down to the vastly increased demand
and the extra time taken nowadays in transit.

Mrs. POMEROY LTD.,

115 Harwood Rd„ Walham Green

London, S.W.

im midii urn in

BRITISH MADE

TIN FOIL

—Highly polished foils printed, lacquered, embossed or plain.

Guaranteed free from lead for tobacco, cigarettes, food-

—stuffs, etc. In sheets or reels large or small quantities.

Also collapsifole tubes in pure tin, pure lead or lead-
coated with tin for rubber solution, artists' colours,
tooth pastes and other toilet preparations.

Manufactured by

June 1, 1918 :)

THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST

LABORATORY

OF GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY,

8* Rue Vivienne, Paris.

LONDON AGENTS

WILCOX, JOZEAU & Co., 49, WHaymarket, S.

CHAPOTEAUT'S
CAPSULES of

PH0SPH08LYCERATE

Of LIME.
THE BEST TONIC FOR

FORTIFYING AND BUILDING UP

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.

Sold by all Chemist*
Wholesale: 8. Rue Vivienne.

PARIS

M0RRI00L CHAPOTEAUT

CAPSULES

MORRHUOL DE CHAPOTEAUT

is extracted from cod-liver oil, and
contains all its efficacious proper-
ties without the disagreeable taste.
It cures Coughs, Bronchitis and Catarrh,
restores the appetite, and gives force to

feeble persons.

SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

ChandronS

Drops

(Gouttes des Colonies

A harmless antiseptic

preventative against CHOLERA-
FERMENTATION- INDIGESTION

politer intestinal disturbances.

SOLD BY ALL CHEMISTS

\

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18 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST June 1, 1918

The Evan Williams' Original Henna Shampoo

APPEALS ESPECIALLY TO WOMAN—THE GREATEST-

SPENDING FACTOR OF THIS COUNTRY.

Put Evan Williams' Original Henna Shampoo on your counter and watch
how quickly it sells, this is because our advertisements continually bring this
dainty and perfect shampoo before ladies' notice, and once a sale is secured,

its perfection ensures a steady permanent demand.

Ladies repeatedly write us asking for names of local agents, and it will pay you to stock this

—quick-selling proposition. Our Special Campaign of Publicity is now in full swing this

includes Press, Postal and Window Advertising, and aims to attract Ladies to your

establishment. Write to-day for full particulars.

Our supplies having been RATIONED, we are compelled to make the acceptance of orders subject to the condition that, should we be

unable to execute an order in its entirety, customers will accept a proportionate distribution of available stocks.

OEVRAIN WGIILLNIAAMLS/Afi

The Evan Williams Co. Ltd., 18 & 18a Ogle Street, Foley Street, London, W. 1. (2)

TRADE MARK. ANZORA

VACUUM FLASK CREAM and ANZORA VIOLA

HANDSOMELY FINISHED will be going ahead by leaps and bounds
WITH during the coming season.

NICKEL PLATED REMEMBER—
CAPS & BASES
Anzora is becoming more popular daily,
BROWN JAPANNED BODIES
SMALL CONSIGNMENT —and it assures you Good Profit. It
JUST TO HAND,
MASTERS THE HAIR.
WHICH WE NOW OFFER
TRADE TERMS. DISPLAY
ARTHUR BERTON Ltd. CARDS
11/6 per doz.,
15/17 Worship Street, and
retailed at 1 8/- ;
LONDON, E C. 2. CUT-OUTS
19/6 per. doz.,
Phones FREE.
retailed at 30/-.
LONDON WALL 507 ;
Anzora Perfumery Co.,
CITY 998. 28, 32, 34 Willesden Lane, London, N.W. 6.

Jvm l, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 19

The Finest Quality

Aerated Waters are

made only with

the Finest Quality

ESSENCES

Boake Every Soldier on home or active
service, every Sailor in the Navy
Roberts or Merchant Service, every
fighting man on land or sea, in
Soluble Essences are
of the finest quality the air or under the ocean,
needs a
and being extremely
concentrated are THERMOS

most economical many times every day. Are

you doing your share in supply-

ing this immense demand ? If

not, you are losing business and

profits. It is no platitude to say

THERMOSthat sells itself ;

it is a fundamental truth. It is a

psychological force you can put

into motion to increase your

turnover if you feature the

genuine THERMOS in your

Lemon Ginger Ale windows.

Orange Stone Ginger (Cloudy)

Ginger e Clear Ginger Beer CATALOGUES, ETC.,

Raspberry Kola Champagne ON REQUEST.

Strawberry Lime Juice and Soda THERMOS, LTD.

Pineapple Lemon Squash Vanilla Byron House,

A.Boake Roberts Co.Ltd

Stratford, London.

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20 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST June 1, 1918

cam Vaseline

LABEL-TITLE. . GO'PYRJ 6HT Trade Mark Registered

A WHITE INSEPARABLE ABSORBENT CREAM. PREPARATIONS.

Guaranteed absolutely free from Glucose, Benzoin or

Tragacanth, so cannot dry up the skin.

GET CERTAIN REPEATS with the emollient which consequence of the Government requiring
the space on
has no equal. The skin whitener w.thout rival ! steamers leaving New York

40 INall

PAYS Size. b ON MONTHLY BONUS TERMS. for England, we have been unable to obtain
bots.
Ritail. on quantities our usual supplies, although there are large

3H Price. Free Bonus named quantities of goods awaiting shipment at our
or pro rata

JW per 2 doz. QsJu * with each factory, and will be forwarded as soon as
/ gross
gross. accommodation can be secured on outgoing

9d. per 2 doz 9d with each steamers from America.
7/- doz. - 6 doz.

'bots.

1/3 'bots. per 2 doz QJUJ « with each Unfortunately, owing to enemy action, several
2/6 4 doz.
12/- doz. large consignments have been entirely lost at

lOoz.Bath- OA/ per 2 doz QuJu ' with each sea, hence temporary shortage of some of our
1 'size bots. «™/ doz. '2 doz.
Wepreparations.
FREE IN ADDITION TO BONUS. are, therefore, compelled

On £3 orders carriage paid. to ask the indulgence of our customers in the

Peach and Lilies Showcard (water-colour reproduction). meantime for any delay or inconvenience that
Silent Salesman Showcase picturing Ellaline Terriss.
may arise under the circumstances stated,
Monster Sh w Botlle filled wi h genuine "Veldt" Cream.
which are, of course, beyond our control.

Obtainable on bonus terms only from Chesebrough Manufacturing Co.
42 HOLBORN VIADUCT,
THE VELDT LABORATORY, Louth, England LONDON, E.C. 1.

or through our Special Agents,

AYRTON, SAUNDERS & CO., Ltd., LIVERPOOL.

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 1

Make your GATES'

old Hat a BOTTLEu

new one. !

; </}

O

j

: a.

In bottles, 10d. as
each, in sepa~
rate neat c ar~ 1
tons, with suit*
I cu CAPPING
abl. brush.
! J
These Dyes
are a distinct !< SKINS
i n ve n ti on,
y
dyeing the 3
U
:

straw without OS SNOW-WHITE OPAQUE n
an objection-
ablevarnished o ROLLED SKINS. 11
appearance,
—•n
=and producing flsz SOMETHING QUITE NEW. These
Skins are damp and READY FOR USE. SI
the effect of 2 <m
The raw m.lerial for Baudruche manufac-
= NO GLOSS. new goods. ! mpi
ture being now unobtainable, I hate put om
NO POLISH. to >m
this new production on the market in its
On the P.A.T.A. ! cn "Zo im=m
place. ABSOLUTELY AS OPAQUE 0|
WRITE FOR TERMS. PATTERNS, 05
as Split skins and equal in appearance. m
ALSO LEAFLET OF TESTIMONIALS. UJ
m•xi
44
3O3 B1
"Mine beat Sole Pioneer and Only CD i1

all others." English Manufacturer: nm

WHITAKER & CO., 'SfiElSffl* g LESLIE GATES, 61
London Depot ; 80-69 Clerkenwell Road, B.C.
' Glossy " Series supplied if desired. ^r: &3 14 Nightingale Road,
Btt.mf Clapton. E. 5.
Sfciat Non-Inflammablt Stries jor Export. —z
lelegraphic Address : " DuUette Kendal." Telephone : No. 214. Telegraphic Addreu".
_— ** Englishism, Lowclap, London."

Telephone : Dalslon 1 207.

Si

June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 23

0 0

7fie Handsome Profit on REGINA makes REGINA tfortfa

tffitfe. An ilrticie that represents spfen did Value for t/is
/720/2ey"REGINA" is a ready good trading proposition.

Attractive Showgard
Arresting Publicity

Immediate: Sales
KB. 7ia9e you asfedaoout "REGINXV

BATTER SEA, LONDON, S.w.li

22 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST June 1, 1918

m

YARDLEY & C0„ Ud.

m 8 NEW BOND STREET LONDON, W. i m

Have pleasure in announcing that

they are again booking orders for

YARDLEY'S Eau de Cologne

and

Old English Lavender Water

= & =YARDLEY
CO , Ltd., Office and Works : Carpenters Rd., Stratford. E.15

The "MILNER" . t6 ONGARD"

STRAW HAT CLEANER Safety Pins

SELLS WELL (guaranteed rust proof)
EVERYWHERE
ARE THE BEST FOR
3*
SURGICAL AND ^NURSERY PURPOSES.
It is easily used and gives
complete satisfaction, SOLE MANUFACTURERS

NINTH SEASON JJty* GEORGE GOODMAN LTD.,

6 dozen 10/- net. BIRMINGHAM.

12 ,, 19/- net. BRITISH MADE

Carriage Paid. SCENT SPRINKIERS
COLLAPSIBLE TUBES
Orders of 20/- 2j%
Decorated Tin Boxes & Canisters
£5 5% £10 7|%
Manufactured by
MILNER'S CHEMICAL CO.
The JOHN DALE Mfg. Coy,
LIVERPOOL.
NEW SOUTHGATE. LONDON. N.

Jbhe 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST

TRUE BRITISH.

Ready

for
Inspection,

TOOTH PASTE.
D EADY for inspection at all times are

^f the teeth which are brushed regularly

night and morning with Royal Vinolia

—Tooth Paste at all times pearly white,

lustrous, protected from decay.

Royal Vinolia Tooth Paste is the order of the
day. It is largely advertised, a ready seller,
and yields a handsome profit to the Pharmacist.

NOTE THE PRESENT RETAIL PRICES.

&T^D* 1/- per Tube.

VINOLIA COMPANY LIMITED, LONDON & PARIS.

OFFICES AND WORKS: BEBINGTON, Nr. BIRKENHEAD.

R V 329—29

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21 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST June 1, 1918

Eley Brothers,

LIMITED

specialise in the manufacture of
the following articles at the
lowest prices

Shaving Stick

Cases

Oval and

Round Tops

for Powder Tins, Cruets,

Dredgers, etc.

Metal Boxes

for Dentifrices, Soap Tablets, etc.

Ferrules &LOFTHOUSE SALTMER, Ltd.

Walking Sticks, Whips, Wholesale & Export Drug: Merchants,
Bamboo Fittings, etc.
— Manufacturing Chemists
Pencil Fittings
HULL.
in any of the following metaU :
Brass, Copper or White-metal INVITE the Trade to take up the following valuable

(nickel or silver - plated), P.A.T.A: Protected Lines, bearing a very large
Protected Retail Profit, which sell freely and are
Aluminium and Jewellers' Metal
well known and valued by the Public in many parts

of the country.

(Tombac). P.A.T.A. Protected Dozen
Retail Price. Net.

During the continuance of the War wt cannot tOSALL'S SALT (well advei-tised), tins 9d. 6/6

undertake orders to make any of the above goods 1/6 13/-
-requiring one or more of the metals for their 16/-
manufacture of which the use for commercial bottles in
purposes has been prohibited by H.M. Govern- cartons

ment; but we invite inquiries, as we still have *Losall's Salt sells so well, surely It
some articles in stock which were made before
1 1must pay Pharmacists to stock such
the prohibition was issued. a big profit- bearing protected line.

ELEY BROTHERS, Ltd. LOSALL'S COMPOUND SULPHUR SOAP.

(Dept. 21), Edmonton, London, H, A valuable emollient medicated skin soap, Box. Doz.
2/- 18/-
especially suitable for use in Eczema.

@3 Tablets in a box 8d.

June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 25

^Jlllllllllllllllllf IIIIIIIIBIEI II. |^IIIIIIIIIIEBIf lltllllllllllllllllli IllliilSI IIIIB9IUIII I B I B 1 1 1 1 1 III8C ftf f fif

| Seasonable and Paying Lines to Stock |

| ARE |

j COOK'S I

! NICOTINE SPRAY I

FOR All PUNT LIFE

PRUfT TREES • ROSE1HEES
POTATO mHJlMS.CTC

SAFE ft. SURE |

j

^f.DWASO COOK -i C0 ]

No. 2. No.

Half-pint bottles, 12/- per dozen. 1-lb. tins, 18/- per dozen.

1/4Retail, per bottle. Retail, 2/- per tin.

SUBJECT TO USUAL TERMS.

NOTPACKAGES SPLIT (12 tins or 12 bottles in box).

THE INDISPENSABLE' SPRAY FOR

FRUIT TREES, POTATOES, ROSES, etc.

ADVERTISED IN GARDEN PAPERS.

I EDWARD COOK & GO., LTD. I
|
| BOW, LONDON, E.3.

aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiimm

26 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST June 1, 1918

SANOID BORACIC SOCKS

FOR SUMMER SALES

Many Chemists have en- 61- per Dozen pairs.
69/- per Gross pairs.
joyed the ready sale of
Boracic Socks which On
P.A.T.A. LIST,
literally
Retail price 9d. per pair.
SELL
THEMSELVES.

Facsimile of Showcard.

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FACE VALUE BEGINS THIS MONTH

Important Decision of GENATOSAN LTD.

INCREASED PROFIT GOES

ENTIRELY TO THE RETAILER.

We have very much pleasure in stating that, from the first of this month, all sijges of
SANATOGEN will be sold only at face value, the trade prices remaining unaltered.

This means that, assuming you buy on the best terms, you make 3/- profit on every 9/6

—tin of Sanatogen that you sell an instructive fact, in view of the recent controversy about profits

on proprietaries.

In previous announcements we have explained our reasons for supporting the Face Value

Scheme, and the resulting correspondence has convinced us that the great majority of pharmacists
are keenly in favour of it.

And here we may be permitted to remind our friends in the Trade that we have steadfastly

refrained from raising the original prices of our preparations, despite the enormous and ever-
growing increase in the cost of raw materials and manufacture, advertising, distribution, etc.
factors which have caused over nine hundred proprietaries to be raised in price.

YOUR PROFITS AT A GLANCE.

The following table shows you, clearly and unequivocally, your exact profits on each size of Sanatogen

— —both profit on sale and profit on capital outlay under the Face Value Scheme, as compared

with the former method :

FACE VALUE PRICES OF SANATOGEN, WITH TRADE PROFITS.

Face Value Trade Prices Profit Percentage of Percentage of Face Value Face Value
Retail Prices per dozen. per dozen. Profit on Profit on Sale. Increase on Increase on
Capit <1 Outlay.
per dozen. 71- Capital Outlay. Sale.
14/6
Size. .... 33/- 26 27/6 26'9 21-2 3- 8% 2'5%
.... 60/- 31'9 24'2 6- 6%
2/9 45/6 31-8 24-1 7% 4%
5/- .114/ 86/6
4-2%
9/6

ON Ejest teiIMS 10°/> ADVEKUSING DISCOUN T.

2/9 .... 33/- 23/5 9/7 40'9 29 4- 3% 2%
5/- .... 60/- 41/- 19/- 46*4
77/10 36/2 46'5 317 7'4% 37%
9/6 ....114/-
317 7- 8% 37%

—You will see that buying on best terms and taking the 9/6 size of Sanatogen as a standard

of comparison the Face Value Scheme increases your profit on capital outlay by nearly 8 per
cent., and your profit on sales by nearly 4 per cent.

Thus, your profit on capital outlay is now 46! per cent., and your profit on sales

—nearly 32 per cent. or, as stated at the beginning of this announcement, you make 3/- profit

on every 9/6 tin of Sanatogen that you sell.

We take this opportunity of again asking your indulgence in the matter of delayed orders.

As our factory had long been working to the limit of its output, we were unable to cope with the

sudden and remarkable increase in the demand for Sanatogen but new arrangements have now
;

been completed, and the shortage is being rapidly overcome.

GENATOSAN LTD• (British Purchasers of The Sanatogen Co.)

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June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST 33

European War News.

A Weekly Journal of Pharmacy and of the Chemical Import and Export Notices.
and Drug- Trades. Norway.—The Director of the British War Trade Depart-
ment .announces that the issue of licences for certain com-,
. modifies has now been resumed, and that applications for

; ESTABLISHED 1859. such licences will bo considered on their merits. Licences

The CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST . is ir HrrU'„tion and reputation the for dyes, drugs, and chemicals of all kinds cannot at present

leading journal addressing the Chemical ana urug trades in the British Empire be granted save in exceptional cases. As from May 10 no
and other countries in the Old arid New Worlds. It is the official Journal of goods or articles of any kind may bo exported from Norway-

many Chemists' Societies in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, except under licence 'issued by the proper Department of
and the West Indies.
the Norwegian Government. .

Personalia.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Private James Nolan is reported missing. Prior to join-
ing the- Forces he was with Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Ltd.,
- Twelve Shillings and Sixpence a year in advance, post free to any part of the
world, including a copy of The Chewst and Druggist Diary next published. Warrington.
Subscriptions may begin any month. Single Copy. 6d. ; Summer or Winter
Private M. Porter is reported a prisoner of war. Prior
Number, is.; Diary 3s. 6d. Postal orders and cheques to be crossed " Martin's
to joining the Army ha was with Boots, Ltd., at Chapel
Bank (Limited)."
Street,. Southport.
Prix de l'abonnement annuel le journal une fois par semaine,
: Private Horace W. Hepworth, West Yorkshire Regiment,
is reported missing. In civil life he was on the staff of
et l'a&enda une fois par an, 12s. 6d., franco. W. A. Wharram, Ltd., chemists, Leeds. *

—•IIo4nHcrjan iitna na f jKeHe^tibFiMii jKypna.il ct> npiuomeuieMi Private W. Lawton, King's (Liverpool Regiment), is
report?d a prisoner of war. In civil lifs he was with
roA&Boro 4neBHm<a 12 uiB,i.iiiHroBT> (3 neHCOBi ea ro^i ci
nepeciLiKOH. Joseph Crosneld & Sons, Ltd., Warrington.

Precio de suscripciou anual: el periodico una vez por semana, Private Wilfred Whiteside, Border Regiment, is reported
y el agenda una vez por ano 1-2 cb. y 6 peniques, franco. a prisoner of war. Prior to enlistment he was apprenticed
to Boots, Ltd., at Church Street, Blackpool.

Terms for advertising in THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST can be Private Thomas Daley, Lancashire Fusiliers, is officially

obtained on application to the Publisher at the reported missing. In civil life he was with H. D. Pochin

Head Office: 42 CANNON STREET, LONDON, E.C.4. & Co., Ltd., manufacturing chemists, Warrington. -.

Telegrams: " Chemicus. Cannon, London." Telephone 3617 Central (three lines). Captain Percy R. E. Josephs, Royal Air Force, who has
recently been promoted from the rank of lieutenant, is a
Branches: MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY, AUST. director of Philip Josephs & Sons, Ltd., shopfitters, Old

OOXTTEXTTS: Wo. 22 (Series No. 2001), Vol. 90. Street, London, E.C. 1.

Association Affairs fiat FAOI Major-General C- H. Burtchaell, C.B., C.M.G., has been
33 appointed Director-General of the Medical Services of Lhe
46 European War British, Armies in Fraxice in place of Lieut.-General Sir

Births 39 French News 36 A. T. Slcggett. K.C.B.

Business Changes 39 General Medical Council ... 37

Qlaims of Organic Chemistry 37 German News 36

Colonial and Foreign News 36 Information Department ... 40 Second-Lieutenant Donald Hodgson,. Royal Air Force,
has been recently gazetted lieutenant. Before taking up his
Coming Events 33 Insurance Act Dispensing... 47 commission last October he was with Brotherton & Co.,
Ltd., manufacturing chsmists, Leeds.
Correspondence : - - Irish News 35

Letters 50 Legal Reports 38

, Subscribers' Symposium.'.. 52 London Chamber of Com- Captain Duncan Cumming, Lancashire Fusiliers, has been
awarded the Military Cross for bravery in the field. Cap-
Legal Queries 52 merce 45 tain Cumming- is the son of Mr. John Cumming, chemist
and druggist, Victoria Street, Crewe.
"Miscellaneous Inquiries ... 52 Marriages 39

Deaths 39 Military Tribunals' Decisions 34

Editorial Articles : New Companies and Com-

•Enemy Trading 42 pany News 38 Assistant-Paymaster Charles Mote, who was gazetted
to this rank on May 4, was in civil life the representative
" The Quest for Cin- Observations and Reflections 41 of S. Maw, Son & Sons, Ltd., in a North-country district.
He joined the Navy early in 1917 (C. <fe D., 1917, p. 230).
,
Second-Lieutenant Alexander Donald Miller, M.C.,
chona " 43 Personalities 39 chemist and druggist, is reported a prisoner of war. An

Names for Organic Silver Poisonings 35 account of the gallant deed which resulted in his receiving

' Salts 44 Practical Notes 46 the Military Cross appeared in the C. <£• D., January 26,

British Fine Chemicals ... 44 Retrospect 52

Coloured Methylated Scottish News 35

S'pirits 44 Trade Marks 40

Duty-free Tinctures 45 Trade Notes 40
to Trade Report 48
.

Selling Morphine

' Doctors •. 45 Westminster Wisdom 47 p. 34.

English News i 34 Wills 39'. Second-Lieutenant W. H.' Brindley, R.E., has been

Coming Events. awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during military
operations on March 31. In civil life Second-Lieutenant
Brindley was with Mr. F. Mc-Kinlay, chemist and druggist,

Glossop.

Sunday, June 2. Private Allan Harley, atta/hed to the Seaforth High-
"D"United Arts Volunteer Rifles,
Company (Pharmacists), landers, is officially reported missing. Private Harley, who
is the younger son of Mr. Thomas Harley, chemist and
Imperial College Union, South Kensington. London, S.W., at druggist, High Street, Perth, had been in France only three
days. His elder brother has been on active service for
•10 a.m. Company Parade. (June 4 at 8.30 a.m., N.C.O.s Class;
three year's.
' June 5 and 6 at 3 p.m., platoon parades.)

Monday, .Tune 3.' Second-Lieutenant J. J. Laws. Royal Fusiliers, whose

Society of Chemical Industry, London Section. Burlington House, marriage is announced (see p. 39), joined the Army in June
"APiccadilly, W., at 7.30 p.m. Dr. H. J. S. Sand on 1916, and received his commission last January. Second-
Cadmium- Lieutenant Laws was trained in pharmacy by his father,
Mr. J. J. Laws, chemist and druggist, at Goodge Street,
' vapour Arc Lamp"; Mr. A. R: Powell on "The Estimation London, W., and subsequently assisted him at his Chiswick

of Tin in High-grade Woolfram Ores and the Use of Lead as a business.

Reducing Agent in Pearcc's' Assay." ;

Tuesday, June 4. The Following Casualties are reported in connection

Progressive Pharmacy Club-. Arundel Hotel. Victoria Embank- with soldiers who till their enlistment were with- Taylors'
ment, London. W.C., at 8.30 p.m. Mr. E. Skues on " Stock-
keeping and Stocktaking:" Drug Co., Ltd. : Private A. Blackett, Lincolnshire Regiment,

Rontgen Society. Royal Society of Arts, 18 John Street, Strand, missing; Private G. R. Curnoek, East Surrey Regiment,
London, W.C., at 8.15 p.m. Annual meeting.

.

Thursday, June 6. missing;' Private R. Gray, Royal Welsh Fusiliers,

Chemical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W. 1, " gassed " Private T. Merrell. West Yorkshire Regiment,
at 8 p.m. Dr. Horace T. Brown, F.R.S.. on The'"' Principles of ;
Diffusion : their Analogies and Applications."
wounded: Gunner G. Rees, R.F.A.. wounded, and in hos-

pital in. England ; Private H. Wright, Royal West Surrey

Friday, June 7. Regiment (Queen's), prisoner of war.

Royal Institution of Great Britain, Albemarle Street. Piccadilly, Sergeant James Dixon Jamiesox. R.A.M.C., has been
London, W. 1, at 5.30 p.m. Sir Boverton Redwood, Bart., on awarded the Military Medal for devotion to duty on the
AVestern Front. It is reported that " he was left in charge
"The "Romance of Petroleum."

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34 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST June 1, 1918

of an aid post, and continued evacuating his wounded under English and Welsh News,
shell and machine-gun fire in an atmosphere which for

several hours necessitated the use of gas-masks, stioking to The Editor would be obliged if subscribers wou'.d send liim marked
his work until the post became absolutely" untenable.
Sergeant Jamieson passed the Qualifying examination in copies of newspapers containing items or interest for inssitioo

1915, and joined the Forces soon after. He was for seven &in this or other news sections of the " C. D."

years with Mr. A. Whitelaw, chemist and druggist! Cupa Postal Changes.
first as apprentice and then as assistant. The following changes in the letter and parcel rates come

Miscellaneous into force at midnight on June 2 :

Sugar (Restriction) Orde^, 1918.—We are informed that Inland.

May)the terms of this Order (C. <£• D., 25, p. 33) do not Letter Rate.—The new rate will be : Not exceeding

revoke the special arrangements which are in force by which 4 oz., ; and for every additional 2 oz. or fraction

druggists obtain 50 per cent, of the sugar-supplies of 1915. of 2 oz., id.

ABlack-listed Firms.— new list of additions, coverin_ postcards.— Id. instead of id. Reply postcards, 2d.
Book Bate.—This becomes the " Printed Paper Rate."
fifty-four names in Argentina, Brazil. Chile, Colombia, The regulations remain much the same, but the charge,

Greece, Guatemala, Netherlands, Netherlands East Indies, which at present is id. for 2 oz. all through- the scale,
Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Venezuela, has been issued. In
the Spanish list appears the " Sociedad Electro-Quimica d now becomes id. for 1 oz., and Id. for packets exceeding
Flix (manager Otto Pagelsen, Calle Valencia, 236, and Calle 1 oz. but not exceeding 2 oz. Above 2 oz. the special

Princesa 21, Barcelona)." rate ceases to apply, and the letter rate operates.

Enemy Patents—Application by L. B. Holliday & Co. —Sample Bate. This is abolished as a special rate,
Huddersfield, was^ made on May 29 for licences to employ —because samples may now be sent at the letter rate 4 oz.

twenty-three patents for the aniline dyes belonging to alien for l^d.

enemies.—The British Dyes, Ltd., St. Andrew's Road Parcel Bate.—The old scale varying lb. by lb. (1 lb. for

Huddersfield, are applying for forty-eight dye patents 4(7., 2 lb. for 5(?., and so on up to 11 lb. for Is.)' is dis-
belonging to alien enemies. The hearing takes place at the
Patent Office Court on June 5. Upplaced by a triple scale : to 3 lb. for bd., over 3 lb. but

—Military Service. A short guide to the Military Service not exceeding 7 lb. for 9d., and over 7 lb. but not exceed-

regulations has been published by the Stationery Office ing 11 lb. for Is.
(reference number R192, Id.}. It will be found useful for
those who, for various reasons, are claiming exemption Foreign and Colonial. .
from military service, but does not deal specifically with
the pharmaceutical side of the question, which is dealt —Letter Bate. The rate to all destinations to which it
with locally by the Pharmaceutical Committees!
has hitherto been Id. for 1 oz. (that is, British Possessions
generally and the United States) will be lid. for 1 oz.,

and Id. for each succeeding ounce.

Retail Price of Rice.—The Food Controller has issued thi Soldiers and Sailors.

Rice (Retail Prices) Amendment Order, dated May 16 1913 Letters to sailers on H.M. ships and soldiers serving
which amends the first paragraph of Clause 1 (a) of the abroad may still be sent for Id. if the weight does not

Principal Order as from June 1, 1918, the substituted para- exceed 1 oz.
graph reading as " No rice shall be sold by retail
follows The same special rate applies to letters to women
:

at a price exceeding the rate of 4d. per lb. No 'ground serving with the Forces abroad.
,

rice rice flour, flaked rice, or other similar rice product Birmingham.

shall be sold by retail at a rate exceeding 4i<i per lb., Mrs. Barrow Cadbury has received the "decoration insti-
mexcept that where such article is of a proprietary brand
and is packed cartons it may be sold at a rate not tuted by the Queen of the Belgians. Belgian refugees in
Birmingham owe much to Mrs. Cadbury's devotion to their
exceeding 5-gCi."
interests. • \

Registration of Tea Retailers—For the purposes of the The late Dr. Thomas Nelson, Edgbaston, well known to

tea-distribution scheme, which will come into force on Heocal pharmacists, left estate valued at 32,223?. desired
July 14, all retailers of tea must be registered by their
local Food Committees. Forms are now being distributed his body cremated, the ashes cast to the winds, and no

information of his funeral conveyed to his friends.
lor this purpose, and a certificate of registration as a sugar —Pharmacists who have country seats may profit or take
retailer will be regarded as registration for tea, provided —warning by the experience of one of their number not
notification is made to the local Committee, stating that
Amany miles from here. party of townspeople apparently
it is desired to continue to deal in tea. Permission is
granted to local Committees to issue certificates of . registra- out for a walk the other day called at his house, purchased

tion to applicants not previously selling tea, if necessary in eggs, and asked whether they could be supplied with tea !

the public interest. Applications for registration must be A meeting of the British Association of Chemists (Pro-
certificates, it is stated, will be ready isional Society) at Birmingham University, held on May 23.
made at once, and
adopted resolutions agreeing with the proposals of the Insti-
lor issue by June 3.
tute of Chemistry as ratified on April 27, and favouring the

continuance of the Association after further looal sections

of the Institute have been formed.

isions. St. Germain's Church, Edgbaston, has been enriched by

Since our Last Report the following decisions, have been the gift of a bishop's chair in memory of Second-Lieutenant
John Wilfred Dabbs, and a credence table- in memory of
notified : Lance-Corporal Laurence Ernest Dabbs, sons of Mr. Dabbs,
manager of the Lacquer department of Canning & Co.,
Colchester. The calling-up of Mr. H. Motson, assistant manufacturing' chemists, Great Hampton Street.

with Mr. A. W. Nunn, was, on the suggestion of the Insur- Liverpool.
—ance Commissioners, postponed to July 1.
^Eastbourne. The following chemists and druggists were Mr. Henry Peet, M.A., F.S.A., chemist and druggist,
conditionally exempted for six months: Messrs. G. C. lias completed forty years in business at the Adelphi
Harmer, A. Moss, J. 0. Routly, and P. C. Veale. Mr. Pharmacy.
W. A. Russell, pharmacist, assistant with the executors of
Mr. John Cleworth, of Manchester, has been on a visit to
the late Mr. J. Senior, chemist and druggist, was exempted Liverpool, conferring with fellow-pharmacists and calling
for six months conditionally on assisting in the work of
two other pharmacies. on the wholesale houses.
Mr. H. J. Pellow, pharmacist,
Mr. W. H. Saunders (Ayrton, Saunders & Co., Ltd.) pre-
-assistant with Mr. H. H. Cooper, chemist and druggist,
was finally exempted to June 15. The following assistants sided at the annual meeting of the Liverpool Library on
were exempted for six months : Messrs. J. T. Archer (Sussex
Stores), B. W. Bagley (Mr. F. J. Crisford, chemist and May 24 and gave a brief sketch of its history, which

druggist), G. Checkley (Mr. A. Moss, chemist and druggist), dates back to 1758.

—and D. T. Morgan (Mr. W. Price, chemist and druggist). The staff of Ayrton, Saunders & Co., Ltd., are giving
Exeter. At the instance of the National Service authori-
this week-end a dual repetition at Crane Hall of their
ties, the case of Mr. Percy F. J. Trestrail, chemist and
entertainment (67. & D., April 27, p. 34). The proceeds are
druggist, was adjourned for two months.
for the benefit of the City of Liverpool Cadet Battalion, in
Hhirne Bay.—Messrs. W. P. Cole, Ph.C, C. Philip, chemist which Mr. George Inman, chemist and druggist, holds a
and druggist, and H. Pyman, chemist and druggist, were commission.

each given three months' exemption in place of conditional In opening a new ward and massage department at the
David Lewis Northern Hospital on May 25, Sir Robert
exemption. Jones quoted a distinguished surgical authority as claiming
that the Thomas splint has, during- the present war, reduced

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fatalities from thigh-shock, which formerly were 80 per account of the Works Council in a soap-factory, which has

cent., to 20 per cent, or less. for its purpose the collection direct from the workers, of

A down-town pharmacist had an amusing experience this any suggestions for the improvement of their surroundings
week. He supplied ,a merchant, who was accompanied and the placing of such suggestions, in the form of mature
proposals, before the directors for their approval. That
by his wife, with .a draught, as demanded, and after it had
been consumed said, " Call in to-morrow morning and tell particular Council has been in existence for fifteen years.

me how you feel." Both the merchant and his wife turned —Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. At Birmingham Police

pale, supposing that the wrong medicine had been given. Court, on May 24, Mr. James Austin, chemist and druggist,
The seq-uel was satisfactory.
Alum Rock Road, was summoned for selling lime-water
Miscellaneous.
which contained no lime. It was stated for the prosecution
—Fire. By a, fire which occurred on May 19. the store at
that the water contained a smaller percentage of solids than
the rear of the premises of Mr. W. G. Powell, chemist ordinary tap-water*, 0.006 of calcium carbonate, and
and druggist, Fordingbridge, was destroyed, together with
0.18 of other matter, but no lime at all. It
the contents.
—was urged for the defence that the water had deteriorated.
—Neodiarsenol. The Local Government Board has issued
A fine of Zl. was imposed. At the same court, Mr. Walter
a circular to local authorities informing them that the Edwin Heath, chemist and druggist, LodgeRoad, Hockley,
Board has approved of neodiarsenol as a drug that may
be supplied under Article III. of the Public Health (Vene- was fined 5/. for supplying sodium bromide in place of

real Diseases) Regulations. —potassium bromide. Mr. Heath explained that the sale

—Record Sale of Soap. In the course of the recent Empire was the result of an error. Mr. Bernard Dyer,
D.Sc, in the course of a report on two samples
Day celebrations at Selfridge's, Oxford Street, London, of insecticidal fertiliser sent informally from Hampshire,
W., Mr. T. Gordon Heighingtoh, chemist and druggist, was
_
presented with a cheque for 501. for having established a
remarks that both contained only insignificant quantities of
world's record in his department by the sale of a total of fertilising matter, together with about 17 and 19 per cent.

80 tons of soap in six weeks. respectively of carbonate of lime, which might have been
of some use on some soils. Ill one case, the material was
—In the Courts. At the Central Criminal Court, London,
purchased for top-dressing wheat and killing wireworm,
on May 28, Beatrice Wilson, nurse, was sentenced to twelve
—Afor neither, of which purposes would it Lave been of any
months in the first division for forging a request for the material use. sample of tincture of rhubarb, taken in-

.supply of morphine sulphate (C. & D., April 27, p. 35). It formally at Southampton, was found deficient in solid

—was stated that she had latterly been a victim of the drug- matter to the extent of 70 per cent.

habit. At Dukinfield, recently, Mr. Ralph Hough, manu- Irish News,
facturing chemist, "Newlands,". Alexandra Park, Man-
Brevities.
chester, was fined 51. for using petrol contrary to regula-
Mr. Eugene M. Sweeny, Ph.C. Patrick Street, Cork, will
—tions, and a further 21. for not producing his licence. At in future close his shop on Sundays.

Burnley, recently, two boys aged thirteen and eleven There has been a great relief in the matter of the shortage
of silver in Ireland, which at one time threatened to stop all
respectively were bound over for twelve months, and ordered business. There is a slight scarcity of coppers at present.

to pay costs, on a charge of breaking into the shop of The monthly Committee-meeting- of the Cork Branch of
the Irish Chemists' Assistants' Association was held on
Hartleys, chemists, St. James's Street, and stealing the
May 24. Mr. O'Connor (Chairman) presided. Only business
sum of 11. 13s.
of a formal nature caime before the meeting.
—Poisonings.^ An inquest was held at Chulmleigh, on At a meeting of the Sligo Trades Council, Mr. Adamson

May 23, on the body of Mary Elizabeth Richards, who was (Chemists' Assistants' Association) said the employers in the
found dead on May 16. Mr. Arthur Harold Penney, Ph.G, town were as anxious as the assistants to close early, and
Fore Street, stated in evidence that the deceased woman they met the assistants in the fairest manner, for which he
thanked them.
recently purchased in his shop a sealed packet of mouse-
A strike which occurred recently with the employes o f
poison containing strychnine, and duly signed the poison- Hugh Moore & Alexanders, Ltd., wholesale druggist-,,

book : she had had mouse-poison on several occasions. The Dublin, has been settled, the company agreeing to reinstate
verdict returned was " Suicide while in an unsound mind six men dismissed and to pay the minimum demand of the
workers' Union.
—by taking strychnine." George Durdy, Harwood, was
A Traders' Protective Association has been formed at
recently found dead in a barn, and by his side was a bottle
Fermoy. The drug and chemical trade is represented by
that had contained laudanum. A coroner's jury subse- Messrs. Winkworth and J. D. O'Connell. The objects of
the combine are, inter alia, to prevent undercutting of
—quently entered an " Unsound mind " verdict. Two cases prices by co-operative stores.

of accidental poisoning by carbolic acid are reported this Sir Charles Cameron has been elected public analyst to
the Leitrim County Council, at 50?. a year. He had pre-
week, the victims being Mr. A. A. Chancellor, Richmond, viously resigned, as the Council refused to grant him an
Surrey, and Mr. T. Moss, Newton Heath, Manchester. increase of salary, and. there being no other applicant, he
was now appointed on his own terms.
—Anthrax in Wool. The Departmental Committee ap-
Scottish News.
pointed to inquire as to the precautions to be taken to
Brevities.
prevent the danjjer of infection by anthrax in wool has Mr. David Storrar, chemist and druggist, Kirkcaldy, was
a prize-winner in the recent draw in connection with the
issued a report in which the following process of disinfection Dundee Fine Art Exhibition.
is recommended :
Messengers are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain
A(1) preliminary process in which material is submitted to in Edinburgh, with the result that those customers who
seem to believe themselves born to receive preferential
the action of a warm solution of soap in water containing a- little treatment experience shocks.
alkali, followed by squeezing' through rollers. The purpose and
Increased postal rates will not greatly hurt a branch of
effect is to cause disintegration of blood-clots and the removal of all trade which has been growing for some time. Ladies in
protection from the spores, and to bring the latter into a condition small towns and villages seldom or never purchase lace-
in which they are susceptible to the action of disinfectants. creams, depilatories, etc., locally, but prefer to send an
order by post to a chemist at a distance.
(2) The disinfecting process, in which material treated by the
The construction of a new electro-therapeutic and massage
preliminary process is submitted to the action of a warm solution department has been completed at the Great Northern
of formaldehyde in water, and again squeezed through rollers. Central Hospital, London, N. It is estimated that 1,000
Most of the spores are destroyed at this stage.
patients a year will attend.
(3) Drying, by which all the surviving spores are killed except
in special circumstances.

(4) Standing for a. short time in order to ensure the destruction
of any spores which may, when exceptionally well protected,
survive stage 3. 'It is shown that the last two stages are largely
in. the nature of a safety factor.

—Works Committees^ The second of the Industrial Reports

issued from the Ministry of Labour is based on an inquiry-
made by members of the Ministry as to the constitution
and working of Works Committees in a number of different
industries. Although chemical industry and the manufac-

ture of pharmaceuticals are not specifically dealt with,

there are many firms in these industries who find the prac-
tice of welfare work so greatly an .advantage to business

that a perusal of this Report will be distinctly helpful.
The records of practical experiences provide guidance and
suggestions for the smoother working of large concerns,

particularly in view of the changed conditions that will

prevail after the war. It is a Report which appeals to
employer and employed alike, for the endeavour is to pro-
mote that confidence which is the basis of all permanent-

relationships. Of particular interest to pharmacists is the

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36 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST Juke 1, 1918

French News. —Olive-oil Difficulties. The general public in parts of

, Italy has no olive oil, although a sufficiency exists in the

&(From the " C. D." Paris Correspondent.) country. In the practical absence of butter and lard, im-
Aproved transport is desired.
decree has been issued in

A —Question of Labels. In the multitude of decrees issued Italy ordering a fortnightly return of stocks of olive oil
from all persons producing or holding a larger quantity
since the outbreak of war, difficulties sometimes arise. The than a quintal. Wholesale prices have been fixed.
circular of June 25, 1855, prescribed a. red label for medica-
ments destined for external use, but the decree of Septem- —Medical Supplies in Denmark. Lanoline has long since

ber 14, 1916, exacted a green label, a. detail which caused some disappeared from pharmacies and been replaced (in oint:

searchings of heart among conscientious and would-be law1 ments) by other fat-stuffs. Castor oil is extremely scarce,

abiding pharmacists. The Paris Pharmacists' Syndicate and senna and senna-pods have for a long time been
submitted this legal puzzle to the Director of the School of absolutely unobtainable. Saccharin and " crystallose" are

Pharmacy^ He conferred with the head of the anti- in great demand ; before the war a kilo, of saccharin

adulteration service at the Ministry of Agriculture. They cost 200kr. (11/. 2s. 2&d.), now the price is—l,000kr.

agreed that the general idea of the decree was to vary labels (551. lis.) ! " Dressings " are becoming more and more

in such a wa.y as to express by the colour the degree of deficient, the stocks of some being almost depleted. The

danger each presented, but thought that " the end aimed greatest difficulty for the pharmacist is the scarcity of

at would only be really attained if coloured labels were medicinal herbs.
—exclusively reserved for poisonous substances for external
Cocaine in Bengal. The report on the administration of

use." Now, as in 1855 (concludes the official letter), "labels the Excise Department in Bengal during 1916-17 says the

for innocuous external remedies or for internal remedies total quantity of cocaine s'eized in Bengal during the year

should be printed in black on white paper." was about 56 lb., compared with about 86 lb. in the previous

Heroic Pharmacists.—M. Richard, who until 1914 peace- year. Although illicit cocaine was scarce at the time owing
now an to the interruption of supplies, there appeared to have been
fully kept open shop in a Parisian suburb, is the War no continuous shortage, and the price at the end of the year
infantry captain. has just received, not only was lower than it had been in some of the preceding months.
He
"—Cross, but the red ribbon with the " Star of the Brave
not an easy " decoration " to gain in war-time. For four
days, under' unceasing bombardment and practically cut Some Calcutta Excise officers discovered one of the chief
sources of supply in the United Kingdom. As a result
off from the rest of the French forces, he held a position. the export of cocaine from the United Kingdom has been
The chiefs of the neighbouring companies killed or wounded, prohibited except under licence. On the other nand,

he took command, and " in spite of the lack of water Japanese, cocaine [? cocaine rid Japan] appears to have
food, and sleep, energetically repulsed by volley-firing and
bayonet-charges every attack of the enemy."—The number come m. The report adds that there seems to be no reason
to believe that the persons who are prepared to pay for
of pharmacists cited for courage and devotion to the
Wewounded under fire continues to be considerable. may _

illicit cocaine have any real difficulty in obtaining it.

cite Assistant-Major T. Moreul (doctor in pharmacy), a man

of forty-eight, who has " several times volunteered for German News.

dangerous work," bringing in fallen men from "No Man's

Land," and who " particularly distinguished himself" in —Liquid Oxygen Enterprise. The Stassfurt ducal salt-
a couple of gas attacks.—Assistant- Mai or Leopold Darberg
is rated as "Chief of a Toxicological Laboratory," but works are taking up the manufacture of liquid oxygen, and
varies his indoor duties by such tasks as " going to an
the State has granted 120,000m. for the construction of the

artillery battery during its bombardment by gas shells to —plant.
.
assure himself "of their effects and of the means_ cf protec- Cotton-wool Manufacture. The " Chemiker Zeitung

—tion," and " always taking samples of drinking-water from states that the Jata Works, Dresden, are trying to utilise
the reed-mace plant {Tvpha latijolia) for the manufacture of
the front trenches for analysis." Auxiliary pharmacists

Jean Mazieres, Pierre Babinot, and Gabriel Pottier, all cotton-wool.
belonging to the G.B.D. 127, have also been cited in eulo-
'Hops in Tobacco.—The use of hops in tobacco is autho-
gistic terms, which space forbids us to reproduce, for rised to the extent of 20 per cent. The army authorities
have not yet consented to this use in tobacco for the army,
bringing in wounded men from tight corners.
which absorbs the greater part of the production^
German Government
Colonial and News. Linseed-oil Substitutes.—The _

Foreign offered 50,000m. in a prize competition to obtain substitutes
for linseed oil. There were forty-six entries and only one

Pharmacies as Recruiting Centres.—Eight thousand phar- was found acceptable, and the inventor was awarded 5,000m.

macies connected with the United Drug Co., Boston, U.S.A., A new competition has been ordered.
are being used by the American Government as recruiting- More Tobacco Substitutes ?—The Dresden Chamber of

stations for an important branch, of, the U.S. Forces. Commerce has asked the Ministry to permit the use of

—Bulgarian Trade with Switzerland. During the first the leaves of lime, pear, apple, walnut, hazel-nut, chestnut,

six months of 1917, otto of rose valued at 1,014, 500fr. was and beech trees and of Jerusalem artichokes, as substi-
exported from Bulgaria to Switzerland. The total exports
amounted to l,085,024fr., and the imports to 4,773,978fr. tutes in the manufacture of tobacco products. the <( Ber-
Worthless Food-substitutes.—It is stated in
Chemicals in the Dutch Indies.—A Dutch journal states there were
liner Tageblatt " that at the end of last October
that the manufacture of sulphuric and sulphurous acids, 7 000 substitute to the authorities. A few are
foods known
carbonic acid, and oxygen is a considerable industry in the
Dutch Indies. Dissolved acetylene works have been estab- described— e.g., a " stretching flour " of powdered hay,
lished. Part of the iodine production of East Java is "jams" of essence-flavoured gelatin and water, and

m" meat cubes" of similar origin to the jams.

Bandage Restrictions.—An Order has been issued that
exported, and the remainder used for iodoform, etc. future surgical bandages made of material manufactured

Devolution in Spanish Pharmacy.—A Spanish decree from cotton shall be sold wholesale only to the trading
enacts that each provincial centre in the country is to company of German pharmacists, and by it enly to phar-
establish a College of Pharmacy with a governing body, and ' macists. Retail trade in these goods will, in principle,

that every pharmacist in business shall become a member cease, as physicians' ordars or the equivalent will be 'pre-

of the College cf his district. Examinations may be held requisite. -\! . . .
by each College, which is invested with legal and executive ,
Union of
Office for Dtvug Distribution.—The Imperial
the Drug and Chemical Trades' Associations, to which the
—functions.
State Pharmacy in Brazil. In a presidential message German Apothecaries' Union and the German Druggists
to the Legislative Congress of San Paulo, Brazil, it is men- Union belong, has established a distribution office in Berlin
for economic purposes during the war and .afterwards—
tioned that heavy demands have been made this year on the company with an original capital of 200,000m. has been
founded in Berlin for the supply and distribution of raw
State Pharmaceutical Laboratory by hospitals, muni-
cipalities, and sanitary commissions. The Laboratory,

which has to struggle with obsolete plant, dispenses and materials in the tachno-chemical industry.
Tea- and Coffee-substttutf.s.,—The Germans are finding
also supplies medioines in bulk. out that there is nothing that can satisfactory v take the
place of a good cup of genuine tea or coffee. In order to
—Company Pharmacy in Spain. Spanish pharmacists are compensate for the horrible taste and smell of kohl-rabi
coffee-substitute, manufacturers are mixing caffeine with
perturbed by the advent of company pharmacies. They it, as also with "German tea." Formerly, a pound of good
have, for the moment, stayed the movement with an official
decree declaring that the practice of pharmacy is incom- coffee-beans cost 80pf., but to-day the rubbifhy substitute
patible with, company trading; but an appeal to higher
is priced at from three to six times as much.
authority has been made, and it is shrewdly suspected that

ultimately cash, not principles, will carry the day. **>

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June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 37

General Medical Council. Mr. Salter's name from the Register. Rather more than

—the remainder of the afternoon tha Council sitting for
—twenty minutes beyond their time was taken up by the

case, also adjourned from last session, and postponed from

The Council Chamber at 44 Hallam Street, London, W. last May (on account of the absence of the accused), of
seemed somewhat empty when the members assembled or Arthur E. Gladstone, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of New Zealand.

—May 28, at_the opening of the 107th session. The mace the Mr. Gladstone was charged with having committed adultery

—symbol of office lay on the table, but the presidential chair and eloping with a patient, and si decree of divorce had

vacant, Sir Donald MaoAlister's term of office as repre- been pronounced in tha court two years ago. Mr. Gladstone
again did not appear, but was represented. Ultimately
sentative of the University of Glasgow having- expired.
the fiat went forth that he had been found guilty, and that
Mr. Tomes, as senior Treasurer, took the chair and wel- his name would be erased from the Register.
comed the new members. Sir Donald was nut long absent

his re-election as President was proposed by Dr. Norman

Moore, seconded by Sir John Moore, and, it goes without The Claims of Organic Chemistry.

saying, was carried unanimously, and he returned to his

.

place amid applause. No tribute to the President, said Sir

John, could be greater than his election for a fourth term Db. M. 0. Fohster, F.R.S., a director of British Dyes. Ltd..

of office the thanks which they accorded him for presiding read a. paper before the Royal Society of Arts, on May 29,
; on " Organic Chemistry in Relation to Industry." The

at the meetings should be coupled with thanks for the duties theme of tha lecture was the recognition of organic che-

he performed for tham in the interim.

President's Address. mistry as a vital factor in the successful prosecution of

His membership of the Council, the President said in British industrial enterprise. Aniline-colour manufacture

his address, dated from 1889. Sir G. H. Philipson is only one branch of organic-chemical industry, but in the

joined it in 1892, and when he died in January sense that the textile-industry depends upon it for dyes it

last ha had represented the University of Durham for js a key-industry. This country has been slow in recognis-
over a quarter of u century. His contemporary at
Cambridge, Sir Clifford Allbutt, had just retired after, ing the need for the adequate teaching of organic chemistry,

ten years' service. To fill the places thus vacated, Durham most of the professorships, except, that at Manchester, being
sent them Professor R. Howden, the accomplished editor
of Gray's "Anatomy"; -and Cambridge, Dr. Frederick G. of_ comparatively recent date. The deficiency is gradually

Hopkins, F.R.S. Sir Frederick Taylor would probably not being made good, but the disproportion compared with

be able to attend during the session on account of his health. Germany is very great. Dealing then with the claims of

When the last-named retired lrom the Presidency of the organic chemistry, Dr. Forster claimed that it offers one
Royal College of Physicians, Dr. Norman Moore was called .

to fill the place, on which honour they would all congratu- of the most attractive available agencies for cultivating

late him. Their collection of portraits, the President added, the human intelligence, for the man who devotes his life
had -been increased by the bequest of -Sir G. Philipson and
the gift of Mr. Brudenell Carter. After commenting " on to this branch of scientific study may incidentally satisfy
the effect of the war in various ways on the medical pro-
most forms of intellectual craving. The first mental demand
fession, the President went on to' say: War conditions,
which last year made it necessary to limit the use of glycerin of which we become aware is for romance, and as in some

and refined sugar in pharmacy, 'have this year forced us to respects we nearly all remain children for most of our
a like economy of fats and oils. Lard and suet must be
reserved for food; castor oil and olive oil are scarce, and lives, this need survives until death. Carefully studied, the
are required for other important uses. Representations
from the Government satisfied the Executive Committee that history of synthetic-dye manufacture, which has been more
immediate action must be taken to authorise the use of
substances other than these in the official ointments lini- than anything responsible for the development of organic
ments, etc., of the British Pharmacopoeia, 1914. After con-
sultation with the Pharmacopoeia Committee, it was decided chemistry, is highly ro?nantic. The accidental discovery
that the only way to meet the emergency was to follow the
precedent of July 1917, and to amend and alter the Pharma- of the first one by a lad of eighteen, who forthwith laid
copoeia by the insertion therein of an official leaflet, of which
notice was published on behalf of the Council, as the Act the foundation of a profitable commercial enterprise; the
directs, in the "Gazettes" of London, Edinburgh and
Dublin on March 29, 1918. Pharmacists and dispensers thus discovery of magenta in France, also fortuitous; the
obtained liberty, in making certain official preparations, to
substitute suitable bases for the fatty substances that are no dazzling prosperity of Simpson, Maule, and Nicholson: the
longer procurable.
gloomy failure of their successors, Brooke, Simpson, and

Spiller the discovery of the diazo-reaetion by a peasant-
;

student; the twenty-four hours' interval between the Caro,

Graebe, and Liebermann patent in Germany and the Perkin

patent in England for the manufacture of alizarin; the

consequent elimination of madder from among the products

of agriculture; the persistent German efforts to elucidate

the constitution of indigo and to base thereon a process for

its commercial synthesis the complete and profitable
:

triumph of these the consequent dec-ay in the cultivation
;

of natural indigo the also consequent development of the
;

ontacf-process for sulphuric-acid manufacture ; the im-
provements in the production and storage of chlorine, and

Penal Business. the diabolical misuse of this material in 1915. ar--< some of

The programme of businees intimates that the session will Athe salient incidents in the life of a great industry.

study of these, and of many more which cannot here be

be a short one. The first penal case was taken on the open- considered, a calculation of tha part which each has played,

ing day and was soon disposed of. Bertram Douglas and a. just aopreciation of the men connected with them,

Black, L.D.S., R.C.S., Clare Street, Dublin, had been would furnish material for one of the most absorbing and

accused by the British Dental Association of associating fascinating histories of triumnh and tragedy yet remaining

himself with an unqualified denti=t, David Isaacson or Davy to be written. -Systematic chemistry is" the crystallisation

(who had, moreover, been convicted of unlawfully usim' of orderliness, and it makes strong appeals to the creative

tha letters D.D.S., U.S.A.), and instinct and to the imagination. The last point was illus-
somewhat paradoxical
Davy—the of passing himself off as trated by Kekule's conception of the benzene ring and
position being maintained
of the unqualified covering the qualified. Mr. Black stated Van t' Hoff's theory of tha asymmetric carbon atom. Deal-
Dawthat he had been invalided out of the Army, and had been
driven to take a post with for a few months. He had ing with research.- Dr. Forster "referred to the developments
connection with him, and that had resulted in the production of valuable remedies in
now severed his apologised to the
the relief of human suffering The latter part of the lecture

mCouncil, promising that there should be no oaure for com- dealt with the problems of dye-manufacture and the import-

plaint future. The Council were not long in deciding ance of the production on an adequate scale of inter-

that they did not see fit to remove Mr. Black's name from mediates—the dye-maker cannot make colours when capital '
the Dentists Register. for making the necessary intermediate products is withheld
from him.

ase ' aa ourned from last session, of F. W. Salter
j Newtown,
£tij."-oRV.^C.P., Montgomery, which the Hops in German Cigarettes.—A report from Mannheim
L.R.C.S.,

Council took first on May 29, occupied only" a short time states that manufacturers appear to be confident that hop
the Ministry of National Service had brought the com-
plaint against the doctor that he had given certificates cigarettes will bo authorised for Army contracts, as sub-
enabling a man to avoid military service without seeing
aim. Professional testimony being forthcoming as to the stantial lots have been purchased for" tobaccp substitutes

in the . last few weeks.

correctness of Mr. Salter's conduct since, his own expres- German Potash Industry.— It is announced that tha
German Potash Syndicate is to continue in being till
sion of regret, and the fact that he did not give the certifi- ADecember 31, 1926.
cates without knowledge (evidenced by the discharge sinoa recent financial report of the Carls-

ot tha patient from the Army as unfit) brought the Council fund Potash Co., Magdeburg, states that its output has
fallen owing to shortage of coal and to inadequate transport -
speedily to the decision that thov did not see fit to erase
facilities, and that currant requirements cannot be met.

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38- THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST June 1. 191S

Legal Reports. its branches, including the borrowing, raising, taking up,
lending, or advancing of money, the discounting, buying
Ziiquld Eggs.—At the Westminster Police Court on and selling of and dealing in bills of exchange, promissory
notes, coupons, drafts, bills of lading, warrants, debenture*,
May 27, Mr. Cecil Chapman gave judgment in a case where certificates, scrip, and other instruments and securities, the
granting and issuing of letters of credit and circular notes,
a, local trader was charged under the Sale of Food and the acquisition, holding, issuing on commission and under-
writing of stocks, funds, shares, debentures, securities, and
Drugs Acts, at the instance of the Westminster City Council,
investments, the collection and transmission of moneys and
with selling liquid eggs containing boric acid in the pro- the management of property: also to prospect, examine,
explore, and work properties, mines, and rights, and to carry
portion of 64 gr. per lb. The case has occupied the Court on business as metal dealers, brokers, mercantile investment
and general merchants, agents and brokers, consulting engi-
for some time, and has been keenly contested. Mr. Ernest
neers, contractors, chemists, assayers, carriers, etc. R.O.,
Wilde, Iv.C, for' the defence, contended that boric acid
70 Lombard Street, London, E.C.
was the most practical preservative to employ in this case.

The Magistrate thereupon held that there was> a complete

absence of proof that the use of preservative had resulted

Hein injury to any section of "the public. dismissed the

summons, with lifty guineas costs. W. J. Bush & Co., Ltd., have declared a second interim

liquid - paraffin Patent.— At the Patent Office Court dividend of 2£ per cent. (6c?. per share), less tax, on the

on May 24, before Mr. W, Temple Franks and Sir Cornelius ordinary shares.
Dalton, an application was. made by the Hall Motor Fuel
—JOint-stock Companies. Notice is given in the " London
Co., Ltd., for a licence to use patent 11140 of 1908, which
Gazette " that the names of the undermentioned, companies
governs a process for purifying crude petroleum.- The
have been struck off the Register and the companies dis-
patent was taken out by Dr. Edeleanu, a Roumanian, from
solved : Bakelite Co., Ltd.; Dr. De Boi Co., Ltd. ; Oil
whom a German company acquired it. The process con-
Nut Kernel Extractors, Ltd. ; Reversible Bifocal, Ltd.
sists in agitating crude petroleum with liquid sulphur ;

dioxide, the result being a tasteless and odourless product, and Tropical America Copra and Produce, Ltd.

which, as liquid paraffin, is largely used in medicine. The —Swiss Chemical Dividends. The Society for Chemical

applicants had been rising a process in which fuming sul- Industry, Basle, shows a net profit of 409,000?. for the half-
year, ag-.ainst 504,000?. for the previous year, and is paying
phuric acid was used, but in view of the need for that
a dividend of 12j per cent., against 25 per cent, and a
chemical for war-purposes it was decided to experiment
bonus of 25 per cent, last year, and is also giving the share-
with the Edeleanu process. The experiments were success- holders one new share for every four shares now held.
Before the war the average profit was about 200,000?. and
ful, and it has been decided to lay down plant at once if
—the dividend 16 per cent. The Sandoz Chemical Works,
the application is granted. The process is worked under
Basle, announce a dividend of 25 per cent, and a bonus
pressure, so as not to waste the sulphur dioxide, practi-

Acally all of which is recovered. royalty of a6c?. ton was of 100 per cent.

offered. Mr. Temple Franks said the Board of Trade —National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada, Ltd. The

would consider the matter sympathetically.

report for the year ended January 31, 1918, states that, after

New Companies paying all trade expenses, salaries to directors and officers,

and Company News. providing for bad debts, as well as paying dividends on

°?,Ci means Private Company and R.O. Registered Office. the cumulative first preference shares and the 7 per eent.
'

preference shares, there is a balance of $106,838 left, equal

to 21,353''. The profits and-loss account shows thai; the

trading profit, after making provision for war taxation,

L. B. Holliday & Co., Ltd. (P.O.).—Capital 250,000?. was $2o2,580, equal to 53,954?. This result may be considered
Objects : To take over the business of chemical, colour and
dveware manufacturers, carried on as " L. B. Holliday & satisfactory when the conditions that Canada is passing
Co." at Deighton, Huddersfield. R.O., Deighton, Huddere-
through are remembered. The sales in 1917 of Montserrat

lime-fruit juice, as well as those of the company's other

field. advertised products, were very satisfactory, having in almost

Celesta Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (P.C.).— Capital 3,000?. every instance shown a substantial increase over the pre-
Objects: To earry on the business of manufacturers of and
ceding year.
dealers in all kinds of medicinal, pharmaceutical, chemical
—Smith, Stanistreet & Co., Ltd. This firm, which has
and other preparations, cordials, liqueurs, tonics, soups,
. been in existence since 1821 in the same premises at 9 Dal-
hpusie Square, Calcutta, has now been converted into a
syrups, foodstuffs, etc. Solicitors: Jenkins, Baker & Co.,
limited-liability company, the cauital being Rs. 15,00.000
17 Gresbam House, London, E.G.
of which only Rs.
Forman Wood Distillation Co., Ltd. (P.C.).—Capital (106,250?.), 5,00,000 (35,416?. 13s. Ad.) is
.

5,000?. Objects : To carry on the business of distillers and being issued to the public in the form of cumulative 7 per

carbonisers of wood (and the recovery of by-products there- cent, preference shares, the ordinary shares, Rs. 10,00,000

from), manufacturers of charcoal of any form or descrip- (70,833?. 6s. 8tf.) (fully paid), being retained by the vendors
as part of the purchase consideration. The managing direc-
tion, manufacturing chemists, wholesale, druggists, chemical
tors are Lieut. -Colonel W. T. Grice, CLE. (chairman).
manufacturers and engineers, etc. R.O., 30 Gordon Street, Mr. D. S. Richmond, and Mr. ,H. W. Thomas, all of whom

Glasgow. have been associated with the firm, first as assistants and

Zirconium Syndicate, Ltd. (P.C.).— Capital 20,000?. later as partners, for over twenty years. Incidentally, the
Objects : To exercise, develop, complete, and turn to account
certain interests, inventions, materials, and products men- business is by far the largest limited company in India
tioned in an agreement with H. E. Coley, L. Eyben, P. M.
Gotte, P. S. Nicholson & Co., and. C. Hose, to acquire any devoted to purely pharmaceutical work. Smith, Stanistreet

mines, mining rights, and metalliferous lands in Brazil or & Co., Ltd., write that " the Indian Government has at
last recognised the necessity for the encouragement of the
elsewhere, and in particular any lands containing zirconium
minerals, etc. R.O., 6 East India, Avenue, London, E.C. utilisation and manufacture of indigenous raw- materials in

Wm. Browning & Co., Ltd. (P.C.).—Capital. 21,000?. India, instead of allowing them to be exported to other
Objects: To take over_the business carried on at Albert countries for manufacture. Before the war the bulk of them
Works, Camden Town, N.W., as " Wm. Browning & Co.," went to Germany for this puipose, and after the war
there will be a very wide field for expansion for soundly
and to carry on the business of chemists, druggists, oil
merchants, drysaltery, manufacturers of and dealers* in organised firms of this nature, and considerable scope for

mineral waters, wines, cordials, liqueurs, soups, broths, the employment of capable chemists who wish to travel
restoratives, and invalid foods, etc. R.O., Albert Works, afield. The variety of work and of the problems that arise
for solution by the wholesale and manufacturing chemist
Park Street, Camden Town, London, N.W. in India (where precisely every industry is more or less
dependent on the chemist) makes work in this country
Midland Laboratory Guild, Ltd. (limited by guarantee). strenuous, but extraordinarily interesting; and for ambi-
Objects: To promote, maintain, and control research and tious young chemists with good all-round knowledge and a
other scientific work in connection with the non-ferrous capacity for sustained hard work few, if any, countries
offer such opportunities as India, which is now only com-
trade or industry, as also any other metal trade or industry
carried on by any one or more members of the company mencing to realise the opportunities and investigate the
possibilities of manufacture which have lain dormant and
for the time being, to establish, equip, and maintain
unobserved."
chemical, metallurgical,, physical, and mechanical labora-
tories, etc. R.O., King Alfred's Place, Off Broad Street, 1
Birmingham.
—Ice and Ammonia. The " Chicago Tribune " states that a
National, Metal and Chemical Bank (P.C.).—Capital
1,000,000?. Objects: To carry on, in 'the United Kingdom rise of from 50 to 60 per cent, in the cost of ice is predicted,
end any part of the world the business of banking in all on account of the United States Government requisitioning-
a large portion of the ammonia-supply.

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fey? i, wis THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 39

—I Mond. Lieutenant Francis L. Mond, Royal Field Artil-

Births, lery and Royal Air Force, was killed in action in an

Ctjtcliffe.—At 8 West Hill Place, Brighton, on May 24, air fight on May 15. Lieutenant Mond wae the eldest son
of Mr. Emile S. Mond (a director of Brunner, Mond & Co.,
<4he wife of Charles Cutcliffe, pharmacist, of a son.
Ltd.), and a grandson of the late Ludwig Mond.
Leicester.—At Shaw Lodge, Shaw, Oldham, on May 22,
—Mohley. Lieutenant John K. G. Morley, R.E., has died
ihe wife of Charles Leicester, pharmacist, of a daughter.
of wounds received in action, aged twenty-seven. Lieutenant

Morley, /who at the outbreak of war was with Mr. R. Lord

Gifford, Ph.C, Blackburn, enlisted soon after; he received

his commission in October 1916. He was a B.A. of London

Uhiversity.

Marriages. Personalities.

— —Coombes Douglas. At the Parish Church, Great Mis- Mr. C. N. Jones has been appointed general manager of
the Milton Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 125 Bunhill Row,
senden, on May 18, Lancelot, eldest son of Mr. G. J.
London, E.G.
Coombes, chemist and druggist, High Street, to Edith
Mr. A. H. Haydon, who has represented Sauthall Bros.
May, youngest daughter of Mr. R. Douglas, Great & Barclay, Ltd., for many years, has resigned his position,
and is now a private in the A.S.C. (M.T.) attached to a
Missenden. water-filtering column of the R.A.M.C.

Hunt—Castle.—At Cardiff, on May 21, Percy George Mb. William Shadforth, Ph.C, 63 Grove Road, Bow,

Hunt (representing Edward Cook & Co., Ltd., Bow, London, London, E. 3, whose vigorous protest in regard to the
Venereal Disease Act was referred to in this column a
— —E.) to Florence Belinda Castle. few weeks ago, is following up the matter with a series'
Laws Parr. At the Congregational Church, Fordham, of open letters in the " Bethnal Green News " to Sir Edwin
on May Cornwall, M.P. for N.E. Bethnal Green and Chairman of
17, by the Rev. L. Haslett, Second-Lieutenant J. J. the National Health Insurance Commissioners. That the
. letters are forcibly expressed goes without saying.

Laws, Royal Fusiliers, eldest son of Mr. John Joseph Laws,

chemist and druggist, Hampton-on-Thames, to Emily,

.youngest daughter of Mr. Parr, New Path, Fordham.

Deathso

wiiiso

Brooks.—At 46 Bradford Street, .Bolton, on April 29, Mr. Wm. Marson, J. P., chemist and druggist, Stafford,
Mr. John William Brooks, chemist and druggist, aged who died on February 14, left estate of the gross value of
forty-five. The son of a former Mayor of the town, Mr.
Brooks was well known in Bolton, and his loss will be 13,389/. 19s. 5c?.,' with"net personalty 6,477?. 14s. Id.
widely_ felt. The funeral took place at Great Lever on
May, 6. Among the numerous wreaths was one from the Mas. Frances S. Williams, Garden House, Cornwall
Gardens, South Kensington, widow of J. D. Perrins, of Lea
Bolton Pharmacists' Association; one from the Goulburn
Lodge of Freemasons, of which Mr. Brooks had been a & Perrins, sauce-manufacturers, Worcester, left estate
founder, Secretary, and Past Master; and one from the
Royal Arch Masons, of which Lodge also he had been valued at 427,691?.
' Secretary. Bro. H. P. White, chemist and druggist, was
Me. John Edwabd Bryant, 45 Kingswood Avenue,
present as the representative of pharmacy and Freemasonry.
Brondesbury, of C. H. Bryant, Ltd., manufacturing
—Kelly. At a nursing home in Cape Town, on March 15,
chemists and drug-dealers, who died on May ,27, intestate,
Mr. Samuel Kelly, Ph.C, second son of the late Professor
left property of the gross value of 36,995?. 4s. 6c?.
Patrick Kelly, Ph.C, Dublin. The funeral took place at
Maitland Cemetery, Cape Town. Mr. John Keer Forrest, Brae Lea, Austen Road, Guild-
ford, formerly connected with Sumner & Co., Liverpool,
Picton.— At Westleigh, Lower Walton, Warrington, Davy, Yates & Routledge, London, and Felton, Grimwade
& Co., Melbourne, who died on March 12, aged sixty years,

left estate valued at 1,635?. Os. 9c?. gross, with net per-

recently, Mr. John Taylor Picton, chemist and druggist, sonalty 429?. 12s. lit?.

aged seventy-five. Mr.^ Picton was a native of Warrington, Dr. Edmund Albert Letts, F.I.C., F.C.S., 6 Dunelin,
University Road, Belfast, who died on February 19, left
; personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at

and began his career in pharmacy there under the super- 2,185'. 2s. 3c?. The testator left his collection of minerals
to Queen's University, Belfast, and on the death of his
vision of his father, who carried on business with Mr. J. wife 2,100?. for the endowment of a scholarship in the LT ni-

Hatton as junior partner. Mr. J. T. Picton subsequently .

went into business on his own account in Bridge Street,

retiring about twenty years ago. He was an accomplished

vocalist and actor, and assisted in founding the Warrington versity. :

Amateur Dramatic Society, in the performances of which

he frequently appeared with distinction. He leaves a

widow, two sons, and two daughters. Business Changes.

Pimm.—At Tamworth Villa, Kimberley, South Africa, on Macandeews & Forbes, Ltd., manufacturers of " V.B.,"
March 31, the wife of Mr. R. H. Pimm (Pimm, Ltd., " B.X.," and "Apollo" liquorice, have removed to larger
premises at 2 Broad Street Place, London, E.C. 2.
chemists, Kimberley and Beaconsfield).
Mr. A. J. Spyer, pharmacist, has purchased the business
Sled on Service. of the late Mr. G. W. Benson, 146 Great Portland Street,
London, W. 1, which he will carry on' under the style and
—Black. Lance^Corporal David Black, King's Own Scot- title of Benson & Co.

_ Me. A. W. B. Scott, 38 Rue du Mont-Thabor, Paris, has
since January 17 closed the branch office whfth he had at
tish Borderers, was killed in action, on April 23. Lance- 1 Ducksfoot Lane, London, E.C No person since that date
has any authority to use his name and address.
Corporal Black was the eldest son of the late Mr. James
—Caeica Papaya. The American Consul-General (Mr. G. E.
Black, J. P., chemist and druggist, Leslie, another of whose
sons, Captain J. R. Black, M.C., is reported a prisoner of Anderson) at Hong-Kong, in a recent report to his Govern-
ment, says that there is something of a boom in the growing
war (C. & D., April 27, p. 34). of the papaw (Carica Papaya) in the Far East at present.
In the past two years there has been increased demand for
—Clark. Lance-Corporal Harry Clark, R.A.M.C., has been the fruit in Hong-Kong, and market-gardeners have com-
menced to grow it on a more extensive scale, so that
killed on' service through the action of hostile aircraft. papaws are now generally to be had at the public market
Lanee-Corporal Clark served his apprenticeship in phar- stalls. The Agricultural Department of the Canton Chris-

macy with J. Fletcher & Son, chemists, Scunthorpe. tian College has been studying the cultivation of the fruit

Jones.—Captain George F. Jones, M.C., Shropshire Light in the Pearl River delta, and has issued a comprehensive
and detailed monograph on the subject.
Infantry, has been killed in action in France, aged twenty-

six. Captain Jones was, when war broke out, an assistant

with Mr. O. R. Windemer, Ph.C, Royal Parade, Ha rrogate,
and enlisted shortly afterwards. He received his commist

sion in April 1917.

Massey.—Private Harold Massey, Middlesex Regiment,

has been killed in action. Prior to joining the Army
Private Massey was with Mr. W. Greenhaleh, manufacturing

chemist, Radcliffe.

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40 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST June 1, 1918

Trade-marks Applied for. Trade Notes.

The figures in parentheses refer to the classes in which the marks —Warnol. The retail prices of Warned have now been in-

are grouped, for a list of which, with particulars as to registra- creased to Is. 2(7., 2s. 9c7., and 4s. 9d.

tion, see " The Chemist and D.ugarist Diary," 1017, p. zzo.

Algerian Kieselsuhr is offered by Algerian Traduce:,

(From " The Trade-marks Journal," May S, WIS.) Ltd., 20 Great St. Helen's, London, E.C. 3.

"The Rito Smile" under picture of smiling- man; for chemicals The Telephone Numbers of Goodall, Backhouse & Co.,
(2). By the Molassine Co., Ltd., Tunnel Avenue, East Green- Whits Horse Street, Leeds, are now " Leeds 20435-8 " (four

wich. '.582,055. (Associated.) "ines).
" Kuranol " ; for* medicinal chemicals (3). By Roberts & Co.,
—Owbridge's Lung Tonic is from June 1 protected at face-
76 New Bond Street, London, W. 1. 380,951. By
" Kemolax jBhajib Laxative 'I ; medicinal chemicals ;alue viz., Is. 3(Z., 3s., and 5s. The opportunity has been,
for . (3).
taken of increasing- the profit to the retailer.
M. F. Pratt, 7 Wybert Street, London,. N.W. 1. 381,333.
" Paton Beand Standardised Full Opii-'m Extract"; for a phar- —Pylitna Powders. G. S. Mumford & Sons, Farvingdon
maceutical product containing- all alkaloids of opium (3). By
Road, London, E.C. 1, are offering special wholesale -prices
Society of Chemical Industry in Basic, 141 Klybeckstrasse, to chemists who will co-operate with them in pushing the-
sale of Pylitna powders. The retail price of the powder is
Basle. 381,713. (Associated.) now 5s.

" Cremamine " and " Chloracrem " ; for medicinal chemicals (3). —Arthur Berton, Ltd. In the advertisement of this com-
By Boot's Pure.Drug Co., Ltd., 37 Station Street, Nottingham.
pany which appeared in the C. & D., May 25, an error was
." PfcrLozoNE for all goods (3). By T. W. Ferguson, 335 Cath- made in inserting the old prices for carbolic tooth-powder.

cart Load, Glasgow. 381,871. for a medicine (3). By Will our readers pleas© note that the prices should have
Oval device of girl with split in head;
Daisy, Ltd., Mammoth Works, Leeds. 382,090. (Associated.) been 16s. per gross tins for. the small size and 24s. per gross
Picture of statue of man; for porcelain and earthenware (16).
for the large size?
By S. Maw, Son & Sons, Ltd., 7-12 Aldersgate Street, E.C. 1.
—Newman's Fortreviver. The success which has been
382,167. (Associated.)
attained since the introduction of Newman's Fortreviver is
"Coronoid"; for beverage preparations (42). By W. 1. Hick- so great that, owing to shortage of staff, orders are being

man, Oakleigh, Hale End, E. 4. 381,258. executed in rotation.. Until the orders on hand are com-
"Nucotol"; for animal foods, etc. (42). By John Knight, Ltd., pleted new accounts cannot be opened, but so soon as the

Silvertown, E. 16. 381,807. (Associated.) pressure is relaxed the trade will be advised-.

" Runna Foot Comfort " and facsimile signature on label Cicfa.—Capsuloids (1909), Ltd., 8a Duke Street, Man-
chester Square, London, W. 1, state in their advertisement
("Runna Foot Comfort" disclaimed), for foot-powders^ (3);
that there has not been, nor is there noiv, any shortage of
" Bidasoff," etc., and signature on label (" Ridakoff " dis- Cicfa. In cases where supplies cannot 'be obtained through
claimed), for cough-cures (3); " Dethnit Kills Nits" and the usual sources the company offer to chemists telegraphic

signature on label (" Dethnit " disclaimed), for medicated facilities for the purpose of obtaining their goods.
nit-destroyers (3) ; " Svgaroid Bbasd " and signature on
—Antiseptic Foot-tablets. Ayrton, Saunders & Co., Ltd.,
label ("Sugaroid" disclaimed), for sugar 'substitutes (42);
'- Rosella CReme de signature on label (" Rosella " 34 Hanover Street, Liverpool, in their advertisement this
Beaote " and
week, deal with their antiseptic foot-tablets, which are in
disclaimed), for toilet-creams (48). Bv P. G. Dales, 8 Barnsley
great demand during warm weather. The tablets are
Road, Stairfoot, near Barnsley. 381,399/400/936/938, 381/401 packed in neat tins, and when the tablets are dissolved "in

(associated) water an antiseptic lotion results, which has a soothing
and purifying effect.
"Suction"; for teeth-preparations (48). By J. M. Coplans,
—Price-changes. Ths minimum retail prices, which are
9 Golders Gardens, Goklers Green, N.W. 4. 382,078.
Fletjrs Enchantees," " Brise du Soir," " Les Esprits t>v also face-values, came into force on May 31 for Harvey's

Nil," " Jaddin Secret," ''Allegro," "Revelation"; for

perfumerv, etc. (48). Bv the Standard Tablet Co., Ltd., Hove.

382,433 / 702 / 703 / 704 / 705 / 706.

(From "The Trade-marks Journal," May, ,15, 191S.)

" Diomet " : for photographic developers (1). By White Band Remedies for the Horse : Harvey's Embrocation or Curb

Manufacturing- Co., Ltd., 121 Selsdon Road, South Croydon. Bottle, 3s. 9(2., Is., 21s. Harvey's Aconite Powders, 2s. 8d.,
;

380,785. 10s. 6<7. Harvey's Worm and Condition Powders, without;

"Milton" on oblon? and diamond-shaped device ("Milton' ball 3s., with ball 3s. 9(7. ; for yearlings and foals, 3s.;

disclaimed) ; for bleaehing-fluid (1) and (47), and for disinfect Harvey's Red Lotion, Is. 10(7.. 2s. 9(7., 5s. } 6(7. Edos, 3d.
in.g-fiuid (3). Bv Milton. Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 125 Bunhill ; ;

Row, E.C. 1. 382,490/492/491. (Associated.) Harvey's Hair-restoring Ointment, Is. 6d. Harvey's Physic
" Turtle " over picture of same; for chemicals (2) and for a ;

Balls, 9(7. Harvey's Koppos Powder, 5s., 10s. Harvey's
; ;

polish (50). Bv Lever Brothers, Ltd., Port Sunlight Thrush Specific, Is. 9(7., 3s. Harvey's Hoof Ointment,
;

381/492/3. (Associated.) 3s. 6(7.

" Harlet's Three Salts " with device of figure 3 and hand "wi3t"h
three fingers extended (" Harley's Three Salts" and

disclaimed); for a medicine (7>). By T. Harley, 29 High Information Department.

.Street. Perth. 381.571. (Associated.) INFORMATION WANTED.
Picture of stork standing on bottle bearing- words " The S'roRK
Postal or telephone information with respect to makers or flrsO-
Specific Civres Influenza"; for an influenza liquid medicine hand suppliers of the undermentioned artioles will be appreciated.

(3). 'By O. Teoman, 137 Half Moon Lane, Heme Hill,

S.E. 24. 381,618.

" Scurocaine Brand Pharmaceutical Product"; for a medicine

(3). By Societe Chiciinue des Usines du Rhone, 89 Rue de 88/42, "Enterprise" urethral 87/70, Liquor zirol and liq.
syringe novozirol dental anaesthetic
Miromesnil, Paris. 382,035. (Associated.)
88/46, " Thymoldinc " tooth- 89/52, Dare's haemoglobinometer.
" Anti-Gripe Boano Mixture for Babies " and facsimile signn
paste 91/51, Reeve's patent instep
ture (" Anti-Gripe " disclaimed) ; for medicines for infants 89/43, Fluid hygenique (Eady support

ailments (3). By P. G. Dales, 8 Barnsley Road, Stairfoot, Chemical Corporation) 89/46, " Cutex " : supplies here-

near Barnsley. 382,183. (Associated.) INFORMATION SUPPLIED.

" Popcorn " for an oistment (3). By T. A. Greatorex, 25 Percy Inquiries regarding the following articles have been answered.
;
Street. London, W. 1. 382.657. The information as to supply will be given to others who send a

Device with lettering " M.P." and " BriTish " (" T " and
" M.P." disclaimed), device with lettering- " ScoTland " (" T '

disclaimed), device over letter "iT" (" T " disclaimed)

for glass laboratory ware, etc. (15). Bv John Moncrieff, Ltd. stamped, addressed envelope to the Information Department, |Th*
Chemist and Dutjgoist. 42 Cannon Street, London, E.O. 4 :
,St. Catherine's Road, Perth. 381,924/5/6. (Associated.)
" Antiphlogistine,"~ 76/7 Ttadway's readv relief, 16/45
MawPicture of statue of man; for glass goods (15). By S. " Antipon," 74/15 " Ratin," 38/54

Son & Sons, Ltd., 7-12 Aldersgate Street, E.C. 1. 332,345
,

\• (Associated.) ' '

" A-Ate Brand " ever device formed of letter " A " (" A-Aye Anturic bath-salts, 72/50 Raub's eczema ointment, 58/5S-'
Brand" disclaimed): for food-substances (42). By Warrick " Borotliymol," 23/4 Rebman's lymph, 60/50

Brothers. Ltd:, 6 c Nilc Street, City Road, N. 1. 381,552 Box's giant cement, 30/36 Reducine, 59/54
(Associated.)
Bromley's talking-cards, 2/14 Spencer's asthma cure, 255/11
Picture of milestone with words " It's a Long. Long Wat " Bromo " toilet-paper, 68/66 Spencer Wells' artery forceps,

for food-substances (42). Bv South Irish Milk Co., Ltd. Conules ephederin co., 58/73 243 / 22

69 Mark Lane, E.C 3. 381,659. Cooper's cuprio test pellets for " Stannoxyl," 50/14
" Forget-Me-Not " ; for all goods (42) and for polishes (50)
sugar, 79/16 Stoedman's' soothing-powders^
By -" Forget-Me-Not " Flours, Ltd., 15 and 17 Parkinson
Corking machinery, 48/54 16/32
" Vaso Constrictine," 81/73
Street; Nottingham. 382,571, 3E1.481. (Associated.) 'Girard's toilet-preparations,
" Velvashave " ; for shaving-soap, etc. (48). By the Standard "Veldt" cream, 43/29
66/45
Vichy fruetines, 76/732
Tablet Co., Ltd., Hove. 381,684. Hall's wine, 16/45 and 61/46 "Vichy" water, 46/5
" Vitrolite," 45/31
" Lolin " and "Loo-Loo"; for all goods (48). By A. Carrera Nailing machinery, 48/54 " Wantage " crutch, 70/5

207 King Street, Hammersmith, W. 6. 382,372/374. (Asso Naldire's dog-soap, 72/50 and

ciated.) 76/734

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June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 41

Observations and Reflections. least in my neighbourhood, used mainly of whitlows in
the human subject, and of an affection of cattle resulting
By Xrayser II.
from checked perspiration, and causing soreness of the

skin and other local inflammation.

Mr. Dott's Article The Cambridge Poisoning Case

on the Qualifying examination is especially reported last week shows once
to be commended at this time, for though the percentage more the irrationality of coroners and coroners' juries
with regard to the duties of the chemist. In a case of
of passes was rather higher than usual last year, the need accidental poisoning the reflections made on the seller of
the poison might have had some relevancy ; in one of
of registered men was never so great. I am not suggesting
suicide they were simply impertinent. It is monstrous that
that the examination should be relaxed below efficiency where nobody was to blame but the victim herself censure,
even by implication only, should be passed on anybody
point, but that we cannot now afford, as perhaps we could
else.
at one time afford, a fancy standard of qualification.
The Disappearance of Saccharin
Certainly many men who are in all essentials perfectly
from chemists' shops gives
competent to exercise the calling of a chemist and drug-
the brilliant writer in "The New Statesman " who signs
gist are rejected at. every examination. The very best
himself ".Sardonyx" an opportunity for a gibe at the
assistant I ever had was ploughed over and over again, craft, of which he takes full advantage. " The chemist
and at length left the trade in disgust, and I have known . . . puts on a perfectly blank smile and says that he
cases such as Mr. Dott refers to"of men being rejected
because they had no special acquaintance with some par- has no more saccharin and can't get any. No use in-
ticular examiner's pet subject. geniously cross-examining him ! He doesn't know when he
will be able to get a fresh supply. He hasn't the slightest
A More Careful Study idea about anything at all. He exists apparently quite
content amid the most disconcerting enigmas. . . . The
of the presidential address at the annual
chemist's resolve to be an honest simpleton ties your
meeting than I was able to make last week confirms the
tongue. And you go from shop to shop. No saccharin
impression that in the art of saying nothing at great
anywhere, not even at the club. Saccharin has vanished
length and re-saying it in slightly different terms Mr. like gold in a revolution." It is all too true. But win-

White stands unrivalled among pharmaceutical orators. is it 60 ? Is there no saccharin, and if not why not ? and
what a figure for us to cut in popular estimation !
It is a most useful gift for any public speaker, and for
The Apparent Anachronism in Scott
such a Council as ours has lately been Mr. White is an
to which I called atten-
ideal President. The repetitions by which he spun out
tion in a recent note does not consist in representing
what he had to say ahout the curriculum scheme may be
Henbane Dwining as practising physic on his own account,
cited in proof; almost every statement was repeated two but in his being spoken of throughout the 6tory, by people
of all conditions, as at once an apothecary and a physi-
or three times without getting us " any forrader," and
cian. It is therefore not quite pertinent to cite the apothe-
we were left at the end precisely where we were at the
cary in the Nonne Prest's Tale in support of Scott. That
beginning. Or look at what was said of the examinations. apothecaries did prescribe and practise long before they
had any legal right to do so, or were even popularly
Mr. White admitted that he had not much to 6ay. He classed as doctors, is no doubt true. It is not, however,

had not, but he took about 500 words to say it in. * What the apothecary in the Tale referred to that prescribes for

did it all amount to? That he foresees a time when the Chaunteclere, but Dame Pertelote (I quote from Morris's

Qualifying and Preliminary examinations will have to be text, not having Skeat's at hand), and her large acquaint-

seriously considered, and when the latter may disappear ance with drugs and their uses may be taken as evidence

altogether; that the Major is not quite in touch' with the that doctoring was by no means confined to any profes-

times, and will have to be altered some time, though not sional class. This, however, does not, as I say, touch the
point. The passage .1 quoted from the Prologue seems
yet and, of course, that when the time comes the Council
; to me decisive as to the fact that apothecaries were then

will be able to deal with the matter. This is news indeed. pretty sharply distinguished from physicians by well-

Mr. White tells us he has gained his Pisgah, and the pro- instructed people.

spect thence seems to suffice him. Absit omen The Instinct of the Herd,
I says Mr. W. Trotter in his thought

The Chemists' Defence Association provoking book " The Instinct of the Herd in Peace and
War," makes man remarkably susceptible to leadership,
should have its attention but this quality in him has no sure rational basis, for
commonly the qualities upon which the authority of the
called to a notice which appears on the delivery forms leaders rests do not appeal to reason but to instinct merely.

ef several carrier companies to the effect that if goods —Fluency, a gift of dextrous and ready speech this is the

are signed for without examination, and delivery after- one indispensable requisite for statesmanship (he means.
I presume, for the politician), and if to this is added
wards proves to have been from any cause incomplete or the power of moving the feelings deeply, nothing else is

the goods damaged, the receiver has no remedy, and that neees?ary. Arduous training and knowledge of affairs may
be dispensed with, while receptiveness to new ideas is
the words "signed unexamined " have no legal force and
rather a disadvantage than otherwise, since originality
will not be accepted as evidence of default. I cannot is by most people mistrusted. " The successful shepherd
thinks like his sheep, and can lead his flock only if he
believe that this is good in law, and it ought certainly keeps no more than the shortest distance in advance." If

to be tested. In any case it is most unjust. It is quite —this is true and we need not go far for instances of its
—truth progress for us pharmacists is only possible in
impossible in a vast number of cases to keep a carter
response to pressure from below ; we must not look to our
waiting while a miscellaneous hamper of goods is being
official guides either for initiative or for ready effort.
examined he simply would not wait, and if he did an The craft itself must force the movement, but it can only
;
do so as the "herd" becomes impregnated with progres-
examination in such circumstances would of necessity be sive ideas. Here we have shown to us the need and the
more or less imperfect. Moreover it frequently happens value of the P.P.C., which exists mainly for this end, and
is the only organised force of the kind that we have.
that goods arrive before the invoice, in which case checking

is absolutely impossible. Whether the liability for

shortage or damage lies with the carrier or the sender

depends in equity upon circumstances, but liability there
must surely be, and such a notice as that referred to
ought not to enable either party to evade it.

"Felon." *

as the name for the disease in cattle for which you
gave a recipe the other week, is a very interesting word,
and, if the derivation favoured by the late Sir James
Murray is< correct, its original sense is better preserved

in this particular use than as applied to a malefactor. It

is, we are told, probably a derivative of the Latin fell—
fel, gall—and refers to the bitterness, or "venom," of
gall, the two notions being closely associated in the popular
mind. In its earliest use in medicine it meant a small

abscess, or inflamed sore in men and animals ; it is now, at

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—interested persons gave their views, and 960 separate cases as well as the means German producing-houses adopted •
to avoid the payment of income-tax in this country. The
have been dealt with not at all a bad record; and it is Report (Stationery Office, Id.) should be preserved in the
archives of every British business house as a reminder
comforting to know that although cases are still being dis- and warning for the future. It is safe to predict that
covered and brought up for consideration, their number "trade penetration," like many other German trioks, is
is not. great. In explaining the mode of procedure and
scotched for evermore.
the lines on which the Committee worked, the Report
" The Quest for Cinchona."
states that the members were almost immediately con-
The chapter thus headed in Admiral Sir Albert H. Mark-
vinced that, in cases in which businesses formerly carried ham's "Life of Sir Clements Markham " (Murray, 15s.)
on mainly for the benefit or under the control of enemy
subjects were useful and successful, it was more in the contains one of the most romantic stories in the history of

national interest to transform them into British busi- medicine, a story worthy of the pen of a poet. No single
nesses rather than wind them up. On many occasions,
therefore, they recommended that the interests should be chapter, indeed, can exhaust its interest, which begins in
vested in the Custodian for sale, and in this way a large
number of useful businesses are now being carried on in 1842, when Markham was a boy of eleven, living in his
father's rectory at Great Horkesley in Essex. At this age
British hands. When the business did not appear of he wielded a facile pen, and among the multitude of

sufficient trade importance to vest in the Custodian a literary " works " he poured forth was a history of Peru,
as well as a treatise on geography, which foretold the
winding-up was ordered. 'Sanatogen (Wulfing & Co.) is future traveller and Secretary of the Geographical Society.
cited as an illustration of a business which has passed into This natural bent was confirmed by his appointment in
his fourteenth year to a naval cadetship on board the
British hands by sale in ,the winding-up proceedings. Collingwood, in which he spent four years on the Pacific
The "naturalised subject" problem was an intricate one Station. On the voyage out he taught himself Spanish,
to deal with, and the Committee quickly came to the so that on the ship's arrival on the South American coast
conclusion that enemy subjects, who had married British he was able to converse in the language, and lost no
wives and had British-born children, who had come to opportunity of acquainting himself with the country and
this country in the 'seventies or 'eighties and had had no its people. The history of the Incas of Peru, the subject
connection with their country of origin for many years, of one of his latest books, had a special fascination for
even although not naturalised, were as much entitled to him, and he spent every moment he could snatch from
consideration as many of those who have come to England,
especially1 of recent years, and have become naturalised. his official duties in visiting the historical sites accessible

The Committee have a strong suspicion that in many to him, and in familiarising himself with their story. At
the end of two years he had definitely resolved to leave
instances British nationality has been adopted purely as the Navy (with the harsh discipline and barbarous punish-
an armour of defence, and it is not improbable that the ments of which he was disgusted) so soon as he was of an
age to act independently. In his twenty-second year,
adoption of it has been made a condition of financial having in the meantime served with credit in the Pacific,
support. ... If, however, German trade penetration is to the Mediterranean, and in the first expedition in search
be fully dealt with, some of the cases in which it is of Sir John Franklin, he obtained his father's consent to
carried on by recently naturalised Germans would seem this step, and at once proceeded to realise the dream of
his youth by starting on a journev of exploration in Peru.
to require consideration. His father gave him 500/. for the expenses of the trip,
and stipulated that he should return within twelve months.
Suspicious examples in support of this point of view are Markham had, during his winter in the Arctic, acquired
some knowledge of Quichua, the language of the Incas,
given. In considering the matter of "friendly aliens" from a grammar picked up at Lima, and had made him-
Czechs, Christian Armenians, Spanish, Portuguese and
self proficient in the literature of the subject. He took
Polish Jews, etc., a question arose as to the position of Boston in his way to the Pacific soast, for the purpose of
merchants carrying on business in Egypt. At the consulting Prescott, the historian of Peru, from whom he.
outbreak of war these were Turkish subjects, and the
question to be decided was what their nationality was got both information and advice ; and on his arrival at
after the British Protectorate was proclaimed. After .Lima on October 16, 1852, he was, so far as knowledge is

hearing various counsel it was ultimately decided that concerned, fully equipped for his undertaking. Two
after the Proclamation they became Egyptian subjects. v
In a synopsis of the businesses considered and dealt with
by the Committee there were thirty-two engaged in the months were spent at Lima in preparation for the inland
chemical trade, seventeen in the dye, colour, and varnish journey, and in December he started for Cuzco, the city
trades, seven in the optical, glass, and photographic indus- of the Incas, accompanied only by a black soldier fur-
tries, nine dealing in surgical and medical goods, and nished hy the Peruvian Government, who, however,
four in waxes and gums. These, the Report states, proved "useless, and certainly no ornament." The
journey across the Andes, always difficult, was made
have varied in importance, from the Siemens business doubly so by being undertaken at the worst period of the
with a capital employed of over 2,000,000/., and the year ; it occupied about fifteen weeks, much time being
Badische Co., Ltd., with an annual sale of 354,000/. of lost through storms of snow and rain and the consequent
dyes, to that of a tailoring business with a profit of 150/. swollen state of the rivers. At Cuzco, where he remained
for two months, Markham saturated himself with the lore
a year. of the country that had laid its spell upon him, and the
magnificent scenery of the neighbourhood increased his
In the course of the inquiry the necessity for the compul- enthusiasm for research into everything connected with
the life and histoi"y of its people. From Cuzco he mads,
sory registration of names was fully demonstrated, foreign a three-weeks' excursion into the Montana, as the forest
traders having habitually substituted British names for region on the eastern slopes of the Andes is called, and
here he had his first sight of fhe cinchona-tree. Writing
their own for the purpose of misleading the public as to fifty-eight years afterwards in his history of the Incas, he
their nationality. On one day the Committee investigated thus refers to this discovery .- " Here are seen the lovely
four cases of that kind where the firms implicated had cinchona-trees with their red-veined glossv leaves, and
lived under these aliases for years. The practice of
adopting the word " British " or some such title or name panicles of white flowers with pink laciniae, emitting a
to disguise the fact that the business is German is now
well known, and the Report comments specially on the delicious fragrance." The journey back to the coast was
remarkable extent to which German businesses were con- made by way of Arequipa, over passes from • 14,0C0 to
ducted through a British staff and by British employes. nearly 18,0CO feet high, Cuzco itself being between eleven
and twelve thousand feet above sea level. It was sev<m
Even in the case of the dye-industry the staff of chemists years after this that Markham, then an assistant in the
semployed in the important service of advising upon the
anplication of the dyes to the stuffs to be dyed were
almost entirely British, and when branches were esta-
blished in this country for the manufacture of German
patented articles they were usually British-manned. In
many of these cases, by the operation of Section 4 of the
Act. "the British managers and employes are now carrying

on the businesses on their own account, and the businesses

have become British businesses.

The methods by which German influence gained control

of certain trades carried on in this country are exposed,

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India Office, having persuaded Government to attempt the precious freight was safely shipped for Panama. There

transplantation of the cinchona to our Indian possessions, is no need to continue the story, or to retell that of

was selected for the task, with four English assistants Markham's subsequent quest for suitable sites in India and

under him. Admiral Markham writes as if he had been the planting of the trees in that country and elsewhere.

the first to propose this attempt, which is, however, not

the case^ Twenty years before Royle had made the same Names for Organic Silver Salts.
proposal, and had even named the Neilgherry Hills as a
suitable site for the trees, but nothing had come of this, There is a very large business being done in colloidal
and even the Dutch attempts to acclimatise the tree in
Java had been only a modified success. The credit of silver and organic silver salts, which are employed in
Markham's success, first- in persuading the authorities,
and then in accomplishing the work, really rests with gonorrhoea and purulent conjunctivitis. Much confusion
himself, though Royle had renewed his urgency so lately
as 1852. Markham's assistants were Dr. Spruce, then is caused, however, by the difficulty that medical men
residing in Ecuador, and Messrs. Pritchett, Cross, and
Weir. The first three of these had each a special district insist upon employing for these chemicals the trade-mark
allotted to him, and Weir accompanied Markham, the
n&mes belonging to Germans. It happens that most of
design in thus dividing forces being to secure as great a these names are applied to drugs the patents for which

variety of species as possible. Markham chose the pro- have expired; the names, therefore, should no longer be

vince of Caravaya, in the extreme south-east of Peru, on the Register of Trade-marks. We suggest that some
near the Bolivian border, as his district, his particular
object being Cinchona Oalisaya, which flourishes most in Association representative of the fine-chemical industry
that neighbourhood. Probably his was the most difficult
task of all, for one of the chief obstacles to success was should look into this matter and procure the removal
the jealousy of local Governments and people, which seems from the Trade-mark Register of these marks, so that
to have been most acute in Bolivia and along its border.
This jealousy was perhaps natural, though unreasonable the trade in colloidal silver could be carried on unfettered.
in view of the careless and wasteful manner in which the The names we refer to are :
bark had hitherto been collected by them, which
Albargine (258119), patent 23507 of 1900, expired in 1914
, Argentamin (216096J, patents 8429 of 1893 and 10845 of
1900, both expired.
threatened to lead in time to the destruction of the
forests. It is said that, as a matter of fact, Asiatic com- Argonin (183707), patent 22191 of 1894, expired 1901.
petition has proved a benefit rather than otherwise to the Ichthargan (224343), patent 14389 of 1899, expired 1906
Protargol (275299), patent 18478 of 1897, expired 1911.
Peruvian industry, as it has both stimulated the demand Sophol (264445), patent 8407 of 1906, expired 1914.
for bark and led to greater care in its cultivation and
gathering. Admiral Markham recounts most vividly the These names all require sweeping off the Register of
adventures, trials, mishaps, and final success of the Trade-marks, on which they have no business to be at
all. Medical men would then be free to name the parti-
cular form of organic silver salt which they desire to use
without implying a product of German origin. Inci-
dentally, Government Departments connected with the
supply of drugs for the Forces would be spared the
humiliation of asking quotations for German chemicals
from British merchants.

searchers. Once or twice they were temporarily incapaci- British Fine Chemicals.
tated by mountain sickness ; at one time famine threatened
to defeat them; and the lofty passes, frozen upland The " British Medical Journal," in the first of a series of
plateaus, stupendous gorges, dismal swamps, and all but articles on " British Equivalents for German Medical -

impenetrable forests ,they had to traverse would have Supplies," states that atropine, homatropine, and eserine

daunted any but the most determined spirits. To these were probably exclusively German before the war. It is

natural difficulties must be added the opposition of perhaps an excusable statement for a medical paper to

politicians and interested persons both at headquarters make, but it is interesting to note that Burroughs Well-
and on the spot, the overcoming of which required no come & Co. have made pilocarpine and its salts since 1900.

small tact and skill in dealing with men after the initial atropine and eserine since 1901, and homatropine since

difficulties of discovering the trees had been surmounted. 1905. That these were not manufactured on a small scale

The longer the quest continued the more these moral only is proved from the fact that in 1911 an order was

obstacles increased, and Markham had to hurry over his executed for 176 oz. of eserine sulphate, whilst on the"

task to prevent its being rendered abortive. He durst outbreak of war the stock of British-made atropine was

not wait until August, when the seeds are ripe, nor could over 600 oz. The manufacture of fine chemicals of all

he collect sufficient supplies of food and other necessaries kinds has been much extended in Britain since the

to enable him to go far beyond his base at Sandia. He war, but the exaggerated idea of German capabilities

mreached, however, the forest-covered valley of Tambopata, which was held in this country for many years is no

which cinchonas were found in profusion, and here he longer to be tolerated. German chemical-works were

collected several hundreds of specimens. The packing, of organised for the manufacture of poison gases in warfare,

these was barely completed when orders were' sent into and the foul reputation thus obtained will justly cling to

the district to prevent their exportation and to arrest their chemical products for all time.

Markham and his guide. He was advised by a friendly Coloured Methylated Spirits.
The Commissioners of Customs and Excise have issued
resident to destroy the bulk of his plants and content a notice which states that, owing to the difficulty of
obtaining supplies of wood naphtha, and as a temporary
himself with smuggling a few of the best specimens out war measure, the composition of methylated spirits made
on or after June 1 is to be as follows :
of the country, This he declined to do, and succeeding
in evading the person charged with the duty of stopping I. Industrial Methylated Spirits:
him, he boldly struck across the Cordilleras by a direct
compass course through the least inhabited district. Weir (a) Ordinary : Wood naphtha, 2 per cent. mineral
had already got off on the way to Arequipa with a portion ;
of the spoil; Markham, with the rest, accompanied by
only a single guide, made his way on mule-back over naphtha, ^ per cent. ; spirits, 97^ per cent. • or
an incredibly difficult country to Vilque, and thence to
{b) Special: Wood naphtha, 3 per cent.; spirit;, 97 per

cent.

the coast. Here further trouble of the same kind awaited II. Mineralised, Methylated, Spirits :
him. The plants had been packed in Wardian cases,
Wood naphtha, 5 per cent. spirits, 95 per cent., with
filled with soil to the depth of nine or ten inches, and ;

mineral naphtha i per cent, and aniline dye (methyl

were ready for embarkation, when an order was received violet) 0.025 oz. for each 100 gals, of spirits added to the
from the Minister of Finance to stop them. Markham mixture.

hurried to Lima and obtained the cancellation of this order. On and after August 1 the wood naphtha must be of such
The cases were put on a boat for conveyance to the a character that not more than 20 c.c. is required to

steamer waiting for them, but an attempt was made at decolorise a solution containing 0.5 gram of bromine, and
the last moment by some local plotters to destroy the must conform to the other prescribed tests. The special
industrial methylated spirits are intended to meet the
plants by means of boiling water. Fortunately this was

discovered in time to prevent its accomplishment, and the requirements of authorised users who satisfy the local

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June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 45

Surveyor of Customs and Excise that the presence of London Chamber of Commerce.

mineral naphtha in the spirits would be detrimental to The thirty-sixth annual report of the Council of the London
Chamber of Commerce, which has just been issued, shows
their products, and must only be supplied to customers that since the outbreak of the war the membership has
increased by nearly 2,000, while the total receipts from all
whose official methylated-spirit requisition is marked by sources during the past year amounted to 42,428;. The
report of the Chemical Trade Section is vague in its terms,
Athe proper officer with the word "special." distinct and does not indicate that anything of a definite character
had been attempted or acomplished during the past year.
account of the special industrial methylated spirits must It states, for example, that the following matters were briefly
discussed and referred for consideration to the various Sub-
be kept in the stock-book in the prescribed form ; the Sections : Suggested fiscal scheme, commercial organisation.
Government assistance to " key " industries or industries of
stock must be kept and balanced separately, and every
national importance, the unfair protection afforded by the
permit accompanying the spirits and the counterpart patent lawsto foreign holders of British patents, and co-

thereof must be clearly marked " special."* operation with trade Associations.

Duty-free Tinctures for Indian Hospitals. The Section confined to the interests of prcprietary
articles, however, affords more detailed information relating
The Governor of Bengal in Council has decided to points of interest to chemists and druggists. With refer-
that from April 1, 1918, ail firms in India which ence to the Bill introduced into the Parliament of Australia
manufacture in bond shall be permitted to issue free to amend the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act, 1905, it
of duty, upon indents of authorised officers, tinc-
^
tures and other alcoholic preparations to the charitable
hospitals and dispensaries which are admitted to the benefit is stated that this measure provided that with regard to

of the concession of duty-free spirit. This is the sub- patent medicines and foods imported into Australia the
. Governor might, by regulation, require the registration of
all imported medicines and foods, and that the proprietors
ject of a Resolution of the Finance Department of the should supply ths Minister with an exact and complete state-
Government of Bengal dated February 1, 1918, in the ment of the ingredients. Separate representations were made
course of which it is stated that in 1894 a system was to the Prime Minister of Australia, both by cable and by
inaugurated by which such charitable hospitals and dis- letter, protesting against the principle of the Bill on behalf
pensaries as were not entitled to indent for their supplies
upon the Government medical stores might obtain tinctures of the Council of the Chamber, the Manufacturers' Section,
and other alcoholic preparations at specially favourable and the Manufacturers of Infants' and Invalids' Foods Sec-
rates. The main feature of the arrangement was the grant tion. Owing to the political situation in the Common-
to Smith, Stanistreet & Co., Calcutta, of permission to wealth, no progress was made with the Bill until March 1917,
obtain free of duty the amount of rectified spirit required when a cable was received stating that Parliament had
for these preparations. Subsequently the modification was dissolved without passing the Commerce Act. Although this
introduced that that firm should manufacture the prepara-
tions under bond, but should be exempted from paying Bill has been withdrawn, it is probable that attempts may
duty on issues covered by indents from civil surgeons on be made vo introduce a -similar measure in the future, and
behalf of medical institutions to which the concession the Committee have arranged with Mr. Cuilen-Ward that

applied. Furthermore, the concession, originally applic- he will watch the proceedings in the Australian Parliament
able to charitable hospitals and dispensaries in Bengal oa their behalf, and they have also forwarded to him for
alone, was gradually extended to similar institutions in
Assam, Bihar and Orissa, Central Provinces, and the use if necessary printed statements setting out their objec-

Punjab. The Governor in Council is of opinion that the tions to either tha deposit or the disclosure of formulas. The
time has now come to re-consider arrangements made to Section learned by cable from Singapore that a Bill had
suit circumstances prevailing twenty-five years ago. The been introduced into the Legislature which would, inter ali'J,
success of the scheme then introduced was dependent upon give power to the Governor in Council to make rules
the grant of a monopoly to one trustworthy firm, but the requiring the vendor of a patent medicine to make a return
changes since made in the system of supply and the disclosing its ingredients. Urgent representations were
development of other firms of repute have now made the
maintenance of the former monopoly unnecessary. submitted to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the

Selling: Morphine to Doctors. Singapore and Penang Chambers of Commerce, and the

A Correspondent of " The Times," who states that he Governor of the Straits Settlements, Singapore, requesting

is a medical man, writes to that paper as follows : that an opportunity should be afforded to the Section to

When passing through a Northern city a few days ago scrutinise its details and to present to the Legislative Council
their reasons for objecting to the demand for formula-dis-
I was attacked by a painful illness, from which I suffer closure, or to any other clauses to which exception might
be taken. The Colonial Office cabled the Governor, and
periodically at intervals of five or six months, and for received a reply that the Governor would propose to post-
pone making regulations under the Bill until time had
which a small dose of morphia is a sovereign remedy.
been allowed for representations to be received, but in the
I at once mada my way to the shop of the principal druggist meantime it was proposed to proceed with the Bill. Early
in 1918 a Sub-Committee was appointed to prepare a state-
in the city, wrote, secundum, artem, a prescription for a ment of the objections of the Section to the disclosure or
deposit of formulas for communication to the Colonial Office,
10-minim dose of Squire's solution of the bimeconata of the Governor of the Straits Settlements, and the Singapore
and Penang Chambers of ' Commerce. Reference is also
morphia, and added my name and address and my medical
qualifications. The lady pharmacist to whom I handrd the made to the question of disclosing formulas as a condition
prescription looked at it askance, and summoned ths for Ae export of proprietary goods, the result of which
manager, who, after examining- it, asked me if the medicine was given in the C. & D., March 23, p. 42. Other matters
was for my own use. and on my replying that it was, said dea+t with included a suggested South African Bill to re-
he was sorry he could not supply me with it. If the medi-
cine was for a patient he could let me have it, but as strict the sale of patent medicines, sheep-dips, etc., medicine
it was for my own use he was prohibited from dispensing it. stamp-duty, and sample-bottles. The Perfumery Manu-
facturers' Section, of which Mr. Eugene V. Barrett is Chair-
Then follow many indignant remarks on the matter man, reports that the interests of its members had been

of some "preposterous regulation." The curious part wstched in regard to applications for the registration of
various words oi* devices, including " Idol," " Tudor Rose."
of it is that there is no such prohibition against the " Carnation," " Sandalwood," and " Souvenir." The

Wesupply of drugs to medical men. suppose that the question of the supply of spirit for the trade
became acute owing to the requisitioning by the
lady pharmacist and the manager refused to dispense Government of the whole of the production of
spirit, of the grain-distillers, but it was then found
the prescription on some personal grounds, but excessive
possible to mnke arrangements for a supply up to the end
caution should be avoided, otherwise chemists cannot of the year 1917 from other sources. The Admiralty having
. placed an embargo unon the use of rum spirit for manu-

claim to be carrying on business in the public interests. facturing-purposes, a joint meeting of the Section and of the

—Methylated Spirit Rationed. The authorities of Lemb=rg wflavouring-essence manufacturers was held, when a petition
signed and forwarded to the Admiraltv urging that thn
have reduced the amount of methylated spirit purchasable embargo should not be enforced against the rum spirit
required by the p^rfumerv and fla vouring-essenee manufac-
against a coupon from 0.5 litre to 0.25 litre.
turers. Shortly afterwards the Admiralty issued a notifica-
ACoal " Saving " in Austria.— coal " stretcher," which
tion removing the embargo in question.
was held out as securing 50 per cent, economy in coal, great

heating-power, and slow combustion, and has been sold

recently in Vienna and the provinces, has been examined

by the War Profiteering Office and found to consist of
common cooking-salt, graphite, and a few cheap chemicals.

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46 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST June 1. 191S

Association Affairs. see that their claims were made before the first day of each
month (the first claim to be made by June 1).

Wottingham.—The annual meeting of the Nottingham
Pharmaceutical Association was held on May 22, Mr. C. E.

Baling.—The annual meeting of the Ealing and District Reynolds presiding. The Council's report stated that the

Pharmacists' Association was held at Buol's Restaurant membership numbers eighty and the balance in hand is

mon May 21, the President (Mr. G. Norris) the chair. 157. 16s. The following officers were elected : President,

Mr Strickland proposed that the closing-hours for Fridays Alderman R. FitzHugh Vice-President, Mr. A. E. Beilby
and Saturdays be altered to 7 o'clock and 8 o'clock respec- ;
tively or, alternatively, that the alteration be made only as
Treasurer, Mr. H. P. Middleton Council, Messrs. Carr.
;

Ellis, Godson, Prince, Reynolds, Robson, Sergeant, and

regards Fridays. This matter was left to Mr. Strickland Turner. The sum of five guineas was voted to the Orphan

arid a small Committee to arrange. It was decided that Fund and three guineas to the Benevolent Fund.

the Association adopt the " B: & C. P." minimum retail- Progressive Pharmacy Club.—The third lecture of

price list. The Secretary presented the yearly report and the course on business' methods applied to pharmacy was
balance-sheet, and these were adopted mm. con. Mr. S.
delivered on May 14, when Mr. Herbert Skinner addressed

McKee (Acton) was unanimously elected President for the a large and appreciative audience on Scientific Method as

ensuing session. Messrs. Egan, Thompson, and Storm were Applied to Business. The subject was treated in a manner

elected members of the Committee, and the remainder of which strongly appealed to those present, and the lecturer

Athe officers were re-elected. hearty vote of thanks was left an impression that it would be for the general good

passed- to Mr. G. Norris, the retiring President for his if at some future time he extended his matter into a

year of service. Mr. Herbert Skinner, Hon. Auditor to number of lectures. At the same time, it was felt that it

the Association, in reply to several queries, supplied infor- was more than ever desirable that the whole series of

mation with regard to War Emergency Formulae and the lectures should, as early as practicable, be published in a
Areadily accessible form.
working of the Military Service Act. hearty ^vote of thanks concluded

london (W.).— The annual general meeting of the the proceedings.

Western Pharmacists' Association was held at the Restau- Practical Notes and Formulas,

rant Frascati, Oxford Street, on May 23, the President (Mr. Skin-ink for Radiography.

W. E. D. Shirtliff) in the chair. Arising out of the minutes, Captain N. S. Finzi, M.B., in the " British Medical
a question as to the sufficiency of sugar rations was raised; Journal," gives the following formula for an ink used for
it was found that the majority of the members present were marking positions on the skin of patients who are being-
receiving theirs regularly. Ten new members were nomi-
radiographed:
nated. The Vice-President (Mr. C. A. Noble) having read
reports on meetings of the London County Executive and Acid, pyrogallic 1 gram

the London Pharmaceutical Committee, it was agreed to Spirit, vini meth 10 c.cm.

ask the present members representing the Association on Liq. ferri perchlor. fort 2 c.cm.
the latter body to continue their services. The report of
-the Treasurer (Mr. H. R. Procter) showed a balance in hand Aceton. ad 20 c.cm.
.
—of 35?. 4s. 1CW. practically the same as at the beginning

of the financial year, increased working-expenses having

been counterbalanced by the curtailment of social activities. The solution is best kept in a bottle with a camel's-hair

The sum of 5/. 5*. was voted to the Pharmaceutical Society's brush attached to the cork so that it can easily be painted
Benevolent Fund. The auditors, Messrs. J. P. Ellerington
and H. Martin, were thanked for past services, and re- on. The mark is a brownish-grey at first, but after a few
elected. The General Secretary (Mr. C. H. Hampshire),
hours turns a brilliant black.
in presenting his report, announced that the Association
Converting Grains into Grams.
numbered 7 honorary and 388 ordinary members, and
called attention to the excellent work done by the sub- A Correspondent of the "Lancet," referring to the rule
district officers. The retiring members of the Committee,
" to convert grains into grams multiply the grains by
Messrs. Browne, Latreille, Melhuish, and Tocher, were re-
elected. In moving a [vote of thanks to the President for 0.0648," suggests that instead of doing- this it is better to
his services in office Mr. Melhuish made special mention
multiply the grains by 8. and 8 again, one place to the
of the silver cup presented by Mr. Shirtliff to the Bowls left, and point off four places to give the' correct answer.
For example: 12 grains to grams. That is, 12 x 8,
MaySection Sfi. <£• D., 11, p. 35); and after the President plus 96 x 8 moved one place to the left, and the sum

had briefly replied the acceptance of the cup by the Asso- pointed off four places to left, gives answer 0.7776. If there
were one or two decimal points in the original multiplicand
ciation was formally moved and agreed to. The Vice- theso would have also to be pointed off to the left. For
instance, if it had been 12.5 or 12.45 grains, the final sum
President, the four Secretaries, and the Treasurer were would have been pointed off five places or six-' places to the

accorded a cordial vote of thanks, which was duly acknow- left.
ledged. Mr. G. A. Tocher, who was specially thanked for

his assistance in National Health Insurance and other Caterpillar Attacks.
difficulties, gave a resume of the existing position in regard
to military service, warning those present against taking Dealing with the question of combating the plague of
hasty measures in case of difficulty, and making it clear
that negotiations between various interests^ affected were caterpillars, which did much damage to fruit-trees,
" Nature " concludes that the amount of loss was due

still in progress. very largely to the serious lack of labour. Many planta-

london County.— The Executive Committee of the tions have been improperly cultivated or, from lack of
London County Pharmaceutical Association met at
17 Bloomsbury ' Square on May 28, Mr. A. R. Melhuish labour, not cultivated at all. It has too often been quite

(President) in the chair. The Vice-President (Mr. Hat- impossible to spray the trees, and even last year there
field), owing to ill-health, has tendered his resignation from
were not sufficient men on many farms effectually to grease-
the Executive, and the Secretary was instructed to convey-
band them. For winter moth and its allies two methods
Mmto Mr. Hatfield the Committee's sympathy and to request
to retain office till the end of the session. The Presi- of treatment meet with complete success if properly carried
dent congratulated Messrs. Keall and Wolff on their election
out, which can only be with the necessary supply of skilled
to the Pharmaceutical Council: and Mr. Barnard hoped
that the President, though now unsuccessful, would give labour. The first is grease-banding ; the second, spraying
the Committee another opportunity to support his- candi-
with arsenate of lead where the former cannot be done,
dature. It was decided that the Central Pharmaceutical
Advisory Committee be asked to take the necessary action as on bush trees or where such pests as the clouded drab

respecting Volunteer chemists and the suggested two months' moth occur. If grease-banding on standards and half-
active service. The Secretary reported, with regard to the
sugar-supply that chemists in some boroughs had received standards is to be of any use, the bands must remain
forms of application for the period July to December next,
while others had received vouchers for supplies up to .
July 13. The reports of the Secretary, the Organisation
Sub-Committee, and the Pharmaceutical Insurance Sub- sticky from October to April, and the bands must be com-
committee were adopted. The position of chemists in
regard to military service was the subject of a long debate, plete, not, as the writer has seen this year, with many
and a short discussion followed on the rebate on" alcohol,
breaks in them. If arsenate-of-lead spraying is done,
in the course of which it was. urged that chemists should
then it must be carried out at the proper time and tho-

roughly. Many growers have sprayed when they found the

blossom-trusses going and the leaves fast disappearing.

This is too late, for the 'damage is done, 'the caterpillar

working most rapidly towards the close of its life. Apples

should be sprayed as soon as the buds are well open, and

may have to be sprayed again when the blossom-trusses

begin to expand. One good spraying as soon as the young-

" locper " larvae are seen will save the crop, while to

SDrav when all the damage is done is waste of time and

money.

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June 1, 1918 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 47

Insurance Act Dispensing. lb.; inf. calumb. (ex cone), 3s. 2c?. lb.; inf. rhei (ex. cone)'

A Record of matters concerning Chemists' interests in the National 3s. 2c?. lb. ; inf. senega? (ex cone), 7s. 8c?. lb. ; lin. methyl, sal'

Health Insurance Acts. B.P.Cco., 19s. lb. liq. arsen. et hydrarg. iou., Is. Id, lb.'
;
Reports from Local Centres.
liq. formal dehyd., 4a. Sc?. lb. liq. formaldehyd. sap., 6s. 4c?. lb. >
;

liq. hamamelidis, 3s. lc?. lb. liq. plumbi subacet. fort., 8c?. lb. >
;

lithii carb., Is. oz. ; lithii cit., Is. oz. methyl salicylas, Is. 2Jc?-
;

oz. methyl sulphonal, 8s. oz. ol. cajuput., 9s. 6c?. lb. ; ol.
; ;

caryoph., 29s. 6c?. lb. ; ol. menth. pip. (redistilled), 32s. 6ci. lb. ;

ol. morrhua? (Norwegian, 1917, opt.), 24s. 6c?. gal. ol. oliva?
;

Bournemouth.— The Insurance Committee met on (sublime), 31s. 3c?. gal. oxymel scilla-, 2s. 6c?. lb. paraff. dur.,
; ;

May 27, when payment was ordered of accounts amounting Is. 5c?. lb. paraff. liq., 2s. 10c?. lb. paraff. mol. (alb.), 2s.
;;
to 330?. 13s. 4cZ. in respect to the Drug Fund. It was agreed
lb. : paraff. mol. flaw, Is. lc?. lb. phenazon., 5s. 3c?. oz.
that chemists' accounts for April and May be paid so soon ; ;

as the figures are received from the Pricing Bureau. The phenolphthalein, 5s. 3c?. oz. plumbi acet., 2s. 8c?. lb. pot.
report on. the pharmaceutical service in the borough was ; ;

forwarded to the Pharmaceutical Committee. It was recom- brom., 14s. 3c?. lb. ; pot. fart, acid., 5s. lb. ; pulv. cretae aromat.,

2s. 3t?. lb. pulv. cretae c. opio, 5s. 10c?. lb. pulv. ipecac, co.,
; ;

14s. 2c?. lb. pulv. jalap, co.. 5s. 6c?. lb. ; sacc. lact., 6s. lb.
; ;

mended that the following Sub-Committee be appointed to sodii benz., 2s. 3c?. oz. ; sodii bicarb, (opt.) (in 28-lb. lots),

deal with questions arising out of "the ealling-up of doctors 34s. cwt. ; sodii brom., 7s. 4c?. lb. spt. rectificatus. 9s. 2c?.
;
and chemists for military service : Dr. W. Davidson, Messrs.
pint; strontii bromidum, Is. Id. oz. sulphonal, 8s. oz.
A. T. Borthwick, A. H. Millward, F. E. Bilson, and J. R. ;;
Dale. The report submitted by Mr. F. E. Bilson (the Com-
syrupus, Is. lb. syr. chloral, 6s. lb. syr. codeinae phosph.,
; ;

4s. 6c?. lb. syr. ferri iod., 2s. 8c?. lb. syr. ferri phosph. co.,
;;

mittee's representative on the South-Western Joint Pricing B.P.C, Is. 5c?. lb. syr. ferri phosph. c. quin. et strych., 2s. 6c?.
Committee) on the pricing of prescriptions for 1917 was ;

lb. syr. hypophosp. co., B.P.C, 1«. 10c?. lb. ; tab. acetanilid.,
;

adopted. It showed the average ingredient-price per pre- gr. iii., 1.35c?. per doz. ; tab. acetan. co., B.P.C, 1.92c?. per doz. ;

scription to be 3.43d. average dispensing-fee, 2.61cZ. tab. formaldehydi, B.P.C, 0.90c?. per doz. ; tab. naso-pharyngeal
;
co., 5.46c?. per doz. ; tab. sulphonal, B.P.C, gr. v., 13.86<2. per
average cost per insured person, 18.97c?. frequency per
;
doz. per doz. ; aurantii, 9s. 6c?.
insured person, 3.13. The cost of pricing was 607. 17s. M., ; tab. trinitrini, 1.29c?. tr. lb.
;

and the Clerk was instructed to call the attention of the tr. iodi fort., 8s. 4ci. lb. ; tr. zingib., 6s. 8c?. lb. ung. acid,
;

Commissioners to the continued increasing cost, and to boric, flav., Vs. 5d. lb. ung. acid, boric, B.P., 2s. lc?. lb.
; ;

inform them that the Committee consider the State grant of ung. acid, earbel., 2s. 4c?. lb. ; ung. acid, salicyl., 2s. 10c?. lb.
;

35/. towards the work is inadequate. ung. chrysarobin., 3s. 10c?. lb. ung. glyc. plumbi subacet.,
;

Burnley.—At a meeting of the Insurance Committee on 3s. 4c?. lb. ung. hydrarg. nit. dill, 2s. 8c?. lb. ; ung. hydrarg.
;

May 28, a memorandum issued by the Commissioners with oxid. flav., 2s. lc?. lb. ung. hydrarg. oxid. rubr., 3s. 6c?. lb.
;

regard to dispensing chemists and the present military ung. paraffin, alb., 2s. 6c?. lb. ung.- paraffin, flav., Is. 7c?. lb.;
;

needs was submitted, in which it was stated that in view ung. resinae, 3s. 8c?. lb. ; vinum ipegae, 4s. lb. ; zinci sulpbo-

of the Military Service No. 2 Act, 1918, the Committeo carb., 5s. 8c?. lb. Bandages : iDdiarubber (all rubber), 2i in.

should reconsider the question of the exemption of chemists, by 5 ft., 38.00c?. 25 in. by 1\ ft., 50.00c?. each; (elastic w'eb),
;

and suggested that a Sub-Committee should be appointed to 3 in., 9.50c?. per yd. Splints, arm. plain, 5.8Cc?. each. Catheters,

confer with the National Service Representative thereon. best brown gum-elastic 6.50c?. each.

It was agreed that Alderman E. Keighley, J. P., and Coun-

cillor D. D. Irving meet the local" Pharmaceutical Com- Westminster Wisdom.
mittee on> the matter, and afterwards confer with the Mili-

tary Ssrvioe Representative thereon. &By the " C. D." Parliamentary Representative.

Warwickshire.—The Pharmaceutical Committee met at

Leamington on May 22, Mr. Hutton presiding. The Clerk Parliament Reassembles.

reported a satisfactory settlement with the Pricing Bureau. Both Houses of Parliament met again on May 28 after-
In view of the national conditions now prevailing the Com-
mittee decided to remain in office for another year. Messrs. the Whitsuntide recess.
Robinson, Hutton, Price, and Nundy were elected as the
Advisory Committee to deal with all matters relating to Chemico Body-shield.

military service in the area, in consultation with the Insur- Mr. Macpherson, Under-Secretary of State for War,

ance Committee. Several cases having occurred of Gamgee replying to a question in the House of Commons on May 28,
tissue being supplied in Insurance dispensing, and dis-
allowed by the Pricing Bureau as not being included in the stated that other forms of body-armour have been found
more satisf actoi-y and have been issued in preference to

the Chemico body-shield. \

list of prescribed appliances, the Clerk had been instructed Price of Calcium Carbide.
to ask that the price of cotton-wool might be allowed.
This had been granted. The administrative expenses of the Replying to a 1 question in {he House of Commons, on
Committee for 1917 (102?. 0s. 8c2.) were formally passed, and May 28, Sir W. Evans, for the Ministry of Munitions, Stated
the estimate for 1918 (120?.) was agreed to by the Commis- that the controlled price of carbide from September 24,
sioners. The report of the Checking Bureau was satisfac- 1917, to November 20, 1917, was 25?. per ton, and from that
tory, and showed that the work of the Pricing Office was date to December 31, 1917, it was increased to 45?. per ton.
now much improved. Since January 1, 1918, it has been reduced to 35?. per ton.
It is quite true that the Acetylene Corporation of Great
May Drug Tariff. Britain, Ltd., could at one time import from Canada and

The following are the alterations for May in the Drug Tariff supply their consumers at 27?. per ton, but this was before
the heavy rise in freight. In order to meet national require-
issued by the National Health Insurance Commissioners for ments it has been necessary to place large contracts in
England and Wales : Norway, and the controlled rates were_ based on the average
price per ton of the contracts then existing, with a margin
Lower: Caffeina, 4s. 9c?. oz. paraldehyde Is. 4c?. oz. phe-
; ; to protect against possible loss in transit.

nacetin, 2s. 10c?. oz. pot. permang., 19s. lb. tab. acid, The Luxury-tax.
; ;

diethylbarb., gr. v., 20.52c?. per doz. tab. phenacetiD.,
;

gr. v., 4.56c?. per doz. ; tab. phenacetin. co., B.P.C,

5.22c?. per doz. Higher: Acetanilidum, 9s. lb.; acid, acetic, Our Parliamentary correspondent writes that the four

glacial., 6s. 8c?. lb. ; acid, boric, (crvstals), Is. lc?. lb. ; acid, Sub-Committees which have been appointed by the Select

boric, pulv., Is. 2i. lb. ; acid, -citric, pulv., 4s. 2c?. lb. ; Committee under the Budget to consider the various articles
to be scheduled as luxuries for purposes of taxation have-
aoid, tannic, 15s. 3d. lb. ; acid, tartaric, 4s. 2c?. lb. adeps held several meetings during the week. One of these deals
; with motor-cyc.les, another with draperies, a third with
furnishing and furniture, and perfumery and toilet articles,
prsep., 2s. 9c?. lb. ; aloinum, 9c?. oz. ; ammon. brom., 12s. 9c?. lb.
such as are vended by chemists and druggists are also the
amylum (maize), Is. 3c?. lb.; aq. anethi ex cone, 8s. lb. aq.
; subject of investigation. Evidence in regard to the various

anisi ex cone, 8s. lb. aq. aurant. flor., Is. lc?. lb. ; aq. carui interests involved has been taken by the Sub-Committees.
;
When the Finance Bill is before the House in the Com-
ex cone, 8s. lb. aq. cinnam. ex cone. 9s. lb. aq. foeniculi ex mittee stage Sir Charles Henry, M.P., proposes to move
; ;
that the luxury-tax shall not be charged unless the articles
cone, 8s. lb. aq. menth. ex cone, 8s. lb. aq. pimentae ex
; ;

cone, 8s. lb. ; borax pur. pulv. fin 14-lb. lots). 62s. cwt. ; ca'c.

lact., 15s. 3c?. lb.; camphora (flowers), 6s. 2c?. lb. capsular
;

creosoti m. 2, 3.24c?. per doz. chloral hydras, Is. 9c?. oz. ;
;

cocain. hydrochlor., 10s. 6c?. dr. ; conf. guaiaci co., B.P.C.,

3s. 10c?. lb. ; oonf. piperis, 4s. 9c?. lb. creosotum, 2s. 3c?. oz. ; of luxury are subject to import-duty of an amount not less
; than the amount of the luxury-tax.

dec. sars® iam. co. (es| cone), 8s. lb. ; emul. ol. morrh. c.

hypoph., B.P.C. 3s. 6rt. lb. ; emul. petrolei e hypoph., B.P.C.,

M.2s. 4d. lb. ;, ext. case sagr. liq., 3s. lb. ; ext. ergotae, 2*. 10c?. Experiments are being made, according to the " Liverpool

oz. ex*, ergot, liq., 8s. 6d. lb. ; ext. malti c. ol. morrh., B.P.C.,. Daily Post,"' to determine the manurial value of sunflower-
;

Is. 3c?. lb. ; ext. nucis vom. sice. Is. 4rf. oz. ; gent. racl. incis., stems. It is stated that their ash has a potash-content of

Is. 6c?. lb. glycer. acid, boric, 6s. 4c?. lb. hexamina, 13s."4c?. about 50 per cent.
; ;

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48 THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST June 1, 1918

Trade Report. —Arsenic. Rather wide quotations are reported. Sellers

42 Cannon Street, E.C. 4, May 30, 3 p.m. here could hardly be found at below 119?., although appa-
rently less is accepted in Northern ports, this being evi-
This has been an uninteresting week in the chemical and dently due to some extent to shipping facilities. Then
•drug markets, the great events on the Western Front
having a restraining and diverting influence on all business again, prices vary a good deal according to quantity, small
operations at the moment. Trade is also impeded by the lots of best Cornish powder commanding rather high figures
many Government restrictions on imports and exports, and up to about 124?. per ton. The tendency "is uncertain, with
" official control," which extends, octopus-like, almost daily. prices at an inflated level. Fair-sized quantities have
Consequently those factors have led to an easing-off in
values, although there is little or no replenishment of spob arrived.

stocks. No important transactions have been entered into —Aspirin. Owing to the falling-off in export business prices

for forward, or distant delivery, and this has helped the are slightly easier among dealers, but the present cost of
downward movement. The only bright feature is the possi-
bility of the renewal of business relations with Russia at an production does not seem to justify any reduction.
early date, and we understand that official steps aire
being taken on both sides to restore within well-defined —Barbitone. The fairly large supplies lately received have
limits the commercial situation, and if this should prove
successful the markets in several directions would auto- led to a slightly easier feeling at 110s. per lb.
matically improve on the resumption of exports. There is,
however, a continued lack of consistency and want of co- —Benzoates. The situation remains unchanged, but sup-
ordination in Government Departments in the granting of
licences for exportation, as we understand permission this plies of benzoic acid appear to be readily absorbed as they
week has been withheld to export several important chemical
come on offer; acid is worth 19s., and. benzoatc of soda.
products of which the stocks here are abundant. Among which is apparently being made by wholesale druggists, is

chemicals, the price of santonin has been substantially ad- worth about 20s.

vanced. Camphor has been raised 3c?. by English refiners, —Bromides. Ammonia is very scarce, and worth from
and soda tartarata is 10?. per ton higher. Aspirin, barbi-
tone, hydroquinone, methyl salicylate. pSfenazone, and 10s. 3d. to 10s. bd. potash is 10s. 6c?. to 10s. 9(2., and soda,
salicylic acid have all eased in valud Copper sulphate for
export is easier; antimony is on the firmer side; and which is a little mora plentiful, is 5)3. bd. per lb. net.
arsenic has an uncertain tendency. Reports have been
current in Mincing Lane that the Ministry of Food is to —Calcium Acid Phosphate. As already reported, the
intervene in the honey market. All stocks of cocoa-butter
in makers' and importers' hands have been taken over by makers are " fully sold," and can only offer for forward
that Department. Agar-agar is rather lower, and cassia delivery, one maker quoting 120?. to 135?. per ton for
lignea is the turn easier. Lime-juice continues in demand. November delivery. The reason leading up to the present
Quillaia is rather dearer; West Indian tamarinds are un- scarcity is the lack of the principal raw materials for making
phosphoric acid. In normal times this was largely made
obtainable.
from mineral phosphates imported from South America

and other overseas countries, also from butchers' bones from
the great beef-producing countries. " The importation of

both these raw materials has been stopped for a consider-

able time past. The only material available therefore has
been the bone supply from the abbatoirs in the United
Kingdom, and as the home-killing has been very much
reduced this shortage is likely to become even more acute

during the next month or two, especially as it is antici-
pated that the Government will take control of the supply

of bones'. It will therefore be seen that not only has the

Higher Firmer Easier Lower importation stopped but that the only substitute for the

imported raw material is very much reduced compared with
that derived from domestic sources in normal times. In

these circumstances it is easy to understand that there

should be so great a shortage in cream of tartar substitute,

Camphor Citric acid Aspirin Agar-agar and that the prices have proportionately advanced.
Lime-juice Barbitone Aspirin
(Eng. ref.) Shellac —Camphor (Refined). The English refiners have advanced
Chillies Camphor (Jap.
Ginger their prices by 3c?. per lb. to 4s. 9c7. for flowers and to
Peppers ref. slabs)
Pulv. seidlitz 1 4s. 10(7. for bells. Sellers of Japanese 2^-lb. slabs quote
Quillaia Copper sul-
Saffron phate vexpt. 1 4s. !4(Z. per lb. on the spot, and g-oz. tablets at 4s. Ad.
Santonin
Soda trs* r ata Hydroquinone —ACanary-seed. small business is passing at 215s. to 220s.
Turmeric Mace
Methyl per quarter for ordinary to good Morocco, being steady.

salicylate —Capsicums. At auction 364 bags Nyasaland sold, including

Phenazone good, 62s. bd. < fair large picked, 50s. to 55s. ; common
Saccharin
to ordinary 45s. to 49s. ; and common wormy, 42s.
Salicylic acid
Vanilla Caraway-seed has been sold at 225s. per cwt. for ordinary

Levant.
—ACassia Fistula.
limited quantity is offered at 115s.

The Drug-auctions will be held next Thursday, June 6. per cwt.

—Cassia Lignea. Sellers of whole selected quoted 90s. per

Cablegram. —cwt. on the spot.
Chillies. At auction 44 bags Nyasaland sold at from

—New Yoek, May 30. Business is quiet. Sweet oil. of 98s. to 100s. for good red, being- dearer.
Chloral Hydrate is unchanged at 13s. net in bond. Sales
birch has been advanced to $2.40. Peppermint oil in tins
of Swiss make have been made for forward delivery, but
is lower at $2.95. Cartagena ipecacuanha has advanced to supplies are inadequate to meet the demand, so that buyers

$3.00 per lb. Jalap is lower at 58c. Buckthorn-bark is would do well to cover their requirements.

dearer at 24c. and belladonna-leaves have been reduced —Chloride of Zinc. There is a fair amount of business
;

to $1.35 per lb. . doing, quotations being about 23?. 10s. to 24?. 10s., free

Acetanilide is still selling at 7 s. per lb. on the spot. —on rail makers' works.
Cinnamon Oil. Ceylon bark oil is obtainable on the
—Acetic Acid. The spot scarcity is now becoming most spot at Is. Id. per oz., at which sales have been made.

acute, and the U.S.A. seems unwilling to liberate supplies Citric Acid is in more inquiry, and the market tends

for export. firmer at 3s. 5c?. per lb. on the spot.

. Agar-agar is dull and rather cheaper on spot, with sellers Cloves.— Small sales of fair Zanzibar have been made
at 3s. 10<Z. to 4s., afloat at 3te. bd. c.i.f., and March-May
at 2s. bd. per lb. on the spot, at which there are further
shipment 3s. id. c.i.f. London.
Albumen is firm at from '4s. 3(?. to 4s. 4c?. for hen on sellers.
— ACocaine. _
spot, as to seller. Duck is 3s. Hi., and dried egg yolk small parcel of crude on the way, and will
is

2s. to 2s. Id. prime liquid white egg; is 160s. per cwt. probably be sold by private treaty. No particular demand
;
has been 6hown Sat hydrochloride during the past week,
Amidopyrin continues in fair inquiry for export at 60s.
which is explained by the fact that stocks in the hands of
per lb.
Anise is still quoted 77s. 6c7. per cwt. for Russian, but licencees are sufficient for legitimate requirements.

—no business has been reported. Cocoa-butter.—By the Cocoa -butter (Requisition) Order,
Antimony. The tone is certainly firmer, although there dated May 21, the occupier of every factory or workshop
engaged in the production of cocoa-butt=r, from the cocoa-
is not a great deal of business passing, while there are no' bean, must place at the disposal of the Food Controller the

longer anv sellers of crude at less than 45?. The difficulty whole of the cocoa-butter which he has in stock at the close
of business on 'June 29, or which is produced after that
of arranging new business for shipment seems to have a
strengthening effect. Spot supplies are restricted. Whereas date. The Order also provides for the taking over of

74?. was accepted not long ago for foreign regulus, the imported cocoa-butter.
lowest quotation is now 76?. per ton.

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