LEGAL PHARMACY.

purposes. At the time of the sale Foster kept in his place of business a registry book, in which he entered the name of the purchaser, the quantity purchased,

and Physicians.

BY L. FRANK OTTOFY, ST. LOUIS.

Kentucky.—State Law Held Not Applicable to Transportation of Liquor.-The Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad Company was indicted by the grand jury of Boyle county, charged with transporting liquor into Boyle county, where the local option law prevails, in contravention of an act of the General Assembly of Kentucky regulating the delivering and distribution of intoxicating liquors in local option districts. The liquor in question was five gallons of beer shipped from a point in Kentucky to Cincinnati and from Cincinnati to Danville, Ky. The defendant was found guilty in the lower court and fined $60. On appeal, however, the Court of Appeals found that the railroad company had committed no offense, on the ground that the transportation of liquor from one state into another is an act of interstate commerce and not subject to a state law. It further held that even if the shipment was a trick on the part of the consignor to evade the laws of Kentucky, this would have no place in the transaction so far as the carrier is concerned. The court expressed no opinion as to the validity of the consignor's act.

Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. R. Co. v. Commonwealth, 104 S. W. (Ky.) 394.

Rhode Island.-License to Sell Liquor Held to be a Prerequisite of Keeping the Same for Sale.-At the time of the complaint the defendant was a retail druggist | and registered pharmacist and had been for years prior to that time. By the general laws of 1896 registered pharmacists were given authority to sell intoxicating liquor in quantities not to exceed one pint, for medical purposes only, and not to be drunk on the premises of the seller. In 1905 a law was passed prohibiting retail druggists or apothecaries from selling or keeping for sale any ale, wine, rum or other strong malt or intoxicating liquors without first obtaining a license. At the time of the alleged offense by defendant he had no license. Large quantities of liquor were found in the rear of the drug store. The defendant was found guilty in the lower court of unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquors for sale. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the lower court, holding that the defendant had no perpetual franchise by virtue of the law of 1896 and that the finding of liquor in quantities exceeding one gallon was evidence that the same were kept for sale. State v. Collins. 67 Atlantic Rep. (R. I.) 796.

Washington. Necessity for Prescription Held Not to be Removed by Statute not Requiring License.-C. Foster, on the 20th day of September, 1906, sold to Mrs. John Kelly two bottles of malt liquor, the purchaser stating at the time that she purchased them for medicinal

pharmacy act of 1899. The sale, however, was not made on the written prescription of a reputable physician, as provided by the act of 1888, and by the ordinance of the City of Seattle, nor did Foster have a license from the city for the sale and disposal of malt liquor. In the lower court the defendant was found guilty of selling intoxicating liquor without a license in violation of the ordinance of Seattle, and he appealed. His contention on appeal was that the act of 1888 and the ordinance were repealed by the act of 1899, in as much as the last named act provided that sale of wines and spiritous and malt liquors may be made by pharmacists and druggists for medical, scientific, mechanical and sacramental purposes without a license. The Supreme Court, however, held that the act of 1899 neither in terms nor by implication dispensed with the necessity for a physician's prescription or certificate when the liquors are sold to be used for medical purposes. The judgment of the lower court was, therefore, affirmed.

City of Seattle v. Foster, 91 Pac, Rep. (Wash) 642.

Nebraska. Druggist Held Not Liable for Unlawful Sale of Poison.-F. E. Bax & Co., partners, conducted a drug store at Lexington, Neb. A clerk in the store, who was not a registered pharmacist, sold to one Roy Barron, a minor 18 years old, a bottle of croton oil containing one or two drams. The bottle containing the oil was not labeled "poison", neither was there an entry made of the sale as required by law. Barron, in order to have some fun out of the boys, as he testified, put a few drops of the oil on a piece of pie and induced another boy to eat the pie, causing him great pain, distress and sickness, from which he suffered for several days. The injured boy's father brought an action against the druggists to recover for the loss of services of his son. The action was dismissed on the ground that the unlawful act of the clerk in selling the oil was not the proximate cause of the injury. The plaintiff appealed and the Supreme Court in considering the question said that if Barron had called for some harmless article and the poison had been given him by mistake there would be no doubt as to defendant's liability. But as the boy knew what he was purchasing, and for aught shown by the evidence knew the effect it would produce, the Supreme Court held that there was an intervening independent cause of the injury, and that the drug company was not liable. The court said that the defendants may have been guilty of negligence in permitting sales by unregistered pharmacists and in making a sale of poisonous medicine to a minor, yet it cannot be said that the injury to plaintiff's son was reasonably to be expected from such a sale.

McKibbon v. F. E. Bax & Co., 113 N. W. (Neb.) 158.

A. Ph. A., Hot Springs, Ark., September 7, 1908.

Pharmacy.-(C. D. Jordan, Member in Charge.)

1. (a) What is Oil of Camphor as found in commerce? (b) What are its medicinal properties.

2. (a) What acid is obtained from Oil of Wintergreen? (b) Its medicinal value. (c) What effect has light upon it?

3. (a) What is the source of all Ammonium compounds? (b) Describe the appearance of Ammonium Carbonate. (c) Upon exposure to air and light it is converted into what? (d) What official preparation is known as "Sal Volatile?"

4 (a) What is Glycerol? (b) Define Glycerites and state their advantages. (c) What is Glyconin? (d) Its principal pharmaceutical value.

5. (a) What effect has Potassium Iodide upon the insoluble preparations of mercury? (b) Upon the alkaloids? (c) Why should Potassium Iodide and Potassium chlorate never be given internally? (d) What causes the formation of this salt?

6. Name three drugs used from the animal kingdom.

7 (a) State the different ways official syrups are prepared (b) What process is used in the manufacture of Syrup of Wild Cherry? (c) What acid does this syrup contain? (d) From what is the official Aromatic Syrup of Rhubarb manufactured?

8. (a) What are the two principal acids found in Rhubarb? (b) To what is its cathartic action due? (c) What opposite medicinal properties does it posses? (d) How may its griping effect be overcome? (e) What is Torrefied Rhubarb?

9. (a) What is the per cent of Mercury in Blue Mass? (b) In mercurial ointment?

10. (a) The basic substances found in plants are grouped together under the name of what? (b) Name two liquid ones. Prescriptions and Doses. (Herman C. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.)

1. (a) Of What is Tal. the contraction and what does it mean? (b) What is the meaning of the word, Ejusdem? (What does Alt. hor. mean? (d) Of what is O. the contraction, and for what does it stand?

2. State by the answer, yes or no, whether you would fill the following or not, and, give your reasons for same?

Sig. gtts iii in water three times a day.

4. (a) How would you prepare extemporaneously Dil. Acetic Acid? (b) Is the emulsifying of a volatile oil facilitated by the addition of a fixed oil? (c) State the most important methods of making emulsions, naming two. (d) Give one, stating which.

5. (a) Being accessible, three solutions of different strengths40 per cent., 48 per cent. and 60 per cent.-give the proportions of each you would use in making four ounces of a 50 per cent. solution. (b) How much menstruum would you add to 15 ounces of Tinct. Aconite, U. S. P. 1890, to make it meet the requirements of the U. S. P. 1900?

6. How would you prepare half an ounce of a 15 per cent, ointment from a 25 per cent. ointment of Oleate of Mercury?

7. Give the doses of the following:

(a) Tinct. Aconite

(b) Tinct. Opium Deod.

(c) Ext. Nux Vomica.

(d) Digitalin.

(e) Zinc. Sulph. (Emetic dose.)

(f) Wine of Ipecac. (Expectorant dose.)

(g) Tinct. Strophanthus.

(h) Aqua Ammonia.

(j) Podophyllum.

(k) Carbolic Acid. (Maximum dose.)

(a) R

Strych. Sulph...

Acid Arsen..

....

.001 .003

.24

.12

3 ss.

iv.

3 i.

3 iii.

(8) Give proper names of the following: Aqua Fortior, Aqua Regia, Oil of Vitriol, Litharge, and Copperas.

(9) What simple test will distinguish Calomel from Corrosive Sublimate and what is the common name of what is formed? (10) Complete the following equation AgNo3- | -NaC1= Materia Medica.-(By S. E. Bayne.)

(1.) Define Spores; Strobiles; Trichomes. (a) Hops, Lycopodium and Lupulin are official preparations from these substances -classify them.

(2) Give the official description of Water. (a),What is the maximum limit of soluble salts in 1,000 c. c.

(3) Which furnishes by assay more Colchicine-the Cormor Seed. (a) State percentage of each. (b) Dose of Colchicine in Metric.

(4) Name the official Balsams. (a) Give botanical source of each. (b) State their physical difference.

(5) Aloe-What species are recognized under the official title. (a) Describe it in its commercial form. (b) From what part of the plant obtained. (c) Dose.

(6) Give official name for Bitter Almond and Sweet Almond. (a) Are they fruits or seed. (b) A practical test for their distinction.

(7) Licorice Root-What two species are considered in the official description. (a) Which is lightest in color, and which is

sweetest?

(8) Give official description of Purified Cotton. (a) A common name for it. (b) Mention a simple test for improper purification or fatty matter.

(9) What is pancreatin. (a) Mention some of its constituents. (b) What should be its minimum starch-converting strength. (c) Dose.

(10) Give official name for Burdock Root; Pipsissewaw; Oil Sweet Birch; May Apple Root; Boneset.

CINCINNATI DEPARTMENT.

Drug Store Robber Gets Ten Years.-John Ochsner, who, with several others, held up and robbed Clerk Charles Wagner, in Davidson and Company's drug store, Covington, Ky., Fifteenth and Scott Streets, last May, was this week sentenced to ten years in the Kentucky State penitentiary on the charge of highway robbery. One of the men struck Clerk Wagner on the head with a black jack at the time of the robbery, which almost resulted fatally for him. The sentence imposed on Ochsner is the limit.

Former Expert Chemist and Druggist Dies.-In the death here a few days ago of George Espach, a city street inspector and prominent Democratic politician, there passed away another of Cincinnati's onetime prominent druggists and expert chemists. For years Espach was identified with Hellman's drug store, Sixth Street and Broadway. He filled a prescription for paregoric for a colored woman some years ago, and, instead of administering the medicine as directed on the bottle, the woman gave it all to her child, resulting in the child's death. Espach was exonorated by the coroner, but the affair preyed on his mind, and he determined to get out of the drug business. He was found dead in bed. Death is believed to have been due to heart trouble.

Parcels Post Must Not Be.-The members of the Ohio Valley Druggists Association who have arrayed themselves against the Valentine anti-trust act of Ohio, are just as hotly opposed to the proposed parcels post law. They have instituted a relentless warfare against its passage, and to this end a committee of prominent members have presented Senators Foraker and Dick and Representatives Longworth and Goebel with resolutions recently unanimously endorsed by the association, in which the association points out the evils which would result from this act if made a law. No answer has been received from any of the Congressmen as to what they intend to do in the matter, but Senator Foraker, and Representatives Longworth and Goebel will probably come to their homes in Cincinnati for Christmas, and then the O. V. D. A. committee intends to call on them and ascertain, if possible, whether they will support the druggists or whether they intend working for the bill's passage. The fight has aroused much interest among druggists here.

War Against Ohio Anti-Trust Law. The members of the Ohio Valley Druggists Association are hot on the trail of the Hamilton County members of the Ohio Legislature with the view of securing their support in having the Valentine-Stewart anti-trust law of Ohio, so amended as to nullify the law's bad effects. The druggists claim the law, as it now stands, restrains retail merchants from forming organizations to protect themselves against the encroachments of the trusts. This should not be, they claim, and they propose to have an amendment to the law passed this winter.

The movement is not for the benefit of druggists alone, but for all retail merchants in the state. Attorney and Official Organizer Harry Freking has been busy recently enlisting the aid of retailers in other branches of trade. The Cincinnati Retail Grocers' Association has assured him to its support, and he has also re ceived encouragement from the Milk Dealers' Association and the Walnut Hills and Cincinnati Business These and other organizations will toMen's Clubs. gether urge the Ohio Legislature to correct the antitrust law, as recommended by the druggists, who took the initiative along this line.

Merrell Assets and Liabilities.-George Merrell, president and treasurer of the William S. Merrell Chemical Company, which went into the hands of a receiver a few days ago, and Mrs. Cornelia Merrell, his wife, filed schedules of their individual assets and liabilities this week in the Insolvency Court here, where, following the appointment of a receiver for the firm, they made individual assignments. Mr. Merrell's liabilities aggregate $44,163.08, and his assets amount to $19,098.50. In his liabilities are included $10,000 due the American National bank, $7,500 due the Third National bank, $2,847 due the Merchants National bank, $8,150 due the Central Trust and Savings Deposit Company, and $15,000 due George Eustis & Co., all of whom hold Merrell's stock in the company and bank stock as security. His assets consist of seventy shares of Merchants National Bank stock, valued at $13,650, and 2,402 shares of common stock of the Merrell company, the value of which is not estimated. Assignee Rawson also draws attention to the fact that Mr. Merrell has a $10,000 policy on his life, which is payable to his administrator or executor, but his wife and family claim it. Mrs. Merrell owes a total of $11,070.46. It includes $7,700 owing to the Ohio Association of the New Church, of Cincinnatti, C. G. Merrell, treasurer, which is secured by a mortgage on a fine residence at 510 Hale avenue, and $2,847 due the Merchants National bank on a joint note with her husband. She has assets appraised at $51,567.25, consisting of real estate. Mr. and Mrs. Merrell are said to also be jointly liable on a bond to the American National bank to secure obligations of the Merrell company to the extent of $50,000. Parties interested in the Merrell company state that the corporation should resume operations, because developments to date show that President Merrell merely overreached himself in expanding the business, and that he has builded up a trade which promises to yield a fortune.

NECROLOGY.

Benjamin Austin Taft died at his home in Silverton, Colo., November 12, at the age of seventy years. He was born in New York and moved to Madison, Wis., while a child. He enlisted in the Wisconsin. Volunteers as a private but was soon made second lieutenant. He was wounded at the Battle of Pea Ridge. He served with Grant's army at the siege of Vicksburg. In the early 70's he left Madison and located at Silverton where he engaged in the drug business. At the time of his death he was the last of the early business men in the city. In 1880, he was married to Miss Sadie Thompson, of Rome, N. Y., who survives him. He was a prominent Mason, esteemed citizen and a valued business man. He will be greatly

missed.

George F. Barth died at his residence in Alton,

Ills., December 9. He was a native of Germany, came to this country when a young man, and, for 45 years was a resident of North Alton. He was eighty-two years of age. Mr. Barth was a highly educated, studious man, always keenly alive to the living issues of the day. He was public spirited and always ready to lend his assistance in progressive matters of local interest. He was engaged in the drug business for about thirty years, having sold out a year ago to E. A. Schaub. He came to Alton as a teacher, and for years served as Postmaster of North Alton. Mrs. Barth died about ten years ago. He is survived by a son, who is also a pharmacist and in business at Alton.

GEORGE F. BARTH.

Hamer H. Green.-Resolutions of the Chicago Veteran Druggists' Association on Hamer H. Green:

WHEREAS, Our friend and brother, Hamer H. Green, recently departed this life in the full vigor of his sterling manhood, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Chicago Veteran Druggists' Association record the sense of loss and sorrow so keenly felt by every member of the organization; that we testify our appreciation of his rare qualities of mind and heart which commended him to the respect, confidence and love of all who knew him; that we regard his civic record as again signally demonstrating the beneficent public influence of a life dominated by strength of character, courage in the performance of duty and resolute adherence to the right; that we gratefully remember his kindly manner, his sympathetic nature and tender heart, and be it

Resolved, That we feel a personal pride in the honors accorded our brother by his associates in fraternal and business life, in his record as Eminent Commander of De Nolay Commandery of Bloomington, as the Right Eminent Grand Commander of Illinois of the Masonic fraternity, as an officer of the State, as president of the Business Mens' Association of Bloomington and in the numerous other positions of honor and trust he adorned with such signal grace and ability, and be it

Resolved, That we express our admiration of his strong and

JUDGE JAMES B. BRADWELL.

Judge James B. Bradwell died at his residence in He was formerly judge of the county court and one of Chicago, Novenber 29, at the age of seventy-nine years. the most wildly known pioneer residents of Chicago in which city he located in 1834 at a time when cows were pastured on State Street. Judge Bradwell was one of the most picturesque figures in the state and one of the last of the "old guard" who have been prominent in all kinds of organizations and meetings of an historical nature. The judge was a member of the Chicago Veteran Druggists' Association and dearly enjoyed the meetings. He was one of the warm personal friends of the late Albert E. Ebert whose life work he fully appreciated. The judge was tall, of massive figure, with flowing beard and a patriarchal head which at once stamped him as a power in any work he undertook. He was an intimate friend of President Lincoln and often referred to their acquaintanceship, Mrs. Bradwell being on equally intimate terms with Mrs. Lincoln. The end came suddenly but quietly and the judge peacefully passed away as a result of acute pneumonia.