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MARKET REVIEW.

The outlook for bumper crops is sure to have an wholesome effect on Fall business, the report of crops contained in our last issue was obtained from the De

partment of Agriculture and has been supplemented by the following statement by Secretary Wilson: "So far as the South is concerned, it is quite safe to count that this nation will receive for its cotton and cotton seed, an aggregate of $800,000,000. Of this sum Europe probably will pay into the South to meet its bills for cotton, at least $500,000,000, and with such conditions there must of necessity be great business activity."

From an agricultural view point, there never has been a brighter prospect, and this has from time immemorial been considered the very foundation of prosperity, and while it is true that a presidental campaign usually has a depressing effect on general busi ness, still we firmly believe that, with the election over, all lines will be stimulated to even greater activity than has ever been known before.

The drug trade is not complaining, in fact there is an upward trend to prices, which reveals a healthy market condition, there needs be but very little readjustment of general conditions to "set off" the buying power, and inclination of the trade, which will surely come, as stocks of merchandise are low.

We append below a list of items chiefly affected since our last issue, together with current local quotations thereon.

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Quinine.-Unchanged, and an advance is not in prospect. Local quotations are: P. & W., on the basis of 100-oz. cans, 17c; M. B., 164c; 25-oz. cans, 19c; 5-oz. cans, 23c; 1-oz. vials, 28c.

Opium. Slightly easier; quotable at $5.80; Powd., M. B., $6.55; Powd., P. & W., $7.25.

Denatured. Advanced; quotable in bbls., 50c; -bbls., 54c; -gal. cans, 72c, containers inclusive. Wood, 95°.-Advanced; bbls., 49c; -bbls., 54c; 10gal. cans, 64c; 5 gal. cans, 69c, containers inclusive. Aloin. Declined to $1.24; oz., 15c.

Beans, Vanilla, Mex.-Advanced; 7 in., quotable at $5.00 to $5.25; 74 in., quotable at $5.25 to $5.50; 8 in., quotable at $5.50 to $5.75; 8 in., quotable at $5.75 to $6.00.

Berries, Prickly Ash,-Quotably lower; bags 21 to 30 to 35c in a small way.

Creosote, Wood, Crude.-Advanced 5c per gallon, quotable in bbls., 35 to 55c, as wanted.

Cocaine.-Advanced 25c per oz. and firmly held at the higher figure; in -oz. vials, $2.90; ozs., 20c per

oz. less.

Caffeine, Alkaloid.-Declined from $3.75 to $4.05. Colocynth. Quotably lower, 35 to 40c; powd., 40 to 45c.

Flowers, Saffron.-Advanced; quotable in mats at 29c, 39 to 45c as wanted.

Guarana.-Advanced to $4.75.

Glycerin.-Advanced c; quotable in 50-lb. cases at

15c.

Leaves, Henbane.-Advanced to 30 to 35c; ground, 3c higher.

Henna.-Advanced 32 to 38c; powd., 5c higher. Matricaria.—Materially higher, due to scarcity; quotable at 41 to 45c, as to quantity.

Manna. Declined to 70 to 75c.

Oil, Lemon, Reina.-Advanced, quotable in 1-lb. coppers, $1.15.

Cedar Leaf.-Advanced to 84 to 95c, as to quantity. Thyme, White.-Advanced to $1.90.

Cod Liver.-Newfoundland, quotably lower, $1.05 to $1.25, as to quantity. Norwegian, declined $1.15 to $1.35.

Bergamot, Reina.-Declined to $4.05 to $4.30, as to quantity.

Citronella.-Declined; quotable in 1000-lb. drums at 284 to 50 to 60c, as wanted.

Spearmint.-Quotably lower; $8.25 to $9.25.
Rose Geranium.-Declined to $6.25.

Orange, Sweet, Reina.-Quotably lower; $2.60 to $2.70 to $2.85.

Cinnamon, Cassia. -Declined to $1.55 to $1.75. Pennyroyal.-Quotably lower; $3.20 to $3.45. Lavender, Spike.-Advanced; $1.30 to $1.50. Linseed.-Unchanged; raw, bbls., 41c; boiled, 42c. Root, Golden Seal.-Advanced to $2.50; ground, $2.60; powd., $2.70.

Seed, Quince.-Declined to $1.00.

Glassware.- Quotable discounts unchanged; pearl ovals, case lots, 75%; 5-case lots, 75 and 5%; larger

Morphine.-Unchanged; quotable in -oz. vials, 24- quantities; 75 and 10%; Baltimore ovals, brandy finoz. boxes at $3.20; oz. vials, 20c per oz. less.

Alcohol, Grain, 188°.-Unchanged; bbls., $2.75; bbls., $2.78; 10-gal. cans, $2.95; 5-gal. cans, $2.99, containers inclusive, with the usual allowance of 10c per gallon for cash in 10 days.

U. S. P., 190°, is being offered in this market at an advance of 5c over the above.

ish, 75 and 10%; 5-case lots, 75, 10 and 5%; larger quantities, 80%; Comet ovals, 80 and 15%; 25-case lots, 85%; 50-case lots, 85 and 5%.

Window Glass. - Unchanged; quotable in this market, all single, 90 and 35%; all double, 90 and 40%. Turpentine.-Quotably unchanged; bbls., 46c; in 10-gal. cans, 57c; in 5-gal. cans, 61c, pkgs. inclusive.

COLLEGES OF PHARMACY.

The Northern Ohio D. A. met June 5, and elected the following officers:

President, J. G. Schneurer; First Vice-president, A. L. Flandermeyer; Second Vice-president, Wm. Emrich, Treasurer, E. R. Selzer, Secretary, H. V. Arny.

Toledo, Ohio, School of Pharmacy.-Following are the names of recent Ph. G. graduates:

Peter Bypowski, Toledo, Ohio; Leon Hayward, Wauseon, Ohio; Thomas Huston, Ligonier, Ind.; Erich Lembke, San Antonio, Tex.; Duane Hobart, Toledo, Ohio; John I. Heimrich, Tiffin, Ohio, Arnold Wernert, Toledo, Ohio; Eugene Schlueter, Toledo, Ohio. We also graduated two Ph. Cs: Ernst R. C. Meyer, Woodville; Ohio; Grover Cleveland Schleut, Sandusky, Ohio.

The Vanderbilt Alumni Pharmaceutical Association was recently organized by the faculty and graduates of the Department of Pharmacy of Vanderbilt University. The following officers were elected:

R. L. Eves, president, Nashville, Tenn.; S. C. Davis, first vicepresident, Nashville, Tenn.; G. M. Sadler, second vice-president, Clarksville, Tenn.; A. J. Ayers, third vice-president, Macon, Ga.; Dr. E. A. Ruddiman, secretary, Nashville, Tenn.; Miss Daisy Nickel, treasurer, Nashville, Tenn.

The Pittsburg College of Pharmacy has absorbed the Scio College of Ohio. The property has been sold outright, and Dr. James H. Beal, former dean of the Scio College, will now devote his time and energy to the Pittsburg College of Pharmacy where he has been a member of the faculty for several years past. The Scio College has always stood high in the estimation of pharmaceutical educators, and those who have diplomas from the institution are assured of recognition wherever a diploma is evidence.

College of Pharmacy of the University of Minnesota. The following named were recently graduated with the degree of bachelor of pharmacy, Ph. B.:

Dolph C. Alcott, Lakefield, Minn.; Fred W. Bowmau, Brown Valley, Minn.; John Y. Breckenridge, Pine City, Minn.; Frank A. DeWitz, Rochester, Minn,; Alvin L. Dretchko, Winthrop, Minn.; Arthur W. Eckstein, New Ulm, Minn.; Earl S. Erckenbrack, Parker's Prairie, Minn.; Bernt O. Grenvold. Kenyon, Minn.; Alfred J. Gunderson, Pelican Rapids, Minn.; George A. Holmgren, Breckenridge, Minn.; Edward P. Jones, Blue Earth, Minn.; Asa F. Kurth, Hendricks, Minn.; Ray R. Lambert, Royalton, Minn.; Arthur E. Lovdahl, Park Rapids, Minn.; Ingvald S. Pladson, Glenwood, Minn.; Richard H. Puhl, Menominee, Wis.; Ernest Stoppel, Rochester, Minn.; George C. Weber, Rochester, Minn.

Mr. Richard H. Puhl earned the highest general average and therefore, becomes the worthy recipient of a year's membership offered by the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Mr. Ernest Stoppel, having earned the second highest general average, became entitled to second honors. The roll of honor, consisting of the seven members of the class having the highest ratings, is as follows: Richard H. Puhl, general average of 91.6 per cent. Ernest Stoppel, general average of 99 per cent. George A. Holmgren, general average of 88.9 per cent. Earl S. Erckenbrack, general average of 88.6 per cent. Arthur E. Lovdahl, general average of 87.5 per cent. Arthur W. Eckstein, general average of 86.3 per cent. Fred M. Bowman, general average of 85.6 per cent.

ST. LOUIS LOCALS.

The Poison Law Must be Observed.-The police department is after pharmacists who violate the regulations. A prominent druggist was recently arrested on two charges of selling poison to a minor. We understand that other arrests will follow. The MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST has published the law in full, and warns its readers against violating the same.

Meyer Brothers Employes' Mutual Aid Association held its eighteenth annual election, July 18, with the following result:

A. C. Meyer, president; H. F. A. Spilker, first vice-president; A. M. Daniels, second vice-president; Ed N. Block, third vicepresident; E. J. Habegger, treasurer; Gus Heinz. secretary. Board of Directors.-J. Jos. Redmond, G. T. Meyer, Geo. Danner, F. A. Cooke, Jno. W. Barron, J. H. Barsachs, C. F. G. Meyer Jr., S. B. Simpson, Frank Decker.

The Public Library to be erected on the site of the old St. Louis Exposition Building, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth and Olive and Locust Streets, will be conveniently located for students of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Since the branch offices have been opened in drug stores, the pharmacists take a greater interest than ever before in the public library. Perhaps the public library officials can be induced to establish a department containing pharmaceutical works.

Bretscher-Lang.-Albert I. Bretscher, Ph. G., '03, and Miss Emma Lang, St. Louis, were married, July 1, 1908. They took a trip to the North and returned home in time for Mr. Bretscher to look after the business while A. A. Kleinschmidt, proprietor of the Southern Hotel Pharmacy, enjoys a tour of Europe. Mr. Bretscher is secretary of the Alumni Association of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, ex-president of the Drug Clerks' Society and active in the state pharmaceutical association.

G. B. Grommet is a busy pharmacist at Williams' drug store, Fourteenth and Chestnut Streets.

W. N. Pugh, Ph. G., is now in charge of the pharmacy

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department of the Deaconess Hospital, West Bell Avenue and Sarah Street.

Edmund P. Walsh, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, was at one time actively engaged in the drug business and has been an officer of the college for more than a third of a century. It is, however, at the Court House that he has been known for more than half a century. It was February 4, 1856, that he received his appointment which has been renewed by every new judge since that time. He is in charge of the transcript room and recently read an interesting paper before the circuit clerks and county recorders of Missouri in which he gave his experience of fifty years of service.

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Meyer Brothers Druggist

VOL. XXIX.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ENTIRE DRUG TRADE.

ST. LOUIS, SEPTEMBER, 1908.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter in January, 1895.

Meyer Brothers Druggist

PUBLISHED MONTHLY.

C. F. G. MEYER, PUBLISHER.

No. 9.

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general secretary of the N. A. R. D. since its organization at St. Louis, October 20, 1898. Mr. Wooten has recently assumed other duties, so that the question of his withdrawing his resignation and continuing in office is not to be considered. The meeting at Atlantic City, September 14, will have Mr. Wooten as the central figure and the position he is leaving as the main thought. No doubt cool judgment will prevail and a wise selection

be made in filling the vacancy.

Martin A. Eisele, of Hot Springs, Ark., local secretary of the A. Ph. A. for the 1908 meeting, was represented on the frontispiece of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for August.

A. Ph. A., Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., September 7.

Some People now out of work struck for shorter hours and got them.

If You Desire to Buy a Store, advertise in the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST.

If You Are Looking for a Situation, advertise in the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST.

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Price List, Drugs, Page 15. Bulletin for Buyers, Page 3. Want Advertisements, Page 1. Index to Advertisements, Page 2

Editorial

Correct as Well as Honest Labels and Price-Lists. -The Food and Drugs Act by the National Congress has been in force sufficiently long to familiarize the retail drug trade as well as the manufacturersandjobbers with the fact that an honest label is the first and prime consideration. Those manufacturers and jobbers who have complained about the annoyance and expense experienced in complying with the law should remember that it is not infrequently troublesome to be honest but that in the long run honesty is the best policy.

Those who use honest labels need not fear the law and should have the satisfaction of an easy conscience.

The manufacturers of patent medicines and proprietary preparations are amenable to the law of honesty, but need not worry about the pharmacopoeial nomenclature, or take notice of authority based on common usage in constructing their sentences in wording the titles for their medicines. In this respect each manufacturer of patent or proprietary medicines is a law unto himself and is permitted to resurrect drug names which have not been in common use since the days of the Egyptian patriarchs, or to transpose bodily into our language words now in common use among the natives of India, Africa or any other part of this world.

The manufacturers of pharmacopoeial and National Formulary preparations or chemicals and the wholesale dealers in drugs and medicines find themselves confronted with quite a different condition. Their labels must recognize the Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary, which are the standards of the federal Food and Drugs Act. The labels must also conform to modern views in botany and what are at present accepted as facts in chemistry. Colchici Radix was permissible under the U. S. P. VII, but our present Pharmacopoeia has yielded to the criticism of botanists, who have shown that Colchicum is not a root but a corm; and consequently, Colchici Cormus is the correct title. Our older readers can remember the time when "Iodide of Potash" was in good form, but the chemists now dictate that we shall say "Potassium Iodide" for reasons which need not be explained here. Language is used for the communication of ideas, and language coarse in nature, or vulgar in form, used by illiterate persons may convey ideas with as much certainty as can be done by the best of the queen's English, but it will not satisfy educated people nor persons of refinement, who demand a recognition of the rules of grammar and what custom designates as propriety. At one time in the days of "roots and yarbs" few pharmacists understood botanic anatomy or physiology, or knew much about chemistry and cared little for correct forms of expression or purity of style in labels. Since the advent of colleges of pharmacy over practically the entire United States and the

multiplication of pharmaceutical journals with their educational influence and the work of the boards of pharmacy, the newer generations of pharmacists scowl at incorrect labels and are beginning to criticise the dealers who use them. It is true, that for a generation past efforts have been made from time to time to induce manufacturers and jobbers to use correct labels. The late Dr. Charles Rice issued a small book for the use of label manufacturers, who frequently use incorrect names and murderously abbreviate pharmacopoeial titles. The A. Ph. A. has been urged to recognize pharmacopoeial nomenclature and modern botany and chemistry in its volume of proceedings. But, the time has now arrived when these requests will become them will be looked upon in pharmacy as would be a demands and the parties who neglect to recognize person using uncouth language in refined society.

The apprentices in a drug store where the clerks and proprietors do not recognize modern pharmacopoeial nomenclature are like children brought up in illiterate families. They have no difficulty in making themselves understood; but such children have a hard time of it at school trying to unlearn much they have already learned at home. They are surprised when the teacher tells them that "weuns" and "youns" are not words and should never be used as such. They are still more perplexed by the rules of grammar, but in time they become educated boys and girls and when they grow up are careful to see that their own children are correctly taught from infancy. The apprentices in some drug stores study hard and learn much, which must be unlearned before they can pass a board of pharmacy examination or graduate at a college of pharmacy. They are surprised when the board examiner or the college teacher tells them that no such article as "Gum Opium" exists, and that "Balsam of Copaiba" is not a balsam, but an oleoresin. They shake their heads when informed that they must forget such titles as "Muriatic Acid," "Oil of Vitriol", and other names which they have seen hundreds of times on the shelf bottles, drawers or package labels. If the students are of the right material they will gradually understand the situation, and after graduation be careful to properly instruct the apprentices that come under their care.

The errors in using pharmacopœial nomenclature vary in degree as much as do those grammatical mistakes we meet with in ordinary conversation. Some are blunders or blemishes, for, a pharmacist who writes a label "Chlorate of Potash" is understood as well as the clerk who refers to "the customer as was just here," when he should have said, "the customer who was just here. Some of the errors merely detract from purity of style. When the pharmacist writes "Chlorate of Potassium" instead of "Potassium Chlorate," he is like the person who in ordinary conversation uses the pronoun us in place of we, or me in place of I. Some of the mistakes are so common that they do not grate upon our nerves. It is almost second nature to say "Spirits of Turpentine," even though

the pharmacist knows full well that it is no more a spirit than it is a fluid extract or syrup and should be called "Oil of Turpentine." If it belonged to the class of spirits it would be "Spirit of Turpentine" and not "Spirits of Turpentine." This mistake is so common, even among educated pharmacists, that it passes current about as well as does that favorite expression, "awfully nice," that we so frequently hear in the drawing-room. If the party using such an expression would stop to think, she would realize that nothing

very awful can be nice. The revisors of the Pharmacopoeia have, in some instances, adopted a graceful style of nomenclature, but as a rule they have given first consideration to conformity with the sciences of botany and chemistry, and also a purity of style conforming to the pharmacopoeial definitions for classes of preparations. Some of the pharmacopoeial titles were the subject of much discussion when the revision work was in progress, and differences of opinion may still exist in regard to the propriety of some titles, but they are now adopted and must be our rule and guide. We may feel like saying "Oil of Almonds," but we cannot do so with propriety as long as the Pharmacopoeia gives the official title in the singular number, Oleum Amygdalæ in place of Oleum Amygdalarum, and the temptation to write in English "Oil of Almonds" must be resisted. When the common expression "Oil of Almonds" in place of "Oil of Almond" presists through several pharmacopoeial decades, we must not be surprised to find pharmacists slow in adopting such minor changes as "Tincture of Arnica" in place of "Tincture of Arnica Flowers," the latter having been discarded by the U. S. P. VIII, for the reason that we now have but one Tincture of Arnica official and it is no longer necessary to designate in the title the part of the plant from which it is made. It is still correct to label the preparation from the root. "Tincture of Arnica Root," but "Tincture of Arnica" is in the eyes of the pharmacists and in the mind of the Courts made from the Arnica Flowers, for the Courts must recognize the pharmacopoeial titles.

in general discard incorrect nomenclature, the same as our public schools endeavor to eliminate what has been so aptly called "English as she is spoke." We cannot fully agree with our correspondent when he speaks of these incorrect titles as obsolete names. They should be obsolete and by united action the pharmacists of this country can make them obsolete, but at present such names are very much in evidence.

packages is for the purpose of identifying the contents, and each label can be made so complete that it druggist who still speaks of "Gum Guaiac," and to will reveal the identity to the college graduate, to the the customer who recognizes "Ammonium Chloride" by no other name than "Sal Ammoniac." Labels can be made of real educational value when the pharmacopœial or National Formulary name is given first position and other names secondary or third place. Dr. Bond's criticism of the average label is timely and should be heeded by the jobbing trade in general.

The use of labels on bottles, cartons, boxes and

It is pleasing to note that a local house, years ago, recognized the educational value of a properly constructed label, and the desirability of adopting pharmacopoeial nomenclature long before the appearance of the U. S. P. VIII. The labels of this firm designated "Gum Arabic" as "Acacia" and "Muriatic Acid" as "Acidium Hydrochloricum," and "Sulphuric Ether," as "Aether." Each label bore the common name as the means of identification for those who did not understand the pharmacopoeial titles. When the U. S. P. VIII made its appearance the firm promptly revised the entire list of labels for official preparations, which required changes. The same firm was a pioneer in introducing the honest labels. It distinguished between the true article and the cheap substitutes, at a time when it was a common practice for jobbers to sell "Oil of Peach Kernel" for the "Expressed Oil of Sweet Almond," and "Oil of Birch" for "Oil of Wintergreen;" and it is difficult to say just what, for "Oil of Sandal." This was long before the days when the agitation began in favor of pure food and drugs legislation. The practice of this firm in using honest labels was so general that when the federal Food and Drugs Act became a law, the correctness of its labels was confirmed. The only changes in labeling found necessary were of a technical nature and required by special provisions of the law, such as stating the amount of alcohol in medicines, and the content of specific drugs (enumerated in Section 8, paragraph 2 of the Act) in preparations. The purity of the drugs and chemicals supplied, as represented by the label, phar-charged. This firm can truthfully say: "We have could not be questioned, misbranding could not be preached and practiced 'Purity is the first consideration' for years. Goods bearing our label we have always guaranteed and we shall continue to do so."

Our attention has been called to this subject at the present time by a communication from Dr. J. B. Bond, Sr., which appears on page 240 of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for August. Doctor Bond is old in years as we measure human life, but he is young in thought and spirit and realizes that progress is found in pharmacy as well as in other arts and sciences. We surmise that the doctor remembers the time when music was spelled “musick,” but he does not forget to spell glycerin without the usual final “e”. We agree with our correspondent that price-lists should conform to pharmacopoeial nomenclature and to modern maceutical ideas, and we have pointed out that manufacturers and jobbers should use correct as well as honest labels. The boards of pharmacy should insist upon candidates for examination being posted on pharmacopoeial nomenclature. The A. Ph. A. and the N. A. R. D. should use the widespread influence of their organizations, in an effort to have pharmacists

The Offer List number of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST will be published in October, 1908, as the twenty-second annual issue.

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