SOME U. S. P. and N. F. PREPARATIONS.

BY WM. K. ILHARDT, ST. LOUIS.

Read before the thirtieth annual meeting of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association, June 9-12, 1908.

The U. S. P. Syrup of the Phosphates of Iron Quinine and Strychnine I have found most unsatisfactory. The glycerite from which it is directed to be prepared has never in my experience, when the directions are closely followed, turned out a permanent solution. In two or three days crystallization commences and soon the preparation is a solid mass.

I have found that if the glycerin is reduced and the water increased, a permanent solution is obtained. But even then when mixed with syrup to make the U. S. P. syrup, we obtain an unstable preparation that precipitates in less than a week.

Before the Pharmacopoeia was issued we had been making this syrup according to Wyeth's formula, which we found very satisfactory.

Elixir Terpin Hydrate we found deposited large crystals even when kept in a warm place, nor would heat redissolve them. Upon examining these crystals we discovered that they were pure sugar. Ever since then we use less syrup, using about 150 Cc. instead of 200 to a 1000 of finished product, and 50 of water, and thus always have a permanent solution.

Essence of Pepsin can be greatly improved by adding charcoal, setting aside for several days with occasional agitation and then filtering. This makes a permanently pleasant preparation, with the disagreeable odor of pepsin almost entirely removed.

Gallstones for Japan. Much interest having been aroused in the announcement that a good market existed for animal gallstones in Japan, Consul-General Henry B. Miller has secured the following statement from a Yokohama firm handling this product:

Gallstones are much in favor in this country as a medicine, it being commonly believed that they possess efficacious properties when used in the treatment of diseases of children. They are classified on the market, to distinguish their origin, as oriental and occidental, the former being supposed to possess the greater virtue, and in consequence being of greater market value, though the latter also finds a ready sale at a slightly lower figure.

The value of the article varies according to its quality, size, and color. The larger the size and the brighter the color the greater the market value. Broken or cracked stones are worth only half as much as perfect ones. The minimum price for good marketable stock and the lowest valuation at which the customhouse officials here will pass the invoices is 40 yen, or $20 gold, per pound avoirdupois. From this figure the price runs up according to quality.

A small lot, if properly packed, can be sent by parcels post. To insure safe arrival each stone should be separately wrapped in cotton wool, and packed neither loosely nor tightly, but firmly, in a substantial wooden or tin box. A convenient-sized box, we find, runs about 22x3x5 inches. Insurance ought to be effected at the time of shipment, and it will be well to register the package.

[The consul-general also forwards other names of Japanese dealers in drugs, chemicals and gallstones, which may be obtained from the Bureau of Manufactures.]

Resolutions Adopted by the Section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics, A. M. A.

WHEREAS, The value of pure air, pure water, exercise, bathing and other hygenic agents and methods for the treatment of disease cannot be too strongly endorsed by the Section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics, but the use of standard pharmaceutical preparations of known and tried efficiency should not be ignored, as they constitute important adjuncts in treatment, and

WHEREAS, The neglect and indifference on the part of many practitioners to the recent great development of more exact methods of standardization as well as those of proving the purity of official medicines has seriously impeded the growth of rational therapeutics and has encouraged the use of proprietary remedies and those of unknown composition, be it therefore

Resolved, That the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics earnestly recommends and pledges its support to every welldirected effort which will aim to determine the exact value of therapeutic agents by scientific methods which will be open to all, and uncontrolled or influenced by commercial interests which sometimes benefit the individual at the expense of the many who trust the practitioner to restore them to health.

Resolved, That this Section tenders its active support to the Committee of Revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the American Pharmaceutical Association in their efforts to improve both legal standards by suggestions and recommendations to the end that both the medical and pharmaceutical professions unite in a pledge of active and continued effort in combatting danger, disease and death..

An Ancient Remedy for Smallpox.-The Lancet publishes the following seventeenth century remedy for smallpox: Among the papers of the Earl of Ancaster preserved at Grimsthorpe and just reported on by the Historical Manuscripts Commission is a letter addressed in 1648 by "Monsieur J. G." to John Pridgeon, bear-leader to the young Lord Willoughby of that day, inclosing directions for preparing and taking certain physic, a number of recipes for purges and cooling drinks, and what is described as "the Countesse of Holdernesse's receipt for the smallpox:"

"If the partie should have the smallpox, which you may guesse by his heavines, burninge and coughe, lette him lie warme in his bed but moderately, keeping his throate pretty coole, givinge him burnt wine with saffron till you see there will no more come forth. Take fresh butter, a quarter of a pound, and melt it on the fire, as much refined searved (?) through tiffeny or lawne, and beate it with a spoone till it come to be so thicke as Pomato; then take a fine feather (when it is melted) and dip it in (being luke warme) and annoynt his face and handes twenty times a day & night, nott sufferinge the party to scratch himselfe nor rubb them too hard against his pillow or anythinge else, nor to clippe them or the like, keepinge the places still annoynted till you see them shill off, alwayes being extreame carefull to keepe him in a temperate heate, but rather warme than cold, by all meanes, for if he should take cold it would endanger his life; now if he should have them in his eyes or throate, take a little brest milke, a little saffron, and a little white sugar-candy, melt them together in a saucer, and lett him swallow a little of this att a time, being warme, for his throate when you see them first appear; then take a feather and dip it in the same and draw it through his eyes lidds, and by the grace of God it will preserve his sight. To take away the holes in the face: Take the quantity of a pound of veale and putt it in some corner in a seller where it may best putrifie and breede maggotts; then take those maggotts, beinge well growne, put them on a wire and rost them before the fire, havinge somethinge to preserve the drippinges of them, which you must take and annoynt the party's pitts in his face, and it will take away the holes therein. Given by an Italian.

Hope is the dream of the man awake.—[PLATO.

EXAMINATION QUESTIONS.

Missouri Board of Pharmacy.—A special meeting was held at Springfield, August 10. Of the thirteen candidates examined the following three made satisfactory averages and were registered: Harvey Bushno, Thayer, Mo.; Harry J. Ladd, St. Louis, Mo.; and Wm. A. Salts, Bois D'Arc, Mo.

The next meeting will be held at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, 2110 Locust Street, beginning at 9 a. m., Monday, October 12, 1908, Candidates should at once address the Secretary, Charles Gietner, 203 South Broadway, St. Louis.

The following is a sample set of the written portion of the examination at Springfield. In addition to this was given a test in recognition of drugs, chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations.

1. What are (a) galenical preparations; (d) chemical preparations; (c) crude drugs; (d) official preparations?

2. What are (a) anthelmintics; (d) astringents; (c) depilatories; (d) emetics; (e) errhines; (f) laxatives; (g) tonics; (h) stimulants?

3. What are (a) cataplasms; (b) syrups; (c) ointments; (d) emulsions?

4. Give the general working formulae for making (a) decoctions; (b) fluidextracts; (c) tinctures; (d) pills.

5. The phar. directs:

Potas. Chlorate..

Hydrochloric acid...

Water a sufficient quantity to make...1000 Cc.

(a) Give name of this preparation; (b) State how prepared; (c) average dose; (d) What does it replace in the Phar. 1890?

6. (a) Give the symbol of two elements that are liquid at ordinary temperature; (b) five that are gaseous; What is (c) atomic weight; (d) molecular weight?

7. (a) Mention ten compounds containing oxygen; (b) What is the difference between oxygen and ozone? (c) What is oxidation? (d) What is hydrogen?

8. The phar. directs:

Ferrous Sulphate...

ST. LOUIS LOCALS.

E. H. Burgher, Ph. G., is a senior student in the Medical Department of the St. Louis University. Mr. Burgher has been putting in all his spare time at relief-work during his college years. He is so thoroughly competent as a pharmacist that his services are always in demand.

William F. Berryman, of St. Louis, is representing the Indemnity Exchange in the East. He is prominent in the Missouri Association and in the N. A. R. D. and has friends the country over, so we are not surprised to learn of his success in his new enterprise. Mr. Berryman has the historic instinct well developed and never misses an opportunity to hunt up interesting matters connected with the history of pharmacy in this country.

The Antikamnia Chemical Company, now located at 1624 Pine street, St. Louis, Mo., has broken ground at the corner of Pine and Fourteenth Streets for a five-story and basement building, which will be used exclusively for manufacturing and commercial purposes. It will be 81x109 feet and constructed of brick and concrete. The president of the company, Frank A. Ruf, has owned this lot for a number of years. Mr. Ruf is also a director in the Mercantile Trust Company.

Monohydrate Sodium Carb.

Clarified Honey..

Sugar...

Syrup and distilled water each q. s. to

make....

11. (1) Name the official forms of Belladonna; (2) Give alkaloidal contents of each; (3) Describe acacia; (4) Give source of acacia.

12. What is the (1) source and (2) appearance of opium; (3) what percentage of morphine should it contain? (4) Give the average dose.

13. Name five official (1) Volatile Oils and (2) Fixed Oils. (3) What is parcreatin.

14. Name a physiological antidote for poisoning by (1) aconite; (2) morphine; (3) With what poisons does albumin form compounds which are more or less inert?

15. Give average dose (1) Imf. Digitalis; (2) F. Ext. Aconite; (3) Tr. Columbo, (4) Spt. Camphor, (5) Chloroform water.

Most of our so-called troubles are misbranded.

Some of Our Young Friends Believe in Out Door Sports, one of whom we show in the picture, Geo. Coy, head clerk for L. C. Swinnen, Cherokee and Nebraska Streets. Mr. Coy is quite a hunter and fisherman and seldom returns from an outing without either game or fish.

Registered Pharmacists.-Joseph W. Askew, C. E. Cairnes, L. J. Hurwich, Arthur T. Hallahan, Wm. Kraemer, Eric P. Leischner, Milton D. Levy, Chas. W. Roberts, Roy M. Soult, Geo. H. Slack, Wm. G. Trautvetter and Gordon D. Troup, all of Chicago; and Hugh V. Burt, Rock Island; C. A. Breitling, Streator; Orel T. Davis, Mulberry Grove; and Rexford DeTomkins, Mt. Sterling.

Assistant Pharmacists.-James B. Alford, Bencel Aron, Adolph Barnbrock, James S. Brady, Alford M. Crocker, Pearl A. Cropper, Wm. E. Decker, Anna Eicher, Pinchos Gonorovsky, Clyde Gardner, Albert M. Harrison, Morris Kogan, Chas. V. Machen, Theo. B. Niesen, Hugh Reid, Clarence E. Raetz, Chas. G. Schreiber, Mel E. Williamson, Samuel Zak and M. J. Zacharias, all of Chicago and A. L. Adams, Winnetka; Foster W. Harmon, Dixon; John S. Montgomery, Elgin and Roy S. Miller, Bloomington.

Local Registered Pharmacists.-C. Leslie Wilkins, Tiskilwa. The next meeting of the Illinois State Board of Pharmacy for the examination of assistant pharmacists will be held in Chicago on Tuesday, September 22, at 87 Lake Street. On the following day an examination will be conducted for registered pharmacists. The next apprentice examinations throughout the state will be held on Friday, September 4.-[F. C. DODDS, Secretary, Springfield.

California.-At the recent examination held at Los Angeles and San Francisco the following parties were registered:

Assistants.-Elmer J. Elkington, Oswald H. C. Frisch, Edwin E. Hutching. Robert Richard Lorentz Jr., Charles J. A. Peacock, Walter W. Wehner, George R. P. Boman, Maud Anna Cuff, Peter Joseph Cuneo, Eugene C. Josephs, George Maxwell Merriken, F. B. Ackerman, Albert Blaha, Lewis A. Lodde, Frank Anthony Mayer, Judson G. Smith, Donald L. Staniford, Oswald N. Stier, E. Allen Test, Robert F. Widenmann, D. B. Dooley, J. Albert Godwin, Everett Cord Groves, C. Fred B. Klarer, William A. Lane, Harry G. Leith, Charles E. Mead, Charles F. Nunn, Andre Rouseyrol, M. D. Watters.

Licentiates.-Amile J. Arighi, Robert Hall Bearoo, Ralph Thompson Duncan, Paul J. Guedet, Albert Charles Lesher, Mabell E. Merriam, B. R. Parker, Clara A. Rees, Max H. Sobel, George A. Wilson, Frederick Arthur Abrams, F. L. Bernadas, Jonn M. Lang, Jerome A. Ludden, William Arthur Riker, D. R. Slater, James T. Armstrong, F. J. Chapman, William Lichtermann, Louis P. Orth, A. Richard Troxell, Eugene W. Avery, Daniel T. Cropp, Frank E. Elliott, Hans C. Hedegard, C. A. McHenry, Frederick G. Musso, W. Thos. Perdue, William T. Ryan, Edward J. Verdein, W. Henry White, Harold A. Babcock, John G. Flourney, Norman A. Lawson, Earl R. McConaughy, Oliver L. Scott, Max A. Simon, Henry C. Atwood, Julius P. Graf, W. E. McAfee, Roland J. Parker, Mark H. Wilson, Josephine E. Barbat, F. C. Baldwin, Bartholomew DeLucis, L. H. Fairchild, Eda V. Laini, John William Melvin, Walter H. Pancoast, Leon Missak A. Peshlian, Richard M. Salter, Nelson M. Wiegand, E. F. Ziegelmann, Chas. H. Berkley, Chester Arthur Gleiss, Frank L. Lee, Madge Pringle, E. S. Selby, Alfred Whitehead, Christian F. Bos, William R. Haigh, Frank B. Nickey, H. E. Thomas, Frederick Zeh.

Registered Pharmacists.-Theodore F. Bahr, Jersey City, N. J.; Harry Berlin, Brooklyn, N. Y.; George H. Borrowes, Philadelphia, Pa.; John L. Bradley, Elizabeth, N. J.; Cornelius Brach, Camden, N. J.; Edwin F. Champlin, Plainfield, N. J.; Ella B. Clark, Highlands, N. J.; Leo W. Creveling, Trenton, N. J.; Harvey R. Cooper, Walden, N. Y.; Giacinto Cusa, New York, N. Y.; Jacob Dultz, Newark, N. J.; Alfred W. Dunavan, Plainfield, N. J.; Guy S. Dunbar, Asbury Park, N. J.; S. A. Feinberg, New York, N. Y.; Rose Feuerstein, Philadelphia, Pa.; George B. Foster, Newark, N. J.; H. Friedland, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles R. Garrabrant, Paterson, N. J.; Samuel S. Halperin, Jersey City, N. J.; Charles N. Harr, Trenton, N. J.; Luke C. Hines, Rahway, N. J.; George S. Holland, Philadelphia, Pa.; Allyn E. Howe, New York, N. Y.; Alexander Holtxman, Jersey City, N. J.; Johiel Katzey, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Harry F. Kuhn, Bayonne, N. J.; S. F. LaPiana, Hoboken, N. J.; Silas C. Law, Orange, N. J.; Israel Lesser, Jersey City, N. J.; Cornelius Lichirie, New York, N. Y.; Nicholas G. Mariconda, Newark, N. J.; Howard B. McAllister, Trenton, N. J.; Joseph A. Ortolan, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Ernest Remley, Marshallton, Del.; Moses H. Sachs, New York, N. Y.; Frederic P. Schwieg, Newark, N. J.; John Tarahan, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Ernest A. Truitt, Wilmington, Del.; Albert VanEerde, Paterson, N. J.; Joseph Wallock, Newark, N. J.; Joseph Watman, Bayonne, N. J.; Samuel Weinberg, Atlantic City, N. J.

Registered Assistants.-Frederick H. Bohn, Beverly, N. J.; Basil B. Bruno, Long Branch, N. J.; Edward A. Burroughs, Metuchen, N. J.; George W. Kraeuter, Newark, N. J.; Joseph Menitove, Jersey City, N. J.; Spencer E. Moser, Altoona, Pa.; Walter Ruch, Woodbury, N. J.; Charles Rutkin, Newark, N. J.; William E. VanEerde, Paterson, N. J.; Herbert VanNess, Newark, N. J.

The next meeting of the board for examinations will be held in Trenton, on Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16.-[HENRY A. JORDEN, Secretary, Bridgeton, N. J.

The Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy met at Oklahoma City, July 21. Members present, W. F. Dodd, president; F. B. Lillie, treasurer; J. C. Burton, secretary. A class of twenty-four was present. The following made grade entitling them to certificates:

Registered Pharmacists—Miss Addie Doan, Goltry; Robert C. Cozine, Oklahoma City; RobertL. Eldrige, Weatherford; F. Polk Fry, Frederick; S. A. George, Sugden; Walter W. Groom, Bristow; Ed. Nix, McAlester; J. W. Shelton, Wynnewood; Robert R. Buckles, Collinsville.

Granted Registration on Diplomas-Walter W. Glymph, Atlanta, Ga., Southern College of Pharmacy; B. L. Cole, Oklahoma City, Maryland College of Pharmacy; L. N. Fenne, Crescent, Okla., N. W. U. School of Pharmacy; H. N. Paullin, Ada, O., Ohio Northern University; Wm. C. Pendergraft, Hillis, Okláhoma University; James N. Henry, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma University; Albert B. Scanlon, Assaria, Kan., Kansas University; Henry L. White, Claysville, Pa., Pittsburg College of Pharmacy; Freddie C. Feagins, Newkirk, Oklahoma University; Chas. B. Duffey, Coon Rapids, Ia.. Highland Park College; Wm. S. Horton, Fairview, Okla., Atlanta College of Pharmacy; Norman H. Cone, Jr., Tulsa, Okla., Kansas City College of Pharmacy; Joseph J. Stark, Elmwood Place, O., Cincinnati College of Pharmacy; Geo. W. Storey, Jr., Salix, Ia., Highland Park College; Chas. Herbert, St. Louis, Mo., St. Louis College of Pharmacy; Wm. J. Griffis, Eudora, Ark., University of the South, Sewanee; Thos. A. Weaver, Hackensack. N. J., New York College of Pharmacy; Wm. W. Green, Denver, Colo., Highland Park College of Pharmacy; Dowell W. McCrary, Morris, Okla., Atlanta College of Pharmacy; John T. McKinney, Tiff City, Mo., Kansas City College of Pharmacy; Arthur W. Tribby, Norman, Okla., O. N. U. School of Pharmacy; Floyd L. Swank, Norman, Okla., Olahoma University; J. A. Turner, Reciprocal Exchange.

The next meeting of the Board will be held in Mus

New Jersey.-The July examination resulted as follows:

taking the examination at this meeting can procure application blanks by writing J. C. Burton, secretary, Stroud, Okla.

ST. LOUIS LOCALS.

A. Ph. A. Members in St. Louis.-This city will be the gateway for the A. Ph. A. delegates from the East, North and the West on their way to the fifty-sixth annual convention which opens at Hot Springs, September 7. President W. M. Searby, of San Francisco, will be among the first to arrive and will spend a few days in the city. Other delegates will stop over for a few hours.

H. W. Schaum is now with Fabra in his new store at Grand Avenue and North Market Street.

L. E. Hoffman has purchased the store formerly owned by E. M. Jungbluth, at 1100 Lami Street.

J. A. Gettinger is at Hick's pharmacy, Eighteenth and Olive Streets, where he has been busy during the past summer.

E. M. Jungbluth has sold his drug store at Eleventh and Lami Streets, and is now city collector for the Pockels Paint Company.

George Jost, Ph. G., '08, has purchased the drug business formerly owned by L. C. Swinnen, Cherokee Street and California Avenue.

O. F. Wischmeyer, of 3925 Greer Avenue, has served four years at Medler's pharmacy and has determined to make the drug business his life-work.

Doctor H. C. L. Kloepper, Ph. G., is now located at 2107 Chippewa Street. We predict for him the same success in medicine that he has experienced in pharmacy.

J. Helwig, Ph. G., was missed from his post in the Southern Hotel Pharmacy for a number of days. He was at home learning how it feels to have the chickenpox.

Henry Heil, president of the Henry Heil Chemical Co., St. Louis, has decided to become a life member of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association. Thus writes Treasurer Mittelbach.

Norris B. Gregg, president of the Mound City Paint & Color Co., will be reported by Treasurer Mittelbach at the next annual meeting as a life member of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association.

The St. Louis Drug Clerks' Society gave its first informal moonlight excursion of the season on the new steamer Alton, the evening of August 20. It was a very pleasant occasion and under the direction of E. H. Kurtz.

Hon. Theodore F. Hagenow.-As predicted by the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST, Mr. Hagenow received the nomination over his five competitors for the state legislature. We are confident that he will be elected in November.

The St. Louis R. D. A. night, at the Hamilton Hotel Roof Garden, July 30, was a grand success, attended by over one hundred couple. It was a quiet, pleasant, genteel affair, which brought out the very best element in the drug trade in the city.

The Douglass Pharmacy, Belleville, Ill., has opened its doors and solicits the patronage of the residence district in the thriving Illinois town. Success is as

sured from the fact that the store management is under the direction of George Gruenewald.

Fletcher V. Johnson, president of the St. Louis R. D. A., has been quite seriously ill for some weeks past but at this writing is much improved and will, no doubt, soon be able to look after his duties as usual. His long service as president speaks plainer than words of his value in local organization work. Ira M. Clark, Ph. G.,

IRA M. CLARK.

class '07, is one of the genial members of Tower Drug Co., 2000 East Grand Ave. Mr. Clark has made a fine record in building up trade for the

firm.

Dr. C. M. Riley is now located at 523 Pendleton Ave., and is devoting his entire time to chemical work, giving particular attention to toxicology, Dr. Riley is author of a very practical work on that subject and has had much experience as an expert. He is a member of the Mo. Ph. A. and the A. Ph. A. John A. Sherman, buyer for the department of sponges and chamois, of the Meyer Brothers Drug Company, is back at his old post after several months spent with a Chicago firm. The department is being enlarged, and Mr. Sherman is giving this line of goods his best attention. His many friends are pleased to find him again located in St. Louis.