OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT. They Met and United.-Oklahoma and Indian Territory Pharmaceutical Association met in Guthrie, Okla., December 10, 1907, at the Ione Hotel for the purpose of amalgamating the two associations into one State Association. The following officers were elected: President-E. K. McGinnis, Sulphur. First Vice-President-Robert Scott, Oklahoma. A Constitution and By-Laws were adopted, and the affairs of the association will be looked after by an executive council. Pharmacy, Valparaiso, Ind.; Joseph Yates Marsden, Battle Creek, Mich., Northern College of Pharmacy, Manchester, England; Emil Shebler, Archibold, O., Ohio Northern University, Ada, O.; Odis O. Benson, Sacred Heart, Minn., Ohio Northern University, Ada O.; Geo. W. Wagner, Glenside, Penn., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Penn. The next meeting will be held in McAlester, Okla., on April 14, 1908. Application blanks and full information can be had by writing.-[J. C. BURTON, Secretary, Stroud, Oklahoma. The Slack Hand Man. "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand. -[SOLOMON'S PROVERBS. Ever notice these slack-handed merchants? Careless about everything. Had rather give a customer a little too much sugar than carry it back to the barrel. Are not very particular about anything. Forget to charge items in many instances; put the proceeds of a sale in their pockets, rather than cross the room to cash register. In addition to being a good business man, Solomon must have been an expert fisherman. His slack-hand proverb is essentially a fishing term. You cannot A new proposed Pharmacy law was adopted and legislative committee appointed to get its passage.the The committee on resolutions reported as against the establishment of parcel post and promiscuous selling of cocaine, morphine and other habit forming drugs; and in support of the N. A. R, D. and in favor of the legislature allowing Oklahoma wholesale druggists to furnish retail druggists with alcohol for medical, mechanical and manufacturing purposes in limited quantities and under reasonable restrictions. Sixty charter members were enrolled, and it is thought that at least 300 more will join before the meeting at Sulphur next spring. Considering the busy season the meeting was well attended. Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy -The Board met in regular quarterly session on the 14th day of January, 1908 at Oklahoma City. catch fish with a slack line. You must have it taut. Solomon had seen fellows sitting on the bank fishing with a slack line, the ends of their poles dipping in the water-half asleep, perhaps. He knew they couldn't catch any fish that way, and when he wanted to tell the business men about him that they must be alive and alert, he just summed up the whole situation in the remark, "he becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand." He that dealeth with a slack hand is never certain of anything. He "guesses" that he doesn't need anything when the representative calls. He "reckons" he can get along for a time without making any im right, but he "believes" he can do without it. He "thinks" he will sell more goods next season. A class of eleven was present and took the examina-provements. He "supposes" a new device is all tion, of which the following passed the required grade and were granted certificates of registration: Warner B. Millet, Stroud, Okla.; Sam Ingalls, Stroud, Okla.;Walter Smith, Atoka, Okla.; J. B. Kinsey, Kiowa, Okla.; Alfred Rowntree, Oklahoma City, Okla. The following having complied with the requirements of the Board were granted registration on diploma: Chas A. Gesick, Oklahoma City, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, Mo.; Jas. M. Thornton, Oklahoma City, Austin College, Effingham, Ill; D. H. Hering, Ardmore, Ohio Normal University Ada, O.; Philip W. Brown, Atoka, Ill., Valparaiso University, Valparsiso, Ind.; Albert S. Sackett, West Farmington, O., Ohio Normal University, Ada, O.; Wm. H. Wiese, Chickasha, Northern Indiana School of Pharmacy, Valparaiso, Ind.; Henry H. Gerard, Hobart, Highland Park College of Pharmacy, DesMoines, Ia.; Jas. V. Brian, Newkirk, Oklahoma University, Norman, Okla.; Karl H. Kendall, Galena State University, Norman, Okla.; Mary A. Pocock, Oklahoma City, Northern Indiana School of Pharmacy, Valparaiso, Ind.; Eugene C. Abernathy, Hollis, Oklahoma University, Norman, Okla.; H. Philip Hill, Jr., Baltimore, Md., New York College of Pharmacy, New York, N. Y.; Chas. F. Smith, Muskogee, Chicago College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Ill.; Arthur M. Lyon, Struthers, O., Scio College of Pharmacy, Scio, O.; Oscar O. Nichols, Lawton, Ia., Highland Park College of Pharmacy, DesMoines, Ia.; Edward W. Thompson, Kansas City, Mo., University of Iowa, Department of Pharmacy, Iowa City, Ia.; Leroy Kime, Frederick, Northern Indiana School of Oh, Mr. Slack-handed Merchant! Gather up the lines and drive. Grit your teeth-don't let your jaw hang down. Get a grip on your business. Hammer the hoops on tighter to stop the leaks. Clinch your fists with determination to win. Buckle up the bellyband another notch. Take up another link or two in the trace chain. Let out your reason a loop or two. Tighten up all around and instead of reckoning and guessing, know.-[By GEORGE F. BURBA, in Agricultural Advertising. Hygiopone is an iron preparation stated to be prepared by electrolysis, and to contain metallic iron in an extremely minute state of division, partially free, and dissolved in the liquid. It is a yellowish-brown thin liquid with an astringent, not unpleasant taste, with a faint odour of chlorine. It is perfectly miscible with water, but is incompatible with alcohol and with milk. It should be kept in a dark, cool place. The dose is a few drops.-[Schweiz. Woch. Chem. Pharm., 1907, 45, 638. MISSOURI EXAMINATION. The Mo. Bd. Ph. met at Jefferson City, January 13, and examined twenty-five applicants for registration, of whom the following eleven passed a satisfactory examination: Don L. Adams, Brunswick, Mo.; E. O. Barton, Laclede, Mo.; W. S. Dorsey, Columbia, Mo.; Mrs. Myrtle F. Duckworth, Springfield, Mo.; Fred A. Hartman, St. Louis, Mo.; W. L. Hixon, Billings, Mo.; John Allen Reed, Springfield, Mo.; Onas Smith, Ash Grove, Mo.; Eugene A. Sweet, St. Joseph, Mo.; R. L. Trimble, Kansas City, Mo.; Leland C. Yates, Kansas City, Mo. The board will hold its next examination at Kansas City, April 13. The secretary is Charles Gietner, 203 South Broadway, St. Louis, Mo. Missouri Board Examination Questions. The following is a set of written examination questions submitted at the January meeting: A. 1. What is extraction? 2. What is maceration? 3. What is digestion? 4. What is expression? B. 1. What is camphor? 2. By what process is it obtained? 3. Name three solids that liquify with it. Name three official preparations. 4. C. 1. Give formula for Ungt. Potassii Iodidi. 2. Why is Carb Potassii used in same? 3. Name four official acids. 4. Give chemical formula of each. D. 1. From what is Citric Acid obtained? made from Calcium Citrate? 3. Name official preparations. 4. 2. How is it What is Talcum chemically and how purified? E. Chloroform 1. How is it made? 2. How purified? 3. Chemical formula. 4. Medical properties. F. 1. Why is Borax used in making cold cream? 2. Why is Stearic Acid used in making suppositories. 3. Why is Diluted Alcohol used in making bellad. ointment. 4. Why are preparations of Wild Cherry made by cold process. G. 1. What is the meaning of the term Halogen? 2. the Halogen group. 3. Name four Halogen acids. chemical formula of each. 4. Name 4. Give H. 1. What is Phenol? 2. Give test to distinguish it from Creosote. 3. Name official preparation, formula. Give chemical I. 1. Give formula for Ceratum. 2. Give formula for Ungentum. J. 1. What is an infusion? 2. Give formula and mode of preparing infusion digitalis. K. 1. Give official name. part of plant, active constituents, medicinal properties, official preparations and dose of bird pepper. L. 1. Name the active constituent in both bitter and sweet almond. Why is bitter almond poisonous? 2. Name four drugs containing emulsin. M. 1. Name two official preparation containing Potassium Iodide in combination with Iodine. Why is it used? 2 Give test for Iodine. N. 1. How many grains of digitalis in 20 c. c. Tincture Digitalis? 2. How many grains of Cinchona in 10 c. c. Tincture Cinchona Compound? 3. How many grains of Cimicifuga in 5 c. c. Tincture Cimicifuga? 4. How many grains of opium in 2 c. c. Tincture Opium? Write the following prescriptions in Troy Weight giving amount of ingredients in each prescription. 1-R Salol STRAY ITEMS AND COMMENTS. The Baltimore Branch of the A. Ph. A. has elected the following officers: President, Chas. Caspari, Jr.; Vice-president, H. A. B. Dunning; Secretary-Treasurer, E. F. Kelly, Chairman Committee on Membership, Chas. L. Meyer; Chairman Committee on Professional Relations, Charles Feick; Chairman Committee on Science and Practice of Pharmacy, Philip I. Heiusler. The Use of the Red Cross sign in business is illegal and lays the party or corporation liable to severe penalties. This was explained in detail on pages 93, 277, 322 of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for 1907. Many firms have quietly complied with the law and we advise all others to follow the example, as the red cross organization is determined to protect its rights in the matter. Not Exactly Old Wine in new bottles but more like new wine in old bottles are the comments of the veteran pharmacist, George C. Bartells, upon the relations between pharmacists and physicians to which we give space in our correspondence department of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for February. The communication is to the point and contains much food for mental digestion. Reregistration has never been popular with Missouri pharmacists, for every attempt to pass a law requiring annual or bi-annual registration has met with much opposition and only mild support. Some claim that it is not only an injustice but such a law is unconstitutional. A Minnesota judge of the Supreme Court recently had occasion to pass upon this point. He holds the reregistration law to be constitutional. He says it is not a tax but merely a charge for the purpose of maintaining the expense of the necessary machinery required in carrying out the law. The Microscope in the drug store is gradually gaining a more important and useful place. At the January meeting of the Philadelphia Branch of the A. Ph. A., Prof. Henry Kraemer read a paper on "The Use of the Compound Microscope in the Valuation of Drugs,” in the course of which he reviewed the use and the practical need for the examination of crude drugs as well as powders by means of the microscope. He referred to the factthat practically all of the more recent European microscopical appearance of powdered drugs and also Pharmacopoeias had included descriptions of the discussed the reasons why equally satisfactory descriptions had not been included in the recent eighth decennial revision of the U. S. P. He pointed out that even at the present time the compound microscope was generally accepted as being valuable in determining the identity of many crude drugs that the identity and purity of powdered drugs could only be determined by the use of this piece of apparatus. He believes that in the very near future the compound microscope tions, sophiatications, contaminations and the numer will be absolutely indispensable in detecting adulteraous other shortcomings of crude and powdered drugs of vegetable origin. EXAMINATION QUESTIONS. Louisiana Board. Pharmacy.-1. (a) What is solution? (b) What is a saturated solution? (c) A supersaturated solution? (d) Give example wherein the presence of a dissolved body will favor the solution of another substance. (e) When it will not favor same? 2. (a) What are syrups? (b) How many official syrups are there? (c) What official syrup is made by maceration? (d) How many methods of making syrups are recognized by the U. S. P.? (e) Describe the process of making syrup wild cherry bark, U. S. P. 3. (a) What are spirits? (b) In how many ways are the official spirits made? (c) What is the most usual method of making them? (d) In making spirits what is the object of maceration? (e) What official spirits are made by distillation? 4. (a) What are tinctures? (b) In what different ways are official tinctures made? (c) Give the official name, formula, and describe the process of making tinct. cinchona compound. (d) For what purpose is glycerin used in tinctures? (e) What official tincture is made by simple solution? 5. (a) Describe the method of making syrup ferrous iodide. (b) Give percentage strength of ferrous iodide in finished product. (c) What impurity is it liable to contain, and how may its presence be detected? 6. (a) What are collodions? (b) How many are official and what are their names? (c) Give formula and mode of making collodion. 7. (a) What is filtration? (b) How does filtration differ from clarification? (c) How does it differ from colation? (d) Name five filtering mediums. (e) What is the liquid that passes through the filter called? 8 Give the official names of the finished preparations and state the ingredients which enter into each of the following: (a) Sydenham's Laudanum: (b) Brown Mixture: (c) Fowler's Solution; (d) Lugol's Solution; (d) Donovan's Solution. 9. Complete the following formulas and name the official preparation represented in each case: 10. (a) Define extraction. (b) Name the operation by which it is accomplished. (c) What is percolation? (d) What is the object of moistening a powder before subjecting it to percolation? (e) What is the liquid called that is used in extracting a drug? Weights and Measures.-1. Write a prescription calling for two dozen capsules of phenacetine and salol, each 21 grains, giving amounts in both apothecaries' and metric system of weights. 2. What is the percentage strength of a solution made by dissolving 62 5 grammes of KI in 187.5 cubic centimeters of water? 3. Explain the difference, if any, between 0.003 gramme, 1-20 grain, and 3 milligrammes. 4. Write out a description of the metric system embracing answers to the following: its origin and history; what are the units of measure, capacity, and weight, and their equivalents in ordinary measures? 5. Find the total value of the following, giving amounts in avoirdupois ounces: 0.6 of a centigramme, 10.0 kilogrammes, 5 milligrammes, and 2 hectogrammes. 6. How many degrees Fahrenheit in 65° C., and how many degrees Centigrade in 17° Fahrenheit? 7. How much of each ingredient would you take in making 5 pounds apothecaries' of a mixture of talcum, 87 parts; starch, 8 parts; and salicylic acid, 5 parts. iodide, and place the metric equivalents of each ingredient next to the ordinary measure. 9. (a) Explain the difference between weight and volume. (b) What is a hydrometer? 10. What are the requirements of the Louisiana State Board of Pharmacy for (a) registered pharmacists and (b) qualified assistants? Chemistry.-1 (a) From what is carbolic acid obtained and how? (b) Give its chemical formula. 2 (a) What chemical reaction takes place in making official liquor magnesii citratis, and why should it be made fresh? (b) What chemical reaction takes place in making liquor potassii arsenatis, and what is the dose? 3. Give the official source and chemical formula of each of the following: (a) borax, (b) plaster of paris, (c) salol, (d) cream of tartar. 4. (a) Give an example of an official preparation containing iron in the ous condition and explain its manufacture. (b) Give an example of an official preparation containing iron in the ic condition and explain its manufacture. (c) Discuss chemically the ous and ic compounds of iron. 5. (a) Mention a chemical test for detecting impurities in gossypium purificatum. (b) Mention a chemical test for detecting impurities in acidum salicylicum. 6. Explain the chemical difference, if any, between the official forms of alumen. 7. (a) Give the source of lead. (b) What is litharge? (c) What is red lead? (d) Explain the chemical or physical difference, if any, between the above substances. 8 (a) To what class of oils does oleum morrhuæ belong? (b) What is its chemical composition? 9. Mention an official basic hydroxide, an acid hydroxide, and a neutral salt. 10. Give the chemical definition and official requirements of aqua destillata. Materia Medica.-1. Name eight official alkaloids, each from a different drug, giving the source and dose of each. 2. (a) What are volatile oils? (b) Give the general method for preparing them. (c) Give a simple test to distinguish them from fixed oils. (d) Name five that are official. (e) Name two that are heavier and two that are lighter than water. 3. (a) What are fixed oils? (b) Give general method of preparing them, (c) How do they differ from volatile oils? (d) Name four of vegetable and one of animal origin that are official. (e) Name two that are soluble in alcohol. 4. Frangula: Give the common name, natural order, habitat, part of the plant used, constituents and properties. Why should the official part of the plant be kept one year? 5. Give the dose and antidote of each of the following: (a) tinct. aconite, (b) sulphate strychnia, (c) arsenous acid, (d) tartar emetic, (e) tinct. iodine, (f) corrosive sublimate, (g) creosote, (h) cocaine, (i) tinct. opium, (j) sugar of lead. 6. Give the official name of each of the following: burdock, croton oil, spirits of nitroglycerin, ox-gall, soft soap, litharge," castor oil, wahoo, cold cream. 7 (a) From what plant is ipecac root obtained? (b) Upon what constituent does it depend for its physiological action? (c) How may it be distinguished physically from all other roots? (d) Name its chief preparations. (e) Give the dose of each. 8 Give the common name of each of the following and state what part of the plant is used: rhus toxicondendron, lappa, asclepias, eupatorium, carum, rhamnus purshiana, ficus, santalum, rubrum. 9. Define the following terms and give an example of each: (a) aphrodisiac, (b) clyster, (c) emollient, (d) revulsive, (e) vulnerary. 10. Digitalis: (a) What part is official? (b) What are the U. S. P. requirements as to age of leaf? (c) What is its habitat? (d) Give its medicinal properties. (e) Give official preparations and dose of each. Experience is one teacher that takes no vacation.— [POOR RICHARD, JUNIOR. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT. W. O. N. A. R. D. Chapter No. 2, of Chicago, held what might be called a rousing meeting in January. Already the members of the organization are beginning to feel like one large family, the interests of each being identified with those of all, and this must lead to steady growth. As we tell others of the warm friendships that are being formed and the happy hours that are spent in our endeavors to uplift the social as well as the business life of retail druggists and their families our influence can not fail growth. While the meeting of the Chicago Chapter was in progress the Philadelphia Chapter was celebrating its first birthday and sent greetings to its older sister.. The wonderful growth of the Philadelphia Chapter is a matter of sincere pride to us and we congratulate our younger sister that her first year has been so full of good works. Truly the National Association of Retail Druggists "builded better than it knew" when it laid the foundation for an organization that would draw together in bonds of fraternity such earnest men and women all over the country. As the women broaden the scope of their work the druggists will understand and appreciate better the good they are accomplishing and they will gratefully acknowledge the wisdom of the formation of the Woman's Organization. With this thought as a stimulus it is not difficult to give of our time and effort that we may make successful our meetings, whether for business or pleasure.-[COMMITTEE ON PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY, LOUIS T. WOOTEN, Chairman. Illinois Board of Pharmacy.-At the meeting in Springfield, January 21-23, twenty-seven of the thirty four applicants for registered pharmacist, sixteen out of a class of eighteen candidates for assistant pharmacist and four of the five candidates for local registered pharmacist passed successful examinations. Their names follow: Registered Pharmacists.-Arthur E. Brown, Ralph H. Cohen, Chas. Forman, Jos. O. Forman, Leo A. Ginnsy, Wm. H. Guthrie, B. F. Jusajtus, Samuel Katz, David A. Monheit, Jos. J. Stern, Geo. J. Toussieng and Alfred Wickstrom, all of Chicago and James P. Beckley, Clay City; Reuben R. Gasen, Springfield; Wm. O. Hearn, Carbondale; Geo. A. Kelso, Orchardville, John C. Kehoe, Waukegan; John P. Lester, Rochelle; E. M. McGinley, Decatur; F. Wm. McNess, Freeport; Perry F. Rice, Browning; James H. Riffey, Girard; H. G. Seyfrath, Springfield; G. F. Smith, Keokuk, Ia.; Chas. A. Steinmeyer, Carlinville; L. T. Waggoner, Jerseyville and Robert T. Wallace, Pontiac. Assistant Pharmacists.-Ernest Bernstein, Max Feldman, Sam Simon and Wm. S. Spencer, all of Chicago and Ray A. Cone, Momence; B. F. Degenhardt, Alton; Fred J. Frison, Urbana; Edw. J. Haffner, Bloomington; H. J. Hearrington, Danville; Roy L. Irwin, Decatur; Wm. J. Laird, Good Hope; Frank A. Rychman, East St. Louis; Fred E. Schinz, LaSalle; Alois C. Strunk, Cairo; Ralph W. Thorpe, Clinton and Emil F. Woller, Campaign. Local Registered Pharmacists.-Eugene E. Craw, Sardorus; J. Ottis Hart, Benton; Elmer F. Seany, Oblong and R. O. Stratton Hunt City. The next meeting of the Board of Pharmacy for the examination of applicants for assistant pharmacist will be held in Chicago on Tuesday, March 10. An examination will be held for registered pharmacists on the day following. The next apprentice examination in the various counties in the state from which applications have been received will be held on Friday, March 6.-[F. C. DODDS, Secretary, Springfield. Good Advice.-Applicant-What is the first thing to do before you get a marriage license? License Clerk-Think it over, young man; think it over. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT. the theory given to account for the heat at the Virginia hot springs, is not probable, for the folding at Hot Springs is not more intense than elsewhere in the What the A. Ph. A. Will See at Hot Springs, Sep- mountain regions of Arkansas, and no evidence of hot tember 3, 1908. Theory of the Hot Waters.-Where the hot waters come from has been the theme of many scientists and many theories have been advanced. Everybody is entitled to a guess, but nobody has been able to look deep enough into the earth's crust to say positively just what is taking place down where the hot waters come from. Government scientists in a special work on Hot Springs, advance the theory that they flow from or over a mass of igneous rock far down in the earth, which if true gives them a volcanic origin. The following is taken from the government's report: "While there have been many theories advanced to account for the source of the hot waters, the only hypothesis that stands the test of scientific inquiry is the one which ascribes the heat of the water to still hot but concealed bodies of igneous rock. It seems scarcely necessary to call attention to the absurdity of the idea that either slacking lime in the depth of the earth or chemical reaction of the waters with the atmosphere could be the cause of the heat. That the waters come from a depth sufficient for their heating by the normal increment of the earth heat (1 degree for every 50 feet) seems unreasonable, since it would necessitate a depth of nearly 5,000 feet to give the that they were not cooled in their course upward. The composition of the gases given off by the waters shows that they contain atmospheric air as well as carbon dioxide. That the heat of the waters is due to the heat developed by the folding of the rocks, which is spring action has been found at any other localities except where igneous rocks are present. "It is believed that the heat comes from a great body of still heated igneous rocks intruded in the earth's crust by volcanic agencies and underlying a great part of Central Arkansas. The existance of such a mass is shown by the great bodies of granite seen at Potash Sulphur and Magnet Cove, where the rocks have been exposed by the wearing down of the overlying sediments, though the igneous rocks seen were long since cooled. At Magnet Cove, moreover, there are tufa deposits which show the former occurrence of hot springs. Deep-seated waters converted into vapors by contact with this 'batholith' of hot rock probably ascend through fissures toward the surface, where they probably meet cold spring waters which are heated by the vapors." It has been demonstrated by Government scientists that the waters of Hot Springs are radio-active. Prof. Bertram B. Boltwood, of Yale College, made a thorough test of the waters of each of the forty-four Hot Springs during the summer of 1904 and summed up his report to the Interior Department with the following conclusions: "1-The waters of the springs, on the Hot Springs Reservation, are all radio-active to a marked degree. "2-The radio-activity of the waters is due to a dissolved radium emanation (a gas) and not to the presence of salts of radium or other radio-active solids." Whether there is anything in the radium cure or not is a mooted question, but if there is, no doubt the curative effects of the hot water are explained in a considerable measure by Prof. Boltwood's discovery. |