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ANTIPYRINE.

The German courts have followed the English, American and French rule that where, during the life of a monopoly created by a patent, a name, whether it be arbitrary or that of the inventor, has become by his consent, either express or tacit, the identifying and generic name of the thing patented, this name passes to the public with the cessation of the monopoly which the patent created. This decision has been given in a suit over the word antipyrine. Should this ruling be sustained in an appeal to the superior courts, the name will then become public property to be used by any who may engage in the manufacture of the article.

THE "EXTRA PHARMACOPOEIA."

The new B.P. has just been issued and accompanying it is the ninth edition of Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia. This issue is the more imperative from the fact that the last edition is exhausted, and the supply of such a necessary work to the pharmacist cannot be allowed to become restricted. This edition is slightly larger than its predecessor, contains 626 pages as against 584. The authors, recognizing the importance of weights and measures at this transitionary period, begin the work with a summary of the two systems and a table of equivalents. An analysis of 25500 prescriptions follows, giving the number of times the 121 preparations most frequently ordered were dispensed.

Mr. Martindale's concise synopsis of the B. P. alterations is introduced. The first noticeable feature of the book is that doses are given in both imperial and metric, which, apart from the boon to practitioners, should be a factor in making general the use of the latter system. The rapid onward strides of pharmaceutical and chemical science during latter years naturally necessitates many changes, even the mention of which would consume more time and space than is at our command. The alcohol table on page 52 will be found convenient by pharmacists in preparing the different solutions authorized by the new B. P. A secondary list of drugs is included, some new and of unknown quality, some old and recently resuscitated. Dr. Wynn Westcott, the coauthor, has revised the chapter on Serotherapy, noting the extending use of different antitoxins as diagnostic agents, giving numerous medical references. The extended use of organotherapy is noted; an appendix of antiseptic applications, surgical dressings; histological preparations for staining, clearing, hardening and mounting microscopic objects; rea ent, etc., is followed by the Indix and posological table, which completes this invaluable book to both pharmacist and physician.

PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULE.

A book of useful receipts for the Drug Trade, published by the Chemist & Druggist.

We opened it with considerable trepidation. All such previous publications which it has been our privilege to inspect have rather merited the title of "A book of useless Receipts for the Drug Trade." With a closing of eyes, shutting of teeth and clinchof hands, we made the venture and plunged in, when lo! the surprise in store for us! Instead of a barren waste we found a rich treasure-house of pharmaceutical wealth not thrown together promiscuously in a haphazard catch-as-catch-can manner, but system and order prevailed throughout. No diamonds in the rough, nor crude material to be wrought upon, but sparkling gems and perfect products bearing impress of a masterhand. The Chem

ist & Druggist has most emphatically conferred a boon on the pharmaceutical world, the return for which should be of a most substantial nature. A collection of working formulas being such a rarity that to find one with sufficient merit to justly claim the title is most refreshing. The range of subjects is as wide as the manner of treatment is attractive. The professional pharmacist will find it invaluable as a book of ready reference; its 200 pages of "galenical and medicinal preparations" are a combined national formulary and extra pharmacopoeia. The housewife will find the money spent in its purchase a profitable investment, while a perusal of its pages and the use of information therein contained will be in no manner derogatory to the professional standing of the practising physician himself. The style of the book is good, leather and cloth binding, clear readable type on good paper. Carefully arranged and properly indexed, it represents years of thoroughly systematic work and our esteemed contemporary can congratulate itself on a difficult undertaking successfully accomplished. The price, 7s. 6d. is most moderate for so complete a repository of useful information.

NEWSPAPER ADVICE.

The dangers of taking too literally the "medical advice" given in the correspondence columns of village weeklies was illustrated last week at CloneyPatrick O'Brien suffered from corns. gowan. He

was advised by the "doctor" to burn them out— how, it was not stated. He rolled a calico bandage round his toes, steeped the bandage in petroleum, and ignited it. He is now wiser, but is under surgical treatment. The corns are still ripening.Chemist and Druggist.

TO STICK PAPER ON GLASS.

Make a paste out of 230 parts of mucilage, 20 parts of water and 2 or 3 parts of aluminum sulThe book is published by Mr. H. K. Lewis, 136 phate, dissolving the sulphate in the water before Gower St., London, and sold at Ios., 6d.

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Our friends, The Lyman Bros. & Co., Limited, hardly place the present position of the FLY PAD case fairly in their recent advertisements.

We give below both sides of the case, leaving the Druggists of Canada to draw their own conclusions: A. The judgment of the Hon. Mr. Justice Rose dated Oct. 15th, 1897,

states:

That the Lyman Bros, & Co., Limited,

1. Had imitated our Pads.

2. Had imitated our Envelopes.

3. Had imitated our Packing into Boxes.

4.

Had imitated the ornamentation (or labelling) of the boxes.

5. Had imitated our Advertisements.

6. And that all this was calculated to mislead.

B. In the same judgment the Hon. Mr. Justice Rose granted an injunction restraining The Lyman Bros. & Co., Limited, their servants, agents, and workmen, from continuing to put up and advertise such paper so as to mislead.

C. The learned judge made no order upon the question of the Trade Mark,

D. Each party to the case paid their own costs.

E. We appealed on the Trade Mark branch of the case.

F. The Lyman Bros. & Co., Limited, appealed against Judge Rose's injunction.

G. The Court of Appeal dismissed BOTH appeals with cost.

In other words The Lyman Bros & Co., Limited, paid the costs of their appeal and we paid the costs of ours.

Judge Rose's injunction restraining the Lyman Bros. & Co., Limited, from imitating our Fly Pads stands.

Archdale Wilson
Wilson & Co.,

Wholesale Druggists,

HAMILTON.

PLANTEN'S GELATINE CAPSULES

PEROIDS

REGISTERED TRADE MARK.

PEARL SHAPED CAPSULES.

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KNOWN AS RELIABLE OVER
SIXTY YEARS.

Some Specialties.-Sandal Pure; Sandal, 1-10 Cassia;
Apiol; Wintergreen; Terpinol; Frigeron;
Damiana, Saw Palmetto, Etc.

EMPTY CAPSULES OF ALL KINDS.

Encapsuling Private Formulas a Specialty. Correspondence solicited.

IMPORTANT-We will gladly send Druggists or Physicians, on receipt of list price, direct by mail,
any of our Filled Capsules and Perloids.

Specify PLANTEN'S on all orders. Send for samples.

H. PLANTEN & SON, Established 1836, NEW YORK.

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Editorial Notes.

The PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL publishes a summarized table of deaths from poisoning, either accidental or suicidal. The figures are taken from reports of the Registrar-General and out of a total of 2296, carbolic acid is responsible for 455, or 20 per cent. of the total. Based on these figures a strong plea is presented for placing carbolic acid on the list of scheduled poisons, as recommended by the pharmaceutical council.

Another object lesson on the necessity of organization has been afforded this month in the defeat of the Poisonous Substances Bill" in the British Parliament. The bill emanated from the House of Lords, but was killed in the Commons. The principal factor in bringing about the death of this obnoxious measure was the solid phalanx of pharmacists who stood behind the Pharmaceutical Association in their opposition to it.

American customs officers have been notified from Washington that in future phenacetine must not be accepted for entry into the country except that brought in by the authorized selling agents. This is a move of some importance to Canadian dealers, as heretofore considerable quantities have been shipped from here. The only result will be a great increase of smuggling, as the temptation to do so on account of the difference in price is very great.

Americans are a clever and ingenuous people, not apt to tolerate imposition when they realize that such is being practised upon them, and yet their patience under self-imposed burdens is a marvel and well illustrated by the history of The Frederick Bayar products in the thousands that are being filched from the pockets of the people and placed to the credit of that corporation through the instrumentality of the American patent laws.

An Indiana firm of retail druggists is being sued for $5000 damages by their "soda water boy." The lad claims to have no knowledge of drugs and their compounding, yet his employers used him for such purpose, and on July 3rd gave him material to prepare a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

Being ignorant of the nature of these chemicals, he closed the vessel employed and caused an explosion which burned his face, causing a disfiguring scar and permanent injury to one eye. If this boy's contention is correct, this firm richly deserves to be mulcted in the heaviest fine the law

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The Buffalo, N. Y., Board of Health recently passed an ordinance forbidding the sale or use of long-necked feeders. This is grandmotherly legislation with a vengeance, but if people will not learn by reasoning it is only right that they should be forced to do so by law. One drugg st, who contested the legality of the bylaw, has lost his case in the court and has been fined. The law may be a bad thing for druggists with stocks of old fashioned bottles but it will be a good thing for the babies.

The report of the Committee on Adulteration of the New York Pharm. Ass'n. shows great variation in the quality of tincture of opium sold in the state, the percentage of morphine varying from 1 6 per cent. to 0.56 per cent. in the 10 samples examined. This is probably due to the fact that many druggists do not wish to take the risk involved in selling the official tincture to persons accustomed to the oldfashioned laudanum, and therefore carry two grades in stock, one for prescription use and another for counter sale. Another item examined was creosote, and it was found that fully 50 per cent. of the samples sold as such was crude carbolic acid. This is extraordinary, as there is such a quantity of creosote used now in tuberculosis, etc., that one would naturally expect that every pharmacist would be able to distinguish between these two bodies, and to find that 50 per cent. of the stuff sold as creosote is carbolic acid does not speak well of the integrity or the ability of the sellers.

The committee on the status of pharmacists in the army and navy of the A. Ph. A. has achieved a great success in at last securing the rank of warrant officers for twenty-five of the navy pharmacists. It is only in the British and American armies and navies that pharmacists hold such a low rank as they do; in all the continental armies and even in the Japanese army and navy pharmacists are ommissioned officers, ranging from lieutenants to licutenant-colonels, according to seniority and merit, and it is nearly time that the same principles should hold in the army and navies of English speaking countries. The educational requirements of the hospital service should certainly entitle the holders to a higher rank than that held by the ordinary run of privates and coal pushers and men before the mast, and we hope to see the English associations take up the question and demand official recognition of the scientific standing of pharmacy in the army and

navy.

The French Association of Pharmacists, formed with the object of raising the selling price of patent medicines, has met with a fate similar to that which overtook our own and all other organizations of a similar nature. The causes in France were the same as those which wrecked our O.S. R. D., lack of unity and organization on the part of pharmacists.

Chicago is a great town for pharmacists' associations, the youngest of them being the Veteran Druggists' Association, the organizer of which is T. H. Jamieson, who has a local reputation as a druggist and a national reputation as a Republican politician. The association is composed of all the old timers and the objects are the encouragement of good fellowship amongst the members while living, and to see that in case of death the deceased member's funeral is to be attended by the association, and if necessary the expenses to be paid out of the funds. The only requirement for admission is twenty-five years' practice of pharmacy in the city of Chicago. The officers are : E. O. Gale, president; W. Jauncey, vice-president; T. N. Jamieson, treasurer; T. H. Patterson, secretary; Albert E. Ebert, historian.

AMYLOLYTIC FERMENTS.

In an article on this important subject by Wyatt Wingrave, M. R.C.S., England, (Assistant Surgeon to the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital), in the London Lancet, May 7th, 1898, we are informed of a personal necessity that arose in the writer's experience for a reliable starch digestant. A crucial comparative examination was therefore made of many malt extracts and of Taka-Diastase, the tests being conducted both chemically and clinically.

He summarizes briefly : 1. That Taka-Diastase is the most powerful of the starch or diastatic ferments and the most reliable since it is more rapid in its action, i.e., "it will convert a larger amount (of starch) in a given time than will any other amylolytic ferment." 2. That Taka-Diastase seems to be less retarded in its digestive action by the presence of the organic acids (butyric, lactic, acetic), and also by tea, coffee and alcohol, than are saliva and the malt extracts. This is an important point in pyrosis. 3. That all mineral acids, hydrochloric, etc., quickly stop and permanently destroy all diastatic action if allowed sufficient time and if present in sufficient quantities. 4. That Taka-Diastase and malt diastase have, like ptyalin, no action upon cellulose (uncooked starch). All starch food should therefore be cooked to permit of the starch ferment assisting nature in this function.

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