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to cure Anaemia

They produce a

Ravenous Appetite

They do not purge

They are a Chemical Food

They are guaranteed to contain neither Arsenic, Strychnia, nor any other poison,
and TO CURE CHILLS AND FEVERS THEY ARE INFALLIBLE. The weakest
stomach tolerates them.

Sold by the Wholesale Drug Trade

THE NATIONAL PILL CO., P. O. Box 2357, Mexico, D. F., Mex.

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Meyer Brothers Druggist

PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ENTIRE DRUG TRADE.

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In the Pharmaceutical Eye is Prof. Henry P. Hynson, Ph. G., chairman of the committee on local A. Ph. A. branches. He is taking hold of the work in a manner which is bringing results. Mr. Hynson is professor of dispensing and commercial pharmacy and also

a member of the board of regents of the pharmacy department of the University of Maryland. The professor is the champion in the movement to have "doctor. of pharmacy" generally adopted as a degree for those taking a course in a college of pharmacy.

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PROF. HENRY P. HYNSON.

F. V. PERRY.

F. V. Perry, president of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Travelers' Association, was represented on the frontispiece of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for May.

Oklahoma May Become a State Before This Item is in Print.-The Indian Territory and the Territory of Oklahoma will be admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma if the citizens of those two territories have their way about it. It was our privilege to attend a recent annual meeting of the pharmacists of Oklahoma and to breathe the atmosphere of progress which pervades every section of that prosperous

country. It is only seventeen years since the government threw that country open for settlement, but during that brief period the cities have grown, not like mushrooms but in a substantial manner, so that Oklahoma City, with its 40,000, and Guthrie, with nearly as many inhabitants, are in every way equal to cities of similar size, but several times as old, in the Eastern States. Oklahoma is not experiencing a boom, but enjoys a steady and substantial growth, which is reflected in every calling followed by its citizens. This is particularly manifest in the Pharmaceutical Association, which has accomplished as much in the way of legislation, education, trade interests and the general co-operation of pharmaceutical interests during seventeen years as have sister organizations during an entire generation or more of human life. There is nothing crude, unpolished, awkward nor disjointed about the proceedings in the annual meeting of the Ok. Ph. A. The members get down to business, and every one present takes an active part in a way which puts to shame some of the older organizations of pharmacists. - With statehood will come a new pharmacy law, and the plans are well laid for one which is thoroughly practical in its operation and just to both citizens and pharmacists.

The members of the Oklahoma organization, in public discussions and private conversations, evidence the same familiarity and express as valuable opinions relative to the work of the A. Ph. A. the N. A. R. D., the N. W. D. A., the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties, the U. S. P. and the N. F. as can be found in any state association. We can wish our Eastern readers no more pleasant and educational a trip than one through the Indian and Oklahoma Territories.

The San Francisco Calamity has been selected as a text for many sermons and a topic for numerous editorials. It has served to illustrate the fact that our system of carrying on business is an evolution brought about by the environments of prosperity. The great catastrophe carried the people of San Francisco back to the days when it was a struggle for existence, when necessary food and desirable clothing came only by hard work. Under such conditions individuals are drawn close together and much of the property is held in common. This same spirit of social equality and equal individual rights was manifested throughout this entire country

as soon as the condition in San Francisco became

apparent. Food, clothing and all necessary articles were looked upon as common property and forwarded to the sufferers as rapidly as possible. There they were distributed pro rata, without reference to rank or, position.

The energy with which San Francisco is being cleared up and preparations made for a new city illustrates the ruling human passion which causes mankind to love his home. We pity the poor horse which refuses to be driven out of the burning stable, or which rushes into the flames if he happens to be

on the outside when his home catches fire. On the other hand, we applaud people who refuse to leave a ruined city, even though history is likely to repeat itself as far as the earthquake is concerned. It is true that human ingenuity will be exercised to its utmost in building a new San Francisco, fire-proof and earthquake-proof. We trust it may be many long generations before the citizens of the City of the Golden Gate will be again subjected to what in many respects is the worst form of destructive agencies, an earthquake.

We publish in the June issue of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST communications from readers who passed through the experiences of the recent earthquake. What they have to say, coming as it does from persons well known in pharmacy and medicine, will prove of special interest to our subscribers.

A Practical Committee on Legislation is active in Illinois. The committee has mailed to the pharmacists of the state its report, which will be submitted at the Peoria meeting, June 19-21. This gives the pharmacists an opportunity to study the recommendations and come prepared to express their views. While the report is of special interest to Illinois pharmacists, it also brings up points of general interest to the profession of this country. As an example, the law at present refers to "recognized schools of pharmacy,” but does not define a recognized school. The law provides for the registration of apprentices, but does not provide a penalty for a registered pharmacist who fails to require an apprentice to make application for registration. The law recognizes the Pharmacopoeia which was in force at the time the law passed, thus the U. S. P. VIII is not the legal Pharmacopoeia in Illinois. The committee believes that the National Formulary should be mentioned with the U. S. P. as authorities. The committee also suggests that a penalty should be provided for an unregistered pharmacist who displays a certificate not rightfully belonging to him. Among the new topics is the recommendation of the committee that provision be made for the sanitary inspection of drug stores by the board of phar

macy.

It is the experience of the usual convention that a report is sprung upon the members, discussed, and then referred to a committee. The Illinois committee, by its forethought in publishing and distributing its report, has taken a long stride in the direction of saving time and accomplishing work at a state convention. We often think of the comment of an English delegate to the International Pharmaceutical Congress at Chicago, in 1893, who attended several state conventions and said: "But you in the States waste so much time talking without knowing just what you are talking about.”

"The Limitations of Self Medication," was the subject of an animated and instructive discussion at the May meeting of the Philadelphia Branch of the A. Ph. A. Prominent local physicians pointed out evils of the practice of self medication. This, of course, led to the consideration of counter prescrib

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