EDITOR'S TABLE.

Ark. Ph. A. Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting. Miss M. A. Fein, Little Rock, secretary.

Okla. Ph. A. Report of the 1905 Meeting. Also contains report of the board of pharmacy. F. M. Weaver, Oklahoma City, secretary.

Minnesota Pharmacy Board.-Twentieth Annual Report with Abstract of Register of 1904. Charles J. Moos, St. Cloud, secretary.

Memoranda on Poisons, by Thomas Hawkes Tanner, M. D., F. L. S., Tenth Revised Edition. By Henry Leffman, A. M., M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Professor of Chemistry in the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Pathological Chemist, Jefferson Medical College Hospital. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. 1905.

This is the tenth edition of one of the very conven

This work is the result of the practical experience of the author during his many years' devotion to students in his classes. It is intended, however, not only for students but for patients, and is written in a manner which renders it easily understood. We feel that the volume is worthy of the confidence of those who desire information on this important subject. Disorders of Metabolism and Nutrition.-A Series of Monographs by Professor Dr. Carl von Noorden, Physician-in-Chief to the City Hospital, Frankfort-on-Main; Authorized American Edition; Translated Under the Direction of Boardman Reed, M. D.; Part VII; Diabetes Mellitus; A Special Course of Lectures delivered in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Progressive practitioners of the Englishspeaking world will welcome and study this new work of original investigations. Small 8vo, 212 pages, $1.50. New York: E. B. Treat & Co., Publishers, 241-243 West Twenty-third Street. It is due to the disorders of metabolism and nutrition that degenerative changes cut short the activities of so many men and women in middle life-that sen

ing. The complete index makes up for the inconvenience of the text which is arranged according to the physiological action of the poisons. This arrangement was, no doubt, adopted for the convenience of students. Neurotic Disorders of Childhood, Including a Study of Auto and Intestinal Intoxications, Chronic Anæmia, Fever, Eclampsia, Epilepsy, Migraine, Chorea, Hysteria, Asthma, Etc., by B. K. Rachford, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Children, Medical College of Ohio, University of Cincinnati, Pediatrist to the Cincinnati, Good Samaritan and Jewish Hospitals, Member of American Pediatric Society, Association of American Physicians, etc. New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 241-243 West Twentythird Street. 1905.

This is a republication in book form of a series of instructive papers on the subject which originally appeared in the Archives Pediatrics under the title of "Some Physiological Factors of the Neuroses of Childhood."

Charaka-Samhita (Translated into English), published by Avinash Chandra Kaviratna, editor of the Charaka-Samhita and of Susruta-Samhita (in original) with Commentaries; Bengali and Hindi Translator of Charaka-Samhita and of Susruta-Samhita; editor of Chikitsa-Sammilani (Medical Journal in Bengali); Practitioner of the Hindu System of Medicine, etc., etc.. etc. Calcutta: 200 Cornwallis Street. Printed by B. N. Nandi at the Kaviratna Press, 12 Simla Street, Bye-Lane. (The right of reproduction is reserved).

The successive parts are being published at such long intervals that it is difficult to keep track of the relationship between them. Each part, however, is interesting in itself and after the work is completed it will form one of the most interesting volumes in the English language relating to oriental medicine.

Practical Massage in Twenty Lessons.-By Hartvig Nissen, Instructor and Lecturer in Massage and Gymnastics at Harvard University Summer School; Director of Physical Training, Brookline Public Schools; Former Acting Director of Physical Training, Boston Public Schools; Former Instructor of Physical Training at Johns Hopkins University and Wellesley College; Former Director of the Swedish Health Institute, Washington, D. C., etc., etc. Author of "Swedish Movement and Massage Treatment," "A, B, C of Swedish Educational Gymnastics," "Rational Home Gymnastics," etc. With 46 Original Illustrations. 168 Pages. 12mo. Price, Extra Cloth, $1.00, net. F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.

Such disorders constitute the bane of our modern civilization.

In this series of monographs, these disorders are considered in a manner which is at once scientific and practical. They are based upon exhaustive experiments and bedside observations carried on under the direction of Professor von Noorden, who is eminent both as a pathologist and as a clinician.

A Treatise on Pharmacal Jurisprudence with a Thesis on the Law in General, by Harley R. Wiley, A. B., L. L. B,, Lecturer on Pharmacal Jurisprudence, University of California. San Francisco, Cal.: The Hicks-Judd Co., Publishers, 21-23 First Street, 1904. Price $2.50.

As far as we are able to learn, this is the first work on the subject ever published in any language. The author has entered upon a new and important field. We feel that the retail druggist should purchase this book before he realizes the actual need of the information which it contains. Those who wait until they find themselves in legal difficulties will read the pages with very much the same feeling as the man who locks the barn after the horse is stolen. Of course, a chapter is devoted to the subject of "Who Owns the Prescription?", but the case is not settled, as the author points out that the courts of this country have not as yet had occasion to render a final decision. Meantime, the common law applies and gives the physician the same proprietary right in a prescription that an author has in a copyrighted book.

Practice of Medicine.- A Manual for Students and Practitioners. By Hughes Dayton, M. D., Principal to the Class in Medicine, New York Hospital, Out-Patient Department; Clinical Assistant in Medicine, Vanderbilt Clinic, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Series edited by Victor Cox Pedersen, A. M., M. D., Instructor in Surgery and Anesthetist and Instructor in Ane-thesia at the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital; Genito-Urinary Surgeon to the OutPatient Departments of the New York and the Hudson Street Hospitals: Anesthetist to the Roosevelt Hospital. Lea Brothers & Co., New York and Philadelphia.

There is no class of books more thoroughly revised and more thoroughly kept up with the times than the series which at one time was known by the general

name of quiz books but now are given various names to avoid the term "quiz." Authors have learned to give an astonishing amount of accurate information in a way which enables students to use these books in following lectures and in preparing for examinations.

The volume before us is open to but one criticism which we have observed, that it, the omission of doses in the metric system. It is all right to retain approximate doses in the old style of weights and measures, but no medical work pretending to be abreast the times should omit the metric system.

Hare's Therapeutics.-A Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics, with Especial Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and their Employment upon a Rational Basis. By Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., B. Sc., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Physician to the Jefferson Hospital, etc. New (11th) Edition, Enlarged and Thoroughly Revised to Accord with the Eighth Decennial Revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, 1905. In One Octavo Volume of 910 Pages, with 113 Engravings and Four Colored Plates Cloth, $4.00, net; Leather, $5.00, net; Half Morocco, $5.50, net; Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co. 1905.

The competent pharmacist is in very much the same position, as far as the study of therapeutics is concerned as is the undergraduate in medicine. He is looking for practical facts and is not fully posted on the subject of medicine in general. Thus the pharmacist requires as a reference book on therapeutics a work which will give him important information without his being buried in theory. Dr. Hare possesses the invaluable faculty of intuitively discriminating between the important and the unimportant, between the practical and the impractical. He wrote the first edition of his therapeutics in the belief that most text and reference books on the subject treat of it as if the student were already a skilled physician or experienced as a pharmacologist, thus our readers will

Medical College, Philadelphia, Member of the Committee of Revision of the U. S. P.; Charles Caspari, Jr., Ph. G., Phar. D., Professor of Pharmacy in the Maryland College of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Member of the Committee of Revision of the U. S. P.; and Henry H. Rusby, M. D., Professor of Botany and Materia Medica in the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, Member of the Committee of Revision of the U. S. P. Imperial octavo, 1858 pages, 478 engravings. Cloth, $7.25, net; Leather, $8.00, net. Thumb-Index, 50 cents extra. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers. 1903. The new edition of the National Dispensatory, now known as the National Standard Dispensatory, is before us, and we have had frequent occasion to refer to its pages since its arrival. In each instance we have met with satisfactory results.

It would require much time to critically examine and extended space to carefully review every feature of this volume which is issued as a successor to the National Dispensatory of Stille & Maisch. We believe that the volume is one which will appeal especially to teachers and all authors including, of course, every pharmacist who contributes to the pharmaceu tical press and the proceedings of state associations. Much space is devoted to subjects which are as yet beyond the every day work of the busy pharmacist. As an example, we refer to the admirable treatise on olea volatilia. The retail druggist is beginning to understand that volatile oils must be carefully selected and properly preserved in order to insure the dispensing of prime goods, but we fear that few of them would make use of more than a small fraction of the information contained in the thirty-five pages which this dispensatory devotes to that subject. On the other hand we find in the volume many illustrations of new pharmaceutical apparatus that can not help but interest and prove of practical value to the busy dispenser and the retail manufacturer. The attention given to pharmacognosy, as applied to determining the iden

adapted for drug store use where the demands on therapeutics are in the nature of an emergency rather than that of routine medical practice.

The volume is divided into two main sections, the first dealing with drugs, remedial measures and foods for the sick, and the second with applied therapeutics, or the use of drugs in the treatment of disease. Each section is arranged alphabetically to facilitate reference, and the two are closely cross-referenced, so that complete information on any point is easily found. There are two indexes, one of drugs and the other of diseases and remedies. The latter is annotated, and thus affords at a glance a suggestive list for selection of the most appropriate agent according to the indications of the case. It would be difficult to conceive of a work answering the needs of students and practitioners better than this, either in plan or exection.

The National Standard Dispensatory.-Containing the Natural History, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Actions and Uses of Medicines, including those recognized in the Pharmacopoeias of the United States, Great Britain and Germany, with numerous references to other Foreign Pharmacopoeias. In accordance with the United States Pharmacopoeia, Eighth Decennial Revision of 1905 by authorization of the Convention. By Hobart Amory Hare, B. Sc., M. D, Professor of Therapeutics in the Jefferson

doubt, will be more appreciated by wholesalers, manufacturers and pharmaceutical writers. The articles on Antitoxin and Vaccines strengthen the therapeutic value of the work for physicians and, at the same time, give useful information for pharmacists. The introductory remarks under the heading of Antitoxins are of a historic nature briefly covering the progress of bacteriology and the the theory of Antitoxins. The article on Vaccines while brief is also largely of historic nature, giving in a few words information covering many pages of special books on the subject.

The

An appendix of sixty pages contains all necessary tables, formulas, tests, etc., for practical use. general index, of about ninety pages, contains full reference, to every page in the text, making it a repertory of the world's knowledge of drugs, and the therapeutical index, of about forty pages, contains, under the name of each disease, references to all the medicines employed in its treatment, leading the reader to the points in the text where the conditions indicating their employment and choice will be found. The volume is embellished with no fewer than 478 new and instructive engravings in the text.

THE MARKET REVIEW.

With This Issue We Extend the Compliments of the season, wishing all of our readers, A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.

In the January, 1906 issue, we will publish a review of the market for the year 1905. We trust that all of our readers will have a prosperous New Year-that 1906 will show a large improvement in the volume of sales, and that the profits will be commensurate therewith, and be generally more satisfactory than the year just passing, which, from reports, we believe has not been quite up to the record shown during 1904.

The drug trade has improved the last thirty days, and general conditions would indicate that the prospects for the coming year are rather flattering.

The subjoined list covers the principal items on which there have been price changes together with the current prices thereon in this market:

Quinine. Declined rather unexpectedly, although we stated in our recent issues that we could see no reasons why there should be an advance. This decline was brought about by the action of a leading American manufacturer, due to the course of the bark sales abroad.

Quotations are on the basis of the bulk in 100-oz. cans, 19 to 20c; 5-oz. cans, 26c; 1-oz. vials, 31c.

Opium. Slightly easier, due, it is said, to domestic competition. Gum, 12% test, is offered at $3.50; powdered, $4.30 to $4.45.

Morphine.-Unchanged; quotable in s at $2.55 to $2.60: 1-oz. vials, 25c per oz. less.

Alcohol.―Unchanged; quotable in bbls. at $2.64; bbls., $2.67; 10-gal. cans, $2.80; 5-gal. cans; $2.85;

containers, inclusive, with the usual allowance of 8c per gallon for cash in ten days.

Wood.-Unchanged; quotable in bbls., 70c; bbls., 80c; 10-gal. cans, 88c; 5-gal. cans, 95c; containers inclusive.

Arnica. Declined; quotable in bales, 11 to 13 to 16c in smaller lots.

Bark, Bayberry. - Advanced; quotable at 28c; powdered, 19 to 29c, as to quantity.

Cottonroot, declined; quotable at 20c; powdered at

30c.

Fringe Tree, materially higher; quotable at 35c; powdered, 41c.

White Pine; quotable at 10 to 14c, as to quantity. Ground, lc higher.

Berries, Juniper.—Advanced; quotable in bags at 43 to 9 to 12c, in a small way.

Buds, Balm of Gilead,--Advanced to 53 to 58 to 63c, as to quantity.

Camphor. Advanced.-Bulk quotable in barrel lots at 84 to 88 to 92c in small lots; M. B. 1-lb. boxes, 1-oz. cakes, 93 to 96c.

Cloves.-Advanced.-Zanzibar, in bales, 17 to 21 to

24c, as wanted,

Cocaine. Declined 25c per ounce since our last issue, but indications point to an early recovery, and there is confidence in higher prices. Quotable in oz. vials at $3.80; -oz. vials, per oz., $4.00.

Ergot.-Advanced to 65 to 70c; powdered, 70 to 75c. Ether. Advanced 5c; Coml., 5-lb. cans, 77c; 1-lb. cans, 81c; conc. for anæsthesia lb. cans, 87c; -lb cans, lb., 99c.

Flowers, Lavender.-Advanced to 32 to 36c, as to quantity.

Saffron.-Advanced; American in mats, quotable at $1.22 to $1.35 to $1.45, in small lots.

Valencia; quotable in lbs., $10.25; ozs., 75c. Hamamelis Water. (Ext. Witch Hazel). — Advanced; U. S. P. requirement is 15% grain alcohol. The M. B. Diamond Brand has always contained this percentage and the quality has always been satisfactory. Quotable in bbls. at 63c; bbls., 68c; 10-gal. kegs, 75c, 5-gal. kegs, 80c. Packages inclusive.

Hops.-Reduced; bulk, quotable at 26 to 30c. loose pressed, -lb. packages, 28 to 33c; 2-oz. packages, 33 to 38c.

Leaves, Buchu.-Short; advanced to 28 to 32c. Menthol.-Declined; quotable at $3.75. This price may be shaded in large lots.

Oils, Essential, Anise.—Advanced to $1.70 to $1.80, as to quantity.

Bergamot.-Advanced; M. B. Reina is quotable at $2.85 to $3.05; Sanderson's 20c higher.

Camphor.-In sympathy with the gum this item is materially higher; quotable at 24 to 40c, as to quantity.

Cloves.-Advanced to $1.15 to $1.30, as to quantity. Citronella. Declined; 1,000-lb. drums quotable at 42 to 53 to 60c, in a small way.

Juniper Berries.—Advanced to $1.80 to $1.90.

Lavender Flowers.-Advanced to $1.85 to $3.00, as to quantity.

Orange.-Advanced; Reina, M. B., quotable at $2.65 to $3.00. Sanderson's, 15c per lb. higher.

Spearmint.—Advanced to $5.50 to $5.75, as to quan

tity.

Oils, Heavy, Cod Liver.-Norwegian declined; quotable in bbl. lots at $33.50; 10-gal. lots, $1.65; 5-gal. lots, $1.70; less quantity per gal., $1.85.

Castor.-Advanced 2c per gal. No. 1 in bbls. quotable at 89c; 10-gal. packages, 95c; 5-gal. cans, 95c; No. 3, quotable in bbls. at 82c; 10-gal. lots, 86c; 5-gal. lots,

88c.

Cotton Seed.-W. W., in bbls., 42c; W. Y., 40 to 56 to 58c, in a small way.

Linseed. -Declined lc since our last issue; raw in bbls. is offered at 35c; boiled, 36c.

Olive, Malaga.-Advanced; green or yellow quotable in bbl. lots at 71 to 86 to 92c, in a small way. Root, Burdock.-Advanced 20c; powdered, 22c. Ipecac.-Advanced; Rio or Carthagena quotable at $2.40 to $2.60; powdered, $2.50 to $2.70.

Calamus. Declined; extra bleached, 35c. Yellow Dock.-Advanced to 15 to 17c; ground, 18 to 22c.

Seed, Anise, German. -Advanced; quotable in bags, 7 to 10 to 13c, as wanted.

Hemp.-Advanced to 4 to 8c, as to quantity. Pumpkin.-Declined to 13 to 15c; powdered, 30c. Rape, Eng.-Declined; bags, 5 to 10 to 12c. German, bags, 4 to 7 to 10c.

Shellac, T. N., only.-Advanced; case lots, 46 to 51 to 57c, in a small way. V. S. O., slightly reduced; in case lots to 57 to 65 to 70c; bleached, 47 to 53c.

Silver Nitrate.-Advanced 5c per lb.. M. B. quotable at $6.82; P. & W., $6.98.

Spermaceti.-Advanced to 35 to 40c, as to quantity. Tannin.-Declined to 62 to 67c; cartons, 77c. Wax, Bayberry.-Advanced to 62 to 70c, as to quantity.

White Lead.-Advanced, due to the firm market for pig lead. The well-known brands are quotable in 500-lb. lots at 7c.

Glassware.—As the season advances the market stiffens, and indications point to still higher prices. Advances have taken place and the undertone to the situation is very firm with a material change in discounts ruling in this market. High-grade prescription ware is jobbing in 5-case lots at 75, 10 and 5%; less than 5 cases, 75 and 10%; broken cases, 70 and 5%. Flasks are quotable at 80 and 20%; 10-case lots, 85% discount.

Window Glass.-We note a material reduction in this market, and at the present prices we recommend the purchase of window glass. Quotations are for the first or second bracket single strength, A or B, 90 and 25% discount. All single above second bracket; and all double, 90 and 15%.

Turpentine.-Quotably lower, having been reduced 6c per gallon since our last issue. Bbls., 69c; bbls., 73c; 10-gal. cans, 77c; 5-gal. cans, 81c; containers inclusive.

STRAY ITEMS.

J. H. Mitchell, Ph. G., is the registered pharmacist and graduate in pharmacy in charge of that department of the prosperous business of Woolley & Mitchell, at Traer, Ia.

C. C. Lake, representing The Searle & Hereth Co., was in St. Louis recently. Mr. Lake had much to do with the success of the entertainment feature of the I. Ph. A. during the Chicago meeting last August.

New Orleans Pharmacists are experiencing a decided falling off in business compared to one year ago. This is, of course, due to the late yellow fever epidemic, and we trust that our friends in the Crescent City will soon enjoy the return of former prosperous days.

Young Wade, of Webb City, Mo., is not only a recently registered pharmacist but he is recently married. His wife was Miss Edna Smith, of Marshfield, Mo., prior to November 15 when they were wedded. Mr. Wade has joined the state association and also the A. Ph. A., so that he will soon be thoroughly in touch with pharmaceutical affairs.

Columbus (O.) News.

George Laubach, member of the fim of Laubach & Boyd, druggists, Wooster, died very unexpectedly at his home in that city November 15.

An Overdose of Cough Syrup is supposed to be the cause of death of a two-year-old child in Cincinnati, recently. Enthralled by the pleasant taste of the medicine, it secured the bottle and drank the entire contents.

Dr. I. L. St. John, of Tiffin, claims to be the oldest active business man in Ohio and probably the oldest He is 102 years old and has active druggist alive. amassed a fortune in his business there in the past fifty years.

Out of a Class of 110 who were examined for pharmacists' certificates at the meeting of the board of pharmacy, October 10 and 11, only thirteen passed. Twenty-five assistants were examined and only two passed. Fewer applicants passed at this examination than at any previous examination in the history of the board. The following is the list:

Pharmacists.-E. P. Stephenson, Dayton; Milo Miller, Spencer

ville; Carl C. Portner, Painesville; Edward J. Windisch, San

dusky; Huber Serodino, Cincinnati; Elmer O. Jolley, Dayton; Otto E. Muhlhan, Cleveland; Ralph M. Reahard, Dayton; Walter S. Metzler, Coshocton; B. E. Hurt, Cleveland; Abert Trachsel, Canton; Harry F. Plum, Bellefontaine; Theo. P. Babbitt, Cleveland.

Satisfactory Assistants.-Henry C. Fehr, Toledo; Charles A. Stammel, Jr., Cincinnati.

The following may receive assistant certificates on their pharmacists examination, if they so desire:

Lee W Funk, Columbus; Walter A. Braunlin, Portsmouth; J. C. Inman, Bradner; Leopold G. Kutza, Lorain; Dominic B. Kubat, Cleveland; Carl E. Schmidt, Canton.

The A. Ph. A. secretary is Professor Charles Caspari, Jr., Baltimore, Md.