whatever and still worse met with a flat denial from these manufacturers that they had ever agreed to adopt any plan of the Universal Trade Association to prevent cutting. At a meeting Tuesday of the committee in whose hands the organization was trusted it was practically decided to drop the matter, but there are still among the local druggists some who have hopes. The leaders, however, are disgusted with the lack of interest shown by the manufacturers and openly declare that it is not their intention or never was their intention to co-operate with the retailers in putting an end to price cutting.

One leading druggist, who operates two of the largest stores in town, is earnestly endeavoring to get others to co-operate with him in putting out remedies under their individual labels. These he says they will sell at cost rather than handle certain patent medicines. So far he claims to have received substantial encouragement and the matter is to be pushed for all it is worth.

The Elkins Drug Company at the corner of State and Van Buren streets are exhibiting in their show window a remnant of the Seven Sutherland Sisters. The longevity of these ladies is the subject of probably more speculation than their wonderful hair suits. They have been before the public nearly twenty years and it must soon occur to their manager that he can just as well put up and advertise a remedy for lengthening years as well as hairs, and thus use the sisters as testimonials for both remedies at the same time. Mr. Elkins is satisfied that a life lengthening compound would meet with a wonderful sale.

Chas. F. Foskett & Co., 155 State street, are making a brave fight against cutters and holding their own in spite of many disadvantages under which they labor. They not only have one of the most expensive stores on the street, but they are in the midst of the large department stores nearly all of which have drug departments. Fortunately there is one feature of their business in which they have little competition. Since the opening of the store something over a year ago they have made a valuable reputation on soda water and other soft drinks.

A nice question has been raised by retail grocers in several Illinois towns as to what constitutes grocers' drugs. The State pharmacy law prevents grocers and others from dealing in medicines. Not long ago a grocer was fined for selling Epsom salts, and others have been prosecuted for selling sulphur, copperas, quinine, and similar commodities. Druggists are of course interested in preventing the handling of drugs by grocers, and are zealous in their efforts to prevent them from handling drugs of any description.

The drug clerks of Chicago have organized for mutual protection and benefit. According to reports it is the first purpose of the founders of the organization to secure employment for registered drug clerks out of employment and prevent the violation of State laws in the engagement of clerks not duly qualified. The president of the new association is I. Platt, Pulaski's Pharmacy, 723 W. 18th street. F. A. Lemke is secretary.

The handsome new store of C. L. Clancy at 1249 North Clark street is the latest addition to that rapidly developing portion of the city, and the residents are showing their appreciation by giving it liberal patronage.

F. H. Tuthill of Morrison, Plummer & Co. has resumed business after a severe illness.

A new store is being fitted up at the corner of Sixty-Third street and Cottage Grove avenue for Curti & Co., who will remove from their present quarters on Twenty-second street.

Chas. L. Feldkamp, a prominent North Side druggist, has confessed judgment for $8,226, and his stock, including that of two large modern stores, will be sold.

Among the recent incorporations in the proprietary medicine line is the Franciscan Herb Medicine Company, with a capital stock of $100,100.

H. B. Craig has succeeded George Ulmstead in business at Hoyne avenue and Harrison street, and will make some handsome improvements.

T. V. Wooten, 943 W. Madison street, was elected president of the Retail Druggists' Association at their last meeting.

The Jackson Park Pharmacy, operated for some time by Oscar F. Schmidt & Co., has been purchased by H. F. Krueger.

J. P. Huhen, a well known Chicago druggist, and Mrs. A. F. Collingham, also of Chicago, were married recently.

Trade Notes.

The A. Ashfield Baker Co., 140 William street, New York, advertise "Everything in Sundries." This is laconic but sufficient for the purpose. They will supply anything in the line of druggists' sundries that may be called for. Test them with a trial order.

A card from A. W. Balch & Co., importers and jobbers of wines and liquors, will be found on the front cover page. Druggists who wish to stock wines and liquors of medicinal quality should send their orders direct to A. W. Balch & Co., 84 Front street, New York.

Every variety of crude, crushed, powdered and pressed roots, herbs, barks, etc., can be obtained through the United States Botanic Depot, Waiter Adams & Co., 105 William street, New York. Druggists I will do well to bear this in mind when their stock of herbs gets low.

Druggists who put up liquid specialties of any kind will be interested in the advertisement of James M. Maconnel, manufacturer of Clough's Patent Folding Corkscrews, which appears on page 9 of this issue. These useful little articles are much appreciated by the public and enhance the selling qualities of many proprietary compounds. Write for prices on quantity lots bearing your name and address.

Druggists everywhere are giving their best attention at the moment to the condition of their soda fountains and soda water requisites. The advertisement of Dr. H. L. Bowker & Co., manufacturing chemists, 297 Franklin street, Boston, is therefore timely and interesting. We have always admired the artistic beauties of Dr. Bowker's advertisements, but this one, our readers will agree, surprises all. As an advertisement it should prove most attractive and profitable.

tage of dealing direct. Price lists giving full particulars will be sent to any drug. gist who mentions this paper when writing.

Insect Powder Boxes.

If you use Insect Powder Cans 01 Dredge Boxes, you want those which are the least trouble to fill and handle. Joseph G. Taite's Sons, Philadelphia, Pa., manufacture a most convenient and handsome box, as represented herewith. They have a New Style Sifting Top with Extra Lid of Gold Lacquered Tin. There are no wheels to break your finger nails. They are tall and shapely, and made to hold the following quantities of Persian powder, viz. 2 oz., 3 oz., 4 oz. and 8 oz.

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Druggists who are putting up insect or other powders will find them a very conconvenient and attractive package.

Send for prices and for samples mentioning this paper.

Pure Pepsin.

The Cudahy Pharmaceutical Company South Omaha, Neb., with branch offices at 57 North Moore street, New York, have an interesting announcement in this issue with regard to the pepsin test adopted by that firm January, 1893. The point is made that Cudahy & Company were the first to use and recommend the test now official in the United States Pharmacopoia, the method of the revised United States Pharmacopoeia, being in almost every detail their own. They state that their facilities for producing digestive ferments are unusually large, every grade of pepsin from ro to Todo being manufactured to supply the demand. Among the numerous pharma ceutical products which can be obtained in bulk on favorable terms from the Cudahy Pharmaceutical Company are pepsin, pancreatin, beef extract, beef peptone, wine of peptone, and ox gall. The firm may be addressed at either of the addresses given above.

A New Menthol Inhaler.

Sharpe & Dohme, manufacturing chemists, Baltimore, have brought out a novelty in menthol inhalers which is sure

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VOL. XXIV. No. 18.

NEW YORK, MAY 5, 1894.

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IN our editorial columns of February 22 we called attention to the fraud which was being perpetrated upon saloon keepers and small dealers through the South in the sale of what purported to be formulas for the manufacture of wines and liquors. For the information upon which this article was based we were indebted to the courtesy of LEHN & FINK, whose name appeared on the printed sheet of formulas, the title of the firm having been unwarrantedly used by the perpetrators of the fraud. This firm has been for a long time actively endeavoring to capture the perpetrator of this fraud and have him punished, and prior to giving us the facts in the case had laid them before the police authorities of this city in the hopes that the operator might be apprehended.

For the public spirit shown by LEHN & FINK in this matter and for their prompt action on other occasions when frauds had been attempted on the drug trade, LEHN & FINK well deserve the thanks of everyone interested. It is with much regret in view of the foregoing that we note that the Deutsch Amerikanische Apotheker Zeitung of April 15 has quoted the editorial referred to in so garbled a manner as to fail to give this firm the credit which is due them for having exposed the rascally operations referred to, and in fact the phraseology used is such as might possibly convey the impression to the minds of those who have not read the original article that LEHN & FINK themselves were somewhat to blame in the matter. It is with a view of expressing more distinctly our thanks to this latter firm for their praiseworthy action in the matter that we again direct attention to it.

WHOLE No. 298*

course of questions on the elementary aspects of pharmacy and the allied sciences with some questions of a more practical character. In order to accomplish this the questions of each week's issue deal with the elementary phases of the several branches of science enumerated in the first series of questions propounded. These are Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Materia Medica; Therapeutics, Posology and Metrology.

The questions on Physics, Chemistry Botany, Pharmacognosy, Pharmocology and Therapeutics, have already been printed. This week we have to do especially with Pharmacy. The relation between several of the different branches of science enumerated is so intimate that a knowledge of the one necessarily implies more or less knowledge of the other. The general trend of the questions asked, however, will continue to follow the scheme laid out.

Having once made the round of the ten branches referred to they will again be taken up in the same order, the questions being of a rather more advanced character than were the first.

Formalin as a Disinfectant.*

BY DR. S. RIDEAL,

Lecturer at St. George's Hospital, London. Experiments that I have made with formalin as a disinfectant and preservative agent have yielded some very interesting results, and I am fully satisfied that in it we possess a bactericide and antiseptic of considerable value. When added in very minute proportions to substances capable of undergoing putrefactive change it prevents such decomposition for a considerable time. This preservation may be effected in the case of liquids by adding a small amount of a diluted formalin solution to them, and in the case of solids either by spraping them from time to time with a weak solution, or by suspending them in an atmosphere impregnated with the formalin vapor. Thus, for example, I have kept beef tea for upward of a fortnight free from smell and quite clear with an addition of 1 cc. of a 1 per cent. solution to 100 cc. of the liquid. This corresponds to a dilution of 1 part in 10,000, and would be effected by adding one fluid ounce of the 4 per cent. formalin solution to 40 fluid ounces of beef tea. Milk containing the same amount of formalin has remained sweet for twelve days. I have also succeeded in keeping a piece of raw beefsteak perfectly free from any taint for upward of seventeen days by suspending it under a bell-jar above a little cotton wool impregnated with a few drops of the strong formalin solution. In my experiments with pathogenic organisms a solution of formalin containing 1 part in 15,000 has been found powerful enough to arrest the growth of most of the species examined. Experiments with the vapor have shown that in this form it is extremely toxic to micro-organisms in the air and adhering to walls and articles of furniture in rooms. I believe that its use in this direction will be found very valuable, as at present there is no gaseous disinfectant which can be recommended for this purpose that has no injurious effect upon such materials. I have also had an opportunity of trying the effect of formalin as a preservative of specimens from the post-mortem room, and find that a 1 per cent. solution is very effective for this purpose. The liquid does not become turbid nor dark colored, and after three weeks' constant use and exposure to the air its strength had only fallen from 1.0 to 0.45 per cent.

Liqueurs in a New Light.

The Mineral Water Trade Recorder for April contains an interesting article on the blending of liqueurs. It says: In the preparation of liqueurs the first and great consideration is the perfuming and flavoring. It is necessary to know how the various substances to be mixed together harmonize and agree with each other. It has often been observed that an aromatic substance when isolated is far from agreeable, but on the addition of some other substance, quite different may be in its qualities, the perfume is developed and made more perfect.

It is on this principle that the quince alone is unpleasant-a little clove relieves and corrects the odors; while the after taste of cinnamon is also corrected by cloves; vanilla, when ground up with sugar, is more aromatic than when the latter is omitted; and the bitterness of absinthe (wormwood) is masked by the perfume obtained from the rind of a

*London Therapist.

lemon. The working out of these principles gave rise, in the latter part of the last century, to a system which claimed the power of producing as many liqueurs as there are musical airs: and a French writer thought it possible to arrange a music of flavors analogous to the music of sound. He said: 66 The charm of liqueurs depends on the flavors being mixed in harmonious proportions. Flavors consist in the more or less intense vibrations of salts which act on the nerves of taste, just as sounds are produced by vibrations in the air which act on the nerves of hearing; there may be, then, a music for the tongue and palate, as there is a music for the ear. It is very probable that flavors, in order to excite different sensations in the mind, have. like sonorous bodies, their generating dominating notes-major, minor, grave, acute tones; even intervals, and, in fact, all that may produce concord and discord.

"These flavors are: 1, acid, ut; 2, heavy, re: 3, tart, mi; 4, bitter, fa; 5, sweet, sol; 6, harsh, la ; 7, pungent, si.

In the music of flavors the thirds, fifths, and octaves produce the most pleasant concords, precisely as in the music of sound. Mix the acid and sweet which answers to ut... sol, 1... 5, lemon, for example, with sugar, and you have a simple but most charming concord-a major fifth. Mix the acid with the tart or subacid, as the juice of the bigarade orange with honey, for example, and you will have a tolerably pleasant flavor analogous to ut, mi, 1-3, a major third. Mix the sweet with the pungent, and the concord will be less pleasant. To render it more agreeable, raise or lower one or other of the flavors half a tone, answering to flats and sharps, and you will discover a marked difference, etc.

"The discords are not less similar in either species of music; in the music of sound the fourth is a disagreeable cacophony; in the music of flavors the mixture of acid with bitter, of vinegar with wormwood, produces an abominable compound. In a word, look on a well prepared liqueur as a species of musical air."

Photography of Colors.

The process of photography of colors, discovered a few years ago by M. Lippmann, has been considerably improved, and has now been brought to such a degree of perfection that with it the composite colors of natural objects, such as flags, flowers, and fruits, a parrot of many colored plumage and a church window in four colors, red, green, blue and yellow, are photographically reproduced. In the hands of M. M. Lumière it has been ap plied successfully to chromolithographs, natural landscapes, and portraits. The time of exposure required has been reduced from thirty minutes a few months ago to from three to five minutes. While so much has been accomplished in this art, many requirements remain to be fulfilled: the time of exposure to be further reduced; accurate isochromatic plates to be obtained, and a way found of taking proofs on paper. The colored proofs have the property of the old-fashioned daguerreotypes, of not being clearly visible except when viewed at the right angle. This property, however, has the great advantage that it makes retouching of the picture impossible. To remedy the inconvenience arising from it, M. Lippmann has devised an apparatus for viewing the pictures by the aid of which the proper conditions of the angle can always be obtained.

The spices are first bruised, then mixed with the mushroom juice and shallots, and the whole allowed to simmer for one hour in a covered vessel, Strain into suitable bottles when cool.

Booth's Hydrostatic Bottle Filler. C. A. P.-T. & Co. inform us that information concerningthe above article can be had by addressing C. F. Booth, P. O. Box 1308, New York.

Calisaya La Rilla.-R. A. McR. writes: "Will you kindly publish a formula for elixir calisaya to resemble the prepara tion sold as Calisaya La Rilla."

The following is said to afford a similar compound:

Alcohol

Fuller's earth..

...

.640 grains

I ounce

4 drachms

10 minims

7 fluid ounces 45 minims

10 minims

5 minims

q. s.

q. s. 4 drams Mix the calisaya and lime intimately, add 31⁄2 ounces of water, stir well and let dry slowly. Percolate with a mixture of the acid and alcohol, adding sufficient alcohol to bring the bulk up to 4 fluid ounces. To this add the oils, and, after shaking thoroughly the glycerin, syrup, and sufficient water to make one pint: finally add the Fuller's earth, shake well and filter.

Acid Phosphate of Lime.-J. W. W. writes: " 'You publish on page 43 of the issue of January 25 five recipes for baking powder, and one of the articles called for is "acid phosphate of lime." Will you kindly inform me what it is and where it can be bought? I have made inquiries at two of the largest wholesale drug firms in Chicago and they could give me no information as to its component parts."

Acid phosphate of lime as understood by chemists is the mixture of substances formed after phosphatic rocks (chiefly calcium phosphate) are treated with sulphuric acid. The sulphuric acid removes from the tricalcium phosphate one or two

Anæsthetic Salve.-A. H. B. writes: "Can you give me a formula that will embrace the following ingredients that can be poured into boxes while warm and remain perfectly mixed: Vaseline wax, resin, camphor, carbolic acid, and an anææsthetic similar to stramonium."

We know of no substance capable of replacing stramonium, as the drug has a remedial action peculiarly its own. The ingredients named can be made into suitable combination by taking for every 5 parts of the vaseline 3 parts of a mixture of wax and resin, 1 part of camphor, 1 per cent. of carbolic acid and, say, 5 per cent. of extract of stramonium seed. The extract should be rubbed up with sufficient dilute alcohol to liquefy before adding it to the other ingredients.

Pile Ointment. A. H. B.-The following credited to Barré is highly recom

mended:

Potassium iodide..

gr. xxx 3

τη viii ... gr. viii

.........

3

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Make into an ointment, with which the piles are to be rubbed morning and night. Infusion of Ipecac from the Powder.J. L. P. writes: "I received the following prescription recently :

Infus. rad. ipecac.... Syrup tolu...

..1.0-180 gms. 25 gms.

Sig. Tablespoonful every 3 hours. Knowing that my ipecac root had been in stock for about 8 years, probably more, I made the infusion from the powdered root, which I knew to be fresh, taking the precaution to triturate the powder with water to avoid lumping.

The physician who wrote the prescription came to me a few days afterward and asked me how I had made the infusion. I told him as above stated. He claimed that I had done wrong; that I had substituted; that the infusion had no no taste of ipecac and that it had no expectorating effect whatever.

I claimed that I did not substitute; that the taste was marked by the syrup of tolu and that I was correct in my dispensing, except that I did not provide for the fact that the powdered root contains more emetine than the whole root. Please decide."

Although the freshly bruised root of ipecacuanha is to be preferred, when obtainable, for making this infusion, the pharmacist who uses the finely powdered article does not thereby lay himself open

to a charge of substitution, and we think the physician was unnecessarily severe in his criticism. Pharmacists would do well, however, to be governed by the U. S. Pharmacopoeia in the preparation of all galenicals; the general directions for the preparations of infusions provide for the use of the coarsely comminuted substance.

Keeley Cure. A. H. B.-The formula printed in our issue of last week should be corrected in one particular-the amount of fluid extract of cinchona should be increased to 3 fluid ounces. The dose is a teaspoonful.

Brandes Toothache Drops. This is composed of

Powdered pellitory..

Powdered camphor..
Opium.....

Oil of cloves...

..........

Alcohol, enough to make..

....

M. R.

1/4 ounces

I ounce

21⁄2 drams .......75 minims I pint

Macerate for eight days, press out and filter.

Tully's Powder. H. G. C.-This is the Compound Powder of Morphine of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.

Solution of Magnesium Citrate. H. G. C.-We must refer you to the U. S. Pharmacopoeia for a formula for the above.

Bradycrotine. V. H. & E.-We are unable to supply a formula for this compound.

Elixir Lactopeptine Co. F. H. P.—This is a proprietary preparation for which we cannot give you the exact formula. By operating as follows, however, you can produce a preparation closely resembling

Powder the pepsin and pancreatin by rubbing with the sugar of milk, add the diastase, and when they are all reduced to a fine powder and intimately mixed add the acids first to a small portion by rubbing them well together, and then add the remainader and mix.

To make elixir lactopeptine take Powder of lactopeptine (as above).384 grains Glycerin 2 fl. ounces Water. 2 fl. ounces Simple elixir.. ... 12 fl. ounces

Macerate the powder of lactopeptine in the mixed liquids for several days in a warm place. Color with solution of cochineal (see page 193) and filter.

Density of Syrup.-F. H. P. wishes to know how he must proceed to find the density in degrees of a syrup. He instances the rock candy syrup which he uses, saying that the density of it is placed at 32°.

The density of a syrup is best ascertained with the saccharometer, an instrument especially designed for taking the comparative gravity of syrups intended for crystallization.

Correspondence.

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Editor AMERICAN DRUGGIST:

Your Review of the Wholesale Market upon one occasion alone saved us more than five times the price of the journal, i.e., as follows: We were purchasing gum opium and your quotation on the above

saved us $2 exactly. At the same time we were ordering wood alcohol. The best price given us was $1.25; your journal gave it 90 cents per gallon, and as we were buying 20 gallons it amounted to just $7 of a gain. So you can easily see why we have a good opinion of your journal. Your topics are timely and interesting, and above all you have an air of stability, and, as we have learned, thoroughly reliable. SHROM & COMPANY, GREENVILLE, PA., April 23, 1894.

An Incentive to Study. Editor AMERICAN DRUGGIST:

Your "Quiz Box" is such a novelty and such an incentive to study that I have determined to show my appreciation by entering the lists; not with expectation of winning a prize, but for the simple benefit of bringing before my mind the few things I know, as well as the many I do not know.

We have been taking the journal for three years, and I now feel that we cannot do without it. We have not the business transactions of a drug store, but in all other things we need the help and advice often found in its columns.

I am not a graduated pharmacist, nor ever will be, and with but a few stolen moments for study I cannot hope to answer all your questions, but for the sake of spurring myself on I submit what I S. M. T.

can.

HOSPITAL, NEW YORK.

Dissolve the pyrophosphate of iron in the distilled water: dissolve the sulphate of strychnine in a small portion of alcohol by the aid of a test tube and heat, and add this strychnine solution to the remainder of the alcohol and dissolve in this mixture the quinine, then add the spirit of orange. Heat the simple syrup to boiling point (be sure that you reach the boiling point), add to it the alcoholic solution and stir constantly with a glass rod adding gradually the solution of pyrophosphate of iron, now add citric acid in a powdered state and stir until clear, you can now remove heat and allow to cool for about 20 minutes when you must neutralize with aqua ammonia.

Each fluid dram contains one grain of sulphate of quinine, 2 grains of pyrophosphate of iron and of a grain of sulphate of strychnine. This formula differs somewhat from the formula in National Formulary, in that citric acid is used in place of citrate of potash and pyrophosphate of iron is used in place of phosphate of iron, also sulphate of quinine in place of hydrochlorate of quinine-the strychnine strength of the finished product is some different; altogether there is not much difference in the two; and the ease with which my formula is prepared overbalances the slight differences.

BELTON, TEXAS, April 14, 1894.

A. J. EMBREE.

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Answers to Questions; Fourth Series.

46. Calyx (sepals), corolla (petals), stamens, pistils and torus. These are the distinctive organs of a flower unless the ovary and its ovules (part of the pistil) and anther (part of the stamen) be so designated.

47 (a) When all the organs of the same name are alike in size, shape and position, the flower is regular.

(b) When all the whorls have the same number of parts or multiples thereof the flower is symmetrical.

48. A flower is incomplete when it lacks a calyx or corolla, or both.

An imperfect flower is one wanting either stamens or pistils.

49. A stamen having an anther without a filament is sessile.

50. Monandrous flower has but one stamen.

Polyandrous flower has twenty or more stamens.

51. The peculiar granular dust or, sometimes, sticky mass, found within the anther which fertilizes the ovules.

52. That portion of a pistil between the stigma and ovary.

53. The stigma is the upper, glandular, or vascular end of the pistil designed for the reception of the pollen.

54. Monogynous means having but one pistil. Hexagynous means having six pistils.

55. A gymnospermous pistil is one in which the ovary is naked and the ovules are borne upon a mere scale, as in the pine and other cone-producing plants.

56. Leaves, roots, bark, flowers and wood are all used, more generally the first four.

57. To the alkaloids, glucosides, salts, oils, gums, resins, etc., which they contain.

58. Stem is that part of a plant which usually grows upward into the air, hav ing nodes and internodes growing by internodular growth and which bears regularly placed appendages for respiration, digestion and reproduction. Some stems, however, are found beneath the surface and serve to perpetuate the plant: calamus and tulip.

Root is that part of the plant which, usually, grows down into the earth, sup

ports the plant and absorbs a portion of its food; in the biennials it is also a store of food for the beginning of next season's growth. Unlike the stem the root has neither nodes nor internodes, its branching is irregular and it seldom originates other organs. It elongates only at the end and then not by the apex, like the stem, but by a layer developed under the apex. Roots are sometimes found above ground, upon the stem, and serve to hold the plant in position or to absorb food from the air, as in rhus and Florida moss.

59. Southern Europe and Asia are the most important sources of supply. (b) Root.

60.

(c) Demulcent and expectorant. (d) Extractum glycyrrhizæ fluidum. Extractum glycyrrhizæ purum. Glycyrrhizinum ammoniatum. Pulvis glycyrrhizæ compositus.

Names of Students whose grade stood 75 on Questions 46 to 60.

W. J. Adams, Manchester, E. Q. Anewalt, Philadelphia.

E. O. Bailey, Bloomington, Ill. James Banks, Mifflintown, Pa. H. J. Barber, Alton, Ontario, Canada. Heywood Boone, Clinton, Ky. John W. Brewer, Lake Preston, S. D. W. E. Bruce, Boston, Mass. J. C. Boyer, Wiconisco, Pa. T. M. Broadus, Gordonsville, Va. William Brown, New York City. G. E Barksdale, Richmond, Va. T. H. Brenneman Harrisburg, Va. Roscoe Brown, Oxford, Pa.

Miss Maude Florence Cain, Lancaster. Pa. Andrew Campbell, Williamsport, Pa. Lester Carde, Woonsocket, R. I. Chas. S. Cogley, Lowell, Mass. W. P. Craig, Indianola, Miss. Chas. L. Chapple, Minneapolis, Minn. W. S. Collin, Mitchell, S. Dak. J. C. Dague, Fredericktown, Ohio. F. L. Dolan, Freeman, Mo. W. H. DeCamp, Mount Morris, N. Y. F. J. Dewberry, Centreville, Tenn.

William E. Gokay, Bennington, Vermont. Max A. Goltz, Winona, Minn. Henry E. Garthoffner, Booneville, Mo.

L. Harding, Fergus Falls. Minn. Frank Hartmann, Middletown, Conn. H. B. Harrop, Columbus, O. Frank L. Harwood, Warren, Mass. Walter Hegeman, Rhinebeck, N. Y. Seymour Hull, Hoo sick Falls, N. Y. G. C. Hodges, Utica, N. Y. Chas. W. Hyde, Sharon, Pa.

Wm. L. Knuth, Springfield, Ohio. W. Frank Krehbiel, Dayton, O

J. W. Latcher, Edinburgh, Saratoga Co., N. Y. A. M. Leine, Honesdale, Pa. C. W. Linchy, Lewisburg, Pa. M. D. Lingler, Philadelphia, Pa. Jno. Lohmann, Jr., Edwardsville, Pa. Nicholas N. Lawery, Schenectady, N. Y. Henry Lampard. Montreal, Canada. H. G. Lavalle, Gouverneur, N Y.

C. J. McCloskey, Jersey City, N. J. John F. Marr, Chillicothe, Ohio. F. H. Mayo, Mulhall, Pa. F. L. Mills, Boston, Mass. Thomas W. Murphy, East Bradey, Pa. John R. Murray, Centreville, Tenn. Arthur Morin, Houghton, Mich.

W. B. Nethery, Toronto Junction, Ont.

Edward L. Page, Lancaster, Pa. P. H. Peters, Henderson, Mich. J. H. Pratt, Birmingham, Ala. T. J. Quirin, Santa Clara, Cal.

A. V. Rand, Wolfville, N. S. M. E. Read, Wauseon, Ohio.

C. D. Sauvinet, New Orleans, La. Clinton Sellers, Kencordino, Ontario. Wm. E. H. Schneider, New York City. Edgar B. Scott, Norfolk, Va. William W. Scott, Highland Falls, N. Y. L. W. Simonds, Providence, R. I. Aber Y. Smith, Clarksburg, W. Va. Clarence O. Snavely, Lebanon, Pa. Moses W. Somers, Boston, Mass. A. W. Walter Spingler, Toronto, Ont. Dan G. Sullivan, Hooke, Mass. Walker L. Stephens. Philadelphia. J. McDonald Scott, Chicago, Ill. S. M. T., St. Peter's Hospital, Albany. W. E. Sniwel, Parsons, Pa. W. A. Sickel, Snow Shoe, Pa.

Lou Taylor, Greenfell, N. W. T. Howard B. Thomas, Syracuse, N. Y. J.W. Thomas, Jr., Norfolk. Va. Miss Edith Tompkins, Jasper, Fla. Walter L. Tichenor, Brooklyn.

W. H. Van Strander, Winsted, Conn. Chas. G. Vernon, Florida, N. Y.

M. D. Martin, Redwood Falls, Minn.

Bertie Ward, Orange, N. J. Miss Emma A. Wiggin, Exeter, N. H. Wood Wiles, Bloomington, Ind. H. A. Woodward, Plainfield, N. J. M. Wayne, Rochester, N. Y.

Frank

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Questions; Seventh Series.

PHARMACY.

References: Special articles in the Dispensatories, Remington's Pharmacy, Heebner's Manual of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Proctor's Pharmacy, Cripp's Galenical Pharmacy, etc.

Define the following terms and give an instance of their application in the preparation of a medicinal substance:

81. Desiccation.

82. Exsiccation.

83. Fusion.

84. Qxidation.

85. Destructive distillation.

86. Sublimation.

87. Lixiviation. 88. Elutriation. 89. Trituration. 90. Contusion.

Pennsylvania.

John C. Quinn of Bellwood, Pa., hae in his new store a set of Bangs' fixtures.

G. L. Ross and Robert C. Dickinson recently opened a drug store at 1120 State street, Erie, Pa.

Arthur B. Hammond, the West Chester (Pa.) pharmacist, has added to his store a set of C. H. Bangs' fixtures of Boston.

Dr. Owen is building an office and drug store room on the property lately bought of C. A. Haught on Jane street, Pt. Marion.

The drug store of Mary Muller of Butler, Pa., presents a very attractive appearance since being improved by a set of C. H. Bangs' fixtures.

J. M. Hilan, the druggist, will move his store from the corner of Main and Centre streets, Shenandoah, to the room made vacant by M. A. Ferry.

Mr. Frank S. Dunkle, of Wellsboro, has purchased the drug store that was sold a few days ago as the property of A. C. Roland, Westfield. Mr. Roland will have charge of the business.

Ex-Postmaster James W., Barnitz of New Oxford has disposed of his drug and stationery store to J. W. Dick, who will move into Mrs. Herman's house on the corner of the Public Square and Hanover street.

J. H. Kirk's new drug store, at the corner of Seventh street and Concord avenue, Chester, is now open and is in full blast. With its new furnishings. new stock, and artistic design, the store is as pretty as a picture.

George Young, who recently passed the best examination of any man in the junior class of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, has returned to his home in Johnstown, and will assist his brother Charles in his store until September. Druggist Young's former clerk, Ralph Anderson, has left for Philadelphia, where he will read medicine.

The store and dwelling house, corner of George street and East Newton avenue, York, recently occupied by Wm. Mitzel & Son, will be remodeled and greatly improved by the owner, Mr. Wm. Givens, and an open front will be put into the building, which will be fitted up for a first-class drug store, which will be occupied by Dr. J. A. Stoner.

Messrs. H. B. Stoner and A. T. G. Hudnutt, who recently purchased the stock and fixtures of the East End Drug store, York, from Dr. J. A. Stoner, removed the room rented by them at the corner of George street and Newton avenue. Dr. Stoner retires entirely from the business and will devote all his time to the practice of medicine.