Trieste, lb................... Copperas, per 100 lb.. It should be understood that the prices quoted in this column are strictly those current in the wholesale. market, and that higher prices are paid for retail lots. The quality of goods frequently necessitates a. considerable range of prices. Citrates, Potash, per lb. Soda, per lb,................... Cobalt, pow'd, lb....... ⚫49 .49 .10 .18 ocaine Muriate, per oz. 5 20 @5.40 Codeine bulk, oz...... 4.00 4.15 ... @ .06 Codeine, eights.... 4.65 @ Cod Liver Oil, Nor Newfoundland .65 @ .70 Colocynth: Oils, Essential: .091⁄2 .16 .08%@ .09 Carbolic Crystals,... .10 @ .11%2 @ .35 .042@ .05 .90 @ 1.371⁄2 English....09 @ Boracic, Whole...... .12X124 Powdered...13 @ Citric, American.... 42.43 .18.18 1.45 1.50 Colchicum, lb........ 16 a •12/@ .17 .13 .06 .10 .II .IL .09 @ .45 .07 @ .85 @ .08 .90 Fenugreek, ib...... Hemp, Russian, lb.. .02 Mustard, yel. Cal. lb. Mustard,brown, Cal. lb............................. Poppy, per lb...... .05%@ Quince, German, lb.. .25 Rape, German, lb.... .03 Rape, English, lb.. Soap, Castile, Mars, mottled, pure, lb.. White, Ib....... Soda Ash, Ib., 48% per 100 lb.. .0234 .03 .04 .03. .044 .03@.04% .0234 .02% .06 @ .c9%@ 1.20 @ 1.25 .0420 .10%@ .I1 @ .00 -14 .11. 06 Citronella, Native.. .27 @ .65 Copaiba................................ Cubeb................ 1.50 @ 1.70 Garden..... .40 2.25 .40 @ .90 Lemon, as to brand.. -951.50 Lemongrass.......... .80.85 Musk, per lb......... 7.00 @ 8.00 Myrbane............................... 17.19 Neroli...............25.00 @35.00 Nutmeg............. 1.80 @ 2.75 Orange, sweet....... 1.40 @ 1.60 Orange, bitter....... 3.25 @ 4.00 Origanum @ Pennyroyal........... Peppermint, bulk.... 2.45 @2.60 HGH.. 2.90 @ 2.95 .10 German, New, lb.. Roman, New.... .17 @ .24 .10 @ .18 .04 @ .08 Rose..... Lavender, Ordinary, per lb. ........ Select, per lb.......15. @ .65 Gambier, 16 Glycerin, bbls, lb .04%@ .04 @ .13 cases, lb.... .13 .15% Grains, Paradise, lb... .06%@ Guarana, lb........... 1.00 Gums: Arabic, sorts......... Asafoetida, lb........ Benzoin, lb.......... Chicle, lb... ... 1.05 .... 8.00 9.00 @ 2.85 ... Sassafras......... .36 @ .40 Sassafras, Artificial.. ... @ .25 Spearmint........... 1.50 1.80 Tansy ................................. 2.50 Wintergreen.. ........ 1.40 Artificial. .80 Wormwood... lb...... @3.00 @ 1.50 @ .87% 2.15 @ 2.25 ..... 2.70 @2.75 @2.75 3.40 Opium, Ordinary, Jobbing, per lb...... 2.70 Opium, Powd., per lb.. 3.20 Phenacetine, per oz... .85 @ 1.00 Prussiate Potash, Yel Ib. Quinine: .20 @ .38 .29 @ .30 .12 @ •45 .06 Fir, Canada, gal.. 3.75 @ Cascara Sagrada, lb. Orange peel..... Sassafras, per lb..... Bicarb. Soda, Engl., lb. Bismuth, Sub. per lb., bulk.. per. lb., bulk..... .07 3.00 .10 3.15 .11 Nit., Bismuth, Sub. Carb., Bleach'g Powd., per lb. .02 @.02/ Gamboge, lb......... •53 Senegal, picked, lb.. sorts, lb.... Shellac, DC, lb...... VSO, lb.... Diam'd I,lb •30/1⁄2@ SS, lb TN, lb Blue Vitriol, lb......... .03@ .03% Borax, refined, lb...... Concentrated, lb..... .07@.08 Brimstone, best 2d, ton 19.50 @20.00 Bromide Potash, Do Bromide Ammonium, mestic, b'lk, lb..... .37 .38 bottles, lb... Garnet. .30 @ .31 ... .25% .27 ... @ .25 •3x @ .56 Turkey.. .48 @ -75 @ 1.65 •45 @ .14 .25 Bleached, lb •30 a Indigo, lb..... " ... low, per lb......... .24%@ .25 Red, per lb. .42 @ .43 Quicksilver, flasks, per •45 @ .46 Domestic, bulk, oz... Roots, Aconite, lb..... 2.40 @2.50 .45 @ .46 .30 Damiana, lb......... Leaves: .14 .20 @ .15 Jalap, lb... Ipecac, lb..... Kava Kava, lb.. @ .14 @ .23 .07%@ .08 1.25 @1.40 @ .23 .27 .20 @ .25 .17 .24 Licorice, select, lb... ... Rose, red, lb... @ .53 .54 .18.19 .18 @ .25 Lovage, lb...... Pow'd., lb. .17 .18 @ @ .15 Mandrake, lb...... Orris, Florentine, lb. ... Orris, Verona........ Pink, lb... .20 .10 .24 .03@ .04 @ .30 @ .32 .30 Castor Oil, cases, lb.... .15 @ 15% .14 .15 Caustic Soda, as to test 2.85 @ 3.25 Barrels, lb.... Chalk. Engl. Precip., bulk, lb............... Chloral Hydrate Crys tals, bulk, per lb... 1.10 Hydrate crusts, bulk, 1.25 @1.20 per lb........ ..... 1.05 Chlorate Pot. Crys., lb. .244.15. Chloroform, Bulk, lb... .50 Iron and Ammonia,lb. ... ... Hyoscyamus......... .07.084 Jaborandi, lb........ .25 @ Senna Alex natr'l, lb. Senna Tinney, lb.... Stramonium.. Licorice, M. & R., lb.. Lupulin, German. ...... .24 .45 @ 1.75 Lycopodium, lb....... -57 @ .59 Manna, large flake, lb. .82 @.83 Small flake, lb...... .30 @ .33 Menthol, Japanese,.... Mercurials: Blue Pill, lb...... Calomel, ib...... Cor. Sublimate, lb.. Mercury and Chalk. Ointment, lb......... 64 ... 6.00 Red Precipitate, lb. .78 @ White lb. .83 @ Morphine, bulk, oz.... 2.10 @2.25 .55 .02 @ .02% ... .59 ... .55 .57 Irish, bleached,lb.... .55 Muriate Potash, Der 100 .55 Eights, oz............ 2.35 ... 2.42 Moss, Irish, lb......... .06 @.06% •13 @ .15 lbs................ 1.78 @1.85 Linseed, raw, gal...... .44 ... ... .39 .42 .40 .65 .70 .73 33 .Is .42 .06 Red Elaine, gal.. Cod, Domestic, gal.... .38 Foreign,gal..... .061⁄4 .40 .42 .45 .39 Saponified, lb...... .40 .95 Bank, gal.. .05 .05X Straits, gal.......... Olive oil, table, in tins1.50 ... 1.85 .62 Com'n, bbls.. gal.....58 Neatsfoot, prime, gal.. .60 and Pharmaceutical Record. VOL. XXIV. No. 7. A JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL, PHARMACY. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 15, 1894. AMERICAN DRUGGIST PUBLISHING COMPANY, houses are less careful, occasionally using THE HE forger of drug orders has been putting in a little work in this city again, the victims this time being LEHN & FINK and BRUEN BROS. & RITCHEY. In both cases, which occurred a few days apart, the same name, that of STEPHEN H. MILLS & Co., was forged to the order, though in one instance it was signed "per Wheeler" and in the other "per Barrett." In each case one gross of BENSON'S Capsine plasters was ordered. The order to LEHN & FINK read as follows: the merest scraps of paper for writing their orders on. The appearance of the bearer of the order was such as to rather impart confidence than arouse suspicion. He is described as being about five feet nine inches in height, rather heavily built, with dark slightly gray hair and mustache and apparently about forty years old. There was no particularly noticeable peculiarity about either his speech or appearance. The transaction may prove valuable as directing attention to the necessity of great care in such matters. Many jobbers make it a rule not to deliver any goods on orders unless the parties can in some way be identified. While this may occasionally prove inconvenient it, is on the whole, the only safe plan. As to the particular offender in this case inquiry among the trade revealed the fact that STEPHEN H. MILLS & Co.'s name had been used in a similar way with an order for ALLCOCK's plasters, which was presented to W. H. SCHIEFFELIN & Co. some years ago, though the description of the bearer of the order at that time scarcely agrees with that given by the city clerk of Messrs. LEHN & FINK. If this should be again tried it would be the duty of any one to whom such application was made to hold the bearer of the order and turn him over to the police to be made an example of. THE "WORKING THE DOCTORS." well-known indifference of the manufacturers of semi-proprietary articles to what may be thought or said about them by retail druggists has prompted a contemporary to an attempted expose of their methods under the suggestive heading "Working the Doctors." "What is generally understood by this," according to our contemporary, "is that they employ salesmen to visit physicians, to give them samples and to explain the wonderful scientific combination of the preparation, illustrate how it is impossible for an ordinary druggist to manufacture anything like it or even understand the great scientific skill employed in making the compound. They also claim that doctors who are careful about their remedies and wish to have the purest and best preparations must always specify WHOLE No. 286. 'Snoozer's Snoozine' in prescribing, otherwise the wicked druggist will prescribe the U. S. P. 'Snoozine,' which will be a sure disappointment to the patient and physician and lead to very unsatisfactory if not untoward results." No one is better aware than the physician himself of the extent to which this practice of "Working the Doctors" has been carried. In colleges and in clinics where students are supposed to be taught the value of system in prescribing and the beneficial results which follow the administration of official drugs in diseases the makers of these semi-proprietary articles have succeeded in some instances in having their alleged remedial compounds boldly advertised to the students by the teaching faculty. Not content with this some of these enterprising manufacturers go farther and issue pamphlets and books made up of extracts from the text books and other scientific prints of men of authority in the medical profession, the whole being ingenuously interwoven with advertisements of their various compounds. Physicians of repute whose names have been used in this way without authority have naturally objected and the result has been that the daily newspapers have of late contained many reports dealing with the unauthorized use of portraits and signatures of eminent physicians in connection with the advertising of some semi-proprietary compound. The experience of all men goes to prove that wilful deception is a losing game. Apart from the wretchedness of the policy which dictates methods of this kind there is the utter dishonesty which is part and parcel of the whole fraudulent transaction. The good, old-fashioned method of placing a trustworthy article on the market and pushing it on its merits does not seem to appeal to our modern manufacturers. Profits do not come quickly enough for that, and then it would necessitate securing the favor of the retail trade, and this the manufacturers of semi-proprietary articles say they do not care for. They find it more advantageous to "work the doctors" and through this compel hard-working druggists to stock their numerous compounds. Whether doctors or druggists will long submit to this sort of dictation remains to be told. Chemico-Pharmaceutical Notes. Malacine is a salicylic derivative of phenacetine, has the form of small pale yellow crystals, insoluble in water, but soluble in hot alchohol; the mineral acids, even in feeble solution, decompose it into salicylic aldehyde and phenacetine. Dr. A. Jaquet, who studied its therapeutic action, considers it an antirheumatic which is usually well borne and produces no untoward effects.-Semaine Medicale, through Am. Jour. Phar. Galloparatoluide was obtained by M. Cazeneuve in the form of small crystalline plates, fusing at 211°, slightly soluble in cold water, but very soluble in boiling water, alcohol and ether. Hydrochloric acid decomposes it into gallic acid and paratoluidine; protected from the air the caustic alkalies do not attack it even at the boiling point, but in contact with air they gradually transform it by oxidation. -Comp. rend. Estimation and Separation of Caffeine and Theobromine.-W. E. Kunze reports in this month's Zeitschrift f. Anal. Chemie the following method for the extraction and separation of these two principles of cacao: The material, which need not be deprived of its fat, is thoroughly exhausted with weak sulphuric acid, and the two bodies are precipitated by means of phospho-molybdic acid. The precipitate is treated with baryta water and then with a stream of carbonic acid gas, and the whole is evaporated to dryness. The caffeine and theobromine are then extracted from the dry residue with boiling chloroform. The separation can be effected by means of the silver compound of theobromine.-Apotheker Zeitung. Synthetic Guaiacol has been recently prepared by Béhal and Choay. The crystals of pure guaiacol are white and hard; they melt at 28.5° C. (83.3 F.) and boil at 205° C. (401 F.). When melted, the guaiacol remains in fusion for an indefinite time. It is soluble in most of the organic solvents even in benzin; it is also soluble in petroleum ether and crystallizes very well on the evaporation of this solvent. Anhydrous glycerin dissolves crystalline guaiacol in large proportions. Experiments were first made on animals, and then the remedy was used in phthisical patients in various stages of the disease. The daily doses were of 40 ctg. to 1.2 grammes (6-18 grains), and were given in the form of pearls each contain. ing 0.2 grammes (3 grn.) of the medicament in oily solution, directly before meals. The stomach is said to tolerate synthetic guaiacol well, as a rule. Large doses sometimes provoke vomiting. A process for the estimation of iodine in syrup of iodide of iron has been formulated by Gioachino Griggi, based upon the following reaction between potassium chlorate and protoiodide of iron: 2Fel2 + KClO, = Fе,0, + KCl + I ̧. 8 Gm. of the syrup are placed into a test tube, and 2 Cc. of a 5 per cent. solution of potassium chlorate in distilled water added. After heating the mixture until it assumes an ocherous red color, and allowing it to cool, 5 Cc. of pure chloroform are added, the tube is closed, cautiously agitated, and then allowed to rest. The iodine set at liberty is taken up by the layer of chloroform, and imparts to it a beautiful amethyst-violet color. The chloroformic solution is decanted, added to sufficient distilled water, and the iodine is estimated by normal solution of sodium hyposulphite.-Boll. chim. pharm, Am. Jour, Phar. Sodium Phosphate Incompatible with Alkaloidal Salts.-As is known, sodium phosphate (disodic phosphate) has an alkaline reaction on litmus, and according to Dr. Christiens, in the L'Union Pharmaceutique, precipitates the alkaloids from their salts just like borax does. In preparing a solution for hypodermatic use, consisting of sodium phosphate, strychnine phosphate, and boiled distilled water, the mixing of the phosphate solutions immediately gave rise to a precipitate, consisting, at first, of a few fine needles, and becoming more abundant on shaking. On examination the precipitate proved to be strychnine alkaloid. On neutralizing carefully with phosphoric acid it was completely redissolved. Sodium phosphate gave the same precipitate with other alkaloid salts, and is therefore considered an absolute incompatible of alkaloids. If this salt is prescribed in solution with any alkaloid the dispenser should take the precaution to neutralize with phosphoric acid: The author concludes that all salts of an alkaline reaction to litmus precipitate the bases from alkaloidal salts. This precipitation is the more dangerous the more active the alkaloid and slower the separation is; the reaction may not be noticed by the dispenser, the alkaloid depositing gradually on the bottom of the bottle, and being perhaps all taken with the last doses of the medicine. Glycerin -At the last sitting of the Berlin Pharmaceutical Society a most useful paper on the estimation of the value of commercial glycerin was read by Dr. O. Heller. Briefly, the points were: There are in Germany three commercial grades of this article. 1, lye glycerin; 2, glyccerin from acid saponification or distillation glycerin; 3, saponification glycerine, produced by the saponification of fats by means of lime or superheated steam. Lye glycerin is a waste product of the soap manufacturers, and contains a large quantity of impurities. The second variety is produced by the action of strong sulphuric acid on fats at 120° C., and while it is of a better quality than the former variety it has a nasty acid taste. The third variety is the best glycerin, and is prepared by saponification in an autoclave, by means of lime and water under a pressure of nine or ten atmospheres. For the estimation of the glycerin the following method is the best: It depends on the formation of tri-acetin. 1.5 to 2.0 grammes of the commercial glycerine is heated with glacial acetic acid and sodium acetate for about two hours under a reflux condenser, and the excess of acetic acid is neutralized exactly with soda. A measured quantity of soda is now added, the tri-acetin is saponified, the quantity of soda left is determined by tritration with standard acid and the amount of glycerin is thus calculated. New Reactions for Caffeine and Theobromine -Tanret (Rep. de Pharm.) proposes to employ the double iodide of potassium and mercury and iodine in iodide of potassium solution as reagents for distinguishing these bodies. The former of these is used under many names, and the varieties possess slightly different compositions. The one most suitable for the detection of caffeine is Valser's reagent, containing 14.73 grs. of HgI, and 10 grs. of KI to 100 Cc. of water. Some re markable differences of opinion exist as to the reaction taking place, for Delf urged that the precipitate rapidly becomes crys talline, whereas that of the alkaloids is amorphous. Valser and Dragendorf actually hold that caffeine is not precipitated by the reagent at all. The difference is probably due to the fact that these chemists work with different solutions, etc., and with different degrees of acidity, etc. Tanret states that by acidifying with H.SO. (1 in 10) the precipitate observed by Delf is obtained. This reaction is only sensitive when the solution contains at least 0.15 per cent.of caffeine. Theobromine gives no precipitate with Valser's reagent. The other reagent, iodine in KI, so long as it contains excess of KI (1 gr. of I, 1 gr. of KI, and 50 Cc. of H2O) gives a precipitate with caffeine, the color of kermes mineral, in solutions as dilute as 1 in 20,000. With theobromine the precipitate is black, and the reaction is sensitive as far as 1 in 10,000. New Reaction of Eserine.-In 1890, according to the National Druggist, Ferreira da Silva announced that eserine is the only alkaloid of the benzeno-ammoniacal group, which, when treated with fuming nitric acid (sp. g. 1.40) and evaporated to dryness, yields a green residue upon the borders of the capsule. In a closer study of this reaction da Silva found that it was marvelously accurate, and that the green residue itself enjoyed some highly interesting properties. In making the test take a fragment of eserine or one of its salts not larger than a little grain of sand (or say 1-100 inch in diameter), place it in a little capsule and dissolve it with a drop or two of fuming nitric acid. The solution will at first be a clear yellow color, but in warming it over the water-bath it passes successively into a deep yellow, orange yellow, and finally into orange. As evaporation progresses, under constant stirring, the residue becomes greenish, until, when finally dryness is reached, the color of the dry material becomes clear green. In this manner the presence of as small a quantity of eserine or its salts as 5 mgm. can easily be determined. This green matter is soluble in water and alcohol, the solutions being green, and nonfluorescent, and on evaporation of the solvent is found unchanged. If we now let fall a drop of nitric acid upon the green matter, on returning the capsule to the water-bath, we shall see the parts not directly touched by the acid become blue, but the whole finally becomes red. violet, which gradually passes into a greenish. If we dilute the acid with water we get a fluorescent solution which by reflected light is blood-red, but by direct or transmitted light is greenish-yellow. Examined with the spectroscope the aqueous solution is characterized by three absorption bands. The first, which is sharpest, is in the red between 7 (lambda) 770 and 7 (lambda) 688; the second is wider and occupies a place in the indigo between 7 (lambda) 400 and l (lambda) 418; and the third place, which is quite feeble, is in the orange. The alcoholic solution shows the identical bands more clearly characterized. Petit has already described a blue coloring matter derived from eserine physostigmine blue, which is obtained by treating eserine with ammonia. Duquesnel has obtained from the same alkaloid a red coloring matter (rubreserine) by treating it with the fixed alkalies. Ferreira da Silva proposes the name of chloreserine for the green matter discovered by him. On the Essential Oil of Lemon. By R. S. LADELL. Many plants contain oily substances to which they owe their peculiar odor, and these can be obtained from them by distillation with steam. Many of the socalled essential oils contain terpenes or hydrocarbons represented by the formula CH; and it has been stated that the terpenes are often the chief constituents of the essential oils, as in the case of lemon and orange oils, etc. But it should not be forgotten that the oils of lemon and orange, as well as other essential oils, may be obtained entirely devoid of terpenes. Geissler (Pharmaceutische Centralhalle 1881) has described the terpeneless oil of lemon, and shown that it excels the com-、 mercial oil of lemon in odor, flavor, stability, solubility, and strength. True terpeneless oil of lemon, which is the subject of this note, is an oxygenated liquid of constant boiling-point, specific gravity, and composition. Commercial oil of lemon has a specific gravity of 0.860 at 15° C.; the terpene known as citrene has a specific gravity of 0.850; while the ordinary terpeneless oil of lemon (i.e., freed from citrene) has a specific gravity of 0.900. The ordinary terpeneless oil of lemon is really a mixture of several oxygenated compounds, but by fractional distillation a liquid has been obtained which has a constant composition, an exceedingly strong odor of lemon oil, a specific gravity of 0.962, a boiling-point of 206° C., and a specific rotatory power of [a]D=+6.42°. The following results were obtained on submitting this liquid to analysis: 0.5313 grm. gave 1,5135 grm. of CO, and 0.5617 grm. of H2O. The law of this State requires that each person desiring to be examined by a board of pharmacy must be a resident of the district in which the board has its jurisdiction, or state that he is about to take a position in that district. If at any later period he wishes to take a position in another part of the State he can register on the certificate obtained at the time of his successful examination. This applies only to four boards in this State. In Pennsylvania it requires an examination by the State board. They do not accept any certificates of other boards or diplomas of any college of pharmacy. The Old Tax on Patent Medicines. J. S.-The internal revenue tax formerly levied upon patent medicines in this country was as follows: Upon every packet, box, bottle, etc., sold at retail at a price not to exceed The lead and sodium salts are dissolved in separate portions of the water and filtered; then they are mixed and the glycerin is added. The powders are intimately mixed in a warmed mortar, and enough glacial phosphoric acid, which has been previously melted with the aid of heat, added to form a paste. The compound sets hard on cooling. Cosmo Cream.-R. B. asks us to print a formula for the "Kosmo Cream," made by W. J. Pichin, Philadelphia. This we are unable to do, as we have never seen a sample of the article or any account of its having been examined. If a creamy cosmetic is desired the following recipe from a former number of THE PHARMACEUTICAL RECORD will be found serviceable: Olive oil. Soap.. Wax.. Spermaceti Sweet almonds. Rose water......... 24 ounces 24 ounces 24 ounces 24 ounces pounds grains 4 pints 4 ..150 I pint Bougard's Cancer Paste. C. O. G.The preparation in use by New Yorks dermatologists is compounded as follow: Wheaten flour, Powdered starch, S Arsenious acid.. Red sulphide of mercury, Ammonium chloride, Corrosive sublimate. Zinc chloride. Boiling water....... The first six substances are finely ground and then mixed in a glass mortar. The chloride of zinc is dissolved in the boiling water and this solution slowly added to the powder, the contents of the mortar being kept rapidly moving with the pestle until all the solution is added; then let it stand for about 24 hours. Solution No. 1 is first applied to the hair with a brush and solution No. II. afterward. GOLDEN. Take of peroxide of hydrogen 6 per cent. solution. Apply with a brush. Lute.-M. & B. write : "Will you please publish a good working formula for making lute, as we are much annoyed by the loss of alcoholic vapor from our pharmaceutical still.” Next to a thin strip of india rubber, which is usually employed, a mixture of flaxseed oil and precipitated chalk, equal parts, made into a stiff paste with water, can be recommended. Ground almond cake from which the oil has been pressed may be substituted with advantage for the flaxseed meal. Both the above are much used for stills, retorts and other vessels that are not exposed to a higher Correspondence. A Warning. Editor AMERICAN DRUGGIST: Will you kindly give this communication space in your valued paper, in order that druggists may be on the lookout for a person who has already victimized a number of retailers in Indiana and Ohio? The last we heard of him he was in Rising Sun, Ind., where he gave the name of Dice. In another town he represented himself as Manning, claiming to be putting up signs for Paine's Celery Compound and offering to put the dealer's name at the bottom of the sign, if the dealer would pay him a dollar or more. In New Albany, Ind., he swindled not only druggists, but also dealers in other lines, and skipped the town, leaving the hotel bill unpaid. In Rising Sun he told the druggists that he was working southward. He is about five feet ten inches, dark hair turning gray, heavy grayish mustache, somewhere between thirty and forty years of age, a coarse voice and coarse features, and is a very smooth talker and a rapid and handsome sign writer. We hope that this will prevent any one else being duped by this person. WELLS & RICHARDSON CO BURLINGTON, VT, News and Notes. Connecticut Pharmaceutical As sociation. The eighteenth annual meeting of the Connecticut Pharmaceutical Association took place at Hartford on February 6 and 7. The attendance was gratify ingly large, visitors from remote places in and out of the State being there in goodly numbers. Prominent among the latter were Prof. E. L. Patch, president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Francis M. Pease, Lee, Mass., and Henry Canning, of Boston, president of the Interstate Retail Druggists' League. These gentlemen in addressing the members took occasion to congratulate the association on its flourishing condition. At the conclusion of Professor Patch's speech that gentleman was presented with a wooden ham and a wooden nutmeg as examples of the more notable of the products of Connecticut. After the reading of the president's, secretary's and treasurer's reports a spirited discussion took place regarding the action of the Committee on Legislation and their work. Mr. Hillard, of Bristol, took the committee to task quite severely for their action. It was his opinion that the law which made a man liable to lose his license, if in a no license town he were to administer a glass of brandy to a sick man, was unjust, and should not appear on the statute books. Mr. Hillard was ably seconded in his remarks by a gentleman from Jersey City and opposed by J. K. Williams of Hartford, and A. J. Wood, of West Haven, and President Willis L. Mix. The toastmaster of the evening was J. K. Williams, of Hartford, who introduced Alderman Furlong, who in the course of his remarks to the banqueters made many complimentary references to the standing of the pharmacists in the community. He concluded by extending to the visiting druggists and their friends the freedom of the city of Hartford. President Mix responded very gracefully in behalf of the association and the visitors. Professor Patch was then introduced as the speaker of the evening and made response to the toast" The American Pharmaceutical Association and the Detroit Plan." He was followed by J. Addison Porter of the Hartford Post who "The Press;" Rev. Frederick spoke on "The Clergy:" Dr. Stanley Root on Cook on "Our Medical Friends;" Charles Rapelye on "The Pharmacy Board." Other speakers at the banquet were Thomas R. Shannon, E. S. Sykes and Julius Rathburn, There was no medical or pharmaceutical exhibit held this year in connection with the meeting of the association, but the following representatives of wholesale houses were present: Mr. Engstrom, of Fox, Fultz & Webster; Mr. Foerster, of Sharp & Dohme, as also the representative of Parke, Davis & Co., and Whitall, Tatum & Co. The number of guests in attendance at the banquet was fiftyeight. The second day's meeting was called to order on Wednesday morning at 10 A.M. when the advisability of abolishing the present annual license tax of $2 was taken up and warmly discussed. Charles Fleischner was in favor of abolishing the tax, and spoke at some length on the subject. He presented a resolution providing that a committee of three be appointed to abolish a fee. He was opposed by Messrs. Sevin, of Norwich; Rapelye, of Hartford, and Smith of Ansonia, and the motion being put to a vote was lost. The election of officers for the ensuing year was taken up next and resulted as follows: President, James Duggan, of Norwich; vice-presidents, A. F. Wood, New Haven, and C. P. Gladding, Hartford; secretary, F. Wilcox, Waterbury, and treasurer, L. H. Goodwin, Hartford. For Pharmacy Commissioner, Charles Rapelye was nominated to succeed himself. He very gracefully refused the nomination, however, stating among other reasons that as he had spent six of his best years in the service of the commission he could not consent to fill the position longer. The following members were nominated for selection by the Governor P. W. Newton, Hartford; S. W. Smith, Ansonia; James O. May, Naugatuck; F. M. Wilson, Willimantic; E. W. Thompson, New Britain, and E. A. Hough, Collinsville. The time and place of the next annual meeting was then considered and the invitation of N. W. Sevin to meet in Norwich was accepted. The following names were then presented for election to membership, and on motion duly made and seconded the gentlemen named were declared members of the Connecticut Pharmaceutical Association: E. J. McNulty, Middletown; Harry W. Hyatt, Bridgeport; John Humphrey. New London; James L. Hanens, New London; C. H. Talcott, C. P. Hannen, C. L. Hubbard, G. E. Myers, and W. H. Coleman, Hartford, and G. H. Pikes, of East Hartford. Henry Canning and George W. Hough were then introduced and spoke of the Detroit plan and the Interstate Retail Druggists' League. A. F. Wood, of New Haven, who is Reporter on the Progress of Pharmacy to the association, then read his annual report. Among other things the stability of syrup of iron iodide was commented upon. Mr. Wood exhibited a four ounce bottle of the syrup, and said he had no trouble in keeping the syrup if immediately after being made it was preserved in glass stoppered bottles and the latter exposed to sunlight. He also presented a formula for cold cream which embodied some advantages not found in other formulas and furnished a preparation of the most satisfactory kind. It is as follows: water, and when quite cool add the oil of rose. The following is a partial list of those in attendance at this meeting: F. Wilcox, L. I. Munson, J. K. Williams, S. Chester, J. Welden, W. D. Heald, G. T. Johnson, W. E. Gibson, A. D. Pierce, T. R. Shannon, S. F. Guernsey. E. E. Fisher, E. W. Thompson, S. W. Smith, W. C. Hillard, G. P. Chandler, D. B. Chabot, E. S. Sykes, C. S. Williams, W. S. Mix, A. F. Wood, C. F. Messenger, F. M. Pease, D. G. Stoughton, E. W. Merriman, J. P. Wood, D. W. Tracy, L. H. Tracy, A. H. Rungee, E. E. Pierce, D. P. Caluen, W. H. Sargent, J. A. Hodgson, Charles Fleischner, Charles Rapelye, F. B. Edwards, E. A. Hough, C. P. Gladding, James Duggan and William H. Allen. Gotham Gossip. The New York Academy of Medicine, No. 17 West Forty-third street, has opened a Nurses' Bureau for the purpose of providing nurses for physicians and patients. Articles of incorporation were issued at Albany on the 10th inst. to J. N. Hegeman & Co., the well known retail pharmacists of this city. The new company starts with a capital of $50,000 and a board of directors composed of J. Niven Hegeman, John W. Ferrier, Joseph G. Glenny and Lucius A. Wilson. Clough & Maconnell, well known to our readers as makers of various kinds of wire corkscrews, have dissolved partnership, and through an amicable arrangement divided their business into distinct branches. Dating from January 1, 1894, William R. Clough became sole proprietor of their wire corkscrew patents and trade, and will continue the manufacture at Alton, New Hampshire, under the trade name of "The Clough Wire Corkscrew Co.," and James M. Maconnell became the sole proprietor of their decorated folding corkscrew patents and trade, and will continue the manufacture at 132 Nassau street, New York. Among the passengers who sailed for Liverpool on the steamship Umbria last Saturday was H. B. Mason, a son of Alfred Henry Mason, treasurer of Seabury & Johnson, New York. Young Mr. Mason, who is a gentleman of most agreeable manners and pleasant address, goes to London to fill an important position with the firm of Oppenheimer & Co., Ltd., the widely-known manufacturing chemists and inventors of "Palatinoids" and "Bi-palatinoids," the new forms of gelatin pills. The ability shown by Mr. Mason during his connection with the firm of which his father is treasurer augurs well for his success in the new field to which his promotion has called him. Boston. Dr. Horace L. Bowker is confined to his home by sickness. William C. Durkee, Ph. G., has been in New York State for several weeks. T. P. Hawkes, Danvers, sustained a loss of $2,500, by a recent fire in that town; partly insured. A. S. Letourman, Pleasant street, Fall River, has a new fountain from the Low Art Tile Company's factory. E. A. Bowen, of Malden, and T. F. Whalen, of Webster, are recent purchasers of Low Art Tile fountains. Dr. Thomas L. Jenks, treasurer of the Boston Druggists' Association and chairman of the Public Institutions Commission, is sojourning in Florida. |