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It would seem from recent statements in the French medical journals that the horse has no longer anything to fear from the automobile, its future being assured in another direction. Whereas in 1892 only 17,000 horses were slaughtered in Paris for food, 30,000 were disposed of in 1902. A new hippophagic" slaughter house is to be established by the side of the regular establishment at Vaugirard. Radium remains the topic of the hour. Its wonderful qualities and still more marvelous possibilities are interesting not merely the scientist in his laboratory but "the man in the street "-nay, the intelligent schoolboy stands ready to tell his father"all about" radium. Pharmacists, who are supposed by the public to be omniscient beings, know a good deal about radium from the articles that have been printed in the AMERICAN DRUGGIST, and an interesting addition to this fund of information can be gleaned from the article by Dr. Tracy on another page in this number. Radium is so eagerly sought for by experimenters that the price of the substance is daily increasing, and while thirsting for new facts the scientific and popular imagination runs riot, and the revolution of scientific ideas and industrial conditions is freely promised as soon as the requisite amount of radium is procurable. The chemist will produce gold ad lib., the doctor will cure cancer, steam heaters and electric lights will be relegated to museums beside the oil lamps of our grandfathers, and the science of Lavoisier will be as effete and out of date as that of Paracelsus. Already it is proposed to communicate the radio-activity of the substance to normal salt solutions and utilize its active properties in the internal treatment of disease by means of a radium water." What next? 66 French pharmacists appear to suffer as heavily from the evil of price cutting as their American confrères. The Lorette plan is the French equivalent of our Miles plan. Under its operation the manufacturers of certain proprietary remedies fix a minimum price for the sale of their products at retail, which price is also the wholesale price. Retailers who live up to their contract with the manufacturers not to sell below the established price are allowed a rebate, premium," or commission, upon the amount of goods sold. The arrangement has successfully stood the test of the courts, it being established in a recent case that under French law manufacturers have the right to dispose of their goods under such special contracts as they can make with the buyers. Thus does the N. A. R. D. idea gain headway in a foreign land. 66 Does it take one who knows all about moral cowardice to detect moral cowardice in others? Dr. W. J. Robinson, who edits The Medico-Pharmaceutical Critic and Guide, should be asked to print the name of the professor of the New York College of Pharmacy" who, he says, charges the pharmaceutical press with being "the most cowardly press in the world." We would also suggest to Dr. Robinson the advisability of making public the names of the "various pharmaceutical journals" which were afraid to offend present or prospective advertisers" by an exposure of frauds and humbugs in the patent nostrum business. The whole would make interesting and profitable reading if accompanied by a good character certificate for the "professor," signed by, say, ten pharmacists who were thoroughly familiar with the said "professor's" work. |