TRADE TOPICS Do You Drive a Team?-"Business is available, advertising is possible-make them do team work." An Interest in Merchandise, a willingness to oblige, thoughtfulness exercised in our transactions, will go a long way. A smile is a good asset; a cheerful courteous manner helps a lot; grouchiness and indifference never wins a customer.-[J. A. Fritz, Ph. G. The Crying Need of the Retail Drug Trade at the present time is a just recognition of what is meant by profit. Some druggists do not know a profit when they make it or understand when they miss a profit. Base your selling price on the present market price. Market reviews should be studied carefully and retail prices based on what it will cost to replace the goods. Non-Shrinking Ice Cream.-There has been some question as to the amount of ice cream that one can get out of a tub. I have found that in bulk cream there is a shrinkage of 25 per cent when measured out in pails. I am now pushing the sale of brick ice cream which costs me $1 a gallon, in fives, and there are twenty quart bricks that I sell at 40 cents a brick. There is no shrinkage in this. I cut six 10-cent slices out of one brick.-[G. A. Gamenthaler, Millington, Ill., in N. A. R. D. Journal. The "Ten Demandments" of the Storekeeper.-"1. Don't lie. It wastes my time and yours. I am sure to catch you in the end, and that is the wrong end. "2. Watch your work, not the clock. A long day's work makes a long day short; and a short day's work makes my face long. "3. Give me more than I expect, and I will give you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you increase my profits. "4. You owe so much to yourself you cannot afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt, or keep out of my shop. "5. Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men, like good women, never see temptation when they meet it. "6. Mind your own businss, and in time you'll have a business of your own to mind. "7. Don't do anything here which hurts your selfrespect. An employe who is willing to steal for me is willing to steal from me. "8. It is none of my business what you do at night. But if dissipation affects what you do the next day, and you do half as much as I demand, you'll last half as long as you hoped. "9. Don't tell me what I'd like to hear, but what I ought to hear. I don't want a valet to my vanity, but one for my dollars. "10. Don't kick if I kick. If you're worth while correcting you're worth while keeping. I don't waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples."-[Wellspring. USEFUL NOTES Rubber Stopper Device. We remark what appears to be one of the best devices for stopping bottles for travelers' use. It is made in Paris, and consists of a solid rubber cork having a prolongation at the top in the shape of a rubber tube portion of about the same length as the cork itself, and of slightly larger diameter so as to come near the size of the bottle flange. Fitting in the stopper, the flexible upper or projecting part is then turned down all around so as to fit tight upon the bottle head and surround it for half an inch below the top. The whole then resembles what would be given by a cork and a metal bottle cap of the usual kind, but the use of rubber makes a flexible protector. Of course stopper and flexible part are all one piece of rubber.-[Scientific American. To Renovate Linoleum and Oilcloth.-Dissolve 22 pounds of paraffin in 1 gallon of turpentine by gently heating. While the mixture is warm apply to the linoleum or oilcloth with a sponge or piece of flannel, and allow it to remain twenty-four hours. Then polish it with a piece of flannel. This preparation may also be used on painted floors. Another preparation is made as follows: Wet 1 pound of yellow beeswax and add to it 50 fluid ounces of turpentine. While still warm add to it, all at once, a mixture of 1 ounce of curd soap and 5 fluid ounces of solution of potash, previously dissolved by the aid of heat. Shake until the whole is emulsified. Then add, gradually, warm water to make 4 pints or until a cream of sufficient consistency is obtained.-[National Druggist. A Green Color for Smelling Salts. In our last issue, in answer to an inquiry, we gave a formula for smelling salts. The following interesting hint regarding smelling salts is given by an exchange: It is some time ago since a lady brought to us a smelling bottle to be refilled, requesting that the solution be colored green. As we had no substance which would remain green in the presence of ammonia, I thought of using the thalleioquin reaction. On many occasions since I have utilized it, and the customer was always delighted with the brilliant emerald green color thus obtained. Although nearly everyone knows how to produce the reaction, I give the method which was found to be most successful. One fluid ounce (or more, according to depth of color required) is made as follows: Weigh out 10 grains of quinine sulphate or hydrochloride and dissolve in 10 minims of dilute hydrochloric acid. Make up to 40 minims with absolute alcohol. Then add 10 minims of chlorated lime solution. When the solution is quite clear add gradually alcoholic ammonia to 1 oz. (or more), and stir while so doing. Perfume as desired. Practical hints like this one are valuable and should be passed along for the benefit of the profession as a whole.-[Retail Druggist of Canada. It is contended that every state board o may in the interest of the public safety ruling as to enforce the prerequisite educ pharmacy license. Porto Rico and Cuba requisite laws. Many state pharmaceuti tions have endorsed prerequisite laws a their legislation committees to introduce their state law bodies for enactment into Prerequisite Pharmacy Law for Missouri. - Prerequisite means something previously required, or necessary for a certain end. In pharmacy it means a definite preliminary training in a college of pharmacy and also the academic schooling which must precede it. II. Past and Present Status. College of pharmacy graduation has been under discussion for many years. Only since about ten years has the sentiment become strong for prerequisite laws. New York was the first state to pass such Missouri is now about to be called upo cates of the prerequisite pharmacy law dorsement and support for same. It is fo son we are inserting this preliminary st this issue of the "Missouri Pharmaceutic tion Bulletin," so that our pharmacists ma for their opinion and voice as well as th this question, which is a vital one. The jectors to this law as well as advocates ask you to think the issue over calmly, make your final decision until we print i issue of this Bulletin the line of argument and against the law. In view of what transpired at Indianap last A. Ph. A. meeting and the meetings of ican Pharmaceutical Faculties and Board macy, the writer deems it opportune to i souri pharmacy on this matter.-[Francis Missouri Board of Pharmacy, Elms Hotel, Excelsior Springs (June 12, 1917). Gus A. Fischer, Jefferson City; Edwin G. Cox, Craig; Chas. Gietner, president, St. Louis; R. A. Doyle, vice-president, East Prairie; Paul L. Hess, secretary, Kansas City. HISTORICAL Dr. John F. Hancock. Reminiscences of the Early Days of Pharmacy in Maryland. This was the subject of a very interesting talk by Dr. John F. Hancock, ex-president of the A. Ph. A., who addressed the Baltimore Branch at the March meeting. He related how the College of Pharmacy was first started in 1840, and that after two classes had been graduated, it lapsed and was not reorganized until 1856. He told how the preparation for the entertainment of the American Pharmaceutical Association, which met in Baltimore in 1856, aroused interest in pharmacy in Maryland and caused the reorganization of the Maryland College of Pharmacy. minded us that Dr. Van Dyke Stewart was the first Professor of Pharmacy in the United States, stating that Dr. Stewart received his degree from the University of Maryland in 1844 and was then elected Professor of Theoretical and Practical Pharmacy in the Maryland College of Pharmacy. Reference was made to the fact that in 1856, Mr. Israel Graham of Maryland was the pioneer who first experimented with the manufacture of fluidextracts by percolation. spoke of the great work of William C. Proctor, a Baltimorean by birth, and also of the work of scores of other pioneers of pharmacy in Maryland. He re He Dr. Hancock is now compiling a paper for the Historical Section of the American Pharmaceutical Association, dealing with the early history of pharmacy in Maryland, which will probably be presented at its next annual meeting. Potter. Dr. O. S. Potter was the son of Levi War ren and Betsy Burns (Mills) Potter, and was born in 1829 near Watertown, N. Y. His father was at that time a soldier, and he was born in camp outside the town. The family moved to St. Louis in 1832. His father died in 1845, probably at Salem, Ill. It devolved upon the son to hew his own way and get his own education. In 1845 young Potter moved with the late Dr. Dr. 0. S. Potter. Mathew Hall from Salem to Arrow Rock, Saline Co., Mo., where he clerked in the store of his uncle, Henry F. Mills, and later about 1847, read medicine in the office of Dr. M. W. Hall. Afterwards perfecting himself as a physician, taking degrees from The Missouri Medical College and being admitted to the practice of medicine in 1852. After several years of private practice, he was chosen to fill the chair Materia Medica and medical botany at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. He served in this capacity during the years 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, and during the same period he was editor of the St. Louis Medical Reporter. Dr. Potter retired from active practice in 1900 and has lived until his death, which occurred March 1, 1917, at his home at 2556 N. Grand avenue, St. Louis. Dr. Potter was married to Alice LaFontain Mayerton, whose parents, Col. Chas. and Alice (La Fontain) Mayerton, lived in Louisiana (state). The records of Arrow Rock Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Arrow Rock, Mo., show that Dr. O. F. Potter was Worshipful Master of that lodge in 1853-1858, 1859. It is learned from the genealogy of the Potter family that Dr. Potter was descended from Anthony Potter of Ipswich, Mass., 1648, who was born in England. The Wholesale Drug Trade of New York City in 1857. It is very interesting to note the large number of firms doing a jobbing drug business in New York City sixty years ago. At present the trade is handled by a much smaller number of dealers. The jobbing drug trade of today is not an attractive proposition for as many people as was the case half a century ago. Ackerman, T. & G. Baxter Co., C. H. & A. T. Castle & Strong Carnes & Haskell Horsey & Son, Jos. Koof, Fisher & Co. McKesson & Robbins Marsh, Northrop & Co. Minor, Israel & Co. Penfold, Clay & Co. Robbins & Co., R. Schieffelin, Philip, Haines & Co. Schieffelin & Fowler, H. M. Stebbins, Morgan & Allen Sweetzer, Edw. F. Thayer, Wm. W. Thomas & Fuller Ward M. Close & Co. Watch for the Special Issue of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for January, 1918. It will be useful and interesting to every one associated with pharmacy. EDITOR'S TABLE Any book reviewed in this Department may be obtained upon receipt of price at the office of the Meyer Brothers Druggist. The Principles of Pharmacy by Henry V. Arny, Ph G., Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, Columbia University; Member of the Committee of Revision of the U S. Pharmacopoeia. Second Edition, Revised and Entirely Reset. Octavo of 1056 pages with 267 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1917. Cloth, $5.50 net. It is more than eight years since the first edition of this manual of pharmacy made its appearance. The book reflects the practical nature of the author. It is, indeed, a manual for the student and the everyday pharmacist. The new edition is brought up to date in every partciular but the author has managed to keep the pages within reasonable numbers. Professor Arny is a member of the Committee on Revision of the U. S. P., a member of the committee of the A. Ph. A. which revises the National Formulary, is a teacher of pharmacy students, and engaged in editorial work. Pharmacy, Theoretical and Practical, including Arithmetic of Pharmacy, by Edsel A. Ruddiman, use "The object of this book is to present in as few words as possible essential facts which every pharmacist should know. The writer believes that every student of pharmacy should possess copies of the Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary and them as text books; that only in this way will he come to have the proper appreciation of these authorities. Having these books at hand, there is no need of repeating in a text book on pharmacy what is given in them. The comments herein given on preparations will be intelligible to those who have before them copies of the U. S. P. and N. F. "Cuts of apparatus are intentionally omitted. It is expected that this book will be used by students in colleges where the actual apparatus will be shown by the instructor, or that it will be used by persons working in stores where they will find the more common pieces of apparatus." The Prescription, Therapeutically, Pharmaceutically, Grammatically and Historically Considered, by Otto A. Wall, Ph. G., M. D., Professor of Materia Medica, Pharmacognosy and Botany in the St. Louis College of Pharmacy; Member of the Committee for Revision of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, 1880-1890 and 1890-1900; Second Vice-president of the Conventio vision of the United States Pharmacopoeia from 19 siding Officer of the United States Pharmacopoeial 1910; One of the Authors of the "Companion to the Pharmacopoeia;" Author of "Handbook of Ph "Lessons in Latin," etc. Fourth and Revised Editi C. V. Mosby Co. Price, $2.50. This classic treatise on "The Prescript with a general co of the subject. both on pharmac non-pharmacopoe tions as of inter scribing. Next, chapter on We Measures, in whi imal system is e a very practica The third chapte ed to Language. find a clear expl the grammatical tion of prescripti cludes a very co Otto A. Wall, Ph. G., M. D. of words and phrases, even many now this country. The fourth chapter is on Ex ous Prescriptions, where we find much p vice for both prescriber and dispenser. chapter is a History of the Prescription earliest times down to the present day. T the appendix, treating of such subjects a vival of Early Superstitious Practices, Ol tions, Medical Magic and an explanation R. A most excellent index is supplied. The new edition like the previous ones several respects from the usual books o tion Writing. This is not confined to th tion of the prescriptions, the calculation of sideration of commercial weights and me is really a classical treatise, covering 274 numerous illustrations. This is a book which should be in eve ceutical library, and we suggest it as a su ent for medical friends of pharmacists. H EXAMINATION QUESTIONS Examination Questions Not Made Public.-The following states do not give permission for the publication of the examination questions: Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Vermont, Utah. Nebraska State Board of Pharmacy. MATERIA-MEDICA—(J. K. McDowell, Examiner).-1. Give directions for preparing a .9. What is an Emulsion? typical Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. 10. Give the meaning of the following terms used in prescription writing: aa, Ad libit., aq. bull., chart., collut, Dieb. alt., Ft, E m. p., Hor. Somn., ter. i., d-[Will Brookley, Examiner. TOXICOLOGY-(S. E. Ewing, Examiner, Omaha, Neb.).-1. Define each of the following terms: (1) Toxin. (2) Antitoxin. 2 Give the treatment for poisoning by the following: (1) Iodine. (2) Chloral Hydrate. 3. Give the U. S. P. doses of: (1) Arsenic Trioxide. (2) Ext. of Aconite. (3) Fluidextract of Pilocarpus. (4) Fluidextract of Senna. What (5) Tr. Rhubarb. is a root, corm, bark, rhizome. What are gums, gum resins, resins? Give example of each. 2. What are alkaloidal drugs? Name five, give botanical name, habitat and the alkaloids of each. 3 Diastase, how obtained? also state medicinal or chemical action. Give dose. 4 Give official name, botanical name and family of a drug plant that yields a hypnotic, a cathartic, an emmenagogue, a febrifuge, a vermifuge. 5. Name ten official drugs that have no marked therapeutic properties. 6. Give official Latin title of the following: Marshmallow, Quebracha, Yellow root, Henbane, Wild lettuce, Indian tobacco, Buchthorn bark, Bitter apple, Macrotys, Ordeal bean. 7. What is the average dose and medicinal properties of the following: Atropine sulphate, Tr. aconite, Tr. aloes, Agar, Tr. hydrastis, Santonica, Buchu, Veratrum Viride, Tr. Stramonium, Tr. Opii. 8. Give common name of staphisagria (b) habitat (c) medicinal properties. 9. What are some of the medical uses of digitalis? What is the dose of the tincture, the infusion? Can the plant be successfully grown in Nebraska ? 10. Identify specimens marked from one to ten. CHEMISTRY-(G. Turner Haines, Ph. G., Examiner).-No. 1. Define the following: (a) Specific Gravity, (b) Density, (c) Chemistry, (d) Molecular Weight, (e) Element. No. 2. (a) State source of NH3, (b) In what way does NH4 resemble a metal. (c) Write reaction showing process of preparing ammonium chloride. No. 3. (a) What colors do the following elements impart to a flame: K, Na, Li, Sr, Ba? (b) Define a metal, a gas. (c) What is talcum powder? No. 4. Write reactions showing process of preparing Basham's mix. (b) What is the composition of baking powder? (c) To what class of compounds does glycerine belong? No. 5. (a) Define a "Bi" salt-a "Sub" salt (b) State difference between physics and chemistry. (c) Does hydrogen support combustion? No. 6. (a) Name five carbohydrates. (b) Name five hydrocarbons. (c) Define a compound. No. 7. (a) State the different forms of sulphur recognized by the U. S. P. (b) State process of preparing acetylene gas. (c) State from what wood spirit is prepared. No. 8. (a) State the difference between the light and heavy magnesium oxide. (b) Write what you would expect a physician to write on a prescription for each. (c) Define a saturated solution, a super-saturated solution. No. 9. (a) From what is oxalic acid prepered? (b) Define fractional distillation. (c) State the difference in strength between all the acetic acids recognized by the U. S. P. No. 10 (a) How much Goulard's Extract will be necessary to make 4 oz. of lead water dilute, U. S. P. (b) Write reaction showing the action of potassium hydroxide upon any member of the halogen group. (c) If argyrol cost $1.50 per ounce, the way it is bought in a drug store, how much would a prescription for 4 oz. of a 15 per cent sol. cost? Note-Legible penmanship will be considered. PHARMACY-(August 8 and 9, 1917).-I A physician wants a pharmacist to make him one fluid ounce of one per cent aqueous solution of cocaine hydrochlorate. How will he do it? 2. If a Seidlitz powder is composed of 35 grains of tartaric acid, 120 grains sodium bicarbonate, and 40 grains of Rochelle salt, how much Rochelle salt must be used to make enough Seidlitz mixture to put up one gross of boxes of Seidlitz powders, each box to contain ten doses? 3 Define decantation, clarification, expression, sterilization and pasteurization. 4. What are the galenical preparations of the Pharmacopoeia, and how are they classified? 5. What is an Elixir? What two are official in the U. S. P.? What is Pharmaceutical Incompatibility? 6 7. 8. Describe the making of an ointment by fusion. What are Liniments? Name five of which are official in the U. S P. 4. Give a physiological antidote for poisoning by: (1) Aconite. (2) Digitalis. (3) Strophanthus. (4) Nux Vomica. (5) Pilo Rutschke.-Oscar Rutschke, of Whitehall, Ill., died September 18, 1917. He was a prominent pharmacist of that place. Stevens.-A. W. Stevens, of Atchison, Kan., died at his home, August 9. He was seventy-five years of age, and apoplexy caused his death. His son, Harry C., was associated with him in business. Stombaugh.-C. C. Stombaugh died at his home in Lincoln, Neb., August 21. He was at one time in the retail drug business in Kansas City, Mo., and at his death represented the Richardson Drug Co. on the road. Pillars.-J. M. Pillars, of Pinckneyville, Ill., died at Anna, September 2, at the age of sixty-one years. Mr. Pillars was the father of J. M. and George Pillars, retail pharmacists of Pinckneyville. A Masonic funeral was conducted. Judge. Harry F. Judge, a member of the Judge & Dolph Drug Co., of St. Louis, died of apoplexy while in a rowboat, at Macoupin, Ill. Mr. Judge was a brother of Charles R. Judge, president of the firm. He was forty-five years of age. Walker.-Wm. A. Walker died at his home in Appleton City, Mo., recently, at the age of fifty-seven years. He is survived by his widow and six children, also two brothers living in California. Walker was at one time a resident of Montrose, Mo. Mr. Rodman.-William Riley Rodman died suddenly, in his store at Mound City, Ill., from a ruptured blood vessel. He was sixty-two years old and widely and favorably known in Southern Illinois. He had been in the drug business at Mound City for a quarter of a century. |