GUMS.

Aloes, Curacao, has shown no action of importance since our last. Holders continue to quote 3c. to 4c., with jobbing sales at this figure; Cape quoted 5c. to 6c.

Asafetida continues held at 15c. to 17c., as to quality, the outside figure being paid for fine block.

Guaiac, Kino and Myrrh are well sustained at previous values with a fair distributive trade.

Senegal is in slightly improved position. and recent sales of picked were at 19c. to 25c.; sorts quoted at 14c. to 15c.

Tragacanth continues in demand and firm; most of the inquiry comes from manufacturing customers who pay 58c. to 66c. for first Aleppo, 45c. to 55c. for second, 85c. to $1 for first Turkey, 75c. to 85c. for second and 40c. to 45c. for third.

ROOTS.

We have few important price changes to record in the market for medicinal roots. Jalap is in better supply and values are easier at 94c. to 104c., but the demand is unimportant. Ipecac, as noted in our last too late for revision in our Prices Current, is offered with more freedom and $3 to $3.25 is the quoted range. Jamaica ginger has been a trifle irregular and unsettled during the interval, but values are nominally changed. A slight fractional decline in senega makes the quotation now 24c. to 25c. Snake on the other hand has advanced owing to less free offerings and 30c. to 33c. is now the range.

SEEDS.

There is a continued absence of movement in the general line of druggists' seeds. With the exception of slight fractional declines in cardamoms, we have no price changes of consequence to report in other varieties.

Hints To Buyers.

The Giant Chemical Co., Philadelphia, Pa., make two special offers in their advertisement on another page which it will profit our readers to investigate.

E. B. Read & Son, Baltimore, Md.. make a line of calendars, easel cards and labels which should interest progressive druggists. Write them for catalogue, mentioning this journal.

"Every druggist his own printer" is the proposition of the Kelsey Press Co., Meriden, Ct. For details as to how this is to be done our readers should address the Kelsey Press Co., as above.

Write to the Dawes Mfg. Co., Pittsburg, Pa., for a catalogue of their druggist's outfit. These outfits are being offered now at "special drive" bargains. When writing mention the AMERICAN DRUGGIST.

R. W. Phair & Co., New York City. make a special feature of pharmaceutical chemicals which they can supply at first hands in round lots at bottom prices. Write them for quotations, mentioning this journal.

The Lightning Medicine Co., Muscatine, Ia., say that they have a plan by

which they can increase your customers from 10 to 25 per cent in the next thirty days. Write them for details, mentioning the AMERICAN Druggist.

Druggists who want to dispense their prescriptions in the best possible style should use only the best kind of corks, such, for instance, as the "Circle A" corks made by the Armstrong Cork Co., which can be obtained from all jobbers.

Schieffelin & Co. make a line of pure fruit juices which are accepted everywhere as standard. Enterprising soda disprocession" should write them for their pensers who want to "keep up with the announcement on soda fountain supplies.

Drop a postal card to Humphreys' Homeopathic Remedy Co., corner of William and John streets, New York, regarding their special cabinet proposition which guarantees a good profit to druggists who take it up. When writing them please mention this journal.

Write to Geo. Wm. Hoffman, 295 East Washington street, Indianapolis, Ind., for a free sample of Hoffman's "Barkeeper's Friend," which cleans marble, glass, brass, silver, etc., effectively and rapidly without damaging either the hands of the worker

or the surface of the article cleaned.

The Warner Silver Mfg. Co., 63 Market street, Chicago, by making a specialty of soda fountain supplies, have been able to devise a number of specialties which are simply invaluable to soda dispensers. Write them for their illustrated catalogue, mentioning the AMERICAN Druggist.

The R. T. Booth Co., of Ithaca and Chicago, have made a decided hit by giving 13 of Booth's Hyomei Inhalers in cases where a full dozen have been ordered. Mr. Virgil Clymer, the Chicago manager, says their lady demonstrators in drug stores was not bad advertising.

Druggists and pharmaceutical manufacturers who wish to obtain inside prices dophyllin (U. S. P. and yellow), Scamupon Aloin, Hydrastine (alkaloid). Pomony (resin), Ergotin, Euonymin (green and brown), Leptandrin, should correspond with F. A. Thompson & Company, Detroit, Mich.

The Evergreen Chemical Co., 130 Fulton street, New York, make a line of colors covering all the possible needs of the manufacturing pharmacist. They guarantee the permanency of these colors and would be pleased to correspond with druggists who have special preparations which they wish to color up.

cans.

W. A. Gill & Co., Columbus, Ohio, have just issued a new and very interesting catalogue of their tin boxes and This catalogue shows several distinct novelties besides the full line of standards in boxes and cans made by the firm. Write them for copy of this catalogue, mentioning this journal.

The Swift Specific Co. are doing very vigorous advertising for the spring trade and want to co-operate in every possible way with the retail druggist to help the sale of their goods. Write the Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga., and they will furnish you an abundant supply of advertising matter for gratuitous distribution.

Henry H. Sheip & Co., of 1702 Randolph street, Philadelphia, are generally admitted to be headquarters for the manufacture of syringe boxes and druggists' boxes generally. They will furnish upon application estimates and samples of any kind of fancy wood boxes. Their facilities are such that their work can be depended upon as first class, and their prices very low.

The old and reliable house of Dundas Dick & Co., 112 White street, New York, invite the attention of the trade to their advertisement of Docuta sandalwood capsules, which article has been before the trade and profession in this country and Great Britain for more than a lifetime. The house deserves the support of the drug trade by reason of its consistent ethical course, and as the goods have the endorsement of the highest authorities in the world on genito-urinary diseases, they are thoroughly worthy of being carried in stock by pharmacists of the highest class.

N. Y. Q.

Prominent among the manufacturers who have done much to demonstrate the capacity of Americans to succeed in every line is the New York Quinine and Chemical Works, whose initials have come to be recognized as indicating superior and thoroughly reliable goods. This firm puts its label only on what it makes, and it can absolutely guarantee that patriotic Americans who want to handle pure chemicals can with safety specify N. Y. Q. on such goods as are made by this concern. For a full list of their manufactures write to the N. Y. Q. & C. Works, 114 William street, New York, mentioning this journal.

Attractive Advertising Matter for the Soda Fountain.

The Coca-Cola Co., of Atlanta, Ga., are sending to the druggists who dispense their products at the soda fountain a line of attractive signs and banners for display at the soda fountain. These have proven an attractive trade-reacher for the pharmacists and the company who are putting out the signs and will be sent to any address for the asking.

Ayer Co.'s New Chemist.

Mr. Flynn to Take Charge-New Laboratory May Be Built.

D. Flynn, for more than a dozen years the superintending chemist of the Tilden laboratories at New Lebanon, N. Y., has accepted a position as chief chemist of the J. C. Ayer Company, and during the coming week will remove his family to this city. From the Tilden Company Mr. Flynn removed to Detroit, where he was the chemist of the Nelson Baker Company, and from there he went to Buffalo, N. Y., some three years ago, to accept the position as chief chemist of the New York Pharmacal Association. He is considered an unusually competent man in his line, and under his direction the Ayer Company will at once begin to remodel the whole of their chemical plant and apparatus, which will involve either building a new laboratory or the reconstruction of the present Market street building, which was erected in 1858.

The history of the London house of Allen & Hanburys, Ltd., manufacturing pharmacists, reflects to a great extent the history of the development of English pharmacy, from early in the eighteenth century to the present time. The founders and successive owners of this business have been prominently identified with every effort for the advancement of pharmacy, and one of them, William Allen, the original of that name in the firm, and its head for nearly fifty years, was an earnest co-worker with Humphry Davy, John Dalton and other investigators whose names are inseparably connected with the advance of chemical science, and was the recipient of many honors on account of his service to pharmacy. He was, besides, one of the most prominent philanthropists of his day in England.

Plough Court Pharmacy, in which the business now known as Allen & Hanburys originated, was established in Plough Court, London, about 1715, in the

William Allen.

house in which the poet, Alexander Pope, was born. This house was demolished in 1872 to make room for buildings more in keeping with modern Lombard street, and to provide larger quarters for the Allen & Hanburys pharmacy. The original owners of Plough Court Pharmacy, here illustrated, were Sylvanus and Timothy Bevan, "members of the Society of Friends and freemen of the Society of the Art and Mystery of Pharmacopolites of the City of London," which was then empowered by charter to regulate the practice of pharmacy. The London Pharmacopoeia of 1721 was then in use, and "apothecaries," as the freemen of the above society were called, prescribed as well as dispensed medicines. For this they were bitterly opposed by regular medical practitioners; on the other hand, the "apothecaries" as bitterly opposed the encroachment of "chymists" and "druggists" who sold medicines in defiance of the Apothecaries' Society, which, it seems, was unable to suppress them. Proprietary medicines had also begun to appear, and altogether the business conditions of pharmacy at that time somewhat resembled those now, or within the last

twenty years, prevalent in America, so that in this respect the history of pharmacy, like all other history, seems to have repeated itself.

Sylvanus Bevan, at whose wedding, by the way, William Penn is said to have been a guest, retired about 1764, and the Plough Court Pharmacy passed into his brother Timothy's control, and from him to his son, Joseph Gurney Bevan, a man of great learning and vast influence. It was during his ownership that William Allen entered Plough Court as an apprentice. In 1794 the business was acquired by Samuel Mildred, and the next year William Allen was admitted to partnership, the firm becoming Mildred &

Allen.

During the eighty years that had then elapsed since the foundation of this historic pharmacy, the conditions under which the practice of pharmacy was conducted had materially changed; the Society of Apothecaries had practically lost its power and "druggists and chemists" had become nearly ten times as numerous in London as "apothecaries." Physicians' prescriptions were generally dispensed by "druggists," and "apothecary" was understood to mean a medical practitioner. The London Pharmacopoeia of 1780 had much reduced the number of official drugs, and added many chemicals, as the science of chemistry had made great progress.

When William Allen assumed the management of Plough Court Pharmacy, it may be said to have made its first great stride forward. He established a laboratory at Plaistow; he conducted many experiments, and founded at Plough Court the "Askesian" Society, for "mutual improvement, inquiry and accurate investigation." This society he maintained for over twenty years, and its meetings were attended by men whose names are now familiar to every student of chemistry, including Humphry Davy, John Dalton, Astley Cooper and many others less celebrated.

In 1797 Mildred retired, and Allen took into partnership his friend Luke Howard, a man of the same high character and mental calibre as himself, and the firm became Allen & Howard. It is difficult to realize at the present time how limited the range of operation and how difficult the position of a manufacturing chemist was at that time. Chemistry was just beginning to undergo the great change inaugurated by Lavoisier, and its technical application was attracting great attention. William Allen's diary contains many interesting entries, showing his enthusiasm and interest in the experiments conducted by him at this time. He was elected a member of the Physical Society at Guy's Hospital; assisted in the formation of the British Mineralogical Society, and became a member of the Royal Society, and later one of its lecturers, where he became more intimately associated with Humphry Davy. His scientific work now attracted much attention, and he was frequently called on to make analyses, while Plough Court Pharmacy became celebrated as a depot for chemical reagents. Various philanthropic enterprises also occupied his attention, which brought him into contact with many noted persons, whose friendship he retained for many years.

Among these were the Duke of Kent, Queen Victoria's father, who consulted Allen in regard to his private finances, and the Czar Alexander of Russia, whom Allen visited in later years on the most friendly terms. The Peace Society was founded at Plough Court, and nearly all the meetings of the Anti-Slavery League were held there, Lord Brougham, Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson constantly latter subject, and all their committee conferring with William Allen on this meetings being held there.

In 1807 Allen & Howard dissolved partnership, Allen retaining the retail and dispensing business at Plough Court, and Howard conducting the laboratory, now removed to Stratford, as a separate concern. About 1804 John T. Barry had entered the Plough Court establishment as clerk, and several years later took almost entire charge of the business, introducing many improvements. A method devised by him for preparing extracts "in vacuo" attracted much attention. Barry and the nephews of Allen's second wife, Daniel Bell Hanbury and Cornelius Han

Arms of the Society of Apothecaries.

bury, were soon after admitted, and the firm became Allen, Hanburys & Barry. About this time the "Associated Apothecaries," a society for the purpose of securing legislative regulation of the practice of medicine and pharmacy, was formed, and the bill which they caused to be introduced was considered by chemists and druggists as threatening their position as dispensers. Allen was very prominent in opposing this bill, and was a member of the committee which finally secured its withdrawal, and when an amended bill was passed, two years later, Allen was still a member of the committee which had gained the removal of some of its most objectionable provisions. At a public meeting of druggists in April, 1841, William Allen moved the formation of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and was one of the "committee of forty" who framed the laws for the government of the society. His partners, J. T. Barry and Daniel Bell Hanbury, were also members of this committee, which later constituted the first council of the society, and William Allen was unanimously chosen as its first president. He

was

presided at the first annual meeting in 1842, and again in 1843. In December of that year he died, at the age of 73.

After the death of William Allen, the firm was for several years represented in the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society by Daniel Bell Hanbury, who was afterwards appointed treasurer, and continued to hold that office until 1867. In the year 1868 he retired from the business, and die. in 1882 at the advanced age of 88. J. T. Barry retired from the business in 1856, and since that time the style of the firm has been Allen & Hanburys. Barry died in 1864. Daniel Hanbury, the oldest son of D. B. Hanbury, entered the business as a pupil at the age of sixteen, eventually becoming a partner. He was a student in the laboratory of the Pharmaceutica! Society during the first session of 1844-45. and soon afterwards commenced to contribute papers to the "Pharmaceutical Journal" on the subject of pharmacology, which was followed in 1874 by the pub

botanists and entomologists, his herbarium forming, perhaps, the most complete collection of British plants extant.

The only change of late years in the firm has been the converting of it into a limited liability company, under the same management as heretofore, with the addition of W. R. Dodd, for many years the head of their laboratory, to the director

ate.

Their immense factories at Bethnal Green, in the East of London, a general view of which is shown here; their large factory at Ware, in Hertfordshire for the manufacture of infants' foods and malt products; their three cod liver oil factories in Norway, where the oil is made by the firm's special process, and the immense scale on which they manufacture other specialties in medicinal and dietetic preparations, have reached dimensions never dreamed of by the founders of nearly two centuries ago, and the Plough Court Pharmacy of to-day, after nearly 170 years of continuous existence and improvement, would be a source of the greatest wonder to those, who, in earlier years, assisted in its development.

The arms of the Society of Apothecaries

ceived $1.20 per ounce, and the other 20 cents went to the wholesale dealers.)

"But the sequel is entirely at variance with the specious pleas of the agitators. When the antipyrine patent expired last July the trade-mark name became public property here. Not so in Germany! There the originators will continue to enjoy the advantage of the sole use of the name. We can buy our antipyrine at a lower price in this country now than they can in Germany."

A New Dentifricial Preparation.

Druggists are having wonderful success with Tooth-tone, an elegant antiseptic preparation, that sells for 25 cents. The article has merit, but the public don't know it, and in order to convince them and get everyone to try it the makers have a scheme which for liberality beats anything yet offered. Their scheme makes the druggist who handles Tooth-tone the centre of attraction in town, not only on account of the beautiful window display, but the remarkable bargain offered. It is safe to say that the druggist who

Plough Court Pharmacy, Birthplace of the Poet Pope

lication of "Pharmacographia," in conjunction with the late Professor Flückiger. In 1855 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and in 1873 of the Royal Society-the fourth pupil in the Plough Court Pharmacy that had acquired this distinction. His work in connection with his favorite subject is too well known to require further mention here, and his early death in 1875 at the age of forty-nine was a very great loss to pharmacy as well as to science.

From this period to within a few years ago the business was conducted solely by Cornelius Hanbury and his son, Frederick Janson Hanbury, who have worthily maintained the reputation of their predecessors and are, like them, members of various learned societies. The first-named was for several years treasurer of the Pharmaceutical Society and the latter is a fellow of the Linnaean and Entomological societies and one of England's foremost

were granted to Sylvanus Bevan in 1715, and this interesting relic, in colored glass, is still to be seen in its ancient frame in the present pharmacy, and may be said to mark the commencement of the earliest reliable history of the firm.-Pharmaceutical Era.

Antipyrine Lower in America than

in Germany.

According to the "American Therapist" a stock argument of agitators against patents on chemical products is a comparison of prices of the offending new remedies here and abroad; they have referred with particular gusto to the drop in price of antipyrine from $1.40 to 25 cents per ounce since the patent expired in July last.

"Now, as a matter of fact," says the "Therapist," "antipyrine was all along sold in Germany at about 75 cents per ounce; adding transportation charges, duty, and the money spent on advertising in medical journals and otherwise, the selling price in this country was not at all excessive. (The agents, by the way, re

gets the first lot of Tooth-tone in the town will have the pleasure of selling a year's supply to every lady in town. You have your own trade; what you want is something that will draw trade from your competitors. Tooth-tone will do it.

Write the P. L. Avery Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., for their Tooth-tone offer. If you wish to handle a celery preparation that will pay 140 per cent profit ask them for their special offer also.

Resinoids and Alkaloids.

On page 33 of this issue will be found the advertisement of F. A. Thompson & Co., manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Mich., who are offering to the trade a line of resinoids and alkaloids, such as aloin, podophyllin, hydrastine, berberine, etc., and are in a position to name low prices for "quantities" and contracts.

This firm is composed of chemists having many years of experience in the manufacture of these articles, and parties using these articles will find it to their advantage to address them before placing further orders.

Multiplex Photography.

Very amusing results can be obtained by multiplex photography; that is, by producing different figures or the same figure in different positions on the same plates. This kind of trick photography has heretofore been confined to a few ingenious photographers, but has recently been placed within the reach of all by the invention of the very simple but effective multiplex device, made by the Adams & Westlake Co., Chicago, Ill.

This company have been the first to introduce a number of very excellent devices in photography which have done much to popularize the use of the camera. We illustrate herewith the popular Adlake camera made by this firm, which com

now turned his attention to the more abstruse problems connected with the profession of mining engineering, if we are to believe a report in one of the daily newspapers, which records the fact that "E. G. Wells, of the M. J. Breitenbach Co., is about to purchase extensive iron mines in Pennsylvania." It is presumed that this purchase was rendered necessary by the rapidly growing demand for Gude's Pepo Mangan, of which iron is an important constituent. Mr. Wells will be now in a position to obtain his supplies of crude iron at first hands, which will give him vast advantage over other proprietors of haemoglobogenetic preparations.

ing engraving, which illustrates the Adlake Regular, each individual plate is in a separate aluminum plate holder. The entire dozen plates or any portion of the dozen can be exposed as desired. The plate holders are light, tight and dustproof, and can be handled in broad daylight without fogging the plates contained in them. After each plate is exposed the holder is closed automatically, the plate holder lifted out and placed in the magazine back of the partition and a new plate holder is brought to the front.

Another form of the Adlake Camera, which is called the "Repeater," and is

shown in the cut herewith, differs from the "Regular" Adlake in that each plate holder drops face downward after the plate contained in it is exposed, allowing the next plate holder to come forward and be exposed. It is automatic in its action.

There is money to be made in handling good photographic supplies and no cameras are more popular among amateurs than those of the Adams & Westlake Co. Write them for catalogue, mentioning the American Druggist.

Rumors of a Gigantic Deal.

Ed. G. Wells, who possesses the doctorate degree in haemoglobogenetics, has

oxid.

Prof. Joseph Feil, professor of chemistry and physics of the Cleveland School of Pharmacy, makes the following report

under date of November 14, 1898:

During the past winter and spring a number of prominent druggists of this city formed a class to study under my instruction the volumetric solutions of the U. S. P. of '90. A large number of chemicals were examined; in every case samples were taken from shelf bottles in actual use, and in not a single case were samples purchased intentionally for examination.

Among the articles investigated was solution of Hydrogen Dioxid. Most of the samples brought in were of Oakland Hydrogen Dioxid, showing the popularity of this brand in Cleveland; the articles were examined in strict accordance with the Pharmacopoeia's direction and the results were as follows:

A Special Offer in Fixtures.

Chas. P. Whittle, manufacturer of druggists' store fixtures and show-cases, 129 Portland street, Boston, Mass., illustrates on page 22 of this issue the interior of a drug store, the fixtures of which he is in a position to sell at a great bargain to a prompt buyer. See what he has to say in the advertisement, and write him, giving dimensions of your store, the height of your ceiling and mentioning the American Druggist. You may be able to strike a great bargain here.

Price Changes in Schering's
Chemicals.

Schering & Glatz, 58 Maiden Lane, announce the following changes in prices. A notice of the changes and additions recorded below would have appeared in an earlier number but for the fact that the announcement was inadvertently overlooked. The changes are as follows:

Schering's Paraform, 1 oz. c. vial incl., oz., 35c.; Schering's Urotropin, and 1 oz. c. v. incl., oz., $1; Schering's Urotropin Tablets, gramme (72 grains) each 20 tablets in box, box 45c.; Von Heyden's Dithion (Sodium Dithiosalicylate), 1 oz. c. v. incl., oz., 50c.; Von Heyden's Xeroform (Tribromphenol-Bismuth), 1 oz. c. v. incl., oz., 50c.

Additions to Schering & Glatz's list: Von Heyden's Xeroform Gauze, 10 per cent in sterile glass jars, containing 1 yard, incl. doz. jars, $4; Von Heyden's Hyrgolum (Hydrargyrum Colloidale) in 1 oz. c. v. vials incl., oz., $1; Von Heyden's grains, vials of 50 tablets, vial, 60c.; Von Hey. Orphol (Betanaphthol-Bismuth) Tablets, 5 den's Anusol Suppositories, for the treatment of hemorrhoids, in boxes of 12 suppositories, box, $1.

We are asked to make note of the fact in this connection that Crede's soluble metallic silver (Argentum Colloidale) will be supplied by Schering & Glatz under the name "Collargolum."

Aguinaldo Is an M. D.

Medicine, it appears, has the somewhat doubtful honor of claiming, at least partly,

Aguinaldo the Filipino patriot. His face,

features and the conformation of his skull, according to the "British Medical Journal," are of European type, and he is believed to be the son of a Spaniard. He by a priest. At the age of 15 he entered was born at Cavite and partially educated the medical department of the Pontifical University of Manila. He afterwards studied at the Victoria College, Hong Kong. He showed marked ability as a student, but it seems doubtful whether he ever graduated as a physician.

The Newest Thing in Store Fixtures

The M. Winter Lumber Co., Sheboygan, Wis., have a catalogue of 240 pages, showing the newest things in the store fixture line, which they will be pleased to forward to correspondents sending twentyfive cents to pay the postage. The book is a veritable work of art and would be of great value in the hands of anyone about to undertake the fitting up of a new store or the refitting of an old one. The pyramid cases made by this company and illustrated on page 16 are invaluable to those handling cigars.

ADVANCE IN BOTTLES,

Bottle Blowers Strike.

Big Contest Expected.

Bridgeton, N. J., April 9.-The blowers at all but one of the glass factories in this locality will go on strike to-morrow. The one factory which will be in blast is that of Parker Brothers, who have recognized the union.

Companies which refused the demands of the men and at which the blowers will refuse to-morrow to work are the Cumberland, the Cohansey, the East Lake and the More-Jonas, of this city; the S. M. Bassett, of Elmer, and the Jefferies, of Fairton.