With an assortment of gum amounting to 40 boxes, or to retail at $40.00, free, a $40.00 '98 bicycle; all for $30 00. A profit to the dealer of $10.00 and a firstclass, guaranteed bicycle free! Display it in your window and put up a sign, “Bicycle Given Away to the Customer Who Brings to Me the Largest Number of Chewing Gum Wrappers." This offer is made by the Diamond Chewing Gum Co. G. & R. Guns, a New Insect Powder Gun-Sell: Gross. $4.50 -gross.. Dozen.. Sawnee Sewing Machine Oil. 4.75 .45 Bbls... -bbls. 10-gal. kegs.. 5-gal. kegs. Gallon.. Parke, Davis & Co.'s: No. 160-9.. IOOS, I dozen boxes .75 No. 167-8 100s, gross boxes, per gross.... 8.50 H. R. Aluminum Back 100s, I gross boxes, per gross.... 8.00 ...$1.85 doz. 2.25 doz. 7.00 doz. No. 33....$2.50 doz. No. 34... 3.00 doz. No. 35.... 3.00 doz. 7.25 doz. 2 75 doz. Combs-Butler H. R. Co.'s: No. 36....$3.75 doz. Crown Lavender Salts-Imported, in two sizes: Customer's name on 500 bags if desired (not 250 each, but 500 of either). Soap-Reduced prices: Cycle Soap, $7.50 gross, 65c. doz.; Pride of the South, $4.50 gross, 40c. doz.; B. De Paris. $7.50 gross, 65c doz. Craddock's Medicated Blue Soap sells $8.10 gross, 75c. doz.; International French Milled Soap, put up 100 cakes in wooden boxes, sells $3.75 per box; Williams' "Clipper" Shaving Soap, $7.00 gross, 58c. doz. We note the following changes in price and name: Williams' Mt. Horeb Castile, small, to $4.75 gross; Williams' Swiss Violet and Cream to read, "Swiss Violet Shaving Cream." W. & M. Fruit Juice Tablets and Buttercups They are guaranteed pure and are superior in keeping WOMEN IN PHARMACY AND ELSEWHERE. qualities to any made. Sell: 12 jars, 55c.; 6 jars, 65c.; I jar, 75c. Smith's Gloria Water is offered at the special low price of $4.00 per doz., $4.50 per doz. in -doz. lots, $5.00 per doz. in less quantity. Mellwood Whisky-Spring '94, '95 and '96. These three ages are under perfect control of the distillery. In other words, the Mellwood people own the largest part of the crops, and whatever is held outside is in the hands of very conservative houses. It is the aim of this large Louisville firm to keep their "Mellwood" whisky out of the hands of speculators and unscrupulous dealers that are liable to make two barrels out of one, thereby creating a competition which no straight dealer is able to meet, and for this reason they select their distributors. Besides largely advertising the brand, they are prepared to send out salesmen to do missionary work, collect orders and turn same in to the nearest distributor or agent. The prices will be as follows, and no deviation allowed. Lowest selling prices for Mellwood whisky: In bond, 5-bbl. lots, original gauge-Spring '94, 60c.; Fall '94, 574c.; Spring '95, 574c.; Spring '96, 52 c. BY MRS. ROSA LIEBIG, M. D., PH. C., PORTAGE, WISCONSIN. Miss Helen L. Young, of Osburn, Idaho, a clever, capable young woman, has been admitted to the practice of law in that State. A few years ago the Legislature passed a law which it was thought made women ineligible to the bar. But Miss Young passed all the examinations required of male applicants with such high credit that Chief Justice Morgan declared the law unconstitutional and admitted the plucky litigant to the ranks of the profession. 64 A Congress of Women has just been held in Brussels. The subjects discussed were: "The Destinies of Woman, Her Grievances, Her Desires, Her Civil Rights;" "The Proof of Paternity;" Economic Rights;" "The Admission of Women to Public Office;" "Women's Work and Institutions." German women were numerous, France was ably represented, Russia, Spain and Portugal were there, but where was America? Not one American woman present at this meeting. Miss Lucy E. Ball is at the head of the spirits department in one of the largest internal revenue Tax-paid, by the barrel-Spring '94, $1.974; Fall '94, districts in the country. She has entire charge of the $1.90; Spring '95, $1.90; Spring '96, $1.82. All 90 days, or 3 per cent for cash, bonded as well as tax-paid, the latter shipped from distillery direct. Make a memorandum of this and when "Mellwood' whisky is wanted you will know where you stand. Whisky, Bottled in BondOverholt Rye: Full quarts sell I doz. case at...... $10.00 case. Full pints sell 2 doz. case at...... 10.50 case. Full half pints sell 4 doz. case at.. 11.50 case. Clarke's Rye-The name alone will help to sell this brand readily. The assortment is as follows: Full quarts sell... $11.00 per 1 doz. case. gaugers of the department, assigns them to their duty, makes out the stamps and the receipts for the distillers and has in her custody as many as $10,000 worth of special internal revenue stamps used by the department. When any distiller wishes to take a certain number of barrels of spirits out of a warehouse he sends a message to Miss Ball, who makes out a memoranda of the time, place, quantity and quality of spirits to be taken out, and sees that the stuff is properly gauged, graded and stamped. Miss Josie A. Wanous, the Only Woman Proprietor of a Drug Store in Minneapolis, Minn.-On the second floor of the Syndicate building, 521 Nicollett avenue, Nos. 7 and 72,is a very interesting drug store, owned and managed by a young woman, Miss Josie A. Wanous, the only woman druggist in Minneapolis, and so great has been her success during the past two years that she has been in business that she is contemplating removing to larger quarters on the ground floor. Miss Wanous is undoubtedly one of the most successful druggists in Minneapolis and has established a splendid reputation for herself as a suc cessful business woman. She first thought of the drug business about five years ago, when she entered a drug store at Glencoe, Minn., where sne worked one year and then came to the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with honors from the school of pharmacy. For a short time she was connected with F. H. Hainert, the wellknown druggist. Two years ago last June she opened her present place of business with a very small stock, in fact, so small Miss Wanous said laughingly, "That I could carry it in a goodsized valise." A visit to her store at the present time reveals a well-stocked drug store with all the modern equipments of a large plan of business. Miss Wanous employs a competent assistant and is enjoying a lucrative business MISS JOSIE A. WANOUS. Meyer Brothers Druggist VOL. XIX. PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ENTIRE DRUG TRADE. ST. LOUIS, MAY, 1898. EDITORIAL. No. 5. Only four months to the August 29 meeting of the A. Ph. A. at Baltimore, Md. Do You Expect to be examined? If so, see page 110 of MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for April. The Number of medical colleges in active operation in the United States at the present time is 154. This is several times the number of colleges of pharmacy which we have. Every Pharmacist should take at least one good medical journal. No mistake will be made in subscribing for the Philadelphia Medical Journal, edited by Dr. Geo. M. Gould. Naval Stores.-The naval store year commences April 1. The receipt of Oil of Turpentine last year at Savannah were 329,445 barrels, and of rosin 1,176,072-both falling short of the previous year production. Gold from sea water promises a greater revenue with less risk than that from the Klondike region. At least, if we are to believe all that the daily papers say about the Electrolytic Marine Salts Co. of North Lubuc, Maine. Sea Salt is becoming an important item in the drug trade. Dr. A. E. Ebert, editor of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST Department of Working Formulas, contributes some valuable comments and information on the subject in the May issue of the journal. New A. Ph. A. Members from the U. S. Army last year were as follows: Henry O. Cabell, William W. Kolb, John Van Neys La Grange, Edward S. Maguire, Charles Miller, Theophilus V. O'Gorman, Frank H. Peck, Samuel W. Richardson, Edward Rogers, Oscar F. Temple, Mathias Walerius. Chloroform is meeting with disfavor in England. Ether has replaced it as an anesthetic. The medical authorities of America intimate that the English physicians do no use chloroform properly. If such is the case, the American physicians should give our English cousins lessons in that direction. Decrease in the Number of Wholesale Drug Houses. We learn from the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin that twenty years ago there were about thirty wholesale drug houses in Philadelphia; the number has dwindled down to one-half dozen at the present time. Surely the wholesale drug business cannot be a money-making enterprise. Practical Papers are demanded by the average retail pharmacist as a compensation for his time and trouble as well as expense in attending conventions. The popularity of our annual gatherings depends largely on the good judgment of those in charge of the scientific work. The secretary of the Minnesota Pharmaceutical Association realizes this fact, and boldly announces that "practical papers" are solicited. His example is worthy of emulation. Boston School Children do not escape infection from pediculosis; in fact, one school of about 1,000 children has 26 per cent infected with the parasite. Some one has stated that this insect was created for the purpose of making lazy people scratch. Perhaps this irritation of the scalp brings out the bright ideas so universally attributed to the children of Boston. We are all familiar with that universal habit of scratching one's head to brighten the intellect when puzzled. Oil of Cajiput.-This article was first brought to Europe in 1715, when an apothecary brought it to Amsterdam. In 1813 it appears to have been introduced into the London market and quoted at 75 to 87 cents per ounce. In 1830 it had become a regular article of trade. The cholera epidemic created quite a demand for it. The average receipts per annum at Amsterdam is over 7,000 bottles. It comes mainly from the Dutch Indias and the Chinese are the principal dealers, who are prone to adulterate it. Practical Lectures on practical pharmacy by practical druggists should be a prominent feature of every pharmaceutical educational institution. The Department of Pharmacy of the University of Minnesota is laying special stress on this work by arranging for a series of lectures to be given through the kindness of retail druggists in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The first lecture was delivered by Mr. W. A. Frost of St. Paul, whom many of our readers met and learned to esteem at the A. Ph. A. convention last summer. Patent Medicines for Oriental countries is the subject of correspondence in this issue of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST. The author handles the topic in an entertaining and practical manner. Among the points of special mention which he brings out is the fact that patent medicines for those countries should not be extolled as curative agents for a long list of diseases. This is just the opposite of the case in America, where the more troubles that a medicine will cure, the greater the appreciation by those who employ it. Pharmaceutical Literature in the form of drug journals is of value to the members of the profession from the day they enter its ranks as an apprentice to the time they retire from a life of service. The Minnesota School of Pharmacy fully recognizes this fact and has established what is called a "journal hour," in which the students devote their time to the reading and discussion of journal articles. Further annoncement of the details was given in the Minnesota Department of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for April (page 121). Our Medical Exchanges and Physicians in general as well as the pharmacists of this country must be interested in the paper read at the A. Ph. A. meeting by Joseph Jacobs of Atlanta, reviewing the discovery of anesthesia by Crawford W. Long, a pharmacistphysician, practicing medicine in Georgia. No doubt all of our readers are aware of the numerous claims for this honor presented by the friends and relatives of several parties. The author of the paper to which we refer means to conclusively prove that Dr. Long is the real hero. Duty on Codfish Livers.-General Wilkinson of the board of general appraisers, handed down an opinion December 24 in the case of fish livers that establishes a precedent in favor of the American product as against the Canadian output. The case on which the decision was based was that of Pike & Colby, of Eastport, Me. They imported a lot of fish livers, and under the Dingley bill, which prescribes that intestines, integuments and sounds of fish are admitted free, claimed exemption from duty. The collector of the port assessed the livers c per pound and the firm appealed. The board of appraisers upheld the collector, holding that fish livers did not come under the construction of intestines, integuments and sounds. This decision, it is said, will not raise the price of cod liver oil, as the price is already provided for under the Dingley bill and pays 15 cents per gallon. How Many Kinds of Capsicum are to be found in the market of to-day? The Dispensatories tell us that there are numerous species of capsium indigenous to the East Indies and tropical America. When we look at the price lists of spice dealers and druggists we see quite a variety of trade names, which is confusing as to the nomenclature and prices. As Cayenne pepper is a very pungent article, and almost entirely used in a powdered state, it is subject to much adulteration, and it is doubtless largely due to this fact that so many trade names have been coined. We find upon investigation that the following kinds are imported into the United States: Zanzibar, Sierra Leone, African and Japan. There seems to be no good reason for keeping so many varieties and we are informed that the principal wholesale drug houses handle only the Zanzibar and African. These are the best grades. The grocery trade pays less attention to quality and sells low grades. No More Green Soap.-By a discovery recently made in the Custom House a liquid soap coming from Germany and which has been in demand among druggists is subject to a duty nearly three times as much as the price for which it has been sold to the trade here. This green soap, as it is called, is largely used for cleaning and in proprietary preparations, and it also has found its way into the operating rooms of surgeons. On account of its use by doctors it is henceforth to be classified as a medicinal soap, according to the decision just made by the general appraiser. The effect of this decision, it was said yesterday by a prominent druggist, will be to practically prohibit the importation of the German article. The duty on it, as now fixed in the Customs House, is 15 cents a pound, and as the soap has been sold for only 64 cents a pound the increased cost makes it unsalable. Perhaps Mr. Dingley does not know that green soap is imported to kill the lice on fruit trees in the United States. What Is a Drug?—The eighth International Pharmaceutical Congress tried to settle the question by saying: "It is a simple or compound body, to which is attributed the property of restoring man or animals to a state of normal health." We fail to understand the line of reasoning leading up to this definition, which was adopted in place of the more natural one given in Wall's Notes on Pharmacognosy, which says that "drugs are the organic substances used in medicine and in the arts in the crude form in which they are received by the trade." The same authority defines medicine as "material substances which may either be taken into the system or applied locally, and which, when in contact with living tissues, can alter the action of cells or tissues in such a manner as to cure disease." The International Congress, perhaps, did not think of the definition of remedy and of medicine when defining a drug. It is to be regretted that teachers and authors do not distinguish clearly between these terms. The Objects, aims and duties of the A. Ph. A. would be limited to the consideration of scientific subjects, educational and legislative matters by some of the regularly-attending members. There has more than If once been a movement to cut out the commercial. such action is ever taken there must be a radical revision of the constitution and by-laws. The right of the commercial feature to time, place and attention is set forth by article 1 of the constitution and bylaws, as follows: ARTICLE I. This association shall be called the "American Pharmaceutical Association." Its aim shall be to unite the educated and reputable pharmacists and druggists of America in the following objects: 1. To improve and regulate the drug market, by preventing the importation of inferior, adulterated or deteriorated drugs, and by detecting and exposing home adulterations. 2. To encourage proper relations between druggists, pharmacists, physicians, and the people at large, which shall promote the public welfare and tend to mutual strength and advantage. 3. To improve the science and art of pharmacy by diffusing scientific knowledge among apothecaries and druggists, fostering pharmaceutical literature, developing talent, stimulating discovery and invention, and, encouraging home production and manufacture in the several departments of the drug business. 4. To regulate the system of apprenticeship and employment so as to prevent, as far as practicable, the evils flowing from deficient training in the responsible duties of preparing, dispensing and selling medicines. 5. To suppress empiricism, and to restrict the dispensing and sale of medicines to regularly educated druggists and apothecaries. 6. To uphold standards of authority in the education, theory and practice of pharmacy. 7. To create and maintain a standard of professional honesty equal to the amount of our professional knowledge, with a view to the highest good and greatest protection to the public. The Druggist's Front Window. It is an undeniable fact that the pharmacist of to-day considers it necessary to deal in many goods that in former times were considered "out of his line." They are specialties of such a character that they require considerable advertising in order to push their sale. This has led to the quite common practice of placing everything imaginable of this kind in the front window to attract the attention of people passing the store. In addition to this the front window is often pasted with all kinds of signs, display cards and theatre posters. This certainly disfigures the general appearance of the drug store. The proprietor and clerks who spend so many hours in the store may become accustomed to the sight and fail to realize the impression made upon some of the customers. Anyone who has paid particular attention to this subject and cultivates his taste for the general fitness of surroundings will say that it is a practice which lowers the dignity of the drug store and detracts from the professional character of the pharmacy. It is not infrequent that we notice stores in which signs and display cards hang for months at a time until they have become soiled and unsightly. Such is the worst possible feature of the modern show window style of advertising. In direct contrast to the above practice, it is gratifying to find some of the leading stores in large cities like St. Louis with show windows containing interesting and instructive pharmaceutical exhibits, outlining the method of manufacturing certain preparations, or displaying crude drugs of various kinds, illustrating the gathering of drugs and presenting other similar professional exhibitions. Thermometers. Not until 1603, when the researches of Sanctorius gave to the world her first thermometer, did the study of bodily heat become more than a subject of guesswork. As a matter of course, Hippocrates recognized the variations of surface heat in health and disease, but it was with him, as with many of his successors, a mere matter of the laying on of hands.-[Dr. Mark A. Brown in the Medical Record. For Mathematical Pharmacists.-The Beloit Daily News says that the following problem was presented to a number of business men and not one of them gave the correct answer: "A bottle and a cork cost $2.10. The bottle cost $2.00 more than the cork. How much did the cork cost?" Can you answer it? If not, you had better attend Dr. J. M. Good's special lectures on arithmetic at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Let her rain or snow, all he want to know -[British Medical Journal. |