MEXICAN DEPARTMENT. BY B. F. G. EGELING, PH. G., PH. D., CITY OF MEXICO. Mexican Oranges.-On account of the large export of oranges into the United States, they are selling in Monterrey at $12 per thousand, three times the price formerly charged. Mexican Botanists.-According to Doerfler's Botanist Directory-by the way, a very reliable workthere are about forty-six botanists living in Mexico, fully 20 per cent of whom are practical pharmacists either registered or clerks. In the United States are said to be 1680 persons making more or less a study of botany-of these only 2 per cent, a fraction more perhaps, are practical pharmacists. Taking into consideration that there are thirty-six drug stores in the United States to one in Mexico-not counting the clerks it seems that the pharmacists in the United States consider this important branch of natural history, and especially important to the pharmacist, very uninteresting. Commercial Agency.-F. P. Purdie has concluded a contract with the Mexican Government in the name of R. G. Dun & Co. to establish a branch of their mercantile agency in the City of Mexico and at other commercial centers of the Republic. An office is already open for business in the City of Mexico. The need of a mercantile agency in Mexico is apparent to every business man. Practically, Mexico has been isolated commercially. Manufacturers were chary of risking their capital among people they knew so little about, and even with the most painstaking care it seemed impossible to obtain information of a reliable nature. The laws were such that it was next to impossible to get one business man to speak of the affairs of his neighbor. Consequently, the information obtained was wholly inadequate for the purpose of determining credit responsibility. Neither did commercial houses care to make statement of their condition to irresponsible parties, for there was no assurance and no possible guarantee that their private affairs would not become public property and possibly ventilated in the courts. All this will happily be put an end to through the means of R. G. Dun & Co., for their agent has been most careful that the concession obtained should give the mercantile agency as powerful a guarantee of protection as it enjoys in other parts of the world. Mexican Personals. G. A. Labadie, of the wholesale drug house, Julio Labadie, successor in the City of Mexico, is deadtyphus. Dr. George M. Stell, for several years located at Monterrey, is now practicing his profession in the Jesus Maria mining district in the State of Chihuahua. Mr. Martin Frick, representing the wholesale drug house of Brueckner, Lampe & Co., of Berlin, is making a tour of the Republic in the interest of his firm. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT. Bind the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for 1897. Missouri Board of Pharmacy.-The next meeting of the Board of Pharmacy will take place on the second Monday in April at Kansas City.-[F. W. SENNEWALD, Secretary, 802 Hickory street, St. Louis. Missouri Work on the U. S. P.-Through the efforts of Dr. G. H. Chaş. Klie, Ph. G., chairman of the Committee on the United States Pharmacopoeia, reports are coming in from physicians of this State relative to their views on what should be the standard authority for both pharmacists and physicians. Our readers are urged to talk over the matter with their friends and see that as many reports as possible are forwarded to Dr. Klie. If you failed to see the list of questions which he submitted, drop the doctor a line and he will send the required information. To the Pharmacists of Missouri:-The Committee on National Formulary of our State Association invites the co-operation of its brother pharmacists and pharmasisters to introduce National Formulary preparations to their physicians and urge them to prescribe this superior class of remedies instead of the endless number of proprietary pharmaceuticals. AMBROSE MUELLER. This work of acquainting our doctors with this manual has been pushed ahead for years, and we feel confident in saying that there is hardly a druggist who has not heard or reaped some benefit of this effort. What a great satisfaction it is to have a National Formulary, whereby unity of strength of the various preparations is assured. Every pharmacist should have the National Formulary next to his Pharmacopoeia and Dispensatory, and see that his physicians are provided with an epitome of the National Formulary which supplies the doctor with the information he desires regarding these remedies. Further, if any pharmacist has one or more formulas of merit which he uses with the sanction of his physicians, and wishes it for the general good of his profession, this committee shall be pleased to receive these formulas, incorporate them in their annual report, and give due credit to whom it may belong. Very respectfully the Committee on National Formulary: Rudolph S. Vittt, A. J. Mehl, C. C. Davidson, Chas. F. Geiger; Ambrose Mueller, Chair man. P. S.-All communications to be addressed to the chairman of this committee, Mr. Ambrose Mueller, Old Orchard, Mo. (St. Louis County). We would suggest that the Chairman of Com MISSOURI PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION mittee on Papers and Queries be provided with the No initiation fee. Certificate of membership costs $1.00. Next Meeting at Meramec Highlands, June 7-11. The Proceedings for 1897 have been out several months. If you did not receive a copy notify the secretary. Chas. A. Lips is the man to whom the pharmacists of Missouri and their visiting friends from other States must look for the future management of the entertainment feature at Meramec Highlands, June 7-11. CHAS. A. LIPS. title of papers to be presented not later than May 15. -[THE COMMITTEE, Francis Hemm, Chairman, 3860 South Broadway. Invite the Editor of the Pharmaceutical Review to attend the Meramec Highlands meeting of the M. Ph. A., June 7-11. Mr. C. E. Corcoran, of Kansas City, has read the "Pointer for Chairman H. F. A. Spilker" (now C. A. Lips) on page 17 of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for January, and "More Pointers" on page 51 of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for February. The ex-president comments as follows: C. E. CORCORAN. "I Think the Editor of the Pharmaceutical Record has I taken a wrong view of "The Missouri Idea.' think that a review of the scientific or pharmaceutical work done at our annual State meetings for the last fifteen years will show that it has not been surpassed by the work of any other State association. Owing to the pressure of other business, as announced elsewhere in this issue of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST, Mr. H. F. A. Spilker has been obliged to resign his position as Chairman of the Entertainment Committee of the M. Ph. A. We are informed that in casting around for a successor, President Thomas Layton fortunately thought of Mr. Lips, who is a natural-born entertainer. The new chairman is already at work arranging a pro-ings of all the other States for the last several years gramme and assures all parties concerned that they will have just enough entertainment of just the right kind, given at just the proper time and in just the proper manner. We will soon be able to give our readers some idea of the nature of the special features of the June outing. Committee on Papers and Queries -The undersigned committee respectfully desires to call the attention of our members throughout the State; and of all pharmacists and persons interested in the progress of our profession to the fact that the time of the next annual meeting of our association is drawing near. We feel that the first objects of our association should be the advancement and betterment of our science and business. For this reason we invite all to prepare papers or queries upon any topic which will work beneficially towards this aim. Our scientific program in the past has always been replete with good papers, but as there are many burning questions which could be considered at our coming meeting for the purpose of improving existing evils and furthering the cause of pharmacy as a profession, we hope to receive at not too late a date, a number of titles of interesting papers for this year's meetings. We will not at this time submit any set of queries for papers, but prefer to leave it to the judgment and inclination of every one to select his own subject. We will again provide a number of valuable prizes for those who present papers on subjects of merit. "Visitors From Other States, at each meeting, have so expressed themselves. Take the published proceed and compare their contents with ours, and I think we will find that we have done as good work as any of them. The work of our several Adulteration Committees, is, of itself, enough to confute this slander. "The 'Fun' Part of our programme does not interfere with the scientific part; on the contrary it secures a large attendance and tends to make the pharmaceutical feature more of a success than it would otherwise be. Visitors from other States have repeatedly said that our papers, discussions, etc., are on a par with those of the A. Ph. A. I fear that if we would follow the pedantic ideas of the editor of the Review, our meetings would be very small and very dry. "It is true that our last president did, in his address, scold us a little about attendance at the sessions, but he only did that for the purpose of urging us to be more prompt in our attendance. He scolded us too about using the metric system, but we all understood that he was only in fun about that also. I feel constrained to say that our meetings have resulted in as much good for real genuine pharmacy as have the meetings of any other State. "I Will Say to the Editor of the Review that if he will do us the honor to attend the Interstate Meeting of the Illinois and Missouri Associations to be held at Meramec Highlands next June, he will leave there feeling that the dry cockles around his heart have been warmed up as never before, and that he will find himself to be a pharmaceutically wiser and happier My motto is 'Don't get too deep into the professional rut.'" man. |