The Antitoxine of the British Antitoxine Mfg. Co., is claimed to be the only antipyretic and antineuralgic which is at the same time a heart tonic. For therapeutic data on this preparation address the British Antitoxine Mfg. Co., Downing Building, New York City.

People who put up specialties will find the public very appreciative of a small corkscrew, with each bottle, such as the patented decorated corkscrew made by J. M. MacConnell, 132 Nassau street, New York. Write him for descriptions and prices, mentioning this journal.

The special family case of toilet paper sold by the A. P. W. Paper Co., of Albany, N. Y., is gotten up with a view of offering something which is specially suited for the drug trade. Write them for full details concerning this special case, on which there is a liberal margin of profit.

The M. J. Breitenbach Co., 58 Warren street, New York City, has issued some of the most convincing and interesting advertising matter ever sent to physicians, and will be pleased to correspond with druggists on the subject of sending this advertising matter to lists of physicians furnished by the druggists.

E. B. Read & Sons, of Baltimore, Md., have a fine collection of calendars, easel cards, etc., of which they will be pleased to send samples on receipt of 10c. They not only make this line of goods, but also print druggists' labels in an artistic manner at a very low rate. Write them for samples, mentioning this journal.

Mariani & Co., 52 West Fifteenth street, New York City, will furnish druggists who mention this journal when applying

to them an ample supply of interesting and attractive counter advertising matter for gratuitous distribution. This advertising matter will cost nothing except a postal card, and will be much appreciated by your patrons.

Henry Allen, 138 William street, New York City, is prepared to execute special orders in glass blowing on the shortest possible notice, as he has a glass-blowing plant on the premises where all forms of work are done to order. He also carries a line of all the kinds of glassware likely to be used in the drug trade.

The Antikamnia Chemical Co. will be pleased to correspond with retail druggists on the question of supplying advertising matter for distribution to physicians. The company wishes to help the druggists all they can to promote the sale of the genuine antikamnia, which offers a good margin of profit, but will continue to take active steps to prevent any substitution.

The efficacy of the Ball Nozzle system syringe has been attested by many of the most careful and thorough gynecologists. It delivers a stream which is spread out into a thin circular sheet, so as to have the greatest possible efficacy in cleansing the parts to which it is applied. For full details concerning this syringe our readers should address the Columbian Ball Nozzle Co., 133 William street, New York.

The Lenifect Co., Essex Conn., are placing their witch hazel on the market on the basis of its superiority. They claim and stand willing to prove that it is the best article that can he had anywhere. They publish the highest kind of endorsements from the State Chemist of Connecticut, and from Professor Wetmore, of

Druggists Fractional Price-List.

the State Normal College, at Albany, N. Y. They will be pleased to furnish prices and further information to correspondents mentioning this journal.

The "Ideal" hair brush is made of genuine Siberian bristles, mounted with an air-cushion back, and therefore combines all the advantages which a stiff, all-bristle brush has, with the resiliency and comfort which is imparted by the use of the air cushion. Henry L. Hughes, 185 Dearborn street, Chicago, who is the exclusive licensee for and importer of these brushes, will be pleased to correspond with enterprising druggists who wish to get a good thing in the brush line.

The Frank Hill Co., successors to McKenzie Bros. & Hill, at 52 Water street, New York City, carry a complete line of essential oils for druggists and perfumers' uses. They make a specialty of oil of sassafras, both natural and artificial, oil of wintergreen, both natural and synthetic, Vanillin, coumarin, oil of anise, and the Messina essences. Send them your name, mention the AMERICAN DRUGGIST, and they will be pleased to enter it for their monthly price-list.

The Docuta Sandalwood Capsules, made by the old reliable manufacturing chemists, Dundas Dick & Co., of 112 White street, New York, are advertised in this issue. They afford a profit of 50 per cent to the retail druggist, and as they are recommended in very strong terms by high medical authority and have been found to be of excellent therapeutic value, they are very ready sellers. This is a line which wide-awake druggists should stock and push.

The Rochester show-cases combine many points of excellence with a very low

cost. Their No. 65 case, which was illustrated on page 9 of this journal, for February 25th, gives an idea of some of the special points in which their cases have an advantage over the ordinary show-cases.

goods to anyone mentioning this journal. Remember that they are manufacturers, and in buying from them you buy from first hands.

The For full particulars as to these advantages, our readers should address Smith Sheldon, proprietor of the Rochester Show-Case Works, 7 Acqueduct street, Rochester, mentioning this journal.

The introduction of Columbian Spirit has enabled many druggists to Save considerable amounts annually on United States and other liquor licenses, as this spirit is available for every use for which grain alcohol can be used, excepting it cannot be used internally. If druggists will refrain from selling any alcohols or liquors at all except the Columbian Spirit, which is a very highly refined wood alcohol, they need not pay the United States liquor or any other liquor

license.

Arthur May & Co., corner of Ontario street and Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, have recently purchased a handsome 16-foot solid onyx apparatus. This firm figured with every manufacturer in the soda fountain business and placed their order with W. J. McCahill & Co., of Buffalo, after they were thoroughly convinced that their apparatus was the most desirable on the market. May & Co. are on the most prominent corner in the city of Cleveland, and are doing the largest soda business in the State of Ohio.

E. J. McGrath, 108 Greenwich street, New York City, has a special line of cas tile soaps which are sure to prove profitable to the drug trade because they are put up in convenient shape, do not warp or get out of shape, and can be retailed at a profit at 5 cents and 10 cents. The soaps all lather freely and are guaranteed to be wholly free from animal oils of any kind. His "Felix Wash-Rag Soap" is a novelty which has proven a good "window seller." Write him for quotations and full description, mentioning this

paper.

The Clinton Pharmacal Co. are among the "growing" class. The concern was started in Clinton, a modest town, in a modest way. It was removed to Syracuse, a thriving town, where it did a thriving business, and on May the first, it will remove to New York City, a big. town, where it will undoubtedly do a big business. Growth such as this must be predicated upon real merit. Druggists would do well to share in the prosperity of this company, which they can do by writing them for a list and stocking their goods. A note addressed to Syracuse will still reach them.

The Mattson Rubber Co. illustrated

on page 40 of our last issue the simplest, most efficient and probably the most popular form of female syringe ever placed on the market. It is known as the "Atlas" or "Optimus" ladies' syringe, and has a very large sale. It has been highly recommended by the very best authorities. This is only one, however, of the many excellent rubber specialties which they manufacture, and they will be pleased to send full particulars as to their line of

recent epidemic of smallpox through the Southern States has accentuated the necessity of being in touch with some manufacturer of pure and reliable vaccine lymph. The New England Vaccine Co., of Chelsea Station, Boston, Mass., have been long and favorably the manufacture of pure and reliable virus, known to the drug trade as specialists in and they stand ready to fill telegraphic orders promptly. To be sure of your ground in the matter, however, it will be best to write the New England Vaccine Co. for descriptive catalogue and price-list so that you will know where to apply when occasion may arise for you to secure a supply promptly.

Wampole's "Pulverous" pills, which are simply dry powders in pill form, have only recently been placed before the drug trade, but are receiving very high commendation. The manufacturers claim that these pills will never get hard or less soluble with age, that they are made with the greatest accuracy of subdivision, and that only the highest quality of ingredients are used in their manufacture. They will make a specialty of preparing private formulas in the form of "pulverous" pills for customers at the lowest possibe rate consistent with the use of the best quality of material. The pills have a very thin and very soluble coating and are readily crushed and disintegrated. For free samples address Henry K. Wampole & Co., Philadelphia, mentioning this journal.

It will be seen that the price in five-pint bottles is now equivalent to the price formerly charged for the preparation in five-gallon packages. Druggists may now purchase Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine for dispensing at most favorable terms and in convenient packages.

was

Very recently a slight change made in the containers for the 4 and 8 ounce sizes of this preparation. Plain bottles have been adopted instead of lettered bottles in order that physicians may more freely prescribe Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine in the original container, and that druggists may be saved the trouble and expense of transferring the preparation to another bottle when filling a prescription.

Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine was introduced some sixteen years ago and has long been the best-known and best-esteemed fluid preparation of pepsin.

A New Bitter Water.

Among the numerous therapeutic candidates for professional recognition none comes with a greater array of sponsors of recognized ability in the profession than does Apenta Water.

When such men as Liebreich, Gerhardt, Liebermann, Pouchet, Bogoslowsky, Tichborne and Althaus, as well as many men of standing in our own country, bear testimony to its constant value in diseases associated with the portal congestion, there must be something in this water which makes it worthy of our careful consideration.

These Apenta Springs, which are situated near Buda-Pest, on the left bank of the Danube, have a constant composition, an advantage for administration not possessed by all other natural waters.

Their therapeutic value depends upon the presence of sulphate of magnesium, sulphate of sodium, of which the former is greatly in excess, and a small amount of lithia.-Milwaukee Medical Journal.

Camphor in Pound Boxes.

We take much pleasure in calling attention to the new advertisement of the American Trading Co., of 100 William street, certainly the most attractive form of camNew York. This concern is offering phor package that has come to our attention. Sixteen 1 oz. tablets are packed in a neat box. One druggist in Brooklyn, who has sold these goods, says that since stocking them, he has sold practically nothing but pounds of camphor, whereas, formerly his business was in ounces. It is said that the American refiners are trying hard to run this popular Sumitomo brand out of the market by selling their own product at a lower figure. As the Sumitomo Camphor Refinery is said to have a backing good for $20,000,000, it is thought very improbable that their competitors will make any serious impression on them. The fact that there is more of the Sumitomo brand coming into this market now than ever before is cerDruggists tainly significant. should write to the American Trading Co. and ask for a sample.

Some Light on Gelatine Capsules.

That trite saying of Abraham Lincoln's that "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time," is used by the Merz Capsule Company, of Detroit, Mich., in relation to the prices, quality, etc., of empty Gelatine Capsules, a staple so largely and universally used by druggists. The Merz Company states:

When druggists are urged to pay a higher price for certain goods, it stands to reason that some apparent excuse must be put forward to accomplish this end. The druggist will therefore find that tastily gotten up advertisements are insinuating that other brands of capsules will bring discredit and annoyance to the dispenser should he see fit to use them.

The Merz Capsule Company, of Detroit, Mich., are independent manufacturers, with an experience of over ten years in the business. They have not always made as fine a capsule as they do now, neither have others, but they have perfected the art with years of experience, and It to-day their product is surpassed by none. has never been found necessary by them to "temper capsules" to make a perfectly pliable and highly soluble article. In manufacturing and gelatine capsules a properly conducted simple drying of the gelatine is all that the Metz Capsule Company have ever found necessary to produce a perfect capsule, and the term "tempering" when applied to gelatine capsules, is as mysterious to this company as it probably is to the druggists who are urged to pay higher prices for a "tempered" capsule. Any capsule, if over-dried, becomes a little brittle, and a box of the tempered, as well as other capsules, when placed on a heater for a short time will effectually lose their highly lauded quality. A good capsule cannot be made of inferior gelatine and the best quality of material means the least waste to the manufacturer.

Vol. XXXII. No. 7.

Whole No. 396.

Maclagan's Ammonia Test for Cocaine Hydrochlorate, by C. F. Boehringer & Soehne ...

HOSPITAL FORMULARY:

187

..... 188

Collodium Benzoinatum; Elixir Ferri et
Arseni Amarum; Elixir Vitae; Embro-
catio Tiglii Iodata; Glyceritum Fellis
Bovis; Glyceritum Hydrargyri Bichloridi;
Guttae Carminative; Injectio Acidi
Borici et Zinci; Injectio Adstringens;
Injectio Plumbi et Zinci cum Opio; Lini-
mentum Aconiti et Chloroformi Com-
positum; Linimentum Anodynum (Mott) 189
Liquor Alumini Acetatis; Liquor Boracis
Compositus; Liquor Boracis et Acidi
Tannici; Liquor Boro-Salicylicus; Liquor
Pepsini Compositus; Liquor Zinci et
Acidi Borici; Liquor Acidi Borici et Tan-
nici; Lotio Alba; Lotio Pro Alopecia;
Lotio Rubra

SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS:

190

Society of Chemical Industry; Electrical Furnace for Laboratory Work, by W. H. Birchmore; Experiments with Liquid Air, by Chas. E. Tripler 190, 193 PHARMACEUTICAL PROGRESS: Aminoform; Benzoiodohydrin; Dolomol; Glycerin Compounds of Guaiacol; A Clear Solution of Cocaine and Mercuric Chloride; Quinine Glycerophosphate; Chinetum Cinchontannate; Hydrarguent; Sanetogen; Eigon Preparations; Iodalbacide

PHARMACY BOARD QUESTIONS:

134

Questions of the New York Board; Questions of the Oregon Board

195

EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS.

IN

N our news columns we publish the account of an explosion in which a drug store was wrecked and a pharmacist seriously if not fatally injured by the sudden and unlooked for combustion of a mixture of potassium chlorate and sodium salicylate. We believe this is the first instance on record in which this particular combination has reacted in so violent a manner. It is well known, of course, that if we combine an oxidizing substance with a reducing agent and rub the substances together in a mortar during the process of mixing, a violent reaction between two bodies will result. Salicylic acid with the other phenol derivatives belong to the class known as reducing agents, which, when rubbed up with oxidizing agents, such as chlorates, hypochlorites, oxides of chlorine, nitrates and peroxides, with friction, will liberate highly explosive gases.

The rule to be invariably observed when prescriptions of this character are handed to pharmacists to be compounded is to powder each ingredient separately, and mix them afterwards with a wooden spatula on a sheet of paper, using care to avoid pressure. The most important point to be observed is to avoid friction.

Not long ago we published particulars of a case in which a drug clerk was seriously injured by the explosion of a hypophosphite salt, which was being powdered alone in a mortar from which the last traces of some oxidizing agent had not been removed. In other words, the pharmacist conducted the manipulation in a dirty mortar and the explosion which occurred was the result of carelessness on his part.

Potassium chlorate and potassium permanganate, silver oxide, the nitrates and the peroxides are the principle types of oxidizing agents. The tannins, pyrogallic acid, hydrochinon, sulphur, the hypophosphites, and the organic bodies, including alcohol, glycerin, sugar, vegetable drugs and the volatile and fixed oils may be taken as the types of reducing agents, which are particularly liable to explode

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with friction when rubbed up together with the chlorates or other oxidizing agents, and druggists cannot be too careful in observing proper precautions when mixing these substances.

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FAULTY EXAMINATION

QUESTIONS.

made with more or less frequency that boards of pharmacy are not educational institutions, such boards are of necessity educational forces; that is, if members carry out their duty with a proper degree of skill and care. We print elsewhere in this issue two sets of examination questions, both of which are in some respects open to criticism, and it can hardly be gratifying to the civic pride of the residents of the second largest city in the world to observe that in the matter of nomenclature and uniformity the questions of the New York City Board do not compare, favorably with those put by the State Board of Oregon.

The members of the City Board of Pharmacy do not appear to be working in harmony in this matter, от such inconsistencies as appeared in the questions originally sent out (we have made the usual editorial revisions) would not have appeared. In the questions in Materia Medica, the source of "phenic acid" is asked. The same question is repeated in a slightly altered form in the chemistry questions, namely, "What is the source of phenol?" Then, to come to another matter, we would point out that customary pharmaceutical usage does not group both the organic and inorganic drugs under the single head "materia medica." Maisch's text-book is an example in point. Inexcusable lapses in terminology appear in the set of questions put by the examiner in toxicology and posology, inexcusable for the reason that the candidate for examination will regard the authority of the examiners in this matter as a standard, and in this way the young pharmacist may be led into inaccuracies of style which he would not

otherwise commit. We refer more particularly here to the designation of chemical compounds in which the base is named last instead of first, in strict conflict with the revised nomenclature of the Pharma copoeia.

The faults observed and above referred to occur only too frequently in board of pharmacy questions from different sections. They are nearly always faults that could be very readily avoided, by having the entire set of questions carefully revised by some careful and well qualified person. Unless one person revises all of the questions put, it will be found practically impossible to insure against duplication in the questions asked and against errors or inconsistencies in nomenclature.

UNDER WHAT LAW?

undiscriminating character which is better suited to deal with drunk and disorderlies than with cases involving technical knowledge and skill or fine discrimination on points of law. The charges which have been brought at the instigation of a local newspaper against a number of druggists in this city for the sale of poisons without complying with the requirements of the penal cod have been decided by the police justices uniformly on the basis of that code, and the fact that the pharmacists were operating under a specific law governing pharmacy and applying to this particular territory which was passed long after the enactment of the penal code, has been studiously ignored by the magistrates.

As recorded in our news columns it is proposed to have a superior court review the findings in one of these cases, and we may look forward to at last obtaining an authoritative decision as to whether the pharmacist must obey two conflicting laws covering the same subject. It is possible that a certain laxity is or has been practiced by the druggists in the poorer sections in the matter of the sales of poisonous drugs, and where a pharmacist has clearly transgressed the regulations laid down in the pharmacy chapter of the charter he cannot expect to receive the sympathy and support of his fellow pharmacists. In the cases in question, however, the pharmacists have in most instances complied with the requirements of the pharmacy law and are still held under the penal code. It is to be hoped that a decision will soon be reached that will enable the pharmacist to know under what law he is conducting his business. We feel confident that the specific act will take the precedence over the penal code, but until a decision is rendered to this effect by a superior court it will be necessary for our readers to comply with the

provisions of the penal code to insure themselves against the petty annoyances and the harrassing tactics of the sensational penny-a-liner.

THE PHARMACIST AFLOAT.

HILE all the arts of diplomacy are

W being exerted to avoid a recourse

to that court of last resort, the force of arms, in the settlement of the Cuban question, the President of the United States has not failed to remember

that he is also the commander in chief of its armies and navies. In every direction there has been the greatest activity displayed in preparing as rapidly as possible for the outbreak of hostilities, and in each of the United States cruisers, battleships, gunboats and monitors, which are being busily prepared for active service, there is a pharmacist who takes his own share in the increased activity by filling up to the full limit his requisitions for medical and surgical supplies. Up to a few years since, the large majority of the pharmacists in the United States service were of foreign birth, while many of them had not even filed a declaration of intention to become citizens. Recently, however, a marked change has taken place in this respect and most of the younger men entering the naval service as apothecary are natives of the United States and graduates of pharmacy. Should the measure which has been approved by the Secretary of the Navy, organizing a hospital corps, become a law, the promotion to warrant officers of the senior members of the corps will give an opportunity for advancement, which will undoubtedly effect a still further improvement in the character of the men applying for appointment as naval pharmacists.

The two army medical stores depots are always put in charge of surgeons instead of pharmacists or hospital stewards, while the naval laboratory in Brooklyn is also in charge of a surgeon instead of a pharmacist. This is no doubt due largely to the fact that pharmacists, being poorly paid, and having no commissioned rank, are not looked upon as being worthy of undertaking the responsibility involved in the care of these stores.

The conditions existing in European military establishments are in marked contrast to the conditions here indicated, for in all European countries, save England alone, military pharmacists rank as commissioned officers and as such occupy the important positions at the head of the naval and pharmaceutical laboratories which their qualifications and knowledge entitle them to.

We print in another column some interesting notes on the naval pharmacist in the United States service, which will

give some idea of the duties performed and the class of men who perform them.

It is a well-recognized fact that disease carries off more soldiers than do shot and shell, and it is therefore the height of folly to equip our soldiers and sailors with the most approved weapons of war and at the same time leave their health to a large degree in the hands of underpaid and possibly incompetent pharmacists. The navy is better off in this respect than is the army, for our sailor-pharmacists are required to have actual experience as pharmacists before being entrusted with the responsibilities of the apothecary.

Now, when the eyes of the whole country are turned toward the army and navy, the most vigorous efforts should be put forth by the drug trade to secure the passage of the bills now before Congress to increase the pay and raise the rating of the pharmacists in the United States service.

Numerous letters have already been sent to Congressmen and Senators on the subject and now petitions are being forwarded to Congress from the druggists in different sections, asking a favorable consideration of the bills raising the rank and pay of the pharmacists in the United States service. Dr. Culbreth, of Baltimore, and Dr. E. Worth Moss, of Illinois, have both sent up numerously signed petitions along this line. It is by no that the signatures necessary should be confined to those engaged in the drug business. Numbers count in politics and it would be well if every pharmacist would draw up a petition, secure all the signatures he can, and forward it to his Congressman.

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THE PRIZE WINNER.

HE prize in the prize essay contest has been won for the second time by the author of the article on "Veterinary Pointers for Pharmacists," printed elsewhere in this number. It need hardly be said that pharmacists doing business in rural districts will benefit most by this very practical series of articles. Inquiries for remedies of this description are being constantly received by them and the information contained in the prize winning essays can be put to profitable use with the assurance that they will effect the purposes for which they are intended.

Below we give the names of the winners in the prize essay contest to date: George R. Cardwell, Little Falls, N.Y. E. L. Schmitt, Rochester, N. Y. Frank C. Weber, Ambler, Pa. "A Canadian," Nova Scotia.

C. J. Wolfe, Lewisburg, Pa. Ed. E. Williams, Antigo, Wis. Edward Swallow, Borough of Manhattan, New York. (Two Prizes.)

Prize Essay.

VETERINARY POINTERS

(No. II.)

For Pharmacists.

BY EDWARD SWALLOW,

New York.

When called upon to prescribe for a dog suffering from a skin disease, the pharmacist requires to know how to diagnose the disease correctly, in order that his treatment may be successful. In this article I shall endeavor to describe simply a few of the commoner ailments of dogs and cats, with the treatment.

Mange.

True mange is of two varieties, sarcoptic and follicular, and both are caused by parasites which burrow in the epidermis and produce the well-known disease in dogs; the follicular mange parasite takes up its abode in those large glands of the skin in which the erectile hairs are rooted, and which extend from the neck to the tail. This variety is not so contagious as sarcoptic mange, from which it is distinguished by the slowness of its development, the parts it affects, and by causing little or no irritation. In sarcoptic mange the thin and nude parts of the skin or else of the face and head are first affected, while in follicular mange the line of the spine is the first part affected.

The treatment for sarcoptic mange consists in removing the cause; it is essential to give the dog a warm bath and first remove all scabs, dirt, etc. Soft soap and plenty of rinsing will effect this. When the animal is nearly dry apply the external dressing. The following lotions are effective:

Shake the bottle and use once a day. Ointments are greasy and unpleasant, and if the dog or cat suffering from sarcoptic mange be given a medicated bath of soft soap and infusion of quassia two days after the first bath has been given and scabs, etc., removed, either of the above lotions is all that is required externally.

Debility generally accompanies mange and the tonic pills for dogs in the previous paper should certainly be given in every case.

The treatment for follicular mange consists of first clipping the hair as close

Care should be taken in handling dogs with ringworm, as the disease is contagious to human beings. For outward application decolorized tincture of iodine painted on daily until the edges begin to rise, then bathe and dress with simple cerate. When debility accompanies ringworm, as it frequently does, give a tonic pill for dogs once a day.

For fleas and lice on dogs or cats the best thing is a warm bath of infusion of quassia and soft soap, or if a wash is required the following answers well:

Turn back the hair and sponge well in. In bathing a dog or cat, wet the face and head first and avoid frightening them as much as possible. One of the best, and certainly the handiest aperients for dogs or cats, is dried Epsom salt in 10 to 20 grain doses, thrown upon the tongue at the back of the throat. The pharmacist is often asked for a substitute for the old mixture of syr. buckthorn and castor oil, which is as unpleasant to give as it is to take, and the above powder fills the bill.

For tapeworm in dogs, prepare the dog for the remedy by keeping it without meat or drink for twenty-four hours and then give one to two drams of freshlyscraped areca nut, and follow in two hours' time with one or two teaspoonfuls of castor or linseed oil; the tonic pills for dogs are useful after expulsion of the worm. Distemper generally develops

when the dog is from four to five months old. The first symptoms are loss of spirits and appetite, listlessness and reluctance to frolic and play around, nose hot and dry, ears cold, with accelerated breathing. In a day or two the eyelids become gummy, and a sticky discharge proceeds from them and the nose, while an eruption generally breaks out upon the skin of the thighs, large pustules form and break and the sores left are in the nature of ragged indolent ulcers.

TREATMENT: On first observing the distemper coming on give an aperient, castor oil, magnes. sulph. exiscata, or other suitable drug. The eyes and nose should be fomented with warm water containing a little glycerite of boric acid, and wiped gently with a soft rag, the lids are smeared with vaseline or almond oil and one of the following pills given once or twice a day.

DISTEMPER PILLS.

1 gr. 2 grs. .4 grs.

Powdered squills Gum ammoniacum Quinine sulph Confect. Rosae 2 s. Massa. ft. pil.

One to be given once or twice a day.

The dog should be exercised for a little time outdoors once a day, if the weather permits, as sunshine and fresh air are excellent medicines in themselves. The diet during sickness should be of milk, eggs and sugar, beef tea or meat extracts. A few drops of brandy are occasionally useful. When convalescence sets in give quinine, or a tonic pill once a day for about two weeks.

Note, as the tonic pills for dogs contain arsenic they should not be given longer than two weeks at a time, or more than two in one day. The skin eruptions in distemper may be dressed with the boric acid lotion, recommended in mange, or the eczema ointment.

The distemper pills should be made as hard as possible and coated with varnish or gelatine and to a pharmacist desirous of cultivating a veterinary trade, I would suggest keeping the following remedies always ready for sale, to-wit: Mange Lotion, Eczema Ointment, Kill Fleas Wash, Tapeworm Powders, etc. Areca Nut should be wrapped in wax paper in one dram doses, two in a packet, tonic pills for dogs twelve in a square box, legibly labeled as veterinary medicines and with full directions.

I have found the formulas given to work well behind the counter, and experience has left me the impression that the class of people willing to spend money over their favorite dogs or cats are those who object to vile smelling compounds and sticky messes, therefore such things as tar and sulphur ointments, carbolic acid, etc., should be used as a last resort.

The Wheezy Pug Dog.

The pharmacist is often called upon to prescribe for a pet dog of the pug variety which by a long course of injudicious feeding and want of proper exercise has become too fat for its own health.

The diet for these animals should be changed; no more sugar, milk or tea, but plain food, such as dog biscuit, or lean meat and water, and plenty of exercise daily; give an aperient powder about twice a week and one of the distemper pills daily or a compound soap pill; a few drops of spirits of ether will ease the breathing. I have also had good results from syrup or iodide of iron in 20-drop doses after a meal once a day.