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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



consist in transferring from Schedule B 

 to Schedule A such poisons as experience 

 or policy would place there. ' ' A request 

 to the Legislature to impose penalties on 

 those misrepresenting the purpose for 

 which poison was purchased by them, or 

 giving fictitious names and addresses, 

 will accompany the bill. Copies of this 

 bill were directed to be sent to the vari- 

 ous pharmaceutical organizations and 

 boards of pharmacy in the State. 



The Sale of Organic Serum in France. — 

 The application of the law relating to the sale 

 of therapeutic serum and other organic liquids 

 of a similar nature, which was passed in April 

 of this year, has given rise to several points of 

 uncertainty. In an article published in the 

 Union Pharmacetique, M. Bogelot gives an 

 opinion upon the following question which was 

 propounded to him: "Should one refuse to 

 sell such fluids as those of Brown Sequard and 

 Consiatin Paul to such people to whom one had 

 been in the regular habit of supplying them be- 

 fore the passing of the law ?" Such liquids cer. 

 tainly come under the head of injectionable or- 

 ganic liquids, and have hitherto been prepared 

 and sold freely by pharmacists. Considering 

 the strict letter of the law, these fluids certainly 

 come under its application and should hence- 

 forth be sold only by means of prescriptions. 

 In a matter of civil affairs or common rights we 

 should say that the law could not have a retro- 

 spective action ; and, therefore, that those phar- 

 macists already engaged in the manufacture 

 need not sacrifice their acquired rights. But in 

 the case of a law involving the public health 

 and order, against which no private interests 

 should prevail, it is less certain ; on the other 

 hand, if one ceases manufacturing these liquids, 

 ordered by therapeutic usage, can one also de- 

 prive doctors and sick people of a means of 

 treatment which promises to cure them of their 

 special diseases ? The proper course appears to 

 be for the pharmacists who have undertaken 

 the manufacture to put the question before the 

 Administration, and ask for either a personal 

 authoriiation for manufacturing, or for a decla- 

 ration that the products dealt with do not come 

 within the scope of the law which requires them 

 to be only sold on the order of a prescription. 

 It seems, also, that until the Administration has 

 declared itself as to the interpretation of the 

 new law in this case, pharmacists should, in the 

 interests of sick people, continue to make and 

 sell the products in question." — Repertoire . 



SULPHUR MINES IN LOUISIANA. 



It looks as if Sicily had shipped its 

 last ton of sulphur to the United States. 

 At the increased rate of production cer- 

 tain to follow, the Lake Charles sulphur 

 mines of Calcasieu County, Louisiana, 

 will not only be able to supply the entire 

 demand of the United State-, but of the 

 world for commercial sulphur. 



This important piece of news will 

 naturally be of interest wherever sulphur 

 is used, while the facts will cause no 

 small amount of consternation in Sicily, 

 which for many years has held the mar- 

 kets of the world in this important 

 product. 



Two and a half years ago F. B. Squire, 

 secretary of the Standard Oil Company, 

 was prospecting for sulphur lands con- 

 tributory or adjacent to the Gtilf of 

 Mexico. Owning large tracts of phos- 

 phate lands in Florida, Mr. Squire's idea 

 was to secure sulphur, and thus produce 

 fertilizers in the vicinity of the Gulf, to 

 supply the Cotton States by water with 

 cheap fertilizers. In his search, Mr. 

 Squire made inquiry all over the south- 

 ern extremity of the United States, ex- 

 tending into Mexico. Nothing that 

 seemed practical materialized, although 

 he by no means had abandoned the idea. 



One day, when en route from Cleve- 

 land to New York, he met a gentleman 

 on the train who knew considerable 

 about sulphur lands in Louisiana. He 

 was told it was not possible to mine the 

 sulphur, as it was below a bed of quick- 

 sand, 300 feet thick. But Mr. Squire 

 went to work, got such men as the Van- 

 derbilts, the Coopers, Rockfellers, the 

 Hewitts and others interested, capitalized 

 a company, experimented with the sul- 

 phur, found it could be mined and re- 

 fined, and now they propose to go ahead 

 and produce the article. 



At present 100 tons of chemically pure 

 sulphur are being pumped out of these 



