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you should cousider it not only a pleasure, but a duty to your fellow- 

 man to put in print that which you have acquired through professional 

 experience and which will be of benefit to the next fellow. 



An article of this character appeared in the December issue, under 

 the heading of a "Beautiful Essence of Peppermint." Now there is 

 positively no excuse why more of you readers cannot do likewise, you 

 surely must come across some perplexing question now and then in 

 your career, then why not make proper mention of it, and send it in for 

 publication in your official organ. 



If you were to see the articles written by your brother professional- 

 ists and published in some of our contemporaries, it would make vou 

 really ashamed of yourself for your lack of interest in vour official 

 organ. 



You may say that you have no time to spare. I grant that your time 

 is well taken up in your business, but even so it don't require hours 

 to write an article ; write a little at a time, say five minutes, when you 

 have nothing else to do; then when completed mail it to your editors, 

 and you will have become a "literaturist," or, better, a "scribe of the 

 mortar and pestle." See elsewhere articles by Geo. W. Kosh, Phar. 

 D., '05. 



The Government Has an Eye on the Drug Trade of New York 

 City. — The daily Consular and Trade Report for October 15. has the 

 following comment: "Dr. Darlington, commissioner of the Department 

 of Health in New York City, has made an analysis and assay of 10,000 

 specimens or samples procured from the wholesale drug establishments 

 either located in New York City or represented by agents. Of all the 

 samples, seventy-two per cent, were found to be adulterated or in some 

 way failed to comply with the standard of pharmacopoeia, and are con- 

 sequently unlawfully sold. Only twenty-eight per cent, were abso- 

 lutely and reasonably pure, and fifty-six per cent, were so rank, 

 dishonesty compounded and labeled, and so dangerous as to call for 

 the prosecution in the criminal court of the manufacturers and whole- 

 sale dealers. A New York journal states that 'no account was taken 

 of the thousands of cases of criminal substitution by the retailer.' The 

 new pure food law will take efifect January i, which will help to bring 

 about a better condition of affairs in the drug market. Dr. Darlington 

 gave notice that he would prosecute with vigor all persons not com- 

 plying with the State and federal laws." 



