THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



most powerful, most deadly and most 

 commonly used household chemical, bi- 

 chloride of mercury, the idea came to 

 my mind that the only safe way to put 

 up bichloride of mercury tablets was in 

 a special ampoule, containin^^ about 2 

 cc. of a solution of Hg; CL representing 

 7^ grains of the chemical, coloring the 

 liquid a prominent red. This, in my 

 opinion would entirely obviate the acci- 

 dental taking of this poison, so much 

 spoken of in the daily papers and scien- 



tific journals, also at discussions at. the 

 various pharmaceutical conferences 



There is no doubt that many sugges- 

 tions have been made to attempt to rem- 

 edy or prevent fatalities, such as various 

 shaped tablets, different colors, contain- 

 ers, labels, wrappers, and warning stop- 

 pers. Yet with all these, there is no 

 doubt in my mind that once the tablet 

 itself was in the hand of the intended 

 taker that it required no thought or de- 

 liberation, no further warning, no un- 



