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THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



Mr. W. W. Jackson, better known 

 to some of his friends as "Water Wa^- 

 on" Jackson of Joncsboro, Ark., was 

 married on Sunday, April 5th. Mr. 

 Jackson is a "live wire" in the drug 

 line, and the benedicts will welcome 

 him to their ranks. 



The Wasself Pharmacy, 4239 Broad- 

 way, are about to open a branch drug 

 store at Broadway and 112th St., New 

 York City. 



Mr. E. T. Curtis, manager of 

 Sharp & Dohme's St. Louis branch 

 house, has just returned to his desk 

 after an extended trip through Kansas 

 and Southern Missouri. He reports 

 business conditions as good and indi- 

 cates that Kansas expects a bumper 

 wheat crop this year. 



Another Taka-Diastase Campaign. 



Parke, Davis & Co. are again direct- 

 ing the attention of physicians to the 

 important improvement which, through 

 a new process in manufacture, they 

 have effected in Taka-Diastase— an im- 

 provement which virtually doubles the 

 medicinal efficacy of this valuable 

 agent for the treatment of starch in- 

 digestion. Under conditions of tem- 

 perature and moisture corresponding to 

 those existing in the normal stomach, 

 Taka-Diastase will now liquefy three 

 hundred times its weight of starch in 

 ten minutes. The Company is taking 

 full-page space in a long list of medi- 

 cal journals to announce the improve- 

 ment. The advertisements contain a 

 complete roster of Taka-Diastase prod- 

 ucts—liquid, powder, capsule and tab- 

 let, together with the various combina- 

 tions of Taka-Diastase and other 

 agents in capsules and tablets. It is 



understood that the campaign of pro- 

 motion embraces additional publicity 

 in the form of letters and literature 

 which are being mailed direct to physi- 

 cians, and some active detail work by 

 a small army of traveling representa- 

 tives. With all these agencies in co- 

 operation it is a safe guess that the 

 medical profession will be well in- 

 formed with respect to the virtues of 

 this "greater Taka-Diastase." This 

 means a larger volume of Taka-Dias- 

 tase prescriptions, a contingency which 

 druggists will do well to take account 

 of. 



EXAMINATION QUESTIONS 



Senior 



DISPENSING PHARMACY. 



Spring, 1914. 



1. Outline a method for the manu- 

 facture of Zinc Stearate. 



2. Syrup of Calcium Iodide : (a) 

 Name the substances necessary to pre- 

 pare it. (b) Name the substance 

 which acts is an oxidizing agent, (c) 

 Name the by-product which is formed. 



3. Explain why it is necessary to 

 use glycerin in the manufacture of 

 bismuth subgallate. 



4. State what changes take place in 

 each of the following galenicals when 

 exposed to air : (a) Basham's mixture, 

 (b) Tincture of ferric chloride, (c) 

 Syrup of ferrous iodide, (d) Com- 

 pound syrup of hypophosphites. 



5. Name three official extracts in the 

 manufacture of which water is em- 

 ployed as the menstruum. 



