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A news item savs that J. X. Hurtv. secretary of the Indiana Board 
of Health, has recently published the results of the analysis of one 
thousand samples of drugs collected in all parts of the State. Forty- 
seven per cent of the samples are said to haye been adulterated. — 
Drug. Circ. & Chern. Gaz.. X. Y., 1906. y. 50, p. 454. 
A news item includes a portion of a speech made by Mr. Mann in 
the House of Bepresentatives. in the course of which he enumerates 
a number of articles frequently found to be adulterated. — Oil. Paint, 
and Drug Pep.. 1906, y. 70. July 2. p. 27. 
Bell. J. Carter, asserts that adulteration in pharmacopoeia! prepara- 
tions may be divided roughly into two classes : (1) Compounded drugs 
which contain a volatile oil principle and are liable to deteriorate 
on keeping. (2) Preparations which are not prepared strictly accord- 
ing to the directions of the pharmacopoeia and contain less than the 
due amount of actiye principle or principles. — Brit, and Col. Drug., 
Loncl., 1906, y. 49, pp. 548. 
An editorial points out that a common cause of conrplaint is the 
dirty condition of many of the ordinary chemicals on the market. 
Many of the commonly used medicinal chemicals will not make a 
brilliant solution in water and this, it is said, may be due to careless- 
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ness in packing and storing. — Drug Topics, X. Y., 1906, y. 21. p. 354. 
Sclia de, J. AY., points out the possible sources of impurities in 
chemicals used for reagents. He asserts that to ask for a reagent 
“ absolutely pure " is to ask. in most cases, for the impossible in 
economical manufacture. — Oil, Paint, and Drug Pep., 1906. y. 70. 
Xoy. 5, p. 40. 
Coblentz, Virgil, presented a paper at the meeting of the Xew York 
section of the American Chemical Society on the purity of medicinal 
chemicals, in which he reported the results of the analysis of a num- 
ber of samples of medicinal chemicals obtained from different 
sources. — Drug, Circ. & Chem. Gaz., X. Y., 1906, y. 50. p. 222. 
2. REAGENTS. 
The Ph. Austr. VIII includes a long list of reagents and enumer- 
ates the apparatus that must be on hand in each pharmacy for testing 
the identity, quality, and composition of the materials purchased. 
The Ph. Belg. Ill contains a list of the utensils and instruments 
that must be on hand in each pharmacy for applying the several tests 
required. 
y. AYaldheim, Max. presents a compilation of reagents and reactions 
designed to be used in connection with the more comprehensive com- 
pilations of reagents. — Monograph, pp. 68, published as a supplement 
to Pharm. Prax.. 1906. v. 5. 
Kebler, L. F., reports on the testing of chemical reagents for the 
presence of arsenical compounds and chlorides. The compounds in 
which arsenic was found are enumerated. 
