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stance  and  is  unwilling  to  allow  its  commercial  exploitation  until 
satisfied  that  the  remedy  will  prove  to  be  comparatively  safe  in  the 
hands  of  the  general  practitioner.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  it  is 
a  compound  more  or  less  closely  allied  to  arsenilic  acid,  which  in  its 
various  forms  has  been  the  cause  of  many  cases  of  blindness,  the 
precaution  appears  to  be  exceptionally  commendable  (/.  Am.  M. 
Ass.,  1910,  v.  55,  p.  601,  609,  610). 
Alcohol  a  Dangerous  axd  Unnecessary  Medicine. — A  book 
review  calls  attention  to  a  book  with  the  above  title  recentlv  pub- 
lished by  Airs.  Martha  M.  Allen.  Superintendent  of  the  Department 
of  Medical  Temperance  for  the  Xational  Woman's  Christian 
Temperance  Union.  The  book  comprises  a  collection  of  expressions 
of  opinion  by  medical  writers  and  is  well  worth  more  than  casual 
notice  on  the  part  of  pharmacists  who  are  anxious  to  free  their 
calling  from  the  widely  made  imputation  that  they  are  in  effect 
liquor  distributors  (/.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  1910,  v.  55,  p.  523). 
Alcoholic  Beverages. — The  London  correspondent  asserts 
that :  "  The  tendency  of  recent  years  has  been  to  limit  considerably 
the  field  of  the  utility  of  alcohol,  and  the  amount  consumed  in  the 
hospitals  is  a  mere  fraction  of  that  consumed  a  few  years  ago.'" 
A  recently  issued  manifesto  signed  by  101  physicians  in  Xorth 
Wales  appeals  to  medical  men  to  join  them  in  an  endeavor  to 
discountenance  the  popular  error  that  alcoholic  drinks  are  necessary 
for  the  promotion  of  health  by  refraining  from  their  employment 
in  the  treatment  of  disease  (7.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  1910,  v.  54,  p.  2130). 
Official  recogxitiox  of  Alcoholic  Beverages  is  well  shown 
by  the  following: 
TABLE   SHOWING  THE  RECOGNITION   ACCORDED   TO   WINE   AXD  DISTILLED  LIQUORS 
IN   THE   SEVERAL   XATIONAL  PHARMACOPOEIAS. 
S  -3 
3  e  s     %  «  i?  §  a  s  g  I  "I  -s 
Brandy                +    +    0+0-f    o     o  o  o     0  +   0  + 
Rum                    00     0-1-00    o     o  o  o  0000 
Whiskv                 o    o     0000     o     o  o  o  ooo-f 
Wine.                 +   +*?  +  +  +   +*+  +*  +*.+  +    ?  + 
