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ON  THE  OIL  OF  HOPS. 
importance,  escape  notice  altogether,  actually  by  reason  of  the 
severity  of  the  law.  If,  however,  there  is  any  case  in  which  it 
is  more  desirable  to  prevent  offences  than  to  punish,  it  is  cer- 
tainly the  present  one.  It  would,  therefore,  seem  fit,  to  render 
the  supervision  of  pharmacy  more  efficacious,  to  introduce  into 
the  measures  adopted  with  this  view  consistency  and  complete- 
ness, to  give  to  the  body  charged  with  this  supervision  a  moral 
influence  which  it  has  never  yet  possessed,  and  a  certain  degree 
of  authority  which  would  in  many  cases  obviate  the  necessity  of 
having  recourse  to  the  legal  tribunals. 
Among  the  several  points  of  detail  which  the  exercise  of  phar- 
macy in  Germany  suggests,  I  will  confine  myself  to  mentioning 
those  provisions  whose  introduction  in  France  appears  desirable, 
and  which  are,  moreover,  in  accordance  with  the  general  spirit  of 
of  legislation  in  that  country : 
The  separation  of  pupils  into  two  classes,  those  properly  so 
called,  and  assistants  (aides);  the  administration  of  the  oath 
under  conditions  which  would  render  this  simple  formality  a 
serious  matter ;  the  establishment  of  an  inspection  of  pharmacies 
not  only  with  regard  to  medicines,  but  likewise  to  the  entire 
management  of  the  business  and  the  laboratory  ;  to  require  each 
pharmaceutist  to  keep  an  herbarium  of  officinal  and  other  plants 
used  in  medicine ;  that  an  abstract  of  the  reports  made  to  the 
authorities  on  the  occasion  of  inspections,  should  be  addressed  in 
an  official  manner  to  each  pharmaceutist,  and  that  these  reports 
should  furnish  an  opportunity  of  direct  communication  between 
the  administrative  body  and  the  pharmaceutists ;  the  introduc- 
tion of  stricter  regulations  with  regard  to  secret  remedies ; 
lastly,  the  introduction  of  written  theses  and  chemical  analyses 
into  the  examinations. — jPharmaceutioalJournal,  from  Journal 
de  Pharmacie, 
ON  THE  OIL  OF  HOPS. 
By  Dr.  Eudolph  Wagner. 
The  ethereal  oil  of  the  female  flowers  of  the  hop  plant  (Hu- 
mulus  lupulus)  is  quite  unknown  with  regard  to  its  technical 
importance.  A  superficial  examination  by  Payen  and  Chevallier 
has  been  the  source  of  innumerable  errors  with  reference  to  the 
