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March,  1907. 
kind  that  are  dangerous  to  the  public  health  and  morals.  {Journal 
A.  M.  A.,  1907,  page  236.) 
Sunday  Rest  in  France. — Pharmacists  in  France  are  not  alone 
adapting  themselves  to  the  recently  enacted  Sunday  Rest  Law,  but 
are  even  going  farther  and  are  adopting  earlier  hours  for  closing 
during  the  week. 
At  Grenoble,  where  Sunday  closing  has  been  in  vogue  for  some 
time,  the  pharmacists  have  decided  to  close  at  8  p.m.  daily  and  to 
organize  a  night  service  by  rotation. 
The  syndicate  of  Paris  pharmacists  recommends  that  its  members 
adopt  9  p.m.  as  the  hour  for  closing  during  the  week  and  to  close 
from  midday  till  the  following  morning  on  Sundays  and  bank  holi- 
days.   (Client,  and  Drug.,  1906,  page  775.) 
Popularity  of  Pasteur  in  France. — The  Petit  Parisien  has  taken  a 
rather  interesting  plebiscite  as  to  who  is  thought  to  be  the  greatest  of 
nineteenth  century  Frenchmen.  In  the  voting  Pasteur  took  the 
lead  from  the  first,  followed  by  Victor  Hugo,  Gambetta,  Napoleon  I, 
Thiers  and  Lazare  Carnot,  in  the  order  named.  (Chem.  and  Drug., 
1907,  page  6.) 
Doses  in  the  Codex — The  Codex  Revision  Committee  has  decided 
to  include  a  list  of  maximum  doses  in  a  supplement  to  the  Codex, 
and  has  delegated  the  work  of  drawing  up  such  a  list  to  a  special 
committee  including  MM.  Laudouszy,  Marty,  Bourquelot,  Gilbert 
and  Yvon.    (Chem.  and  Drug.,  Dec,  1906,  page  884.) 
The  Druggists'  Circular  has  rounded  out  a  half  century  of  its 
existence.  The  January,  1907,  number  of  this  journal  constitutes  a 
fiftieth  anniversary  number  and  comprises  a  total  of  320  pages. 
The  190  or  more  pages  that  are  devoted  to  reading  matter  con- 
tain quite  an  exhaustive  review  of  American  pharmacy  during  the 
past  fifty  years.  All  of  the  more  interesting  articles  are  liberally 
illustrated  and  the  number  itself  will  no  doubt  be  appreciated  as  an 
album  of  men  who  have  contributed,  or  are  now  contributing,  to  the 
development  of  the  science  of  pharmacy  in  America. 
Incompatibility  of  Pepsin  and  Pancreatin  in  liquid  preparations. — 
A  report  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association  (Journal  American  Medical  Association, 
February  2,  1907,  p.  434)  calls  renewed  attention  to  the  generally 
well  known  fact  that  despite  the  frequently  made  statement  that 
pepsin  and  pancreatin  must  be  incompatible  in  liquid  preparations 
