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Editorial. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(       May,  1877. 
The  Milk  of  Sulphur  Prosecutions  in  England,  to  which  we  have  referred  on  a 
previous  occasion  ("  Am.  Jour.  Pharm.,"  1875,  P-  I3^),  appear  to  have  reached  the 
end  which  they  deserved.  As  our  readers  are  aware,  the  old-fashioned  milk  of 
sulphur,  containing  calcium  sulphate,  which,  by  the  way,  has  never  been  officinal 
in  this  country,  has  been  supplied  there,  whenever  milk  of  sulphur  was  asked  for, 
while  precipitated  sulphur  meant  the  article  which  here  is  used  under  both  names, 
namely,  the  sulphur  precipitated  from  a  solution  of  calcium  sulphuret  by  hydro- 
chloric acid,  and  consequently  free  from  calcium  sulphate.  On  an  appeal  taken 
from  the  decision  of  a  magistrate,  the  Knutsford  Quarter  Sessions,  by  a  very  full 
bench,  decided,  without  hearing  all  the  testimony  of  the  appellant,  that  in  the  trade 
and  the  medical  profession  there  were  two  distinct  substances,  known  as  lac  sulphuris 
and  sulphur  prtecipitatum,  and  that  they  were  supplied  to  the  trade  and  the  public 
by  those  names  as  two  distinct  things. 
We  consider  this  decision  as  eminently  proper,  and  warranted  by  the  facts  as  they 
appear  to  an  entirely  disinterested  observer  5  for  in  the  United  States  we  regard  the 
two  terms  as  absolutely  synonymous,  and  a  milk  of  sulphur  containing  sulphate  of 
calcium,  as  a  fraud.  But  we  know  also  that  mere  terms  have  a  different  significance 
with  the  population  of  different  localities,  and  that  it  cannot  be  altered  by  any 
amount  of  scientific  reasoning. 
A  Pharmaceutical  Journal  Discontinued. — Buchner's  "Neues  Repertorium  fur 
Pharmacie  "  has  been  discontinued  with  the  close  of  the  twenty-fifth  volume,  (1876). 
This  journal,  with  its  predecessor,  has  been  one  of  the  most  important  and  influen- 
tial, dating  back  to  the  year  1815,  when  the  "  Repertorium  fiir  die  Pharmacie"  was 
established  by  Prof  A.  F.  Gehlen,  a  pharmacist,  and  at  that  time  one  of  the  best 
known  German  chemists,  who  had  previously  edited  several'  volumes  of  the  "  Ber- 
linisches  Jahrbuch  der  Pharmacie."  Gehlen  died  unexpectedly  before  the  first 
volume  of  the  "  Repertorium  "  was  finished,  being  poisoned  by  the  inhalation  of 
arseniuretted  hydrogen,  with  which  gas  he  was  then  experimenting.  The  very  first 
essai  published  in  that  journal  was  written  by  Dr.  J.  A.  Buchner,  who,  since 
Gehlen's  death  continued  to  edit  it  until  the  year  1851,  at  the  close  of  the  110th 
volume,  when  the  title  was  changed  to  that  given  above.  Before  the  close  of  the 
first  volume  was  reached,  the  veteran  editor  died,  and  was  followed  by  his  son,  Prof. 
L.  A.  Buchner,  who  remained  in  the  editorial  chair  until  the  final  discontinuance 
of  the  "  Neues  Repertorium." 
Within  a  few  years  the  publication  of  four  important  pharmaceutical  journals  of 
Germany  has  been  stopped,  namely,  the  "  Apotheker,"  Wittstein's  "  Vierteljahres- 
schrift,"  "  Neues  Jahrbuch  der  Pharmacie,"  and  now  the  "  Repertorium." 
Correction. — In  the  December  (1876)  number  we  announced  the  death  of  Henry 
E.  St.  Claire  Deville.  This  is  incorrect.  It  was  the  brother  of  this  distinguished 
chemist,  the  well-known  mineralogist  and  geologist,  Charles  St.  Claire  Deville,  who 
died  in  October  last. 
