138  New  Lozenge  Apparatus.  { 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  1894. 
the  subject  of  dosage  ?  Yet,  how  can  he  apportion  dose  without 
being  made  aware,  to  some  extent  at  least,  of  the  conditions  requir- 
ing it.  Thus  one  degree  of  knowledge,  merging  as  it  were  by  a 
natural  connection  into  another,  has  probably  proved  to  be  the  step 
which  has  served  unintentionally  to  connect  the  two  functions  of 
diagnosing  and  prescribing,  and  involved  the  apothecary,  for  it  is 
well  known  by  experience  and  observation  that  the  public  are  apt 
at  first  to  resort  to  the  advice  of  the  druggist,  and  only  to  the  doctor 
when  a  final  resort  becomes  necessary. 
Subjects  like  this  which  we  have  introduced  here,  and  which 
involve  the  relations  and  offices  of  the  respective  spheres  of  phar- 
macy and  medicine,  also  involve  a  principle  which  should  lead  to 
some  settlement  or  adjustment.  Liberal  and  generous  minds  only 
can  do  this.  The  busy  man  seldom  stops  to  complain  of  the  inno- 
vations of  a  competitor  and  rival.  Who  complains  is  generally  he 
who  has  leisure  to  nurse  grievance,  and  become  morbidly  sensitive. 
An  active  mind  will  find  self-defence  in  devising  ways  and  means 
to  equalize  disadvantages.  All  fair  minds  certainly  have  an  ill-con- 
cealed contempt  for  those  in  either  domain — pharmacy  or  medicine, 
who  assert  prerogatives,  and  assume  responsibilities  which,  did  they 
not  menace  health  and  life,  would  simply  be  a  ridiculous  pretension. 
Philadelphia,  February  20 ,  i8g/j.. 
NEW  LOZENGE  APPARATUS. 
By  Wallace  Procter,  Ph.G. 
The  annoyance  experienced  in  dispensing  lozenges  has  been  long 
recognized  by  the  practical  pharmacist,  but  has  never  been  obviated 
as  it  should  be,  and  to  accomplish  this  in  an  easy  and  inexpensive 
manner,  the  apparatus  here  exhibited  is  offered  to  the  attention  oi 
the  meeting. 
The  board  is  made  preferably  of  a  piece  of  well-seasoned  hard 
wood,  one  and  a  half  inches  thick,  ten  inches  wide  and  fourteen 
long,  planed  perfectly  flat,  and  both  sides  and  ends  made  square  and 
true — at  each  side  about  three  inches  from  one  end  a  plate  is  let 
in  flush,  and  tapped  with  a  screw  ;  on  each  side  a  plate  of  brass  one 
and  a  half  inches  wide,  fourteen  long,  and  three-sixteenths  of  an 
inch  thick  is  fitted ;  each  plate  has  two  slots,  crossing  the  plate 
diagonally,  three-eighths  of  an  inch  from  each  edge  ;  these  slots 
must  have  exactly  the  same  slope,  and  through  one  slot  of  each 
