336  Can  we  Modify  the  Acridity  of  Gnaiac?  {Am-jXi£ra1, 
which  shall  be  for  the  use  of  the  said  Secretary,  as  compensation, 
and  four-fifths  for  the  use  of  the  said  State  Pharmaceuticai  Exam- 
ining Board;  Provided,  That  nothing  in  this  Act  shall  prevent  any 
pharmacist,  who  is  a  resident  of  the  State,  and  registered  under  an 
Act,  entitled  "  An  Act  to  Regulate  the  Practice  of  Pharmacy  and 
Sale  of  Poisons,  and  to  Prevent  Adulterations  in  Drugs  and  Medi- 
cinal Preparations  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,"  approved  May  24, 
1887,  and  its  several  amendments,  from  preparing  and  selling  any 
remedy  or  remedies,  the  sales  of  any  one  of  which  do  not  exceed 
five  hundred  dollars  per  year. 
Sec.  2.  Nothing  in  this  Act  shall  prevent  any  person  or  persons 
from  manufacturing  or  selling  any  proprietary  or  so-called  patent 
medicine  when  the  same  is  shipped  outside  of  this  Commonwealth. 
Sec  3.  Any  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall 
be  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred 
dollars,  or  imprisonment  not  exceeding  one  year,  or  either  or  both, 
at  the  discretion  of  the  Court.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  any 
public  prosecutor  in  any  county  of  this  Commonwealth  to  see  to  the 
enforcement  of  this  Act. 
Sec.  4.  This  Act  shall  go  into  effect  on  the  first  day  of  January 
next  succeeding  its  passage. 
Sec.  5.  Any  Acts  or  parts  of  Acts  inconsistent  herewith  are 
hereby  repealed. 
CAN  WE  MODIFY  THE  ACRIDITY  OF  GUAIAC? 
By  Wm.  B.  Thompson.  ™ 
Read  before  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  June  14,  1894. 
For  a  violation  of  the  laws  of  our  physical  being  we  pay  a  two- 
fold penalty.  We  suffer  an  indisposition,  an  ailment  or  a  malady, 
as  the  case  may  be.  This  is,  of  itself,  hard  enough  to  bear,  and 
demands  fortitude  and  submission,  but  when  the  sufferer  is  told 
that  superadded  to  his  weight  of  misery  will  be  the  administration 
of  certain  periodical  doses  of  a  distasteful  stuff  called  medicine,  the 
cup  is,  indeed,  full,  and  the  punishment  seems  adequate  to  secure  a 
thorough  repentance. 
Numerous  and  very  ingenious,  indeed,  have  been  the  expedients 
by  means  of  which  it  has  been  sought  to  disguise,  to  conceal  and  to 
obtund  the  bitter,  the  acrid  and  the  nauseous,  and  the  art  of  the 
