358  Pharmacopostal  Requisition.  {Ami£$;m£rm' 
the  medical  profession  is  likely  to  lag  behind  in  the  progressive 
spirit  of  the  age.  New  methods  are  being  introduced  requiring 
new  agents  of  medication,  obsolete  preparations  are  discarded,  other 
standards  of  strength  or  purity  may  become  advisable,  and  all  of 
such  matters  require  careful  study  and  discussion,  and  should  not  be 
left  to  be  decided  at  the  last  moment  in  a  pharmacopceial  conven- 
tion. 
The  wishes  of  this  State  association  should  be  clearly  ascertained 
in  regard  to  the  admission  or  rejection  of  certain  preparations,  in 
regard  to  inserting  the  doses  of  active  remedies,  to  processes  of 
manufacture  or  assay  of  galenical  preparations  and  any  other  mat- 
ters connected  with  our  national  Pharmacopoeia,  so  that  when  the 
time  comes  to  select  delegates,  they  may  be  apprised  of  the  wishes 
of  the  profession  and  not  left  to  their  personal  impressions  and  the 
impulse  of  the  moment  when  called  upon  to  cast  their  vote  for  the 
rules  guiding  the  next  committee  of  revision. 
DO  DRUGS  SUPPLIED  BY  THE  JOBBER  COMPLY  WITH 
PHARMACOPCEIAL  REQUISITION?  IF  NOT,  WHO  IS 
RESPONSIBLE,  THE  JOBBER  OR  THE  RETAILER? 
By  Louis  Emanuei,. 
Read  before  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  June  15,  1894. 
OLEUM  SANTALI. 
Have  you  changed  the  quality  of  the  sandalwood  oil  you  dispense  ? 
This  was  the  question  put  to  a  pharmacist  by  a  physician  for  whom 
he  had  been  preparing  oil  of  sandalwood  capsules.  The  reply  was, 
"  I  don't  know  that  the  quality  of  the  oil  now  being  used  is  of  a 
different  quality  from  that  used  before,  but  I  do  know  that  I  bought 
it  from  a  different  source,  and  paid  two  dollars  a  pound  more  for  it." 
"  Well,"  said  the  doctor,  "I  thought  there  was  something  wrong, 
for  my  patients  get  well  surprisingly  quick  of  late  ;  I  attributed  it 
either  to  the  quality  of  the  medicine  or  to  a  mildness  of  the  disease." 
The  oil  which  brought  out  the  above  observation  was  purchased  ' 
from  a  well-known  perfumer  and  dealer  in  essential  oils,  at  the  cosf  of 
nine  dollars  a  pound.    It  was  pale  yellow  in  color,  or  rather  nearly 
colorless,  and  very  soluble  in  a  mixture  of  3  parts  alcohol  and  1  part 
of  water  at  200  C. 
The  Pharmacopoeia  describes  oil  of  sandalwood  as  "  a  pale  yel- 
lowish or  yellow  somewhat  thickish  liquid,  etc.    If  to  1  cc.  of  the 
