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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
{Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  1914. 
tired  out.  Everybody  was  more  or  less  befuddled  by  the  multiplicity 
of  business.  .  .  .  The  A.  Ph.  A.  has  outgrown  the  clothes  of 
a  growing  youth  and  now  needs  the  equipment  of  the  adult  it  has 
come  to  be.  Particularly  are  the  annual  meetings  in  need  of  reform 
if  they  are  successfully,  intelligently  and  efficiently  to  handle  the 
vast  amount  of  work  undertaken  by  the  Association." — Bull.  Pharm., 
1 9 14,  v.  28,  pp.  67-70. 
Drijg  Trades'  Conference. — A  meeting  of  the  National  Drug 
Trades'  Conference  was  held  at  Washington,  January  12  to  14,  all 
of  the  several  national  organizations  being  represented.  Among  the 
resolutions  adopted  by  the  Conference  were : 
One  asking  newspapers  to  omit  as  far  as  possible  all  detail  of 
poisons  or  other  instruments  employed  in  suicide  and  murder. 
One  recommending  that  legislation  relating  to  methods  of  pack- 
ing and  labelling  of  corrosive  mercuric  chloride  tablets  and  other 
dangerous  toxic  drugs  be  deferred,  pending  a  report  by  the  Commit- 
tees of  Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  the  National  Formulary, 
and  tendering  such  aid  as  the  members  of  the  conference  may  be  in 
a  position  to  give  in  making  the  revision,  in  order  that  suitable  regula- 
tion with  respect  to  these  drugs  may  be  made. 
One  requesting  the  Postmaster-General  to  change  paragraph  5 
of  section  472  of  the  postal  regulations,  so  as  to  permit  the  mailing 
as  first-class  matter  of  poisonous  substances  packed  in  metal  con- 
tainers, bearing  the  name  of  the  sender  and  the  word  "  Poison." 
One  requesting  that  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the  United 
States  Pharmacopoeia  consider  the  desirability  of  inserting  in  the 
forthcoming  revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  a  section 
defining  the  word  "  poison." — Drug.  Circ,  1914,  v.  58,  p.  99. 
Poison  Bottles. — Anon.  The  use  of  a  special  bottle  for  poisons 
is  not  enforced  by  law  in  the  United  States,  although  legislation  em- 
bodying the  principle  has  more  than  once  been  attempted  in  various 
States.  On  what  grounds  the  proposals  have  been  rejected  we  can- 
not understand,  for  there  is  ample  proof  in  the  experience  of  our 
own  country  that  the  "  poison  bottle  "  is  an  excellent  danger  signal. — 
Pharm.  J.,  19 14,  v.  92,  p.  89. 
Restriction  of  Sale  of  Coal-tar  Synthetics. — The  Kansas 
City  Association  of  Retail  Druggists  is  conducting  an  energetic 
movement  toward  legislation  prohibiting  the  sale  of  antipyrin,  acet- 
phenetidin,  and  acetanilide,  except  on  physicians'  prescriptions. — 
Drug.  Circ,  19 14,  v.  58,  p.  103. 
