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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
J  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\     March,  1914. 
Ph.  Brit. — The  British  Pharmacopoeia  Committee  reports  that 
"  Two  further  sections  of  the  text  of  the  new  Pharmacopoeia  have 
been  prepared  by  the  editors,  and  have  been  submitted  to  the  Com- 
mittee and  to  the  several  Committees  of  Reference.  All  the  sections 
so  prepared  have  been  sent  to  press  and  are  at  present  in  type, 
undergoing  revision.  It  is  hoped  that  the  appendix,  and  the  con- 
cluding parts  of  the  draft,  will  be  ready  for  consideration  early  in 
the  new  year." — Pharm.  J.,  1913,  v.  91,  p.  849. 
Pharmacopceal  Doses. — An  editorial,  in  commenting  on  a  propo- 
sition, recently  made  in  the  Medical  Press  of  Great  Britain,  to  adjust 
the  strength  of  tinctures  so  that  the  doses  of  various  groups  distin- 
guished by  prefixing  "  per  "  and  "  sub  "  would  be  the  same,  says : 
"  Pharmaceutical^  the  strength  of  tinctures  is  only  of  importance 
when  regarded  from  the  point  of  view  of  providing  sufficient  men- 
struum adequately  to  exhaust  a  drug."  "  In  regard  to  the  sugges- 
tion as  to  names  the  question  arises  in  connection  with  subtinctures, 
will  the  alcohol  or  the  drug  in  the  tincture  be  the  more  grateful  and 
comforting  to  the  patient?" — Chem.  and  Drug.,  1914,  v.  84,  pp. 
19-20. 
Proprietary  Medicines  in  Great  Britain. — Xrayser  II,  com- 
menting on  the  first  year  of  medical  benefit  under  the  insurance  act  in 
Great  Britain,  asserts  that  it  has  brought  with  it  a  marked  change 
in  the  nature  of  business  done  by  chemists  and  druggists.  One  man 
reports  that  he  will  dispense  10,000  prescriptions  and  upon  the  whole 
he  is  satisfied  from  the  profit  realized  directly  from  this  source.  The 
increase  in  the  prescription  business  is  further  notable  for  the  fact 
that  the  trade  in  proprietaries  has  considerably  decreased  and  should 
mean  that  chemists  as  a  whole  are  enjoying,  and  will  continue  to 
enjoy,  the  increase  in  what  is  after  dispensing  the  most  profitable 
department  of  their  business. — Chem.  and  Drug.,  19 14,  v.  84,  p.  85. 
Historical  Medical  Museum. — An  unsigned  article  presents  a 
number  of  illustrations  of  the  Historical  Medical  Exhibition  in  Wig- 
more  Street,  London,  which  was  organized  by  Henry  S.  Wellcome 
and  opened  on  the  occasion  of  the  International  Medical  Congress  dur- 
ing last  summer.  This  museum  is  now  being  rearranged  as  a  perma- 
nent institution  and  there  is  probably  nothing  in  existence  elsewhere 
which  is  quite  like  the  collection  which  will  shortly  be  available  for 
the  use  of  students  and  others  interested  in  the  study  of  antiquarian 
medicine  and  surgery.  The  illustrations  include  a  reproduction  of 
the  exterior  of  a  London  apothecary's  shop  of  the  17th  Century, 
