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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I   September,  1914. 
refuse  delivery  of  aqueous  extract  of  opium  and  to  return  the  impor- 
tation to  the  country  whence  it  came. — Druggists'  Circular,  1914, 
vol.  158,  p.  487. 
Boylan  Law.  (A  News  Note.) — After  an  unavoidable  delay  in 
printing  them,  due  to  the  failure  of  the  State  Legislature  to  make 
an  appropriation  therefor,  the  Boylan  law  order  blanks,  which  must 
now  be  used  by  all  pharmacists,  druggists,  physicians,  dentists,  and 
veterinarians  in  New  York  State,  when  buying  opium  and  chloral, 
their  derivatives  and  preparations  containing  the  same,  are  now 
being  distributed. — Oil,  Paint  and  Drug  Rep.,  19 14,  vol.  86,  July  6, 
p.  11. 
Death  by  Poisoning  in  Great  Britain. — The  75th  annual  report  of 
the  Registrar-General  of  Births,  Deaths,  and  Marriages  in  England 
and  Wales  shows  that  the  number  of  deaths  due  to  poisons  and 
poisonous  substances  in  1912  was  neither  materially  larger  nor 
smaller  than  the  average  for  recent  years.  The  number  of  deaths 
certified  as  due  to  accidental  poisoning  by  scheduled  poisons  was 
122,  against  124  in  191 1,  and  by  non-scheduled  substances  102,  against 
115  in  191 1.  The  number  of  cases  in  which  poisons  were  taken  by 
suicides  was  547  (347  scheduled  and  200  non-scheduled)  ;  in  the 
previous  year  scheduled  poisons  were  used  in  324  cases,  and  non- 
scheduled  in  195. — Phar.  J.,  1914,  vol.  93,  p.  3. 
Responsibility  for  Poisoning.  (Anon.)- — The  responsibility  for  a 
fatal  and  an  additional  serious  case  of  poisoning  by  impure  barium 
sulphate,  used  in  the  course  of  a  Rontgen-ray  examination  at  Prague, 
has  finally  been  fixed  by  the  upper  court  at  Vienna.  This  court  decided 
that  the  pharmacist  in  charge  of  the  pharmacy  was  responsible  and 
guilty  of  neglect  because  of  his  having  failed  to  carefully  examine 
the  barium  sulphate  before  allowing  it  to  be  dispensed  or  used.  The 
assistants  in  the  pharmacy  and  in  the  wholesale  drug  establishment 
from  which  the  barium  sulphate  had  been  purchased  were  freed, 
despite  the  objection  made  by  the  State's  Attorney. — Siidd.  Apoth- 
Ztg.,  1914,  vol.  54,  p.  403. 
Studies  on  the  Absorption  of  Drugs.  (Hatcher  and  Eggleston.)  — 
A  summary  of  observations  on  the  absorption  of  drugs,  with  the  con- 
clusion that  the  ratio  of  absorption  from  the  four  common  channels 
of  administration  differs  for  each  drug.  No  rule  can  be  formulated 
for  the  calculation  of  the  appropriate  dose  by  one  mode  of  admin- 
istration from  the  dose  by  any  other  mode  of  administration.  Such 
