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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  1920. 
the  medical  profession.  We  are  of  the  opinion  that  pharmacy  has 
too  many  glass  houses  to  safely  engage  in  "stone -thro wing,"  and  the 
insufficiency  of  our  pharmaceutical  education  is  a  topic  that  it  is 
proposed  to  editorially  discuss  in  an  early  issue.  G.  M.  B. 
FURTHER  MODIFICATIONS  OF  THE  REGULATIONS  FOR 
PROHIBITION  ENFORCEMENT. 
In  our  editorial  comments  we  have  taken  exception  to  the  re- 
quirement of  the  regulation  No.  60  that  bay  rum,  hair  tonics  and 
other  toilet  preparations  must  be  denatured  by  the  addition  of  tartar 
emetic.  Throughout  the  trades  affected  by  this  early  promulgation 
of  the  Federal  Prohibition  Commissioner,  there  has  been  a  very 
pronounced  opposition  to  this  ruling.  The  Department  has  now 
modified  this  in  a  mimeographed  regulation  known  as  Prohibition 
Mimeograph  No.  38,  which  sets  forth  four  additional  optional  modi- 
fying agents  that  may  be  used  in  place  of  tartar  emetic.  These 
are  quinine  sulphate  2  grains  to  the  fluid  ounce,  cinchonidine  sul- 
phate 2  grains  to  the  fluid  ounce,  salicylic  acid  5  grains  to  the  fluid 
ounce  and  resorcin,  5  grains  to  the  fluid  ounce. 
It  is  not  improbable  that  further  consideration  will  justify  the 
Department  in  admitting  as  modifying  agents  the  use  of  some  other 
denaturing  agents  than  those  now  specified. 
This  Bureau  has  likewise  issued  as  Prohibition  Mimeograph 
No.  40,  a  regulation  regarding  the  reports  of  liquor  sold  by  druggists 
on  physicians'  prescriptions.    This  reads  as  follows: 
"A  report  on  Form  141 8  has  been  prepared  to  be  rendered  by 
druggists  and  pharmacists  each  month,  showing  the  number  of  pre- 
scriptions filled  and  the  quantity  of  liquor  sold  on  physicians'  pre- 
scriptions. 
"Form  141 8  must  be  made  in  triplicate  each  month  by  the 
holder  of  each  permit  to  dispense  intoxicating  liquor  for  medicinal 
purposes  on  physicians'  prescriptions  written  on  Form  1403,  or  on 
emergency  prescriptions  as  authorized  by  law. 
"Two  copies  of  the  report  on  Form  141 8  must  be  sent  by  the  drug- 
gist holding  permit,  to  the  Federal  Prohibition  Dix'ector  of  the  State 
on  or  before  the  fifth  day  of  month  succeeding  the  month  for  which 
the  report  is  rendered;  one  copy  will  be  retained  by  the  druggist 
rendering  the  report. 
"Liquors  used  in  compounding  medicines  should  not  be  reported 
on  Form  141 8,  as  this  form  is  intended  to  be  a  report  solely  of  liquors 
