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Phosphorus  Pills  were  issued  against  rats  and  mice. 
Phenol,  after  being  used  as  a  disinfectant  on  the  battlefield, 
came  into  general  use. 
Purified  or  Absorbent  Cotton  began  to  be  used  for  dressing  and 
Iron  Chloride  Cotton  as  a  styptic. 
Lana  Pini,  or  Pine  Needle  Wool,  was  invented  by  Weiss,  a  paper 
manufacturer  in  Zuckmantel,  Germany,  and  used  as  a  substitute 
for  the  expensive  cotton.  Furthermore,  two  important  industries 
were  developed,  the  manufacture  of  pineneedle  oil  and  pineneedle 
extract. 
BIBIvIOGRAPHY. 
The  publication  of  the  Yearbook  of  Pharmacy  of  the  Conference 
of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Society  was  commenced. 
British  Homeopathic  Pharmacopoeia  published. 
The  13th  edition  of  the  United  States  Dispensatory,  containing 
1800  pages,  was  published. 
Franz  L.  Sonnenschein  (1817-79),  apotheker  and  professor  of 
chemistry  at  the  University  of  Berlin,  whose  name  will  live  for- 
ever by  his  Reagent  of  Phosphomolybdic  Acid  as  a  precipitant  of 
alkaloids,  publishes  his  "Handbuch  der  analytischen  Chemie." 
W.  H.  Kolbe  (18 1 7-1 884),  famous  for  the  constitution  and  syn- 
thesis of  salicylic  acid,  founded  the  Journal  fiir  praktische  Chemie. 
Pharmazeutischer  Zentralanzeiger,  the  official  organ  of  the  Ger- 
man drug  clerks,  is  established. 
A.  Oppenheim  translates  into  German  "Historic  des  doctrines 
chimiques  depus  Lavoisier  juisqua  nos  jours,"  by  Prof.  Charles  A. 
Wurtz,  of  Paris,  which  contains  the  sentence  "La  chimie  est  une 
science  Francaise,"  thus  giving  rise  to  many  arguments  by  chemists 
in  the  Fatherland,  who  added  the  slogan,  "But  chemistry  was  de- 
veloped in  Germany." 
BORN  IN  1870. 
My  list  of  pharmacists  born  in  that  year  is  rather  small. 
Nicolas  Klein,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  born  January  9,  1870,  was  ap- 
prenticed to  Theo.  Ractanus.    He  died  December  29,  1907. 
Wm.  J.  McAdams,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  born  in  1870,  and  died  in 
1910. 
The  author  would  be  pleased  to  receive  short  biographies  of 
pharmacists  born  since  1870,  to  be  incorporated  in  his  historical 
notes. 
