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June,  1911. 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
287 
politics,  if  it  is  politics,  would  do  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  good,  a  good  deal  of  good. — A^.  A.  R.  D.  Notes,  May  11, 
P-  335- 
Los  Angeles  Meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion.— The  issue  of  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation for  May  20,  191 1,  appears  as  the  Los  Angeles  number,  and 
in  addition  to  a  number  of  illustrations  and  a  description  of  the 
City  of  Los  Angeles,  also  contains  the  preliminary  programme  for 
the  section  meetings.  From  the  number  of  papers  to  be  presented 
it  would  appear  that  the  Los  Angeles  meeting  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  will  be  not  only  an  unusually  interesting  one, 
but  also  well  attended,  and  if  the  preliminary  programme  is  an 
indication  of  the  possibilities  of  the  meeting  itself  the  latter  should 
be  epoch-making. 
Reformed  Almanac  as  a  Health  Evangelist. — An  editorial 
(/.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  191 1,  V.  56,  p.  11 15)  calls  attention  to  the  January- 
February  number  of  the  Virginia  Health  Bulletin  which  is  issued 
in  the  form  of  an  almanac  and  quotes  a  number  of  advisory 
aphorisms  such  as  "  A  dirty  well  is  more  dangerous  than  a  dirty 
kitchen,"  Good  water  is  one  of  the  best  insurance  policies  a  family 
can  carry,"  "  Wire  screens  in  the  window  keep  crape  from  the 
door,"  "  A  light  overcoat  is  better  than  a  heavy  cold,"  "  It  is  better 
to  sleep  in  the  fresh  air  than  the  fresh  grave,"  and  concludes  that 
the  Virginia  Department  of  Health  deserves  hearty  congratulations 
for  its  success  in  reforming  one  of  our  oldest  family  institutions  and 
converting  it  into  an  evangel  of  health. 
The  "  World  "  Sensation. — The  sensational  charges  of  in- 
competency and  criminal  carelessness  of  retail  druggists  brought  by 
the  New  York  World  have  been  liberally  discussed  in  drug  journals, 
both  in  this  country  and  abroad. 
Xrayser  H,  in  commenting  on  the  so-called  "  expose  "  believes 
that  rubidium  iodide  is  just  about  "  the  limit  "  as  a  test  for  the 
accuracy  of  dispensing.  He  thinks  such  a  test  prescription  could 
not  have  been  better  chosen  if  the  New  York  World  had  intended  to 
defeat  the  very  object  which  it  had  in  view,  and  in  one  sense  this 
is  satisfactory,  for  the  campaign  to  prove  that  druggists  as  a  class 
are  inaccurate  or  careless  dispensers  or  willfully  fraudulent  was 
unworthy  to  start  with. — Clicni.  and  Drug.,  191 1,  v.  78,  April  29, 
p.  115. 
