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Obituaries. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1   February,  1915. 
viewed  at  some  length.  While  it  is  true  that  the  disturbance  that  is 
evidenced  in  Europe  at  the  present  time  may  tend  to  delay  the 
developments  of  international  uniformity  in  medicines  and  medicinal 
compounds,  the  general  subject  is  of  such  vital  importance  that  it 
can  no  longer  be  postponed  indefinitely,  and  agitation  relating  to  it 
may  well  be  continued. 
Pharmacists  generally  will  agree  that  this  bulletin  constitutes  a 
creditable  piece  of  work  and  is  a  contribution  of  more  than  passing 
value  to  the  progress  of  pharmacy. 
Hygienic  Laboratory  Bulletin  No.  99.  The  Friedmann 
Treatment  for  Tuberculosis.  A  report  of  the  Board  appointed  for 
its  investigation.  By  John  F.  Anderson  and  Arthur  M.  Stimson. 
Washington,  Government  Printing  Office,  October,  1914. 
This  bulletin  of  69  octavo  pages  presents  the  final  report  of  the 
United  States  Public  Health  Service  on  the  treatment  of  tuberculosis 
proposed  by  Dr.  Friedrich  Franz  Friedmann,  of  Berlin,  Germany. 
The  authors,  in  the  summary  of  their  laboratory  studies,  conclude 
that  the  organism  used  by  Dr.  Friedmann  is  an  acid- fast  bacillus, 
morphologically  similar  to  the  tubercle  bacillus.  It  is  relatively  but 
not  completely  avirulent,  and  apparently  may,  in  very  rare  cases, 
cause  a  tubercular  process  on  inoculation.  Neither  curative  nor 
protective  action  against  natural  or  inoculation  tuberculosis  was 
shown  in  monkeys.  The  claim  of  Dr.  Friedmann  to  have  originated 
a  specific  cure  for  tuberculosis  is  not  substantiated  by  the  investiga- 
tion, and  the  claim  that  the  inoculation  of  persons  and  animals  with 
this  organism  is  without  harmful  possibilities  is  disproved.  Copies 
of  the  publications  of  the  Public  Health  Service  may  be  secured  by 
applying  to  the  "  Surgeon  General,  U.  S.  Public  Health  Service, 
Washington,  D.  C." 
OBITUARIES. 
Edward  H.  Hance. 
Edward  Hance  Hance,  founder  and  senior  member  of  Hance 
Brothers  &  White,  Inc.,  of  Philadelphia,  died  on  December  14,  1914, 
at  the  Germantown  Hospital.  He  was  eighty-one  years  old  and  had 
been  ill  for  some  time. 
Mr.  Hance  had  a  long  and  active  career.  He  was  born  in  the 
Quaker  City  on  November  1,  1833,  and  received  his  early  education 
