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life  anew,  and  to  live  under  conditions  that  are  far  from  promising 
or  encouraging. 
Recognizing  the  coming  needs  of  the  retail  pharmacists  of  San 
Francisco,  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Association  of 
Retail  Druggists  has  shown  commendable  energy  in  making  prep- 
arations to  raise  a  fund  of  $100,000  or  more,  to  assist  these  destitute 
fellow- members  of  our  craft  to  renew  business  at  an  early  date. 
The  American  Medical  Association  has  instituted  a  similar  fund 
for  relieving  the  physicians  of  San  Francisco  and  the  surrounding 
towns  who  have  been  made  destitute,  and  it  is  but  reasonable  to 
expect  that  every  fair-minded  pharmacist  will  contribute  what  he 
can,  at  a  very  early  date,  to  either  the  one  or  the  other,  or  perhaps 
both,  of  these  funds. 
Patent  and  Proprietary  Medicines  continue  to  have  difficulty  in 
maintaining  their  prestige. 
While  it  is  true  that  practically  all  of  the  so-called  "  formula  on 
the  label  bills"  have  been  disposed  of  in  a  manner  agreeable  to  the 
members  of  the  Proprietary  Association  of  America,  it  is  also  true 
that  the  feeling  that  something  should  be  done  to  compel  publicity 
in  connection  with  fakes  and  frauds,  is  constantly  growing,  and  that 
it  will  be  but  a  matter  of  time  when  full  and  complete  formulas  will 
be  considered  necessary  in  connection  with  all  proprietary  medicines. 
New  Dutch  Pharmacopoeia. — The  fourth  edition  of  the  "  Neder- 
landsche  Pharmacopee "  has  been  published  and  becomes  official 
from  the  1st  of  July,  1906. 
The  book  is  published  both  in  the  Dutch  and  Latin  languages 
and  is  the  official  text  for  Holland  as  well  as  all  of  the  Dutch 
Colonies. 
The  appendix  contains  several  novel  innovations,  one  of  them,  a 
chapter  on  first  aid  to  the  injured,  and  another  a  dissertation  on  the 
antidotes  for  the  more  common  poisons.  In  common  with  the 
Austrian  and  other  European  Pharmacopoeias,  the  atomic  weight 
table  is  based  on  O  =  16. 
The  formulas  recommended  by  the  International  Conference  for 
the  unification  of  the  formulae  of  potent  medicaments  have  been 
generally  adopted  and  are  designated  throughout  the  book  by  the 
addition  of  F.  I.,  evidently  intended  to  designate  them  as  "  Formula 
Internationalis." 
The  Pharmacopoeia  contains  652  official  medicaments,  of  which 
