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f Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  December,  1906. 
a  large  building  situated  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Sixth  and  Mas- 
ter  Streets — from  whence  they  were  delivered  on  the  requisition  of 
the  Medical  Purveyor.  The  spacious  upper  floors  of  this  ware- 
house, extending  through  to  Marshall  Street,  were  used  in  the 
manufacture  of  sheets,  pillow  slips,  and  other  similar  hospital 
requisites,  in  which  several  hundred  women  and  girls  were  engaged 
constantly  to  the  end  of  the  war. 
In  closing,  I  venture  to  express  the  hope  that  this  necessarily 
imperfect  account  may  prove  of  general  interest,  and  particularly  a 
welcome  reminder  to  those  who  participated  in  the  stirring  events 
of  the  Civil  War. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  SOME  OF  THE  MORE  IMPORTANT  ADVANCES  IN 
PHARMACY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
By  M.  I.  WlXBERT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
The  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  June  jo,  1906,  as  the  recently  enacted 
pure  food  and  drug  la\v  is  now  officially  designated,  still  remains  the 
favorite  topic  for  discussion  with  all  persons  directly  interested  in 
the  manufacture  and  sale  of  drugs  and  medicinal  preparations. 
The  rules  and  regulations  that  have  been  adopted  as  a  guide,  in 
the  proposed  enforcement  of  the  food  and  drugs  act,  have  been  pub- 
lished as  Circular  No.  21,  by  the  United  States  Department  of  Agri- 
culture, and  may  be  obtained  free,  by  any  one  interested,  from  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  or  from  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of 
Chemistry. 
The  far-reaching  nature  of  the  regulations  that  have  been  adopted 
is  well  illustrated  by  the  definitions  that  are  included  in  Regulation 
28,  concerning  substances  named  in  drugs  and  foods. 
The  term  alcohol  is  defined  to  mean  common  or  ethyl  alcohol, 
either  as  "  Cologne  spirits,  grain  alcohol,  rectified  spirits,  spirits  or 
spirits  of  wine."  As  derivative  of  alcohol  we  have  "  aldehyde, 
ether,  ethyl  acetate,  ethyl  nitrite,  and  paraldehyde."  Preparations 
containing  alcohol  are  defined  as  not  alone  including  galenical  prep- 
arations but  also  brandies,  whiskies  and  wines. 
Among  the  morphine  derivatives  we  find  apomorphine,  dionine, 
