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Sength  of  time,  until  gradually,  through  the  alcohol  they  contain,  they  create 
an  appetite  for  alcoholic  stimulants.  It  is  not  our  purpose  to  inquire  to  whom 
attaches  the  greater  blame  fov  such  a  result,  which  outweighs,  by  far,  all  the 
benefit  that  may  possibly  be  conferred  by  the  pleasing  appearance  and  the 
agreeable  taste.  But  we  offer  this  observation  as  another  reason  for  pharma- 
cists— individuals  as  well  as  associations — to  follow  in  the  path  pointed  out 
above,  before  the  greater  part  of  our  Pharmacopeia  is  supplanted  by  the 
elixirs,  wines,  cordials,  &c.,  made  and  offered  as  specialties  by  a  host  of  manu- 
facturers. 
Fraudulent  Substitutions. — We  have  been  informed  that  the  publication  of 
Mr.  Bullock's  paper,  on  page  92  in  the  February  number  of  this  journal,  has 
not  stopped  the  fraudulent  sale  of  muriate  of  cinchonia  for  sulphate  of  quinia, 
but  that,  on  the  contrary,  it  is  being  sold  quite  largely,  under  the  label  of  Pelle- 
tier,  Delondre  et  Levaillant.  Our  readers  are  requested  to  examine  all  quinia 
that  may  be  offered  to  them  under  the  above  garb  ;  in  fact,  it  is  advisable,  in 
view  of  the  counterfeiting  perpetrated,  not  to  trust  to  ani/  label,  unless  the 
quinia  be  obtained  directly  from  the  manufacturers. 
Such  a  course  seems  to  be  the  more  imperative  since  lately  another  fraudu- 
lent substitution  has  occurred  in  New  York,  and  is  quite  likely  to  victimize  the 
unsuspicious.  Our  informant  states  that  sulphate  of  quinia  has  been  sold  for 
sulphate  of  morphia.  It  is  offered  in  original  1  oz.  bottles,  put  up  by  Atkinson 
of  London,  the  quinine  label  being  removed  by  the  impostor,  and  a  sulphate  of 
morphia  label  is  substituted.  This  fraud  must  necessarily  be  detected  even  by 
the  tyro,  in  consequence  of  the  sparing  solubility  of  the  quinia  salt.  But,  if 
the  above  counterfeiter  of  Pelletier's  label  should  embark  in  this  new  enter- 
prize,  the  test  of  solubility  would  be  insufficient.  We  therefore  repeat  our 
<;aution  expressed  above,  also  for  morphia,  and  suggest  the  examination  of 
each  sample,  by  proving  by  the  well-known  tests  the  presence  of  morphia  and 
the  absence  of  quinia  and  cinchonia. 
Neues  Jahrbuch  FiiR  Pharmacie. — In  the  advertising  sheet  of  the  present 
number  appears  the  advertisement  of  the  above  named  journal.  The  pharma- 
ceutical intercourse  between  America  and  Europe  is  continually  on  the  increase, 
and  the  influence  of  one  civilized  country  upon  another  is  felt  more  and  more 
every  year.  It  is  therefore  desirable  that  the  pharmaceutical  literature  of  each 
country  should  become  better  known  abroad,  and  it  is  with  this  end  in  view 
that  we  direct  the  attention  of  those  pharmacists  conversant  with  the  German 
language,  to  one  of  the  best  edited  pharmaceutical  journals. 
The  New  York  Board  of  Examiners  will  shortly  organize.  Mayor  Hall  has 
appointed  Messrs.  Wm.  Graham,  Theobald  Frohwein,  Dr.  R.  0.  Doremus  and 
Dr.  C.  M.  O'Leary,  the  Examining  Board  under  the  law  which  we  took  occa- 
sion to  criticize  in  our  last  number.  The  appointments,  as  far  as  we  are  ac- 
quainted with  the  gentlemen,  are  more  satisfactory  than  the  law  itself,  and 
reflect  credit  upon  the  Mayor.  Mr.  Graham  is  in  charge  of  one  of  the  stores  of 
the  firm  of  Hegeman  &  Co.    Mr.  Frohwein  is  a  graduate  and  now  one  of  the 
