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Obituaries. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1913. 
and  the  N.  E.,  and  that  he  had  found  that  the  Essence  of  Pepsin 
had  shown  on  digestive  test  by  the  U.  S.  P.  method  for  testing 
pepsin  products,  that  it  was  not  below  its  claimed  and  labelled 
strength  of  1 :  2000,  but  considerably  above  it,  and  was,  therefore, 
correctly  labelled  and  not  misbranded,  the  claim  was  made  by  the 
Assistant  District  Attorney  that  it  was  misbranded,  because  ac- 
cording to  the  regulations  of  the  Board  no  Essence  of  Pepsin 
could  be  sold  in  Pennsylvania  that  was  labelled  Essence  of  Pepsin 
unless  it  was  of  the  N.  F.  strength  of  1 :  3800,  i.e.,  one  part  would 
digest  3800  parts  of  coagulated  egg  albumen  according  to  the  U. 
S.  P.  test.  Thereupon  Mr.  Biddle  objected  and  gave  as  his  reason 
for  so  doing  that  regulations  were  not  laws,  and  at  once  Judge 
Audenried  interposed  and  said,  If  your  case  rests  upon  the  effec- 
tiveness of  regulations  drawn  by  your  Board,  then  I  wish  to  state 
most  emphatically  that  the  legislature  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Pennsylvania  never  intended  that  such  a  body  of  men  as  consti- 
tute this  Board  or  any  Board,  should  have  the  power  to  read 
regulations  framed  by  them  into  the  organic  law  of  this  siate. 
When  Mr.  Maurer  admitted  that  that  was  the  crux  of  the  whole 
case,  the  Judge  then  ordered  the  Jury  to  bring  in  a  verdict  of  not 
guilty  and  dismissed  the  case. 
This  decision,  hence,  establishes  for  the  drug  trade  the  im- 
portant fact  that  regulations  drawn  by  executive  boards  appointed 
to  execute  Pure  Food  and  Drug  Laws  have  not  the  effect  of  law, 
and  in  so  far  as  they  affect  or  modify  the  law  in  any  way  are  null 
and  void.  The  Sharp  &  Dohme  Essence  of  Pepsin  case,  hence, 
promises  to  be  a  crucial  and  important  one  for  many  existing  con- 
ditions and  cases  pending  based  upon  the  regulations  of  executive 
boards  held  out  to  have  the  force  of  law. 
Very  truly  yours, 
Baltimore,  Md.,  A.  R.  L.  Dohme. 
May  2,  1913. 
OBITUARIES. 
OSCAR  OLDBERG. 
Dr.  Oldberg,  Dean  Emeritus  of  the  Northwestern  University 
School  of  Pharmacy,  died,  at  Pasadena,  California,  on  February  27, 
1913,  as  the  ultimate  result  of  a  stroke  of  paralysis  suffered  several 
years  ago.  He  was  born  in  Alftla,  Sweden,  on  January  22,  1846,  and 
educated  in  the  Swedish  Gymnasium  at  Gene,  and  later  studied 
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