ADeceXrP;9iT-}  Progress  in  Pharmacy.  559 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  Quarterly  Review  of  Some  of  the  More  Interesting  Litera- 
ture Relating  to  Pharmacy  and  Materia  Medica. 
By  M.  I.  Wilbert,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Seldom  if  ever  have  interesting  happenings  along  pharmaceutical 
lines  so  crowded  each  other  as  at  the  present  time,  and  the  end  is 
not  yet,  for  the  immediate  future  promises  to  yield  even  more  im- 
portant developments  than  did  the  recent  past. 
The  Cocaine  Declaration. — Treasury  decision  No.  33,456  promul- 
gated under  date  of  May  23,  1913,  is  only  just  now  being  brought 
to  the  attention,  of  retail  druggists  through  the  requirement  that  all 
importers  making  the  prescribed  declaration  must  secure  similar 
declarations  from  all  customers  to  whom  cocaine,  coca,  their  deriva- 
tives or  preparations  containing  cocaine  or  its  derivatives  are  sold. 
The  Treasury  decision  is  based  on  the  provisions  of  the  Food  and 
Drugs  Law  of  June  30,  1906,  and  requires  that  the  importer  declare 
under  oath  that  the  goods  referred  to  are  imported  in  good  faith 
and  will  not  be  used  in  any  way  that  may  prove  to  be  dangerous 
to  the  health  of  the  people  of  the  United  States.  The  text  of  the 
declaration  also  binds  the  person  making  it  to  refrain  from  disposing 
of  any  of  the  articles  involved  without  securing  from  the  prospective 
purchaser  a  similar  declaration  under  oath.  The  purchaser  also 
agrees  to  preserve  the  declarations  received  by  him  and  to  make  a 
report  not  later  than  January  15th  of  each  year,  of  the  amount  of  the 
materials  on  hand  as  well  as  the  amounts  bought  and  sold.  The 
form  of  the  declaration  has  been  published  in  "  Treasury  Decisions," 
1913,  v.  24,  No.  22,  p.  13;  Public  Health  Reports,  v.  28,  p.  2122; 
also  in  The  Druggists'  Circular ,  v.  57,  p.  698. 
Anti-Narcotic  Bills  .—The  several  anti-narcotic  bills  passed  by  the 
House  some  months  ago  have  been  reported  by  the  Senate  Sub- 
Committee  to  the  Senate  Committee  on  Finance  with  several  amend- 
ments that  will  not  materially  affect  the  purpose  or  the  nature  of  the 
bills.  The  only  material  change  in  H.  R.  6282  being  an  amendment 
to  bring  that  bill  in  accord  with  the  provision  of  H.  R.  1966,  the  bill 
to  regulate  importation  of  opium. — Oil,  Paint  and  Drug  Reporter, 
1913,  v.  84,  November  10,  p.  17. 
Legislation  Relating  to  Poisons  and  Habit-forming  Drugs. — A 
