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Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1919. 
perience  and  medical  knowledge  are  not  to  be  given  credence  or 
weighed  against  departmental  "  belief." 
Pharmacists  and  manufacturers  may  likewise  have  some  diffi- 
culty to  obtain  the  supplies  of  sherry  or  other  wjnes  needed  for  the 
manufacture  of  N.F.  preparations  and  other  standard  formulas 
calling  for  wine  as  an  ingredient.  In  the  National  Formulary  we 
have  upwards  of  a  score  of  such  formulas  and  the  question  con- 
fronting the  Committee  on  N.F.  and  the  pharmacists  of  the  country 
is  what  changes  may  have  to  be  made  in  these  legal  standards  to 
comply  with  this  irrational  contravention  and  then  a  subsequent 
annoyance  will  be  the  explanations  that  may  have  to  be  made  to 
customers  and  law  officers  of  the  deviations  from  the  official  for- 
mulas. 
The  homeopathic  physicians  are  far  from  contented  with  the 
regulation  "that  a  homeopathic  physician  or  any  other  person  may 
obtain  from  the  pharmacist  not  exceeding  2  drachms  of  any  attenua- 
tion, potency,  or  dilution  at  one  time  without  filing  bond  or  obtain- 
ing permit." 
The  question  of  solving  the  evil  of  intemperance  can  surely  be 
attained  by  sane  laws  and  regulations  that  will  not  interefere  with 
legitimate  medicinal  practice  and  thereby  imperil  the  lives  of  many 
of  our  people.  Impractical  and  radical  regulations  may  result  in  a 
reversion  of  public  sentiment  to  such  an  extent  as  to  actually  defeat 
the  purpose  of  the  prohibitionists. 
G.  M.  B. 
PRIVATE— SECRET— PERSONAL— NO.  i.1 
"  Come,  now,  and  let  us  reason  together !  " 
By  John  Uri  Lloyd,  Phar.M. 
In  the  opinion  of  this  writer,  misunderstanding  of  ideals  and 
motives  causes  much  of  the  trouble  that  prevails  when,  in  anger, 
friend  parts  from  friend.  Neglect  to  define  one's  position  properly 
and  fully,  on  a  problem  that  presents  several  viewpoints,  may  breed 
antagonisms  where,  could  the  two  minds  be  brought  together  before 
prejudice  was  bred,  harmony  instead  of  discord  would  have  resulted. 
Perhaps  the  misconception  of  the  meaning  of  a  word  or  words, 
1  Privilege  of  publication  in  a  medical  journal  is  extended  the  author. 
