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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1919. 
lems  confronting  pharmacists  and  the  Committee  on  Revision  of  the 
National  Formulary  concerning  the  use  of  wines  for  manufacturing 
the  formulas  of  the  National  Formulary  and  other  formularies  and 
pharmacopoeias  in  order  that  your  ruling  on  this  point  may  be  placed 
before  the  Committee  on  Revision  of  the  National  Formulary. 
In  my  former  letter  of 'April  17,  1919,  addressed  to  the  Hon, 
Daniel  S.  Roper,  Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue,  I  propounded 
the  following  distinct  query: 
"  Will  pharmacists  be  permitted  under  thq^r  bond  covering  the 
use  of  non-beverage  alcohol  to  likewise  withdraw  non-beverage 
wines  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  these  formulas,  and  the 
formulas  for  medicinal  wines  official  in  some  of  the  foreign  pharma- 
copoeias, which  in  this  country  are  more  or  less  prescribed  on  pre- 
scriptions ?  " 
As  no  ruling  has  yet  been  promulgated  on  this  point,  I  am  repeat- 
ing the  query  in  accordance  with  our  understanding  so  that  it  may 
receive  your  personal  consideration  and  decision. 
I  trust  that  this  will  be  rendered  at  an  early  date  so  the  informa- 
tion may  be  imparted  to  the  members  of  the  Committee  on  Revision 
of  the  National  Formulary  and  likewise  to  the  pharmacists  who  are 
necessarily  interested. 
I  am, 
Very  truly  yours, 
George  M.  Beringer, 
Editor. 
Treasury  Department. 
Washington,  D.  C, 
June  16,  1 9 1 9. 
George  M.  Beringer,  Editor, 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy, 
145  N.  10th  Street, 
Phila.,  Pa. 
Sir: 
Receipt  is  acknowledged  of  your  letter  dated  June  6,  191 9,  in 
which  you  ask  whether  pharmacists  will  be  permitted  under  their 
bond  covering  the  use  of  non-beverage  alcohol,  to  likewise  withdraw 
non-beverage  wines  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  formulas  of 
the  National  Formulary  and  other  formularies  and  pharmacopoeias; 
and  also  whether  non-beverage  wines  may  be  used  in  formulas  for 
