4i4  A  Standard  Dosage  Measure.  {Am-^r/^m' 
There  are  several  features  of  this  regulation  that  call  for  com- 
ment. The  pharmacist  who  desires  to  avail  himself  of  this  privilege 
must  see  that  his  bond  given  for  non-beverage  spirits  and  wines  and 
the  permit  obtained  covers  the  sale  of  such  as  medicines  and  on 
prescription  and  then  must  again  take  out  the  objectionable  tax 
stamp  as  a  retail  liquor  dealer,  as  if  actually  engaged  in  the  sale  of 
beverage  liquors.  Further,  under  the  provisions  of  the  Revenue 
Act  of  1918,  if  he  is  engaged  in  such  business  in  a  state  or  district 
that  is  under  prohibition  legislation,  in  which  the  state  act  or  local 
ordinance  does  not  exempt  the  sale  of  liquors  for  medicinal  pur- 
poses, then  he  must  pay  the  special  tax  of  $1,000.  In  our  opinion 
no  pharmacist  in  the  discharge  of  his  professional  services  in  any 
community,  will  be  warranted  to  pay  $1,000  for  the  right  to  dispense 
any  or  all  classes  of  medicines.  The  principle  is  absolutely  wrong, 
ethical  pharmacy  should  be  totally  divorced  from  the  business  of 
the  liquor  dealer  and  such  has  always  been  the  contention  of  phar- 
macists. 
It  is  observed  that  the  regulations  do  not  provide  for  the  han- 
dling or  supplying  on  prescription  or  otherwise  of  malted  liquors 
and  even  if  the  requirements  as  stated  are  met  and  the  R.  L.  D. 
stamp  secured  this  carries  with  it  no  right  to  sell  or  dispense  the 
so-called  "  extracts  of  malt,"  unless  they  contain  not  less  than  twelve 
per  cent,  of  malt  solids,  until  such  time  as  by  presidential  proclama- 
tion the  provisions  of  the  War  Prohibition  Law  shall  be  terminated. 
G.  M.  B. 
A  STANDARD  DOSAGE  MEASURE.1 
By  George  M.  Beringer,  Ph.M., 
CAMDEN,  N.  J. 
Accuracy  in  the  compounding  of  medicines  is  a  first  principle 
instilled  into  the  mind  of  a  pharmacist,  and  so  he  realizes  fully  the 
importance  of  correct  weights  and  measures.  This  is  a  matter  that 
is  now  also  receiving  official  attention  in  some  of  the  states,  where 
the  scales,  weights  and  measures  of  the  pharmacists,  the  same  as 
those  of  other  merchants,  are  periodically  inspected  by  a  represen- 
tative of  the  state  or  municipal  department  of  weights  and  measures. 
1  Presented  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation, Atlantic  City,  June  II,  1919. 
