704 
Editorial. 
[Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
<■   November,  19 19. 
manufactured  in  excess  of  five  gallons  within  a  period  of  90  days, 
a  separate  or  supplemental  permit  must  be  obtained.  The  formula 
and  process  of  each  of  these  non-official  preparations,  upon  request, 
are  to  be  furnished  the  Commissioner  for  approval  before  permit 
is  approved.  This  provision  will  be  somewhat  of  a  hardship  to 
the  manufacturing  pharmaceutical  houses  who  list  a  long  line  of 
unofficial  fluid  extracts,  tinctures,  elixirs  and  specialties  made 
either  for  their  own  sales  or  very  frequently  as  private  formulas  for 
druggists,  physicians,  or  for  proprietary  medicine  dealers. 
A  duly  licensed  practitioner  of  medicine  may  secure  a  permit 
without  giving  bond  for  the  purchase  of  not  exceeding  two  quarts 
of  alcohol  or  alcoholic  preparations  during  a  period  of  one  year  by 
filing  the  required  application  for  permit  and  making  sworn  state- 
ment that  such  alcohol  or  alcoholic  preparations  are  to  be  used  in 
his  practice.  This  is  probably  a  concession  to  the  homeopathic 
physicians  who  objected  to  the  limitations  placed  upon  the  procur- 
ing of  their  tinctures  and  alcoholic  dilutions  under  the  regulations 
of  T.  D.  2788. 
The  law,  under  Title  II,  Section  4,  states  that  medicinal  prepara- 
tions made  in  accordance  with  the  formulas  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Homeopathy  that  are  unfit  for  beverage  purposes, 
"  shall  not  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act."  Evidently  the 
intent  was  to  recognize  the  Homeopathic  Pharmacopoeia  of  the 
United  States,  prepared  by  a  committee  of  that  body  and  published 
by  the  Institute,  as  the  official  authority  for  homeopathic  remedies. 
The  mention  thus  made  in  the'  same  sentence  as  are  named  the 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  the  National  Formulary  would 
indicate  that  a  standing  or  recognition  of  these  three  as  coequal  as 
standards  for  the  formulas  contained  was  what  was  intended  by  the 
law.  Under  these  conditions  it  is  rather  singular  that  the  regula- 
tions fail  to  mention  the  Homeopathic  Pharmacopoeia  or  to  make 
any  reservations  concerning  the  medicines  used  especially  by  that 
school. 
It  is  noteworthy  that  in  these  proposed  regulations  the  Depart- 
ment has  promulgated  standards  for  alcoholic  preparations  in  which 
non-beverage  alcohol  may  be  used.  Paragraph  (a)  of  these  states 
that  "  U.  S.  P.  and  N.  F.  preparations,  except  such  as  may  be 
designated  by  the  Commissioner  as  suitable  for  use  as  a  beverage 
or  which  have  no  legitimate  use  as  a  vehicle."   This  certainly  places 
