770        Regulations  for  Prohibition  Enforcement.  { ADecemberPhi9ri™' 
*Vinum  Carnis  et  Ferri  (Beef,  Iron  and  Wine). 
Tinctura  Amara  (Bitter  Tinctura). 
Those  marked  with  an  asterisk  he  considered  as  especially  prone 
to  misuse  and  cited  the  extensive  misuse  of  "  Essence  of  Jamaica 
Ginger  "  and  an  instance  where  Compound  Spirit  of  Juniper  was 
manufactured  and  advertised  as  a  substitute  for  gin. 
Mr.  W.  L.  Crounse  reiterated  the  assurance  of  support  from  the 
Wholesale  Druggists'  Association.  Mr.  H.  B.  Thompson  called 
attention  to  the  position  assumed  by  the  Proprietary  Association 
some  years  ago  in  resolutions  adopted  declaring  that  no  preparations 
would  be  manufactured  except  for  legitimate  medicinal  use  and 
that  the  attitude  of  this  association  was  to  be  right  and  also  to  com- 
pel the  other  fellow  to  get  right  and  that  it  stood  ready  to  aid  the 
Government  officials  by  every  means  possible. 
Dr.  J.  M.  Francis,  of  Detroit,  speaking  for  the  Manufacturers 
of  Pharmaceuticals,  said  that  the  proper  amount  of  alcohol  that 
was  necessary  for  extraction,  solution  and  preservation  of  medicinal 
preparations  was  the  result  of  generations  of  experiments  and  that 
these  had  been  the  factors  in  determining  the  percentages  of  alcohol 
recommended  in  the  formulas  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  National 
Formulary.  He  cited  essence  of  pepsin  as  an  example  where  the 
amount  of  alcohol  necessary  to  prevent  precipitation  of  its  active 
constituents  and  at  the  same  time  to  maintain  a  permanent  prepara- 
tion that  will  not  ferment  was  determined  by  many  experiments. 
Unfortunately  some  of  these  medicinal  preparations  were  of  a  char- 
acter to  lend  themselves  to  misuse  by  those  who  had  the  drink 
habit.  Certain  of  these  in  his  opinion  did  not  possess  a  great  im- 
portance to  the  physician  yet  he  conceded  that  in  domestic  practice 
they  may  be  important  as  household  remedies. 
Dr.  Thomas  H.  Carmichael,  of  Philadelphia,  speaking  as  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  American  Institute 
of  Homeopathy,  voiced  the  objection  of  these  physicians  to  a  limita- 
tion being  placed  upon  the  amount  of  alcoholic  preparations  that  a 
dispensing  physician  could  purchase,  this  limit  being  placed  by  T.  D. 
2940  at  two  quarts  within  one  year,  unless  the  physician  was  bonded 
the  same  as  any  other  dealer  or  user  of  non-beverage  spirits.  In 
his  opinion  at  least  five  gallons  should  be  allowed  to  each  physician, 
and  without  a  bond  being  required. 
Mr.  Samuel  C.  Henry,  President  of  the  National  Drug  Trade 
Conference,  asked  the  Bureau  to  compare  the  small  percentage  of 
