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Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  19 1 9. 
to  standardize,  to  stabilize  prices  in  the  interest  of  all  concerned. 
The  effect  has  been  the  very  opposite  of  a  restraint  of  trade.  This 
plan  has  stimulated  the  interest  of  dealers  and  gained  the  confidence 
of  the  consumers  and  the  actual  result  has  doubtless  been  an  in- 
creased consumption  of  the  products  of  Colgate  and  Company. 
That  such  a  plan,  which  is  essentially  a  plan  for  '  fair  trade,'  work- 
ing to  the  benefit  of  all  the  interests  concerned,  should  be  construed 
as  a  violation  of  any  law  enacted  in  the  interest  of  fair  trade  appears 
to  us  as  inconsistent  and  untenable." 
Robert  P.  Fischelis  President  of  the  Pennsylvania  Phar- 
maceutical Association. — At  the  annual  meeting  of  this  associa- 
tion held  at  Buena  Vista  the  latter  .part  of  June,  Prof.  Robert  P. 
Fischelis  was  elected  as  the  president  for  the  ensuing  year.  For 
several  years  past  he  has  been  the  efficient  secretary  and  editor  of  its 
proceedings  and  publication,  The  Pennsylvania  Pharmacist. 
BOOK  REVIEWS. 
A  Treatise  on  Prescription  Incompatibilities  and  Difficulties, 
including  prescription  oddities  and  curiosities.  For  pharmacists 
"  and  physicians  and  students  in  pharmacy  and  medicine.  By 
William  J.  Robinson,  Ph.G.,  M.D.,  editor  of  the  Critic  and  Guide 
and  The  American  Journal  of  Urology  and  Sexology;  formerly 
president  of  the  New  York  Board  of  Pharmacy  Institute,  etc., 
121110,  263  pages,  cloth,  $3.  New  York,  Critic  and  Guide  Com- 
pany. 
This  excellent  contribution  to  the  study  of  incompatibilities  in 
prescriptions  will  be  received  with  interest  by  all  pharmacists  who 
are  proud  of  their  professional  training.  The  collection  represents 
many  of  the  modern  synthetics  in  combination,  and  the  explanations 
are  interestingly  written,  and  indicate  investigation  by  the  author. 
It  is  true,  many  old  and  well-known  incompatibilities  are  in- 
cluded, as  they  should  be  in  any  comprehensive  study  of  the  subject, 
but  there  are  a  number  of  the  new  combinations  and  interesting  com- 
plications which  every  practicing  pharmacist  should  know. 
The  author  points  out  a  fact  which  is  being  generally  recognized, 
namely,  that  physicians  are  writing  few  composite  prescriptions,  the 
