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Sal. now quoted in barrels at 1c; kegs, 2c.
Thymol is now $3.25 per lb.; 40c per oz.
Turpentine has been higher during the year than
for a long time; now quoted at 53c in barrels.
outlook for lower price is not likely at an early date.
Vanillin now quoted in ozs. at $1.60 to $1.90.
White Lead advanced May 1, to 5c, 100-lb. lots.
Advanced to 6c, August 22; 6c during December.
Late Changes and Additions in Proprietary Goods.

Aperient, Bailey's Saline, doz. $3.00.
Aphrotone, doz. $8.50.

Aseptolin, advanced, doz. $15.00.

Balm, Booth's Hyomei, ordinary, doz. $2.25; special, doz. $4.50.

Balsam, Kamlah Magnetic Cough, doz. $1.75.
Beans, Bright's Kidney, doz. $4.00.

Bitters, Dromgoole's English Female, reduced to $7.80 doz.

Chiolin, half-oz., doz. $2.00; one oz., doz. $4.00; three oz., doz. $8.00.

Cream, Paxalva, doz. $2.25.

Cure, Bonnel's Cough, doz. $2.00.
Cure, Brown's Dyspepsia, $3.75 doz.

Cure, Diamond Eczema, reduced to $8.00 doz. Cure, Dr. Miles' Laxative Cold, price reduced to $1.75 doz.

Cure, Russian Grippe, small, doz. $2.00; large, doz. $4.00.

Cure, Renick's Eczema, doz. $4.00.

Cure, W. I. Swain's Catarrh, doz. $8.00.
Eulexine, doz. $8.50.

Expectorant, Cheney's, large, doz. $3.75.
Febrokura, Severa, doz. $5.25.
Glyco-Thymoline, Dental, doz. $5.00.

Horehound Drops, Thomas Brand, sold in 22-lb. tin pails only, lb. 124c.

Kinch, doz. $6.00.

Kure-A-Kold, doz. $1.75. One doz. free with every order of three dozen of this article.

Liniment, Gillespie's Golden, 3-oz., doz., $1.80; 8-oz., doz,. $3.60.

Liniment, Haller's Barb Wire, 50c, doz., $3.50.
Liniment, Hammer's, doz., $3.50.

Lozenges, Thayer's Slippery Elm, 5-lb. cans, $1.25; 5c-boxes, I gro., $3 50; gro., $4.00; doz., 35c.

Oil, Haarlem, has been advanced, and N. Y. importers are now holding firm. The dozen price remains unchanged; per dozen, 40c.

Pills, Botanic Blood, doz. $1.50.

Pills, Bristal's, doz. $1.50.

Plasters, Garfield's Relief, 25c; doz. $1.35.

Powders, Hammer's Stock, doz. $1.50.
Prescription No. 99, doz. $6.00.

Regulator, Gavitt's System, doz. $2.00.

Remedy, Dr. Drake's German Croup, doz. $2.25.
Salve, Centennial, doz. $1.70.
Sarsaparilla, Bristal's, doz. $9.00.

Syrup, Duncan's Blood, doz. $7.00.

Tablets, Angier's Petroleum, doz. $2.10.

Tablets, Gray's Comp. Gold, $9.50.

Tablets, Lanoix Chill and LaGrippe Cure, doz. $3.75.

Tonic, Ka-No Blood and Nerve, doz. $5.00.
Waferettes, St. Elmo, doz. $2.25.

Wash, Partine Antiseptic, doz. $4.50.

Water, Gloria, for the toilet and for beautifying the complexion, doz. $5.50.

Wonder Worker, Wasson, doz. $4.00.

Seasonable Sundries and Changes. Bands, India Rubber, have advanced 20 per cent; heavy bands, 35 per cent; package bands, in 1-lb. boxes, per lb., $3.00 net.

Brushes, Paint.-Prices will be advanced January I, from 10 to 20 per cent. This advance in crude material has affected the whole line of bristle goods.

Cards, Playing.-Commencing January 1, 1900, prices of Bicycle cards will be: Per gross, $23.00; per doz., $2.00; No. 100 Steamboat, 1 to 5 gross, $8.40; gross, $9.00; doz., 8oc; No. 1000 Monte Carlo, advanced; 1 to 5 gross, $12.60; § gross, $13.20; doz., $1.20. Catheters, Nelaton's, advanced; doz. $2.00. Dispensatory, U. S.-Owing to the entire destruction of J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s plant containing the plates, please note prices advanced, until further notice, to the following scale: Cloth, each, $5.60; leather, each, $6.40; leather, indexed, each, $6.80.

Envelopes have advanced twice in the past thirty days, with prospects of still another advance. Drug come 1,000 in a box; official and baronial, 250 in a box; others, 500 and 250 in a box. Prices on onequarter thousand boxes are 10 cents per thousand higher. All are full government or high-cut. No. I XX white, wood, per 1,000, 85c to $1.00; 50-lb. XX white wove, baronial, per 1,000, $1.50 to $1.60; 50-lb. XX white wove, rag, per 1,000, $1.05 to $1.20; 50-lb. XX official, white wove, No. 1522-10, 41x9, per 1,000 $2.25; 60-lb. XXX white wove, rag, per 1,000, $1.15 to $1.40; white drug, No. 1, 1x23, per 1,000, 55c; No. 2, 2 1-16x3, per 1,000, 60c; No. 3, 2 5-16x3§, per 1,000, 65c; drug, assorted colors, are 10c per 1,000 higher.

Paint, Senour's Floor, has advanced Ioc per gallon. The new prices now effective are: Gallon, 95c; gallon, $1.00; quart, $1.05.

Paper, Druggists' Wrapping, has advanced along with other grades, and the following selling prices must now be maintained: Manilla No. 1, in rolls or flat, 4c to 5c; white book, flat, 5c to 6c; linen laid, in rolls, 6c; tissue fibre, 54c to 6c; bond, Ioc.

Scoops, Horn, No. 1, per doz., 75c; No. 2, per doz., $1.00; No. 3, per doz., $1.25; No. 4, per doz., $1.50. Spoons, Horn, No. 2, per doz., $1.00; No. 3, per doz., $1 25; No. 4, per doz., $1.50.

Spatulas, Horn, No. 4, 6 inch, per doz., $1.25; No. 6, 8-inch, per doz., $1.50; No. 0, 94-inch, per doz., $1.75.

Strings, Violin, Gut.—Per bundle of thirty strings: Royal-No. 138, E, $2.50; No. 138, A, $2.50; No. 138, D, $3.00. Super.-No. 140, E, $1.90; No. 140, A, $1.90; No. 140, D, $2.50. Russian Gut, smooth—No. 5, E, $3.75; No. 5, A, $3.75; No. 5, D, $4.40. Russian Gut, rough-No. 6, E, $3.75; No. 6, A, $3.75; No. 6, D, $4.50. G or 4th string, gut, wire wrapped, for any of above, doz., 35c.

Syringe, Eye and Ear, No. 51, pure gum, per doz., $2.00.

Syringe, Ruth Paxton's Improved Fountain, per doz., $14.40.

Toothpicks, Orange Wood (imported), large or small, about thirty-five toothpicks in a package, 10 packages in a bundle, per dozen bundles, $1.50.

Twine, Sea Island, Cabled, assorted or pink, 28c to 31c per lb. We desire to call special attention to the superior quality of this S. I. twine, its brilliant colors, and uniform balls running exactly eight to the pound.

Twine, Sea Island, Oriental, pink or assorted, per lb. 25c to 28c.

A Musical Tea.

Mrs. Clef asked some of her neighbors

In to a "musical tea,"

And everything she did and had

Was as musical as could be. They rang a musical door bell,

And the maid wore a fluted gown Of organdy, while a musical box Played pieces of wide renown.

The table was set on a musical plan,

As naturally as could be;

The knives were sharp and the plates were flat,

And at each place lay a key.

They had fish in scales, bread as a staff,

And "dough"-nuts ready to pass;

They were asked to eat with a tuning-fork
And drink from an opera glass.

'Twas a novel affair, this musical tea,

In fact, an event of note;

And Mrs. Clef is a woman who

Her neighbors delight to quote.

But they all went home to look for a lunch
More substantial than do, re, mi;

They had feasted on music and not much else,
At the melodious musical tea.

-[Texas Railway News.

Panama Canal has swallowed $250,000,000.

MARYLAND DEPARTMENT.

BY LOUIS SCHULZE, PH. G., BALTIMORE.

With the New Year the following new stores will be in operation in Baltimore:

M. Binswanger, Bank and Eden Streets.

A. D. Lennan, Monument Street and Patterson Park Avenue. Daunattel's Pharmacy, Baltimore Street and Highland Avenue.

The Baltimore Retail Druggists' Association are introducing the card system as now carried on in Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The prospects are that at least 90% of the retailers will join heartily in the plan, as so far the canvassing committees are meeting with success beyond their expectations.

The Maryland Pharmaceutical Association held its semi-annual meeting in the Maryland College of Pharmacy, Baltimore, December 12. The attendance was very good. President Alfred R. L. Dohme called the meeting to order at 8:30 p. m. All the standing committees reported their work as outlined for the year. The one receiving most attention was

the report of the legislative committee, as they submitted a bill for presentation to the State legislature at their session beginning January 1, 1900. This bill, with but few amendments, was accepted by the association as being favorable for enactment into a law for the regulation of pharmacy in our State.

President Dohme has called a meeting of the legislative committee for Thursday, December 21, to make final arrangements to present the pharmacy bill to the legislature, and also to at once begin operations to bring it to a successful issue.

Pharmaceutical Don'ts.-Don't make an infusion by diluting a fluid extract. We have seen it done in pharmacies of some pretensions, and have also seen the mixture filtered to render it transparent.

Have an abundance of good towels for the prescription counter and also use absorbent cotton freely. "Cleanliness next to godliness" may do for some places, but in a pharmacy it comes first, and in a pinch will answer for both.

Don't let dust and refuse accumulate behind the counters and in places not visible to your patrons. A good housewife will sweep under the bed.-[W. R. OGIER, in Midland Druggist.

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But the Average Druggist Would Like to Try It.I hope and believe that it will be with you as it was with an apothecary whom I knew at Twickenham. A considerable estate fell to him by an unexpected accident, upon which he thought it decent to leave off his business; accordingly he generously gave up his shop and his stock to his head man, set up his coach, and resolved to live like a gentleman; but in less than a month the man used to business found that living like a gentleman was dying of ennui; upon which be bought his shop and stock, resumed his trade, and lived very happily after he had something to do.-[Lord Chesterfield,

Meyer Brothers Druggist

VOL. XXI.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ENTIRE DRUG TRADE.

ST. LOUIS, FEBRUARY, 1900.

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"My Friends," said the quack to the eager, gaping crowd of country people, "I tell you that my pills will cure every mortal complaint. Listen to this: A man who came to me had been ill all his life, a hopeless invalid from the day of his birth. He came to me and my pills cured him. One box put him right, and now he is as strong and as well as ever he was in his life."-[Chemist and Druggist.

No. 2.

Editorial

Dr. Chas. Rice, chairman of the committee on revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia, invites you, from the cover of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for February, to express your views on the U. S. P.

Ourselves as the Germans See Us.-For many years the commercial United States was unnoticed and unseen by the German Empire, but in the due course of time, American energy, industry, perseverance and ingenuity made itself felt on the other side of the ocean. Among the European nations, Germany was prominent in the list of those protesting against American importations. The story of our troubles in an effort to ship beef and pork to Germany are still fresh in the mind of the general reader. American vegetables, especially the Irish potato, were branded and surrounded by conditions interfering seriously with their importation. The handsome and luscious fruits of California fell under similar bans; in fact, we might continue a long list of recitations showing that Germany was prejudiced against goods and products of American origin. With the above conditions in view, it is pleasing to note that a change is coming over the German spirit of criticisms and resentments. Under date of December 13, 1899, Mr. Frank H. Mason, Consul-General at Berlin, gives some interesting facts under the caption of "German Echoes of the Commercial Exposition." He shows that Germany was slow to respond to the invitations extended for representation of that country at the Exposition recently held in Philadelphia. A small delegation was finally appointed, however, and the members have returned to Germany after rather an extended tour of some of the Middle, Eastern and Southern States.

Their reports are very gratifying as well as extremely interesting. These gentlemen have become thoroughly convinced of the strength and power of our people. As one delegate said in a recent speech, "the Germans must realize that the Americans will henceforth play an important role in the economic affairs of the world." He further pays a pleasing compliment to the American manufacturer, saying that he is highly original and ingenious, and that whenever he seriously takes up any special branch of manufacture he soon explodes and supersedes the

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older methods of Europe. Another delegate rather graphically describes the impression made upon him by the great factories of Pennsylvania and New England, the four-track railway lines crowded with traffic, and the restless energy and enterprise of the American people. He says: "Great as industrial Germany has become, she is far behind the Republic in natural resources and productive capacity." As a consequence of the visit, the delegates are urging a closer and more friendly relationship between the United States and Germany.

It is quite evident that the time is ripening for a decided change in German sentiment relative to American imports. A scientist of that country has just reported upon his investigations relative to the San Jose scale, which was supposed to be imported with California fruit. His 174-page document sums up the situation by saying that no insect of any importance or danger to agriculture and horticulture has ever been introduced from North America into Germany. Thus is exploded the Colorado potato bug scare, as well as the panicy fear of the San Jose scale. The extent to which the Germans intrenched themselves against the latter insect is shown by the statement that 12% % of the value of an importation of apples was paid as inspection expense. This is certainly unnecessary in view of the report to which we have referred, and it becomes amusing, if it were not so serious, when we read, on good authority, that there is no evidence to show that living San Jose scales have ever reached Germany, the best German scientists being unable to prove whether the scales found on American fruit were alive or dead.

A prominent member of the delegation refers with enthusiasm to his visit made at the Chicago packing houses. He says he found the process of meat inspection and preparation admirable. We sincerely trust that Germany is becoming able to see ourselves as we are, and that she is likely to check the long-sustained and tedious chorus of denunciation of American food products. This will give our feast-loving German cousins an opportunity to enjoy some of the many good things which American citizens have as a regular diet.

Let Us Hear From You.-MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST is published with an idea of advancing the interest of the entire drug trade. By drug trade we desire to include every person in any way connected with that occupation. It is our ambition to have the publication prove of practical utility to the entire pharmaceutical profession and drug trade. In order to better accomplish this purpose, we urge upon our readers the desirability of their hearty co-operation with us. Each branch of the drug trade contains thoughtful members who are in a position to exercise judgment and wisdom in the impression of views. The talents of many are of such a nature that it is really wrong to withhold their knowledge from a publicity which will benefit their fellow pharmacists.

Pharmacy is a progressive art and a growing profession. The drug store of to-day differs greatly from

the drug store of former times, when the bleeding of patients and leeching of customers was a common occurrence in keeping with the pulling of teeth and minor surgical operations. These practices, as a part of pharmacy, belonged with the dispensing of nauseous medicines and rendered the drug store anything but inviting.

The corner pharmacy of to-day is, or should be, neat and attractive. Custom has made it a place where people, by preference, wait for their friends and go whenever favors are to be asked-such as the use of a telephone, reference to a directory, the purchase of a postage stamp, or inquiry about parties in the neighborhood.

The growth of pharmacy as a trade and profession gives enlarged opportunities to those who have engaged in it. The new men bring new thoughts, and we hope all will feel free to express their ideas through the columns of this journal, as long as their ambition is to benefit those engaged in the similar occupations. We have no room for the expression of petty jealousies or malice. We are living in an advanced and too rapid an age for any thoughtful person to waste time in personalities.

Among the subjects especially appropriate for discussion at the present time, we can mention pharmaceutical legislation and the making of other laws bearing upon the drug trade. The educational side of pharmacy is as vital as ever, and especially so when the training of the apprentice is taken into consideration. Trade topics should not be confined to the cut-rate problem. Our readers can discuss the question of how to buy and how to sell, of what constitutes a good salesman, and how customers may be trained to appreciate proper treatment. Prescription problems are as important to-day as ever, and some of them are more difficult to solve than they were before the advent of new remedies.

The manufacturing pharmacist, the wholesale druggist and the general dealer are all invited to patronize our columns. Women in pharmacy has long been a subject for discussion, and the end is not yet. The character of the druggist's library is a timely topic. The revision of the Pharmacopoeia, as well as the National Formulary, must not be forgotten. In fact, let us hear from you upon any topic that occurs to you during thoughtful moments. Write out your views, and we are confident they will interest others as they have you.

Newspaper Science. We are accustomed to making an allowance for "illustrative" and "figurative expressions" in newspaper items bearing on scientific topics. Some publications, however, take news-item statements as gospel truth, and comment on the statements in all seriousness. The Universal Provider, of London, England, for October 19, says:

Microbes, we are now told, have a long existence wherein to fulfill their possibilities for evil. It has been shown, says a pharmaceutical contemporary, that years after their supposed period of activity, they have retained their death-dealing qualities. An example is given in the terrible devastating plague that broke out in the Dutch town of Haarlem, about the time of the London plague. A whole family who died of this disease were interred

in a local churchyard, and it was found necessary a few years ago to repair the family tomb containing their remains. Several of the masons who were so employed are reported to have proved the activity of these germs after two hundred years, by contracting, in a mild form, the original disease, from which, however, they all recovered. A similar instance is stated to have been found connected with the plague of London.

Amongst other alleged instances adduced in favor of the above argument is the case of a Scotch bank note, discovered by a girl, in the Bible her great grandfather had used to the time of his death from some malignant disease. She licked the corner of this note to ascertain its genuineness, and is said to have contracted the disease which had been fatal to her ancestor seventysix years before. An epidemic is recorded to have broken out amongst the sharks in the Indian Ocean, which proved to be cholera, and the supposition is that the fish became infected by devouring the bodies of British sailors who had died from this disease and were buried in Bombay Harbor. The hardy microbe is believed to survive on land for over two centuries, and to maintain its activity still longer in water. There is matter in this, surely, for fiction up to date. Jules Verne is not in it with this microbe, evidently.

It has long been supposed that dragons and sea serpents attain a great age, as well as size, and that they grow in dimensions and years without regard to the common laws of biology and chronology. This is an age of microscopy, and now those minute plants, bacteria, come to the front as sensation mongers. They rank in importance with fabled dragons and modern sea serpents.

When shown the above item, Dr. C. Fish, an eminent bacteriologist, said:

"The alleged infections, after the lapse of so many years, are merely imaginative, as we do not know of any pathogenic bacterium (except, perhaps, the bacillus anthraxsis) that, under the conditions mentioned, would retain vitality, much less virulence, for that length of time. On the contrary, direct experiments made in this direction, which I can look up for you at any time, if you want me to, have shown that all of the pathogenic germs die off, under such conditions, in a comparatively short time."

Colleges of Pharmacy are Progressive.-It will not require our oldest readers to remember the time when the course in a college of pharmacy consisted in the attendance upon a series of lectures upon pharmacy, chemistry and materia medica. The first innovation was the establishment of a chemical laboratory. This was soon followed by the introduction of a pharmaceutical laboratory. Then followed the microscopical laboratory. Since that period, various other departments have been added. We can mention an extension and division of the branch of materia medica into pharmacognosy and botany with toxicology and bacteriology. We also find more attention given to therapeutics, physiology, anatomy and extended chemical work.

More recently, one of the colleges of pharmacy has announced a course of lectures on commercial pharmacy. This is followed by another institution which, we are informed, will soon have a well-equipped manufacturing laboratory. This department is arranged from the standpoint of the commercial manufacturer and not along the lines of the retail druggist whose manufacturing laboratory is represented in the average college pharmaceutical laboratory. The new labora

tory will give instruction and experience in the manipulation of pharmaceutical machinery. As might be expected, these new departures are looked upon with suspicion, if not a degree of uneasiness, on the part of many conservative pharmacists. They are, however, in the nature of events and sure to come sooner or later. The criticisms that they are unnecessary and out of place are the same as were made years ago when the first chemical, pharmaceutical and microscopical laboratories were established.

Be Punctual.-John Todd, in his Students'.Manual, says:

We are all so indolent, by nature and by habit, that we feel it a luxury to find a man of real, undeviating punctuality.

Few are those who do not appreciate punctuality in others. Scarcely a day passes but what we become impatient at the lack of this quality in our friends or business associates. This is true because so many utterly neglect the rule of being observant and exact in point of time.

This weakness in the traits of human nature is not confined to the uneducated, the lazy, the weak, the invalid, the rogue, the young, nor the old. Tardiness prevails in every station of social and intellectual life, and each trade and profession. It causes trouble for others and is often the real cause of life failure in the individual.

Punctuality can be cultivated, and may become a habit. It is a quality not entirely dependent on the laws of destiny. It should always be encouraged in the young, and recognized by all wherever found.

The punctual pharmacist delivers a prescription when promised, and is ready with goods at the appointed hour. His word is as good as his bond when he says: "It will be ready," or, "I will be there on time."

The new year is not too far advanced, nor the old century so nearly passed, that it is too late for our readers to adopt a resolution tɔ be prompt in all professional, business and social engagements. Other conditions being equal, the punctual man, woman or child has a great advantage over the habitually tardy individual.

Trichinosis is the term used to designate a disease caused by the presence of a parasitic worm-the trichina spiralis-in the flesh of an animal. It was first described in the United States as far back as 1842, but the disease was not well understood until a generation later. The information which most interests our readers is in relation to the prevention of the disease, as the medical treatment is unsatisfactory.

It should be remembered that living trichina may be found in the flesh of any animal which eats flesh, although pork is by far the most common source of infection in this country. A microscopical examination of the meat will reveal the presence of trichina, but the easiest and most certain way of avoiding infection is to thoroughly cook the meat. Recent experiments demonstrate that great stress must be laid upon the word "thoroughly," as it has been found that a piece of pork the size of one's thumb may con

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