of methyl alcohol in beverages. It has been found within the last few years that methyl alcohol is a dangerous poison - scarcely less dangerous when used externally than when employed internally; and great interest and concern have been developed in the subject by the remarkable findings of Doctors Buller and Wood, who reported upon 275 cases of poisoning in which death had resulted in 122 instances and in which total and permanent blindness had been occasioned in about half of the remaining cases. For the first time Idaho has secured a pharmacy law which includes the entire State within its purview. Idaho and Texas have for years been compelled to worry along with county or sectional laws which have subjected them to the confusion and annoyance of a large number of pharmacy boards whom nobody knew anything about, and whose requirements and activities were hopelessly conflicting and paralyzing to all progress. Idaho has now thrown off the yoke, and it only remains for Texas to follow her action. One valuable feature of the Idaho law gives the board of pharmacy power to revoke the license of a druggist proved guilty of a felony or gross immorality, or of dangerous addiction to the use of alcoholic liquors or narcotic drugs. This provision was borrowed from the Ohio statute, and it is not without its significance in this connection that the Attorney-General of Ohio has recently decided that the board of pharmacy has power under this provision of the law to revoke the license of any druggist convicted of the illegal sale of narcotics. In North Carolina the pre-existing pharmacy law has been succeeded during the year by a measure which follows the language of the Beal model adopted by the A. Ph. A. some years ago. Unlike the A. Ph. A. measure, however, it does not contain the college requirement, while it does contain some provisions made necessary as concessions, notably one giving registered physicians the right to conduct stores in villages of fewer than 500 inhabitants. The ancient query, "Who Owns the Prescription?" is answered by the Beal provision compelling the druggist to keep all original prescriptions dispensed by him for a period of not less than five years. Interchange of board certificates is provided for under certain proper restrictions, and the Board of Pharmacy is to be appointed, not by the governor in the time-honored manner followed in all States but one, but by the state pharmaceutical association after the commendable method adopted some years ago in New York State. One of the distinctly unique bits of pharmaceutical legislation is to be found in the Pennsylvania act permitting the use of benzoic acid, sodium benzoate, and certain coloring agents in the preparation of soda syrups. The Pennsylvania druggists have been very much annoyed by arrests and prosecutions for the use of soda. syrups artificially preserved and colored, and they have sought relief in legislation. Early in the last session of the State legislature they succeeded in obtaining the passage of a bill permitting the use of the foregoing substances. This was vetoed by the governor on the ground that he was not in favor of what might be termed permissive legislation. Thereupon the energetic pharmacists of Pennsylvania promptly hypnotized the legislature into passing a bill granting the desired rights by inference: the measure specifically prohibited the use of certain preservatives, but not the two desired by the druggists benzoic acid and sodium benzoate. This bill the governor signed and it became law. If I am not in error, the measure also permits by inference the use of certain coloring agents as well as the preservatives mentioned. In preparing this review of the more important laws of the year the right perspective would not be gained unless something were said about the horde of measures affecting patent medicines which the season brought forth. Bills demanding that proprietary articles should contain their formulas upon the label, and others prohibiting the use of more than a prescribed percentage of alcohol appear every year in a number of different state legislatures, but the number was rather greater than usual in 1905, and more than ordinary energy was exhausted in efforts to secure their passage. This was largely due to the crusade of Editor Bok in the Ladies' Home Journal. The customary type of formula-on-the-package bill apeared in several States, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Wisconsin and New Hampshire. In Pennsylvania, Mr. Bok's own State, there was a measure restricting the sale of patent medicines containing alcohol in any quantity to physicians' prescriptions. Bills were likewise introduced elsewhere either restricting or prohibiting entirely the sale of patents containing alcohol. The patent medicine barons have always been successful in securing the burial of such legislation, and they were as usual able to preach the funeral services this year in every case but one. For the first time a bill slipped through: it was in North Dakota and it has given Mr. Bok and his friends so much encouragement that strong efforts are being made to enlist the support of the physicians of the country in an endeaver to secure additional laws of a similar type during 1906. The North Dakota measure provides that proprietary articles containing alcohol, chloral, ergot, morphine, opium, cocaine, bromine, iodine, or any of the salts, compounds or derivatives of these must bear a label stating the amounts printed in black, open Gothic letters on background. a white Recapitulating, then, we find that during the last year Pennsylvania has succeeded in establishing the graduation requirement; Michigan has made two years of high school work compulsory; North Carolina, Michigan and Idaho have secured new pharmacy laws; measures restricting the sale of cocaine or narcotics have been enacted in North Carolina, Connecticut, Missouri, Minnesota and Texas; measures restricting the sale of liquor have been enacted in Michigan and New York; Massachusetts, Minnesota, Connecticut and New York have passed laws recognizing the dangerous character of methyl alcohol; Pennsylvania has made it possible for the pharmacists of that State to use certain preservative and coloring agents in their soda syrups; and in North Dakota a law has been enacted providing for the labeling of patent medicines which contain certain proscribed ingredients. In examining this considerable number of new acts, it is to be noted that the A. Ph. A. model pharmacy law has been made the basis of the North Carolina measure, and that the A. Ph. A. model anti-narcotic law has been adopted with modifications in the Connecticut and Texas statutes. Volksbenennungen der brasilianischen Pflanzen und giesischer) und von der Tupisprache Von Theodor Peckolt. Sapucainha. Kleiner Topfbaum (Frucht). Carpotroche brasiliensis Endl. Flacourtiaceae. Ber. d. Ph. G., Berlin, 1899, p. 162. Berlin, 1902. Saputi-assú. Grosse S. Salacia paniculata, Peyr. Saracura. Begonia hirtella L. Begoniaceae. Jussiaea nervosa Poir. Onagraceae. Sarapo. Nach Ule eine Hevea sp. Kautschukhaltige Milch liefernd. Sargasso. Sargassum bacciferum Ag. Fucaceae. Sarnadinha. Leandra sp. Melastomaceae. Saró. Trithrinax schizophylla Dr. Palmae. Ph. Rdsch., New York, 1889. Sassafraz. Nectandra cymbarum Nees. Lauraceae, Acrodichidium chrysophyllum Meissn. (Ph. Rdsch., N. Y., '86. Sassuaya. 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