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Narcotic Mimeograph
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physician when the therapeutic value of pharmaceutical preparations is dependent upon hydrogen ion concentration. Knowledge of analytical chemistry of physiological nature is of tremendous value to the pharmacist. The rural physician cannot turn to commercial laboratories for his urinalyses and blood tests, and the urban physician will not care to patronize these laboratories if and when he learns that his pharmacist is willing and qualified to carry out the tests. The layman as well as the physician is conscious of vitamins and hormones. To be able to speak intelligently to both men concerning these products is a distinct advantage evidenced by not only increased sales, but also by economical purchases.
Too frequently is the pharmacist re~ garded a specialist. He is a potential expert whose success depends upon willingness to apply himself. Trade schools develop potential experts. To be sure, much of the training of the pharmacist concerns specific fields, e. g., prescription compounding, alkaloidal chemistry, etc., nevertheless the blending of these fields produces a most valuable way for him to become an expert. Specialization is frequently regarded the keynote to success, but it must be remembered that the specialist serves occasionally while the expert serves constantly. The pharmacist can and will serve constantly when he convinces his patrons and his prescribing physicians of his expertness.
Narcotic Mimeograph
Supplement to the List of TradeMarks Registered with the American Drug Manufacturers Association and American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
The Office of Commissioner of Narcotics, Washington, D . C., has sent the following Registrants' Mimeograph No. 33, dated April 6, 1940, to manufacturers and wholesale dealers in narcotic drugs: "It has come to the attention of this office that a number of manufacturers and wholesale dealers have misconstrued paragraph 3, article 15, of Regulations No.5, to authorize the sale by retail dealers of stamped specialty ampoules and vials containing sterile narcotic solutions. "The sale of such specialty ampoules or other packaged units, which are required to bear tax stamps, renders the seller liable to registration and payment of tax as a wholesale dealer in Class 2. A druggist registered only in Class 3, therefore, may not furnish such stamped units to physicians pursuant to order forms. The law and regulations contemplate, on the other hand, that the physician will procure his requirements of such items from the manufacturer or wholesale dealer and not from the retail druggist. "Article 15, of Regulations No. 5. relates only to extemporaneous solutions prepared by the retail dealer himself. It is a provision for meeting the emergency requirements of physicians for such solutions and is simply an exception to the general rule that only manufacturers registered in Class 1 can compound or manufacture narcotic preparations, and has no application to the distribution of solutions prepared and packaged by regularly registered manufacturers." Dr. W. F. Rudd, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, made an address before the Virginia Academy of Science Conference at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., on May 2nd. Dean Rudd is the President-Elect of the Academy,
A supplement to the list of Trade-Marks Registered with the American Drug Manufacturers Association and the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association is now ready for distribution. The main list was released August 1, 1938, and the present supplement represents additions, corrections and deletions up to January 1, 1940. The purpose of these lists is to furnish information in the preliminary consideration of new trade-marks. It is the desire of the associations that the booklets receive the widest possible circulation, not only among members, but among all others interested in this important field, including firms and individuals identified with allied organizations, trade-mark attorneys and association trade-mark bureaus. The principal list was offered at $2.00; the price of the supplement is fifty cents a copy. If the two publications are ordered together, they will be furnished for a total of $2.50. . Copies may be obtained from Carson P. Frailey, Executive Vice President and Secretary, American Drug Manufacturers Association, 507 Albee Building, Washington, D. C. or from S. Barksdale Penick, Jr., Secretary, American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, 132 Nassau Street, New York, N . Y. Check should be forwarded with order. Dr. Louis Saalbach, Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, was honored with an informal Testimonial Dinner by the graduating class on Wednesday evenin~, May first, at 6:30 ~.M .• Hotel Schenley.
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physician when the therapeutic value of pharmaceutical preparations is dependent upon hydrogen ion concentration. Knowledge of analytical chemistry of physiological nature is of tremendous value to the pharmacist. The rural physician cannot turn to commercial laboratories for his urinalyses and blood tests, and the urban physician will not care to patronize these laboratories if and when he learns that his pharmacist is willing and qualified to carry out the tests. The layman as well as the physician is conscious of vitamins and hormones. To be able to speak intelligently to both men concerning these products is a distinct advantage evidenced by not only increased sales, but also by economical purchases.
Too frequently is the pharmacist re~ garded a specialist. He is a potential expert whose success depends upon willingness to apply himself. Trade schools develop potential experts. To be sure, much of the training of the pharmacist concerns specific fields, e. g., prescription compounding, alkaloidal chemistry, etc., nevertheless the blending of these fields produces a most valuable way for him to become an expert. Specialization is frequently regarded the keynote to success, but it must be remembered that the specialist serves occasionally while the expert serves constantly. The pharmacist can and will serve constantly when he convinces his patrons and his prescribing physicians of his expertness.
Narcotic Mimeograph
Supplement to the List of TradeMarks Registered with the American Drug Manufacturers Association and American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
The Office of Commissioner of Narcotics, Washington, D . C., has sent the following Registrants' Mimeograph No. 33, dated April 6, 1940, to manufacturers and wholesale dealers in narcotic drugs: "It has come to the attention of this office that a number of manufacturers and wholesale dealers have misconstrued paragraph 3, article 15, of Regulations No.5, to authorize the sale by retail dealers of stamped specialty ampoules and vials containing sterile narcotic solutions. "The sale of such specialty ampoules or other packaged units, which are required to bear tax stamps, renders the seller liable to registration and payment of tax as a wholesale dealer in Class 2. A druggist registered only in Class 3, therefore, may not furnish such stamped units to physicians pursuant to order forms. The law and regulations contemplate, on the other hand, that the physician will procure his requirements of such items from the manufacturer or wholesale dealer and not from the retail druggist. "Article 15, of Regulations No. 5. relates only to extemporaneous solutions prepared by the retail dealer himself. It is a provision for meeting the emergency requirements of physicians for such solutions and is simply an exception to the general rule that only manufacturers registered in Class 1 can compound or manufacture narcotic preparations, and has no application to the distribution of solutions prepared and packaged by regularly registered manufacturers." Dr. W. F. Rudd, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, made an address before the Virginia Academy of Science Conference at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., on May 2nd. Dean Rudd is the President-Elect of the Academy,
A supplement to the list of Trade-Marks Registered with the American Drug Manufacturers Association and the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association is now ready for distribution. The main list was released August 1, 1938, and the present supplement represents additions, corrections and deletions up to January 1, 1940. The purpose of these lists is to furnish information in the preliminary consideration of new trade-marks. It is the desire of the associations that the booklets receive the widest possible circulation, not only among members, but among all others interested in this important field, including firms and individuals identified with allied organizations, trade-mark attorneys and association trade-mark bureaus. The principal list was offered at $2.00; the price of the supplement is fifty cents a copy. If the two publications are ordered together, they will be furnished for a total of $2.50. . Copies may be obtained from Carson P. Frailey, Executive Vice President and Secretary, American Drug Manufacturers Association, 507 Albee Building, Washington, D. C. or from S. Barksdale Penick, Jr., Secretary, American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, 132 Nassau Street, New York, N . Y. Check should be forwarded with order. Dr. Louis Saalbach, Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, was honored with an informal Testimonial Dinner by the graduating class on Wednesday evenin~, May first, at 6:30 ~.M .• Hotel Schenley.