Midland Druggist and the Pharmaceutical Review, Volume 6, Issue 10

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1905

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Page 932 - The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for but one thing. And that is Initiative. What is Initiative? Iğll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told. But next to doing the thing without being told is to do it when you are told once.
Page 932 - Next, there are those who do the right thing only when necessity kicks them from behind, and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay. This kind spends most of its time polishing a bench with a hard-luck story. Then, still lower down in the scale than this, we have the fellow who will not do the right thing even when...
Page 916 - The courts may not say as a matter of law that the presence of a certain per cent, of alcohol brings the compound within the prohibition, or that any particular ingredient does or does not destroy the intoxicating influence of the alcohol, or prevent it from ever becoming an intoxicating beverage. Of course, the larger the per cent, of alcohol and the more potent the other ingredients, the more probably does it fall within or without the statute ; but in each case the question is one of fact, and...
Page 932 - Garcia: those who can carry a message get high honors, but their pay is not always in proportion. Next, there are those who never do a thing until they are told twice: such get no honors and small pay. Next, there are those who do the right thing only when necessity kicks them from behind, and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay. This kind spends most of its...
Page 916 - ... under the ban of the law ; but when they are so compounded with other substances as to lose the distinctive character of intoxicating liquors, and...
Page 912 - Dr. Charles Baskerville, professor of chemistry in the College of the City of New York, and Dr.
Page 932 - A protest is needed, and a strong one, against the irrational and unjust prejudice shown by some physicians against manufacturers of pharmaceutic and other products used by the medical profession, and against their advertisements in medical journals. Our experience is that many lay manufacturers are as a rule quite as honorable and as good citizens, that they exhibit indeed quite as good a professional spirit as do many physicians. There are bad men in both callings. Self-laudation through dogmatic...
Page 913 - The Next Meeting of the Board will be held in Chicago. On Tuesday...
Page 915 - President Wood. He was instructed to continue his investigations and again report to the board. Dr. Wood finds considerable demand for a Spanish edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia in Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica and Porto Rico. The Rice Memorial Fund Committee made a final report. Mr. SAD Sheppard was appointed a special committee of one to take charge of this fund and deposit the same in the name of the Board of Trustees of the USP Convention.
Page 930 - OF MINES AND LAWS GOVERNING THEM. The annual production of the mines actually operated, namely. 5 asphalt, 3 copper, 12 iron, 3 manganese, and 1 naphtha, give a total output valued at $1,446,000, as follows: Asphalt, #122,900; copper, approximately. $13,068; iron, $1,146,892; manganese, $163,140. In the pamphlet published by the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the United States War Department, entitled "The Mining Law...

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