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What It Costs the Druggist to Make Galenicals.

In a paper read at the 1912 convention of the A. Ph. A. and printed in the Journal, F. W. Nitardy of Denver shows a comparative cost table in the manufacture of galencials as made by his firm which operates a chain of stores, the cost being compared with the price charged by the pharmaceutical manufacturing houses. We quote from the paper as follows:

Every time a prescription is made the formula is written on a card which also shows the cost of each item. At the top of the card is a note that after checking off the items and marking in the cost of each, all notations which might be of value in future reference must be preserved on the back of the card. At the bottom of the card is a line for the name of the preparation,file number, control number and date. These cards are seriaally numbered and bound into monthly volumes. The information on this card is then transferred to another record card which bears the name of the preparation at the top. This card is ruled to give the following information: date, quantity made, record number, time consumed, cost of materials, total cost, cost per

(All U. S. P. Except where Marked N. F.)

El. Am. Valerate, N. F., gal..

cc, cost per gallon, the list price per gallon, quantity manufactured in each year.

Each preparation regularly made at our laboratory has such an index card, giving the successive dates and quantities of the preparations made, cost, etc, all of which is very valuable information and in this form at your command at a moment's notice. As a further check on. our products we keep a one-ounce sample of every preparation. This sample receives a control number which is also noted on the record card and the stock container of the preparation as well as every portion of it sent out to the stores. These samples are of value also to observe changes that may occur on keeping, etc.

In arriving at the cost of a preparation, we add to the cost of materials used, the cost of time necessary to make the preparation, figured at 50 cents per hour, and a further ten per cent of the total of these two items, which about covers what might be termed our overhead charges. The time allowance in all cases is liberal and based on actual observation of time required to do the work. With the above explanation the following message will be clear:

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El. Aromatic, per gal..

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El. Bismuth, N. F., per gal.

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El. Buchu, N. F., per gal..

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El. Buchu and Pot. Ac., N. F., per gal.

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El. Cinchona, N. F.,

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El. Digestive Co., N. F., per gal.

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El. Gentian, N. F., pergal

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El. Gentian, Glyc. Ñ. F., per gal.....

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El. Glycerophosphates, N. F., per gal.

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El. I. Q. and S., N. F., per gal..

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El. I. Q. and S. Phos., per gal.

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El. Potass. Bromide, N. F., per gal.

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El. Strychnine Valerate, N. F., per gal..

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El. Terpin Hydrate, N. F., per gal..

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El. Terpin Hydrate and Codeine, N. F., per gal.

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El. Terpin Hydrate and Heroin, N. F., per gal..

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Lint. Soap, per pint...

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Lint. Turp., Acetic, N. F. per pint.

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Mix. Glycyrrhiza Comp., per gal..

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Oint. Boric Acid, per lb.

Oint. Iodine, per lb...

Oint. Nutgall, per lb.

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Oint. Phenol, per lb..

Oint. Rose Water, per lb.

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Oint. Zinc Oxide, per lb.

Oint. Resorcin Comp., N. F., per lb..

Powder, Antiseptic, Sol., N. F., per lb.

Powder, Dovers, per lb...

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Powder, Licorice Co., per lb.

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Sol., Antiseptic, per gal..

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Sol., Arsenic and Merc. Iod., per pint.

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A preparation of similar composition to the official.

A preparation similar to, but weaker in its active ingredients, than the official.
Where no price is given the preparation is not listed by the manufacturer.

I believe the list is comprehensive enough to prove that I did not pick a on few articles that we accidentally produce cheaper than the manufacturers can sell them.

In all our preparations, quality not low price is our aim. We buy the best mater

rials and spare no labor or care in producing products that we can honestly say are at least equal if not superior to the best the market affords. It would be to our advantage to make these products even if they would cost us as much as we would have to pay for the ready made article.

Of General Interest. -:

Nonesense About Perfumery.

Imaginative "press agents" for actresses simply revel in trying to discover odd and interesting episodes or possibilities upon which to hang a story that they think will help in their campaign of publicity for their employers, but they only occasionally invade the perfumery industry with their mercenary misrepresentations of known facts and conditions. The following appeared in a recent issue of the Chicago Examiner and similar articles, given in the guise of special or other cable dispatches, were printed in hundreds of papers throughout the country:

"ROME, Nov. 22.-Ida Rubenstein, the Russian actress, for whom Gabriel d'Annunzio wrote, "The Mystery of St. Sebastian and Pisanelle,' has left Rome for Arabia. She will spend part of the winter there searching for new perfumes and recipes now lost and preparing them.

"She admitted she has received this commission from d'Annunzio himself, who for many years has mourned the lost art of preparing perfumes according to the old system, which he believes was never learned because the Persians and Arabs guarded the recipes as state secrets.

"The perfumes prepared nowadays he regards as merely vulgar concoctions compared with those which delighted the women of Rome and Greece.

"Several years ago d'Annunzio himself went on such an expedition to Egypt, as he then believed the art of preparation had passed from Arabia to Egypt. But he failed to bring back the rare essences whose wonderful effects upon men and women of Rome he had so often described in his poems. His only discovery was that he had been searching in the wrong place."

As a French waiter once said to an Italian diner in a German restaurant in the Bohemian quarter of New York: "It is to laugh!" Research into perfumes of the old ages has shown that the idea of the ancients regarding odors was of the most primitive character and even in the time of King Solomon the sense of fragrance had developed only to a comparatively small degree. The Arabs and Persians had some crude ideas upon the bject, but that was all. China might a better field for this actress, for there le might discover the origin of the joss icks which are burned in summer to

annoy mosquitoes. D'Annunzio missed his cue when he went to Egypt instead of China.

Seriously writing, the dispatches can do the perfumery industry no harm. They advertise the idea that there is perfumery and excite discussion. Persons who have not been interested in pleasant odors are likely to investigate and surely none will wait for the results of what may be called a fool's quest into an undiscoverable field of nothingness. There never could have been anything superior to the products in perfumery that are now made on both continents, with the American perfumer always striving and frequently attaining the ideal that satisfies the most delicately discriminating feminine nostril.

But here we will stop. The "press agent" has charmed us into giving the Russian actress and her playwright mention which they never otherwise could have obtained in these columns. added publicity is theirs, the pleasure of pricking their illusive bubble is ours. The American Perfumer.

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Owing to the lack of room in the Paris University buildings for the departments of chemistry and research upon radium, it was decided to erect commodious quarters for such work. The new buildings in the Latin quarter are now almost finished and contain well fitted laboratories and halls. The largest building is the Chemical Institute, which covers an extensive space and is said to be the most considerable in Europe. But it is the new "Radium Palace" which deserves special mention, or more properly, the three buildings which go to make up the Radiology Institute. The first, or "Curie building," is designed for laboratories. and courses upon radio-activity, and will be under the special direction of Mme. Curie. Opposite it is a similar edifice built with a subsidy of $80,000.00 from the Pasteur Institute, to be used for the physiological applications of radium. Between the two is the smallest, but the most interesting building, the "Temple of Radium," which is a vertiable strongbox, as it might be called, for handling

considerable amounts of radium salts and possibly pure radium. The walls are lined with thick lead sheet, which is needed in order to prevent the emanation of "rays" from passing. We expect to give a further description of these structures when they are fitted up. The present extensive grounds, coming from the demolition of an old convent, will now be an important university center, the first building to be erected here having been the Oceanographic Institute. Another part of the ground will be occupied by the Geography Institution, to be built with a donation of $1,000,000 made by Marquise of Arconati-Visconti, and Architect Nenot is also engaged on the plans for the Institute of Ancient and Modern Art and the Arts Library.

-Scientific American.

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A Beautiful Store.

Kuhlman's Store Number One, operated by the Kuhlman-Chambliss Company of Knoxville, Tennessee, Mr. Dan M. Chambliss, President, has recently been doubled in size, completely remodeled and "departmentized," and by many who travel every part of the country it has been pronounced the largest drug store in the South and the most beautiful in America. This is the main store, although there are the two other Kuhlman Stores each doing a volume of business larger than the average drug store.

Kuhlman's Store No. 1 has a frontage on Gay street, the main business thoroughfare of Knoxville of 50 feet and runs back 125 feet to an alley, the main sales room having a 5,000 square feet of space and in addition, a modern, orderly and fully equipped prescription room, entirely cut off from the sales room but also on the main floor. On the same floor, but cut off from the sales room, are the private truss room, the private rubber goods room and the manufacturing laboratory.

A center of attraction to customers is the new iceless sanitary soda fountain in the form of a hollow square with corners cut, a service counter of seventy feet, customers being served on all four sides. This beautiful fountain is built entirely of marble and metal. The top slabs are of the famous pink Tennessee marble, highly beautiful, so enduring as to be almost everlasting; the panels are of Italian while the columns are of Mexican Onyx. On each corner

are onyx pedestals topped with beautiful electroliers and gyrofans. The serving tables in the rear have a seating capacity of two hundred people.

The entire floor of the store is laid with tile in a realistic Turkish rug pattern. The shelving runs from floor to ceiling with a balcony extending around sides and rear, being enlarged in the rear to accomodate the offices which overlook the store, giving the president and general manager an outlook continually over the entire store. On the balcony floor is a space for the orchestra which is heard in up-todate programs every afternoon and night. The piano is attached to the Hippodrome chimes, (the only ones in the South) the notes of which are scattered along the ceiling of the store, concealed by lion head decorations. As these chimes are played the sounds come from in front, in the rear and all around the patrons, and the effect is most novel and pleasing.

The Kuhlman Drug Stores advertise to supply everything that could be expected in great, modern, metropolitan and up-to-date drug stores. A great part of the stock is divided into departments, with each department under one head, many salesladies being employed, especially in the ciagr and chewing gum, candy supply, photographic supply, rubber goods and similar departments.

The prescription departments are in charge of registered pharmacists who are not required to wait on the general trade. No inducement other than superior service and modest prices are offered to any one to secure prescription patronage, many old time theories along this line having been exploded. The enormous patronage enjoyed by the Kuhlman Stores prove that the highest professional and business methods will alone attract the best patronage. All prescriptions filled at Kuhlman's bear a "Pure Food and Drug Act" label.

The three Kuhlman Stores are now doing a volume of business in excess of that of many wholesale jobbing houses and their success is due to the genius and untiring efforts of President and General Manager Daniel M. Chambliss.

Store Number One was formally reopeend with a special musical program, souvenir packages of individual packages of toilet articles given to purchasers, and hundreds of people in attendance.

The Kuhlman Stores have the agency for Rexall Remedies, Vinol and Huyler's, Liggett's, Guth's and Crane's Chocolates.

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