An excellent counter display of the PD & Co Toilet Line. The Murray Drug Company, Colorado Springs, Colo. Such a display as this always results in increased sales. We Check, Double-check, and Then Check Again The infinite care we take in all | poules by heat. However, indisour operations can be illustrated, perhaps, by describing briefly what happens after ampoule solutions are ready to be put into containers. The filling and sealing is done by specially trained young women who exercise special precaution to observe aseptic conditions and to insure correct measure in every single ampoule. The use of automatic filling machines, trays for holding the empty ampoules so that they are not touched by the hand after their heat sterilization, etc., which we have designed and built, has done much toward insuring aseptic conditions and correct measure, and has made this operation all but error-proof. After sealing, the ampoules are inspected individually and approved or rejected by other young women specially trained for this part of the work. Even though the Pasteur filter has sterilized the solutions before filling, and we have observed aseptic conditions throughout, we sterilize many of our filled and sealed am criminate heating of all ampoules by a manufacturer is to be condemned in no uncertain terms. We found out long ago that certain ampoule solutions would lose physiologic activity if heated to an extent necessary to effect sterilization. We, of course, do not sterilize such solutions by heat. Furthermore, there is another group of ampoule solutions, including the Ovarian products, for which we have no physiologic or chemical test for activity. Knowing as we do that other gland extracts are injured by heat, we take no chances which would jeopardize the virtue of the solution which we have so carefully preserved throughout the tedious processes of manufacture. Therefore, we do not sterilize any of this group of ampoules by means of heat. Safety tests are conducted on samples from each lot of ampoules by an experienced bacteriologist. These samples must be free from any trace of bacterial contamination, or the lot is rejected. A positive test for cracked and Stock Up For the Winter Months! A Medicated Throat Disc display, Horton & Converse, Los Angeles. The window imperfectly sealed ampoules is accomplished with the aid of vacuum and a distinctive color. Each ampoule is labeled. The labels are put on by a machine, but each ampoule is inspected by another worker after it leaves the labeling machine. Each cartoned ampoule is inspected as it leaves the machineand the carton pinched and shaken to make sure the machine has put an ampoule into it. The cartoned ampoules are spread out on the table and let stand for a while. This is done to allow the solution to leak out and stain the carton if there are any cracked or broken ampoules. This enables us to pick them out and discard them. Each filled box and packer is inspected before it is closed. All this is done after the solutions are ready to be put into the containers; how the solutions themselves are made is another but a similar story. The same care and watchfulness prevails throughout, however. We use nothing but the best grade of materials always and we surround every process with all the skill and safeguards known to science. Every single weighing or measuring operation, and every other operation connected with the making up of an ampoule solution, are checked by the chemist in charge of the section. Ampoules are important medicinal agents. Such solutions are injected into the human system. We realize the responsibility that rests upon us and endeavor to meet the exacting conditions fully and unreservedly. Pleasant to the Taste. The customer seeking a morning laxative doesn't want one that is bitter and nauseating to take. He wants action, of course, but he wants it without disagreeable effects, either before or after. For such a customer Tartalax meets every requirement. It is, first of all, a prompt laxative that sweeps the intestinal tract clean. It does not produce griping and it is mild in action. And it is agreeable in taste a palatable draught that has all the zip and tang of a carbonated beverage. Let your trade know about Tartalax. They'll buy it time after Additions to the List. We have added the following intravenous ampoules in boxes of 25 to our list: ...... Calcium Chloride, 15 grs. (10 cc.)......(No. 218).. .(No. 203).. . (No. 208).. . (No. 211).. .(No. 216).. Each ampoule contains: Sodium Iodide, 1 gm (15 grs.); Sodium Salicylate, 1 gm. (151⁄2 grs.) Sodium Salicylate, 20 grs. (10 cc.)........(No. 217).. Sodium Thiosulphate, 71⁄2 grs. (10 cc.)....(No. 219).. Tartar Emetic, 1% (5 cc.)........ (Antimony and Potassium Tartrate) Uritone, 31 grs. (5 cc.)..... (Hexamethylenamine) Water, Double-distilled (5 cc.).. Water, Double-distilled (10 cc.). (No. 209).. (No. 212).. (No. 210).. (No. 218).. . (No. 214).. Water, Double-distilled (20 cc.). Ampoule No. 220, Glucose (Dextrose, U. S. P.), 50%.. In 50-cc. ampoules, each ampoule in individual carton, and packed six cartons to the package. Ampoules of Glucose, No. 220, are intended for intravenous administration in cases where there is a pronounced disturbance of metabolism due to deficiency of carbohydrates. Highly purified crystallized dextrose, which is most carefully tested, is used, and the finished solution is adjusted with unusual care to the proper hydrogen-ion concentration. The Best Agar. Agar buyers are numerous, but not all of them are familiar with the product in its most palatable form. Show them Agar-Crisp and let them sense its delightful crispness. Show them, too, the moistureproof container in which AgarCrisp comes, the container that keeps the contents dry and fresh until the last spoonful is consumed. The big can retails for a dollar, at a liberal profit. Carried in the Pocket. Street-car motormen, letter-carriers, meter-readers, truck drivers, farmers-these will buy Capsolin; men whose duties require them to be outdoors in all kinds of weather. Tell them it can be carried in the pocket handily and that it can be easily and quickly rubbed on for the relief of pain and inflammation that result from exposure to cold draughts, dampness, or from overexertion. A carton on the counter will help sales. Beautiful and Practical Christmas Presents WO Two styles of Gift Boxes are offered this year-one for men, one for women. The men's contains Shaving Cream, Tar Shampoo, and Tooth Paste, the women's Cold Cream, Vanishing Cream, and Almond Cream. They are beautiful packages and nothing could be finer for Christmas gifts. The margin of profit is very good, and druggists who stock the Boxes in quantities are sure to enjoy a brisk trade. See that signpost-it reads "Classified Advertisements. It has pointed innumerable men into the way to profit and success. It has pointed misplaced men into better positionsconnections which eventually became the cornerstones of their success. It has pointed busines men to where they could find executives and managers who possessed the ability and experience to remedy operating conditions into a better paying basis. It has pointed buyers into worth-while savings through the purchase of materials and equipment no longer adaptable to the use of another. It has pointed out to busi ness men various channels for the sale of discarded store equipment, surplus stock or supplies, business locations, etc. The Classified Advertisement is a small worker with indeterminable power. Its use is growing. Thousands use it today where one used Reasonit 20 years ago. it has made good. Even if you have nothing to buy or sell, or do not seek a position or an employe, you should form the habit of reading the Classified Advertisements in THE BULLETIN OF PHARMACY. Always look down an avenue of possible profit. You may see an opportunity on it. For Classified Advertisements This Issue of the Bulletin of Pharmacy |