3. Some labels for substances such as sulfiudigotic acid might well be omitted. 4. Many of the formulas do not conform to modern usage. 5. Such abbreviations as "sodium perrnangan." and "sodium carbon." are confusing to a beginner. 6. Provision should be made for indicating whether a reagent is C.P. or not, and whether it is a solution or not. 7. Common names are not given on the labels. No company or individual is interested in developing a satisfactory book of labels, because it cannot be patented or copyrighted successfully. We would like to have this committee, which we suggested to be appointed, study this question of labels. It is almost certain that the supply companies would publish a book of labels worked out by a committee appointed by the Senate of Chemical Education. A good book of labels would be of definite educational value, and would help to solve the label problem in a chemical laboratory. We might add that we have found that the process of removing labels is speeded up greatly by using a copper sponge ("chore-boy") such as is sold for domestic use. This is particularly valuable for removing labels which have been covered with one of the protective coatings mentioned above. Dyes the Best Germ Killers, Chemists Find. Great hopes were held out for the future treatment of idcctious direases with germicidal d w s t ~ f f sby Dr. Hugh H.Young of the nrsdy YroloKicol Institute at iialtimore speaking before the annual mcetine - of the American Chemical Society in Detroit. Mercurochrome, in particular, has shown remarkable efficiency,not only in the local treatment of infections but by injection into the blood stream, Dr. Young declared. "Over 1000 cases have now been collected of local and general infections," stated the scientist, "with a high percentage of immediate improvements and many really remarkable apparent cures. In some cases of blood poison where the condition was desperate the results have been remarkable." Considerable effort has been expended, Dr. Young explained, to find dyes that are germicidal but not poisonous or irritating to the tissues and that are efficient in serum, bile, and other body fluids.-Science Service Typhoid May Lurk in Oyster Juice. An additional danger of typhoid infection from oysters has been brought to light by Dr. William H. Park, director of the bureau of laboratories of the New York City Department of Health. He reparts that the liauid in which shucked oysters are camed provides an excellent breeding ground for the typhoid bacillus. Bacilli from an infected oyster, therefore, not only may he carried by the liquid to other oysters hut may increase during their sojourn in the liquid. "Typhoid bacilli," he says, "have been shown to increase in the liquor of shucked oysters. With a sufficient rise in temperature the multiplication of typhoid bacilli that may he present will occur in the oyster liquid in which oysters are often transported. Thus the danger from a single infected bivalve is capable of being many times magnified by the time a consignment reaches its destination."-Science Sem'ce ~
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