To, the Editor of the '"NomrH-CniNa Daty News."
Sin,—In- your description of the damage done to a Lewis gun in fo-day's issue of your. esteemed Paper, under the caption: "Why Guards are necessary," you "In the engagement, however, they (American Guards) sustain: ed damage to one of their Lewis guns, x dum-dum bullet piercing the water-jacket of the gun, and. wrapping itself round the barrel of the weapon like a piece of tin ne, Sir, to point out that} Lewis suns are automatically alr-Jcooled—do" not possess a water-jacket, and that the barrel is encaved and protected by an alumina ium tube of about fs in, thick (with anges on the outside through which sir rushes to cool the barrel).
Tam, may be that our informant }was mistaken about the nature of the gun. He could hardly be wrong! bout the bullet. This would he an' incident. that everyone on board would know of after the ficht—Rd, CHINESE PIARMACOPOEIA, To the Editer of the "Nontw-Cuixa Datny News."
Su—I understand that the Ministry of Health, in Né now preparing the first Chinese Pharmacopoeia and also drawing up gulations governing the examina-ion of medical practitioners and Regarding the first edition of the Chinese Pharmacopaia, I have no [doubt that this will comply with modern usage, especially in-so-far as testing drugs is concerned, If so, pharmacists will be required to test drugs and chemicals to find out whether they are unadulterated, Jzenuine and pure. When I say pharmacist I mean the ordinary retail chemist.
All such testing work would have to be carried out. microscopically as well as chemically, In all countries, where a National Pharmacopavia is' used, pharmacists fare responsible for any medicine they sell to the public. There are, however, many pharmacists even in Shanghai, who have no qualifications to act as such and could not make a_proper chemical analysis. If this is the case in Shanghai it is easy to imagine what the situation in cities in the int.
Such unqualified pharmacists are a danger to the public and should be properly controlled by the authorities. A start might advantageously be made in Shanghai itself.
Another. outstanding danger. against, public health is the regulation of manufacturing, importing
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