Excerpt from Practical Druggist and Pharmaceutical Review of Reviews: A New Dispensatory and Illustrated Journal of Progress in Pharmacy, New Remedies, Chemistry, Therapeutics, Etc.; Volumes 17, 18, 19, 20; January, 1905-December, 1906 Successful buying mainly means that the buyer must keep posted on the various immediate and prospective changes in prices - that he should be able to judge from the various sources of information at his command, the probable future conditions, as for example, - when the papers were full of the probabilities of war a few months ago, he should have been able to discern that Camphor and Carbolic Acid that are used in the manu facture of smokeless gunpowder, would advance, besides other drugs that come from the Orient, such as various oils and spices, would advance on account of scarcity of production, and a practical successful buyer would have laid in a reasonable advance supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.