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HEALTH FOR TODAY Cabbie Brown Wins Silver $ ing o f popular headache remedies you w ill be told about the im port ance o f quick disintegration time; how long it takes fo r the drug to disintegrate from its tablet form and becom e available in finally di vided state o f absorption. Some drugs must be soluble, while others must be insoluble fo r their most effective use, and the dissolving medium then becom es of tremen dous importance. F or drugs given by injection the size o f the particles is important because it has direct relationship to the speed o f absorption. The possibility o f allergic manifesta tions or irritating qualities must also be considered, as w ell as what is known as tonicity, which means that the solution must have about the same general concentration or tone as the body fluids with which it com es in contact. Caloric values, too, enter into the picture as do melting points, viscosity or thick ness, surface tension or the quality o f wetness. A w ell - known Oakville cab driver, John Robert Brown, 24, has earned a dollar -- and a silver one at that. G ood appearance and pleasant The silver dollar was contributed taste are important. The day is by the Lions fo r courtesy. Mr. Brown's award was fo r stopping gone when all good medicine had to taste bad or look awful, or both. Each batch o f a drug requires a number, to be found in small figures on the label. This number is the key to the manufacturing and packing procedure o f a par ticular batch or drug. If anything goes wrong with quality, appear ance, action, potency, or anything else, it becom es possible to check back in the manufacturer's records and find out what went wrong. Ev en m ore important, it makes it pos sible to notify all distributors that a given batch num ber should be retired from further use o r sale. The enormous numbers o f doses o f drugs m anu factu red by repu table manufacturers and used in the practice o f m edicine in the United States is a tribute to the conscientiousness and effectiveness of the control of drugs in the manufacturing process. his cab on Colborne Street and assisting a crippled person cross the town's main thoroughfare. And in case you don't recognize the moniker, Mr. Brown's nickname is " Bud" . THE JOURNAL, Oakville-Trafalgar, Centennial Issue, Jun* ST, 1057 FETED FOUNDER In 1863, officers and men o f the First Battalion o f Halton Volun teers presented their Colonel, W illiam Chisholm, with a sword. A Capt. Balm er made the presen tation. TWO STAPLES W ood and wheat were the two staples that established Oakvilla as a com m ercial port. Staves, tim ber and grain were transported by vessel to all lake ports from the mouth o f the Sixteen. What Goes Into A Drugr By W. W . BAUER, M.D. When I worked in a drugstore 90 years ago most o f the prescrip tions which came in w ere made up 4rom drugs carried in the stock o f the pharmacist. The compounding o f a prescription was an exacting and precise and responsible job . It bill is today where prescriptions n eed to be made up according to · prescribed formula. Advances in modern pharma ceutical manufacturing have, how ever considerably changed the pic ture. Now from 80 to 90 per cent o f all prescriptions are filled with drugs made in a f actory a'nd deliv ered to the druggist ready to be packaged with the physician's in structions fo r taking. v The responsible drug manufac turer looks upon the reliability, quality and purity^as much more important than low price. These are the qualities that protect the patient. They may require as many as 250 separate tests from the se lections o f raw material to the fin al processing. The first im portant requirem ent o f a drug is that it shall be potent. tM e s s the drug does what the physician expects o f it without fail and without variation, it is o f little o r no use. A drug must not only have the required potency when it leaves the factory but must re tain thait potency on the druggist's shelf. It must neither deteriorate and thus disappoint the physician and the patient, n or must it change in the direction o f greater and per haps dangerous potency. A nother problem w hich faces the drug m anufacturer is competability; drugs must be put together without making mixtures which are im possible to handle, such as solutions which separate or mix tures which do not stay mixed. Ob viously purity is one o f the basic requirements o f a drug, and this applies both to purity o f the basic ingredients and the purity o f the finished product. The doctor may require that a medication take effect slowly or that it shall not take effect until it has passed through the stomach. This is achieved by different kinds o f coatings. In the case o f inject ed drugs, different solvent or sus pending fluids are used. An im portant factor is the so-called en teric coating which allows the tab let or capsule to pass through the stomach before being dissolved. A new variation o f this is the socalled pickaback medication, in which a capsule o r tablet is en closed within another capsule or tablet so that the inner one is not dissolved until the outer one has been used, thus extending the lngth o f effectiveness. I f you w ill observe the advertis CONGRATULATIONS TO OAKVILLE ON HER 100th BIRTHDAY W E HOPE THE FUTURE Y E A R S , 1 0 0 W ILL BE PEACEFUL AN D BOUNTEOUS FOR A L L YEARS N a tu ra l G as T o th e T o w n o f O a k v ille w e e x t e n d o u r t in c e r e s t c o n g r a tu la tio n s . 30 Piano P upils Pass Conservatory Exams The follow in g Oakville piano pupJls have passed examinations of the R oyal Conservatory o f Music o f Toronto, held recently: Solo Perform er's -- Conditioned in perform ance, Ralph Cruickshank; Grade 8-- Pass, Kenneth R oy, Prudence Cooper; Grade 6 - · Honors, Marilyn Bustard, W il liam G. Vanderburgh; Pass, Diane La6t, R hondo Cooper, Nancy Lea R oy; Grade 4-- Pass, H eather L. Barbeau, Shelley L. Smith (equ al), Jean Clarke; Grade 3-- First class honors, P eter Bennett; honors, Susan Hall, Louise M cK illop, Ellan a Keizer; Pass, David Holt, W olf gang Zenker (eq u a l), G rade 2-- H onors Marie Murphy, Karen Gra ham; Grade 1 -- Honors, Lynn Enns; Pass, Mark Pettigrew, Barry Sweeting (equ al), Diane C. Dreger, Scott Corp. F A M IL IA R NAMES First schooner to be built in an Oakville shipyard was the 50-ton Trafalgar, skippered in turn by Capt. John Eno and Capt. N ick Boylan. The Lady Colborne was Oakville's second lake vessel, com in g dow n the ways in 1830. "Your Silent Servant" S o h e r e 's t o a g r e a t a n d w o n d e r fu l fu tu re to g e th e r in th e OAKVILLE of TOMORROW! United Suburban Gas Co. Ltd. 3 2 D U N N ST . N . V I. 5 - 4 2 9 7 Your Volkswagen De al e r Baillie-Pearson Ltd. VI. 4-3285 Phone 4 5 9 DUNDAS (at South Service Road) ST. N. Oakvilje Oakville Furniture a n dcy cle an Oakville Landmark QUALITY SERVICE RELIABILITY Salutes the TOWN of OAKVILLE on its 100th BIRTHDAY . -· OAKVILLE FURniTURI SERVING OAKVILLE AND DISTRICT FOR OVER 21 YEARS! 'OAKVILLE'S PIONEER FURNITURE STORE" George Broadbent is privileged to have served three generations of m any Oakville and district fam ilies. It is his pleasure to h ave these fam ilies com ing to the store to purchase furniture, bicycles and household sup plies, w ith com plete confidence, built up over the y ears of fair prices and honest values. Only the very best m erchandise a t the low est prices w ill be found in our showroom. ...................... You too can come to Oakville Furniture and Cycle, know ing you will alw ays get the best service, ALL THE YEAR ROUND. OAKVILLE FURNITURE THE H OM E O F FINE FURNITURE AND HOME and SUPPLIES CYCLE