The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2

The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry was established by the American Medical Association primarily for the purpose of gathering and disseminating such information as would prot...

[FOREWORD.--It is more than twelve years since the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association was created. Since then there have been but few issues o...

purpose is to provide standards for those drugs not described in the Pharmacopeia but used in N. F. preparations. Many of these drugs were described in the U. S. Pharmacopeia VI...

In accordance with the principle of its foundation, the Laboratory examines and checks the claims made for the composition and chemical properties of the products under examinat...

“Can you give me any information concerning Dr. (?) San Francisco, California, who reports himself able to diagnose syphilis from a drop of blood sent him on a blotting paper? H...

premise that “prohibition does not prevent the consumption of liquor,” but on the contrary, “prohibitive legislation induces the consumption of the most harmful form of liquors....

“I am enclosing a clipping from a Chicago paper relative to Dr. Thomas Webster Edgar of New York and his operation for transplanting the glands of ring-tailed monkey. I note tha...

A comparison of the material that has appeared in Volume 1 of The Propaganda for Reform with that which appears in this volume will reveal the changing conditions in the proprie...

There were nine editions of the first volume of The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines. The ninth edition contained the most important reports of the Council on Phar...

An overwhelmingly large proportion of persons who develop alcoholic psychoses in America are drinkers of whisky, or some corresponding ardent spirit, whereas this condition is s...

Census Bureau’s reports are called on to sustain this thesis. Quotations, too, are made from the writings of Henry Smith Williams further to prove the point. “Dry” Kansas and “w...

the principles and rules which govern the Council in the examination of medicaments, together with articles and reports bearing on the work of the Council, and the most importan...

Magazine_, August 1914, and deals with “Legislation from a Medical Viewpoint.” It is to the effect that drug addiction and insanity, together with special forms of mental diseas...