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ents or substances contained therein, which is false and fraudulent." 

 It will be remembered that the act of 1906 declared that a drug is 

 misbranded "the package or label of which shall bear any Statement 

 . . . which shall be false or misleading in any particular . . . " ; but 

 the supreme court, by a majority of five to three, decided that this 

 did not refer to false Statements regarding the curative effect of a 

 drug. 



Miscellaneous items. Proposed State medical service in Eng- 

 land. During the recent meeting of the British Medical Associa- 

 tion at Liverpool, a State Medical Service Association was formed 

 under the inspiration of Dr. B. Moore, professor of biochemistry at 

 the University of Liverpool. Prof. Moore lately produced a book 

 entitled " The dawn of the health age," in order to demonstrate the 

 necessity for entirely remodeling the present System of medical prac- 

 tice in the interests of the whole Community. The object of the 

 new association is to advocate a State medical service on the follow- 

 ing basis : (i) the whole profession to be organized on the lines of 

 the other State Services now in existence; (2) entry to the profes- 

 sion to be by one state examination; (3) each member of the serv- 

 ice to be paid an adequate salary, increasing gradually according 

 to the length of service and position in the service, and to be entitled 

 to a Pension after a specified number of years or in case of perma- 

 nent disablement; (4) members of the public to have, as far as 

 possible, free choice of physicians, but no physician to be called on 

 to have charge of more than a specified number of patients; (5) one 

 of the primary objects of the State service to be to unite preventive 

 and curative medicine ; all hospitals to be nationalized and used for 

 the purpose of consultative, operative and therapeutic work at the 

 request of and in conjunction with the patient's own physician; (6) 

 the Services of the state physicians to be open to €very one, rieh 

 or poor; (7) the state medical service to be administered by a 

 board of health under a minister of public health with cabinet rank, 

 assisted by expert medical advisers. This movement was started 

 before the insurance act was passed and is quite independent of the 

 present impasse. It is intended that the work of the association 

 shall form a brauch of sociologic science, and membership will 

 be open to all prominent sociologists, whether lay or medical. 



