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Court, based on the Sherley Amendment, may be mentioned: Dr. 

 Williams Pink Pills, Eckman's Alterative, Nuxcara, Oxidase Tablets, 

 Dr. J. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm, Cummings Blood Remedy, 

 Urol, The Great Magic Condition Powders, Dr. W. H. Baker's Tuber- 

 culous Remedy, Payne's Sylax, Kite's Pain Remedy and Cough Syrup, 

 White Pine Expectorant and White Pine Balsam, Dr. Bell's Pine Tar 

 Honey, Clay's Sure Cure. Lung Germine and hundreds of others that 

 might be mentioned. 



The Kansas State Drug Laboratory has examined and reported to the 

 State Board of Health, during the past decade, 6,000 drugs, official medic- 

 inal and proprietary preparations, oils, coffee and spices. It has done 

 cooperative work for the American Association of Agricultural Chemists 

 on opium preparations, pepsin, coffee, spices and insecticides. It has 

 done research work on various tests and quantitative methods. It has 

 been called upon by residents of the state, and to some extent other 

 states, for assistance on chemical, pharmaceutical and toxicological prob- 

 lems. To illustrate, the Laboratory has on hand for investigation, besides 

 eight official samples, one sample of a so-called raticide that a citizen of 

 the state suspects not to be as claimed by the manufacturer; a prescription 

 to examine for harmful drugs; a sample of crude petroleum for general 

 analysis and a sample of candy for presence of poison. 



The effectiveness of the food and drugs law administration is evident 

 from the fact that many abuses occurring in the food and drugs industries 

 during the first few years of its existence have ceased. This has been 

 noticeable in both Federal and state inspection work. A decade ago the 

 drug stores of the state of Kansas, as shown by the specimens of drugs 

 sent in to the drug laboratory for analysis, were in a rather deplorable 

 condition. To-day our drug stores rank among the best. While misbrand- 

 ing and adulteration probably will never wholly cease (carelessness and 

 dishonesty will always be with us), the never ceasing vigilance of govern- 

 ment inspection will prevent drifting back to former conditions. 



A Plague of Cholera Infantum at Nett Lake, Minnesota, in the 



Fall of 1913. 



ALBKRT B. KKA'i.W. 



Nett Lake, Minnesota, a shallow body of water, is a wild rice field in 

 summer. In the early summer of 1913 it was at its normal level, and 

 the rice rose above the water like a great oat field, and waved to and 

 fro in the breeze till it had bloomed and begun to mature. Then there 

 were exceeding heavy rains and the lake filled till the rice was entirely 

 submerged and staid so several days. The water in the lake then re- 

 turned to its normal level. Then as soon as the rice was matured the 

 Indians returned from their picking berries in the surrounding neighbor- 

 hoods and went to gathering rice. In this they rowed through the rice 

 fields and pounded the rice off of the stalks into their canoes with clubs by 

 a beating process as they rowed about here and there. When the canoe 



