28  Approved  Proprietary  Preparations.    { A  j^Xy,Pi908m' 
and  with  the  midnight  oil  of  the  library.  A  stronger  Junior  comes 
along  and  the  success  of  the  other  is  challenged ;  it  fades  and  the 
struggle  for  its  continuance  leads  the  fading  power  to  grasp  at  the 
many  "  will-o'  the-wisp,"  political,  social,  religious,  lodge  and  other 
vicarious  methods  of  support.  Such  are  among  the  men  who  are 
the  nostrum  prescribers  of  the  profession.  Had  they  pored  over 
their  labors  and  planned  therapeutic  campaigns  on  proper  lines  and 
not  by  slipshod  methods,  their  success  would  never  have  been 
threatened;  snap  diagnosis  and  snap  therapeutics  would  not  have 
been  of  their  stock  in  trade. 
The  profession  ought  to  know  that  the  public  are  wiser  than  they 
realize,  and  that  some  day  the  worm  may  turn  and  pour  its  vials  of 
wrath  upon  the  irresponsible  and  reckless,  who  without  conscience, 
empty  ad  nauseam  vial  upon  vial  of  unknown  ingredients  down 
credulous  throats.  It  is  to  save  us  from  this  fate  that  the  altruistic 
of  our  profession,  Simmons,  Billings,  Cohen,— Professor  Remington 
and  Wilbert,  and  his  colleagues  are  laboring.  Let  us  bid  them  God 
speed  in  their  efforts,  and  take  heed. 
Let  me  venture  one  prediction: — if  pharmacists  and  physicians 
alike  do  not  have  a  care,  the  day  will  come  when  pharmaco-therapy 
somewhat  effaced  at  present  will,  if  it  has  not  already,  give  way  to 
physiologic  and  psychic  therapeutics. 
Finally,  it  can  never  be  said  better  than  it  was  said  by  Emerson  : 
"  what  a  man  does  unto  others,  he  does  unto  himself.  If  he  does 
not  play  fair  with  others,  he  plays  false  to  himself." 
PROPRIETARY  PREPARATIONS  APPROVED  BY  THE 
COUNCIL  ON  PHARMACY  AND  CHEMISTRY  OF  THE 
AMERICAN  MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
{Continued  from  page  432,  Vol.  79.) 
GUAJASANOL. — DIETHYLGLYCOCOLL-GUAIACOL  HYDROCHLORIDE. 
Guajasanol,  C6H4(OCH3).(CH2N  (C2H5)2.COO).HCl  =  C13H]9N03 
HC1,  is  the  hydrochloride  of  diethylglycocoll-guaiacol. 
Actions  and  Uses. — It  is  antiseptic  and  anesthetic.  It  is  readily 
absorbed  and  splits  off  guaiacol  in  the  organism  with  marked  facility. 
Its  antiseptic  power  is  said  to  be  about  equivalent  to  that  of  boric 
