288  Progress  in  Pharmacy.  { Am jane?i908arm' 
and  Drugs  Act.  With  Mr.  Harper  a  number  of  other  manufacturers 
have  thought  it  wise,  or  at  least  expedient,  to  eliminate  the  word 
cure  from  labels  on  medicinal  preparations. 
Limitatiofis  of  the  Guarantee. — There  is  such  a  widespread  misunder- 
standing as  to  the  use  or  the  limitation  of  the  guarantee  label,  that  the 
following  definite  statement  contained  in  the  "  Circular  of  Informa- 
tion to  the  Drug  Trade,"  published  by  the  Indiana  State  Board  of 
Health,  will  perhaps  serve  to  awaken  pharmacists  to  a  realization  of 
their  duty  and  responsibility  in  connection  with  pure  drugs. 
"  The  guarantee  is  a  protection  against  prosecution  only  in  case  of 
goods  in  original  packages  ;  but  as  soon  as  the  box  is  opened,  stopper 
drawn  or  seal  detached,  the  guarantee  ceases  and  all  responsibility 
for  the  character  of  the  goods  passes  from  the  manufacturer  or  jobber 
to  the  retailer.  It  is,  therefore,  useless  to  ask  for  a  guarantee  for 
use  on  broken  packages." 
Definition  for  Proprietary  or  Patent  Medicine. — The  Patent  Medicine 
Bill  recently  introduced  into  the  Canadian  House  of  Commons  by 
the  Hon.  William  Templeman  contains  the  following  definition: 
"  Proprietary  or  Patent  Medicine  means  every  artificial  remedy  or 
prescription  manufactured  for  the  internal  use  of  man,  the  name, 
composition,  or  definition  of  which  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  British 
Pharmacopoeia,  the  Codex  Medicamentarius  of  France,  the  Pharma- 
copoeia of  the  United  States,  or  any  foreign  Pharmacopoeia  approved 
by  the  Minister  or  any  formulary  adopted  by  any  properly  consti- 
tuted pharmaceutical  association  approved  by  the  Minister,  or  upon 
which  is  not  printed  in  conspicuous  manner  and  forming  an  insepar- 
able part  of  the  label  or  wrapper  the  true  formula  or  list  of  ingredi- 
ents."   [Chem.  and  Drug.,  May,  1908,  page  663.) 
Tue  Propaganda  for  Publicity  and  Truth. — What  has  become  known 
as  the  U.S.P.  and  N.F.  propaganda  has  been  variously  accused  as 
having  degenerated  into  a  poorly  veiled  attempt  to  substitute  indif- 
ferently made  imitations  of  nostrums  for  the  nostrums  themselves. 
While  this  assertion  is  far  from  being  accepted  as  true,  there  can  be 
no  gainsaying  the  fact  that  many  pharmacists,  in  all  parts  of  the 
country,  are  devoting  altogether  too  much  attention  to  the  develop- 
ment of  a  demand  for  complex  fixed  formula  preparations,  and  are 
not  advancing  themselves  as  they  should  in  the  necessary  knowledge 
of  the  science  of  their  calling,  and  rendering  themselves  of  real  use 
and  practical  value  to  the  community  in  which  they  live. 
