Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  1 
December,  1908.  j 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
593 
refused  to  articles,  which,  because  of  their  unscientific  composition, 
are  useless  or  inimical  to  the  best  interests  of  the  public  or  of  the 
medical  profession. 
If  these  several  rules  of  the  Council,  as  amended,  are  carefully 
studied  it  will  be  found  that  they  are  designed  to  at  least  counteract, 
if  they  do  not  serve  to  eliminate,  much  of  the  secrecy  and  fraud 
that  has  served  to  bring  discredit  to  American  pharmacy  and  to 
convert  the  average  medical  practitioner  into  an  unpaid  peddler  of 
nostrums. 
The  Council  also  endorsed  the  publication,  in  pamphlet  form,  of 
the  series  of  articles,  which  had  appeared  in  the  Journal  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  entitled :  "  The  Broader  Aims  of 
the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical 
Association."  This  pamphlet,  containing  48  pages  of  material,  is 
now  available  and  should  be  carefully  studied  by  everyone  inter- 
ested in  the  progress  of  medical  sciences  in  America. 
The  Committee  of  One  Hundred  of  the  American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science  has  been  actively  agitating  for  an 
increase  in  the  work  done  by  the  several  Bureaus  devoted  to  the 
promotion  of  the  public  health.  Professor  Irving  Fisher,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  committee  states  {Science,  Nov.  13,  1908,  p.  676)  that 
President  Roosevelt  has  definitely  taken  up  the  program  of  the 
committee  as  part  of  his  administration  policy.  He  intends  to  incor- 
porate the  recommendation  in  his  next  message  to  Congress — that 
the  health  bureaus  of  the  government  be  concentrated  into  a  common 
department,  from  which  the  bureaus  not  consistent  with  health  and 
education  will  be  removed  elsewhere.  This  will  be  the  first  and 
most  important  step  toward  a  powerful  department  whose  special 
interest  will  be  health  and  education. 
The  Mann  Bill. — H.  R.  Bill  No.  21,982,  which  is  designed  to 
regulate  and  in  a  measure  control  interstate  commerce  in  habit- 
forming  and  other  noxious  and  potent  drugs,  has  been  freely  criti- 
cised in  medical  as  well  as  in  drug  journals  during  the  past  three 
or  four  months.  The  same  measure  was  also  vigorously  denounced 
at  the  meeting  of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association,  at 
Atlantic  City  this  year.  While  many  if  not  all  manufacturers  and 
wholesale  dealers  will  admit  that  something  should  be  done  to 
restrict  the  traffic  in  habit-forming  drugs  they  nevertheless  feel  that 
the  provisions  of  this  particular  bill  are  altogether  too  far-reaching 
and  would  tend  to  restrain  and  to  interfere  with  legitimate  trade 
