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manner  of  introducing  and  exploiting  many  of  the  so-called  newer 
remedies. 
.This  work  of  investigation  done  by  the  Institute  is  in  line  with 
the  effort  made  by  the  American  Medical  Association  and  so  fruit- 
fully carried  out  by  its  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  to 
inform  the  physicians  of  this  country  how  they  have  so  successfully 
been  preyed  upon  and  used  by  unscrupulous  manufacturers. 
When  one  reads  of  such  conditions  in  other  countries,  it  is 
apparent  that  credulity  and  gullibility  are  not  confined  to  these 
United  States.  It  must  be  exceedingly  gratifying  to  those  who  are 
hopeful  of  better  things  that  there  are  some  men  who  are  both  able 
and  willing  to  do  the  painstaking  analytical  work  required  to  deter- 
mine the  truth  about  remedies  intended  for  the  sick,  and  tell  the 
truth  about  them  without  fear  or  favor.  It  is  only  by  the  greatest 
possible  publicity,  in  this  as  other  lines  of  work,  that  those  who 
desire  to  profit  "  by  ways  that  are  dark  and  devious,"  can  be  re- 
strained and  curbed  and  made  to  be  honest. 
The  following  abstracts  were  prepared  from  the  annual  publica- 
tion edited  by  Dr.  K.  Thorns,  Director  of  the  Institute. 
An  Adulterated  Acetylparamidosalol. — In  the  Pharmacopceia 
Helvetica  IV,  acetylparamido  phenolum  salicylicum  is  the  scientific 
name  for  salophen.  A  careful  examination  by  Zermik,  of  the 
contents  of  an  original  package  labelled  acetparamidosalol  showed 
it  to  be  a  mixture  of  75  parts  of  the  original  and  25  parts  of 
acetanilid. 
Eulatin. — A  white,  odorless,  slightly  sour-tasting  powder,  which 
the  manufacturers  claim  to  be  a  true  chemical  compound  and 
termed  by  them  amidobrombenzoic  acid  dimethylphenylpyrazolon. 
Friedmann,  in  the  Med.  Klinik,  1908,  states  that  it  is  of  use  in 
whooping-cough,  that  it  promotes  expectoration,  and  diminishes  the 
frequency  and  intensity  of  the  spasm  in  this  disease. 
Zernik  gives  in  detail  his  analysis  of  the  contents  of  an  original 
package  bought  on  the  open  market.  He  found  it  to  be  a  white, 
crystalline  powder  of  a  bitter  taste,  slightly  soluble  in  water  and 
completely  soluble  in  alcohol,  particularly  on  warming.  The  solu- 
tion gave  an  acid  reaction  and  a  clear  violet  fluorescence.  At  750 
eulatin  began  to  liquefy  and  at  1500  it  had  completely  melted.  On 
crystallizing  some  of  the  preparation  from  alcohol,  a  needle-shaped 
crystalline  body  with  a  constant  melting  point  of  251° '-2520  was 
obtained.    This  behavior  signified  to^  him  that  eulatin  must  be  a 
