^ctobS.^wo"1'}       Professor  Charles  F.  Chandler  497 
tionable  products  of  many  kinds  on  our  inhabitants,  so  as  to  make 
money,  cost  what  it  might  in  the  health  of  those  who  consumed 
them.  The  consumer's  purse  they  are  interested  in,  but  not  his 
health.  The  organization  of  the  national  Bureau  of  Health,  with 
its  strict  enforcement  of  the  Pure  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  and  its 
sure  tendency  to  further  protect  by  legislation  the  health  of  our 
people,  is  a  dread  spectre  to  such  exploiters  of  the  public,  and,  of 
course,  they  want  to  lay  it  if  possible. 
The  League  for  Medical  Freedom  has  a  rallying  cry.  It  is  that 
the  doctors  are  trying  to  create  a  medical  monopoly — a  doctor's 
trust.  They  insist  that  the  Owen  bill  is  due  to  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association.  As  a  matter  of  fact  the  bill  emanates  from  the 
Senator  from  Oklahoma  himself,  and  the  movement  for  a  national 
department  of  health  has  been  organized,  not  by  the  American 
Medical  Association,  but  by  the  Committee  of  One  Hundred  of  the 
American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science.  This 
organization,  as  is  well  known,  consists  not  of  physicians,  but  of 
the  united  scientists  of  the  country,  and  only  a  very  small  propor- 
tion of  physicians  are  in  the  membership.  The  Committee  of  One 
Hundred  contains  the  names  of  many  of  the  representative  thinking 
citizens  of  this  country.  They  come  from  all  over  the  country.  It 
is  absolutely  absurd  to  talk  about  such  men  as  organizing  a  medi- 
cal trust.  Practitioners  of  all  the  different  cults  in  medicine  are 
agreed  that  a  national  department  of  health  would  be  a  good  thing, 
and  cannot  possibly  interfere  with  present  State  laws  as  to  medical 
practice.  This  organization  of  opposition  should  of  itself  be  a 
strong  argument  for  the  Owen  bill.  We  have  the  Organization  of 
Ill-Health  for  commercial  reasons.  Let  us  recognize  and  appre- 
ciate at  their  true  value  exactly  the  elements  that  are  engaged  in  it. 
— The  Independent;  reprinted  from  Science,  July  15,  1910,  pp. 
84,  85. 
PROFESSOR  CHARLES  F.  CHANDLER. 
Professor  Chandler,  who  has  been  the  Professor  of  Chemistry 
in  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York  since  1866, 
delivered  a  farewell  address  to  the  members  of  that  college  on  Tues- 
day evening,  March  15,  1910,  and  at  a  testimonial  dinner  tendered 
to  Professor  Chandler  by  the  officers,  trustees,  faculty,  and  members, 
