A  jaSaryfi907m  }     Work  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy.  27 
three  sub-committees:  Committee  "A,"  consisting  of  five  members, 
being  a  Committee  on  Pharmacy,  and  to  these  were  referred  all 
purely  pharmaceutical  preparations  for  special  report  when  necessary; 
Committee  "  B,"  being  a  Committee  on  Chemistry,  consisting  of 
five  members,  to  whom  were  referred  all  questions  of  chemical  anal- 
yses and  chemical  composition,  and  the  verifying  of  properties  of 
synthetics  and  other  chemical  compounds ;  and  Committee  "  C," 
consisting  of  five  members,  all  of  whom  were  medical  men,  a  Com- 
mittee on  Pharmacology,  and  to  these  have  been  referred  all  ques- 
tions as  to  the  nature  of  drugs,  and  the  therapeutic  actions  of  the 
various  preparations  which  have  been  brought  to  us. 
Circulars  were  prepared,  which  were  sent  out  to  all  prominent 
American  pharmaceutical  manufacturers,  as  well  as  to  the  agents  of 
the  German  synthetics  and  chemical  preparations,  and  publicity 
was  given  to  this  circular  also  by  sending  it  to  most  of  the  promi- 
nent medical  and  pharmaceutical  journals.  In  this  circular  a  number 
of  rules  governing  the  admission  of  articles  to  the  book  "  New  and 
Non-Official  Remedies,"  and  explanatory  comments  upon  the  same, 
were  published.  In  addition  to  this,  representatives  of  a  number  of 
the  most  prominent  American  manufacturing  houses  met  the  Council 
in  conference  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  September,  1905,  and  in  that 
way  the  ground  was  laid  for  active  cooperation. 
The  result  is  that  the  Committee  has  had  to  date  some  600  or 
700  individual  articles  brought  to  its  attention,  in  all  cases  accom- 
panied by  samples  and  whatever  literature  had  been  published  in 
connection  with  them.  Forms  of  labels  and  circulars  were  also 
submitted  to  the  Council,  to  allow  them  to  judge  as  to  whether  the 
rules  which  had  been  sent  out  were  being  complied  with,  so  as  to 
justify  the  admission  of  these  articles  to  the  proposed  book.  It  can 
readily  be  seen  that  a  vast  amount  of  work  was  involved  in  the  study 
of  these  many  preparations,  and  the  sifting  of  testimony  with  regard 
to  them. 
A  weekly  bulletin  has  been  sent  out  almost  since  the  organization 
of  the  Council,  which  at  times  covers  a  dozen  or  more  pages,  and 
the  votes  of  the  Council  are  asked  for  each  week,  upon  a  long  list 
of  reports  from  sub-committees  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Council. 
The  first  effect  of  the  examinations  made  by  the  members  of  the 
Council  was  in  the  pruning  of  the  advertising  pages  of  the  Journal  of 
the  American  Medical  Association,  and  it  is  believed  that  for  months 
