128  Progress  in  Pharmacy.  ( AmMSS*.iw7.rm 
Council,  held  at  Washington,  D.  C,  December  13th  to  15th  inclu- 
sive. 
State  legislation  was  discussed  at  some  length  and  the  represen- 
tatives of  the  several  State  Medical  Associations  who  were  present 
expressed  themselves  in  no  uncertain  way  as  being  in  favor  of  the 
individual  States  endorsing  the  Federal  Food  and  Drugs  Act. 
The  proceedings  of  this  conference  have  been  published  in 
pamphlet  form,  comprising  sixty-eight  pages  of  closely  printed 
material.  This  pamphlet  contains  much  that  is  of  interest  to  phar- 
macists, and  may  be  obtained  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Bureau  of 
Medical  Legislation  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  103  Dear- 
born Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 
The  available  literature  on  pure  food  and  drug  legislation  is 
rapidly  assuming  huge  proportions.  In  addition  to  the  liberal  space 
that  is  devoted  to  the  question  in  the  current  numbers  of  pharma- 
ceutical journals,  a  number  of  reprints  of  material  of  this  kind 
have  appeared.  Not  the  least  interesting  of  these  reprints  is  a 
pamphlet  of  sixty-four  pages  entitled  : — 
The  Food  and  Drug  Act  as  it  relates  to  drugs,  examined  and 
explained  in  connection  with-  the  rules  and  regulations  for  its 
enforcement.  This  pamphlet  is  published  by  the  National  Druggist, 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  contains  in  addition  to  the  law  itself  and  the 
regulations  pertaining  to  it,  a  number  of  interesting  decisions  and 
much  additional  material  bearing  more  or  less  directly  on  the 
proper  interpretation  of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act. 
Digest  of  National  Food  and  Drugs  Act  and  Regulations,  by 
Mahlon  N.  Kline,  is  the  title  of  a  pamphlet  containing  upwards  of 
seventy-two  pages  that  has  recently  been  sent  out  with  the  com- 
pliments of  the  Smith,  Kline,  French  Company,  Philadelphia.  In 
addition  to  a  transcript  of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  and  of  the 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  enforcement  of  the  same,  this  pam- 
phlet also  contains  a  number  of  additional  opinions,  replies  and 
explanations  that  have  been  published  from  time  to  time  ;  also  a 
legal  exposition  of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act  by  George  L.  Douglas, 
attorney  for  the  Proprietary  Association  of  America  ;  extracts  from 
the  recently  published  "Standard  of  Parity  for  Food  Products," 
and  much  additional  information  of  interest  to  retail  pharmacists. 
The  Ladies'  Home  Journal  Bill,  or  a  corresponding  measure  to 
regulate  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  so-called  patent  medicines,  has 
