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a  number  of  such  mixtures  are  still  being  offered  by  manufacturers 
or  retail  pharmacists  and  are  used  by  physicians. 
The  Council  has  investigated  a  number  of  preparations  of  this 
type  and  has  invariably  found  them  to  be  practically  inert  in  at  least 
some  of  the  claims  made  for  them.  Having  demonstrated  that  pep- 
sin and  pancreatin  cannot  exist  in  one  and  the  same  solution  for 
any  reasonable  length  of  time  and  that  preparations  that  are  said  to 
contain  these  two  ferments  are  sold  under  impossible  claims,  the 
Council  recommends : 
(1)  That  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  refuse  to  ap- 
prove liquid  preparations  that  are  claimed  to  contain  both  pepsin 
and  pancreatin. 
(2)  That  the  medical  profession  through  the  Journal  of  the 
American  Medical  Association  be  advised  of  the  fallacy  of  employing 
such  combinations. 
(3)  That  the  attention  of  manufacturers  be  called  to  the  worthless- 
ness  of  such  incompatible  liquid  preparations  of  pepsin  and  pan- 
creatin and  that  they  be  urged  to  cease  offering  such  products  to 
the  profession. 
(4)  That  since  the  National  Formulary  has  recognized  a  prepa- 
ration of  this  kind  under  the  title  "  Elixir  Digestivum  Compositum  '» 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  be  requested  to  instruct 
its  committee  on  the  National  Formulary  to  omit  this  preparation 
from  the  next  edition. 
Acetanilid  Mixtures. — The  mixtures  of  acetanilid  and  other  ingre- 
dients that  formerly  were  exploited  as  definite  chemical  compounds 
are  now  being  marketed  as  mixtures,  and,  in  some  cases  at  least, 
have  had  their  composition  changed  so  as  to  be  totally  unrecog- 
nizable. 
Antikamnia,  under  the  regulations  of  the  Pure  Food  and  Drugs 
Act,  is  being  marketed  as  a  mixture  containing  350  grains  of  acet- 
phenetidin  in  each  ounce.  Pharmacists  who  are  in  the  habit  of 
filling  prescriptions  for  physicians  calling  for  "  antikamnia  "  in  solu- 
tion will  now  experience  the  additional  difficulty  of  being  obliged 
to  explain  why  the  new  antikamnia  differs  from  the  old  in  its  phys- 
ical properties. 
Ammonol. — This  preparation  is  said  to  be  Ammoniumphenyl- 
acetamid  on  one  portion  of  its  label  and  directly  under  it  is  said  to 
contain  240  grains  of  paracetyl-phenetidin  in  each  ounce. 
