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be  a  single  county  in  the  State  that  will  not  offer  high-school  privi- 
leges. There  is  no  reason  in  the  world  why  the  educational  standard 
should  be  kept  low  on  account  of  high-school  privileges  in  rural 
districts  in  Kansas. 
I  have  noticed  with  regret  the  reflections  which  have  been  cast 
upon  Kansas  from  the  fact  of  her  having  been  classified  as  above 
stated,  and  as  a  loyal  Kansan  I  wish  to  enter  my  protest  against 
any  such  reflections.  We  are  endeavoring  here  to  raise  the  standard 
of  education  as  rapidly  as  possible,  and  if  we  should  not  do  this  we 
certainly  should  not  offer  the  excuse  of  the  lack  of  high-school 
privileges  of  the  State. 
L.  E.  Sayre. 
University  of  Kansas,  March  13,  1907. 
AMERICAN  MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
REPORT  OF  THE  COUNCIL  ON  PHARMACY  AND  CHEMISTRY. 
We  reprint  herewith  from  The  Journal  of  the  American  Medical 
Association  an  installment  of  the  report  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy 
and  Chemistry.  A  list  of  the  new  and  non-official  remedies  tentatively 
approved  by  the  Council  was  published  in  the  February  number  of 
this  Journal  (p.  67).  The  first  installment  of  the  descriptions  of 
the  remedies  appeared  in  the  March  number  (p.  1 12),  and  additional 
installments  on  some  of  them  will  appear  from  time  to  time. 
The  importance  of  these  reports  is  too  evident  to  need  comment. 
For  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  organized  profession,  a  scien- 
tific commission,  whose  ability  and  probity  is  above  suspicion,  has 
reported  on  preparations  regarding  which  heretofore  we  have  had 
only  the  report  of  those  interested,  financially  and  otherwise,  in 
their  exploitation. 
ACETOZONE. 
A  mixture  of  equal  parts  of  benzoylacetyl  peroxide  and  an  inert 
absorbent  powder. 
Actions  and  Uses. — Benzoylacetyl  peroxide  belongs  to  a  class  of 
compounds  known  as  the  organic  peroxides  in  which  an  excess  of 
oxygen  has  been  combined  in  such  a  way  that  it  is  somewhat  slowly 
given  off  in  a  nascent  condition.  On  contact  with  water  it  hydro- 
lyzes,  forming  benzo-peracid  and  aceto-peracid  which  exert  marked 
