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dition  of  wounds,  have  experimented,  on  the  unprecedented  scale 
possible,  with  numerous  new  formulas  and  chemicals.  As  a  result 
medical  practitioners  are  confused  by  the  conflicting  reports  and 
claims  set  up  for  many  new  products,  each  advocated  by  a  sponsor 
as  possessing  superior  antiseptic  properties  and  probably  each  of 
these,  under  the  conditions  applied  by  the  skilled  surgeon,  has  given 
good  results.  The  law  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest  will,  doubtless, 
finally  determine  which  of  these  will  meet  with  continued  favor  and 
extended  use. 
The  duty  of  the  pharmacist  is  to  study  all  of  these  formulas  and 
methods  of  producing  asepsis  as  they  appear  in  the  literature  and 
to  be  prepared  to  intelligently  give  information  thereon  and  like- 
wise to  properly  prepare  and  supply  any  of  the  products.  The 
-present  number  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  presents 
a  journalistic  symposium  on  the  newer  antiseptic  treatments.  The 
purpose  has  been  to  bring  together  all  of  the  salient  features  of  the 
various  contributions  on  this  subject  that  have  appeared  in  the 
medical  and  pharmaceutical  literature,  so  that  the  busy  physician 
and  pharmacist  will  have  in  a  condensed  form  the  authoritative  in- 
formation on  the  subject. 
For  other  important  articles  on  the  Carrel-Dakin  Solution  the 
reader  is  referred  to  February,  1917,  number,  page  84,  and  to  the 
September,'  191 7,  number,  page  396,  and  to  a  note  on  the  prepara- 
tion of  dichloramin-T  in  September,  191 7,  number,  page  419,  and 
to  the  abstracts  in  the  present  number.  From  time  to  time,  addi- 
tional information  will  be  supplied  in  these  pages. 
G.  M.  B. 
Proper  Pharmaceutical  Service  a  Military  Necessity. 
Modern  warfare  has  demonstrated  that  superiority  of  brute 
force  alone  is  not  sufficient  to  determine  victory.  Ingenuity  and  the 
intelligent  and  energetic  application  of  every  resource  at  the  com- 
mand of  the  nation  are  recognized  as  potent  factors  in  determining 
to  which  side  will  fall  the  laurel  of  achievement,  the  glory  of  vic- 
tory. There  are  many  ways  of  rendering  war  service  to  the  nation, 
other  than  fighting,  and  everything  that  tends  to  the  health,  comfort 
and  efficiency  of  the  men  in  arms  is  a  direct  benefit  to  the  nation 
and  an  aid  to  early  victory  and  that  world  peace  that  we  pray  will 
follow  this  world  war. 
To  conserve  the  health  of  the  soldiers  and  to  recuperate  the  sick 
