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surprising  indeed  if  the  annual  crop  of  formula  bills  did  not  exceed 
all  previous  records  and  if  some  of  them,- at  least,  were  not  enacted 
into  laws. 
The  sale  of  intoxicating  proprietaries  is  being  rapidly  restricted 
under  existing  laws,  and  it  is  quite  probable  that  after  April  the  1st, 
when  the  previously  announced  ruling  of  the  Commissioner  of  Inter- 
nal Revenue,  Mr.  Yerkes,  finally  goes  into  effect,  many  if  not 
all  of  the  States  will  have  made  provision  for  further  restricting 
the  sale  of  such  preparations.  The  liquor  license  laws  of  a  number 
of  States  will  probably  require  that  pharmacists  who  desire  to  sell 
proprietary  medicines  that  have  been  classed  as  being  alcoholic, 
must  secure  not  alone  a  United  States  license,  but  also  a  State, 
county  and  city  permit  or  license.  Action  along  these  lines  has 
even  now  been  taken  by  the  States  of  New  York,  Ohio,  Missouri, 
Arkansas  and  Georgia. 
The  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical 
Association  is  attracting  considerable  attention  on  the  part  of  medical 
societies,  in  various  sections  of  the  country.  Quite  a  number  of 
local  or  county  societies  have  endorsed  the  work  that  has  been  out- 
lined for  the  council,  and  have  further  requested  their  individual 
members  to  favor  publicity  and  honesty  in  all  that  pertains  to  medi- 
cines and  medicinal  preparations. 
Ametican  Medicine  for  Honesty  in  Pharmacy . — By  far  the  most 
encouraging  sign  of  the  times  is  the  action  that  was  taken  by  the 
stockholders  of  American  Medicine  at  the  recent  annual  meeting ;  in 
instructing  the  management  of  the  journal  to  adopt,  so  soon  as  pos- 
sible, a  standard  for  advertising  "  as  high  as  that  of  the  Council  on 
Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical  Association," 
and  to  reject  any  and  all  advertising  which  shall  not  come  up  to  the 
adopted  standard.    {Am.  Med.,  February  17th,  page  224.) 
This  action  on  the  part  of  the  stocholders  of  this  particular  jour- 
nal is  all  the  more  important  in  that  every  holder  was  necessarily 
aware  of  the  fact  that  such  action  would  certainly  entail  serious  per- 
sonal loss,  and  might  possibly  involve  the  very  existence  of  the 
journal  itself. 
Prescribing  of  Proprietaries. — From  an  editorial  in  the  American 
Druggist  (February  12,  1906,  page  59)  we  would  be  led  to  believe 
that,  contrary  to  all  reasonable  expectations,  the  crusade  of  the 
American  Medical  Association  against  objectionable  proprietary 
