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backed  by  the  power  and  force  of  a  State,  should  be  of  great  value 
in  informing  and  educating  the  people  to  the  evil  effects  of  nostrum 
medication.  The  leaven  is  working  and  it  is  only  a  question  of 
time  when  work  of  this  sort  will  be  reenforced  with  cooperation 
by  the  daily  newspapers. 
For  obvious  reasons  the  newspapers  are  silent  on  these  matters 
now.  But  they  will,  in  due  course,  learn  that  the  advocacy  of 
measures  designed  for  the  public  welfare  must  eventually  rebound 
to  their  welfare  and  credit. 
Publicity  of  the  sort  that  only  the  daily  newspaper  can  give  is 
needed  before  the  great  mass  of  the  people  is  reached  on  this  vital 
question  of  public  health. 
Of  the  score  or  more  of  remedies  examined  we  give  brief  ab- 
stracts of  the  following: 
Schenk's  Pulmonic  Syrup. — "  The  70-year-old  Standard  Remedy 
for  Consumption,  Coughs.  Colds.  Diseases  of  the  Lungs  and  Respira- 
tory Organs.'''  This  remarkable  remedy  for  consumption,  upon 
analysis,  was  shown  to  be  a  wintergreen-flavored  mixture  of 
saccharine  syrups.  96.4  per  cent,  of  the  solids  consisting  of  sugars. 
The  following  is  a  summary  of  the  analysis : 
Specific  gravity  at  15. 50  C   1.3861 
Alcohol   none 
Glycerine   none 
Solids    75.59 
Sucrose    34-49 
Invert  sugar    38.40 
Ash    0.08 
Oil  of  wintergreen    present 
Alkaloids    none 
Syrup  of  Figs. — This  proprietary  medicine  has  been  on  the 
market  for  a  number  of  years.  Formerly  it  was  sold  under  the  name 
Syrup  of  Figs,  recently  though  man}-  of  the  labels  note  the  presence 
of  Elixir  of  Senna,  which  is  generally  the  real  laxative.  The  reason 
for  this  change  is  apparent  from  the  following  extract  from  the 
opinion  of  the  U.  S.  Court  in  the  case.  Warden  v.  California  Fig 
Syrup  Co..  187  U.  S..  516..  536: 
"  The  argument  for  complainant  is  that,  because  fig  juice  or  syrup 
has  no  laxative  property,  even-body  ought  to  understand  that  when 
the  term  is  used  to  designate  a  laxative  medicine  it  must  have  only 
a  fanciful  meaning.    But  the  fact  is  admitted  that  the  public  believe 
