Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1895. 
Editorial. 
in 
ANTIKAMNIA. 
"  FORMULA." 
"  A  combination  of  coal  tar  derivatives  of  the  series  CQ  Hon_6,  into  which  the  amines  have 
entered,  forming  the  various  amido-compounds.  Antikamnia  has  as  its  base  the  derivatives 
of  the  amido-benzoles,  so  combined  as  to  obviate  the  bad  effects  caused  b\-  many  of  this  series 
of  organic  bodies  when  administered  alone." 
CAMPHO-LYPTUS. 
"composition." 
"  IJucaiyptol,  Campho-Thymic  Acid,  Hydrous  Chloral." 
No  possible  good  can  result  from  publishing  such  formulas  as  these.  They 
are  simply  ridiculous,  and  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association, 
by  admitting  them,  lays  itself  open  to  the  possibility  of  being  considered  the 
most  "  gullible  "  medical  journal  on  the  face  of  the  earth. 
There  is  no  secret  about  the  faculty  necessary  to  decide  what  should  be 
admitted.  We  could  name  a  dozen  members  of  the  medical  profession  who 
possess  that  inborn  knowledge  that  would  enable  them  to  decide  almost  in  a 
moment  on  the  admissibility  of  an  advertisement.  The  result,  however,  would 
be  such  a  "  clean  sweep  "  in  the  advertising  pages  of  the  Association's  Journal 
as  to  be  apparent  to  the  most  casual  reader. 
There  is  another  lesson  to  be  derived  from  these  so-called  formulas.  We 
have  heard  a  great  deal  in  the  past  few  years  about  legislation  to  control  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  patent  medicines,  and  nearly  all  of  the  suggestions  are 
based  on  the  publication  of  the  formula  on  the  label.  But  the  experience  of 
the  American  Medical  Association  shows  us  that  it  will  be  necessary  to  define 
what  shall  constitute  a  formula. 
ALCOHOL  LEGISLATION. 
There  are  many  ways  of  viewing  almost  every  subject,  and  alcohol  legislation 
is  not  an  exception.  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  has  endorsed  rec- 
ommendations to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  asking  for  the  enforcement  of 
the  present  law,  as  it  is  believed  it  would  be  to  the  advantage  of  the  pharma- 
cist. The  Chicago  Retail  Druggists"  Association,  however,  takes  a  different 
view  of  the  subject,  and  has  sent  the  following  resolutions  to  many  State  Asso- 
ciations asking  for  their  adoption: 
Resolved,  That  this  association  favors  the  repeal  of  the  clause  in  the  present 
tariff  law  exempting  alcohol  used  in  manufactures  from  internal  revenue 
taxation,  on  the  ground  primarily  that  the  law  in  its  present  form  would  inevi- 
tably be  attended  with  gross  discrimination  against  the  retail  druggist,  and 
great  resulting  loss  to  his  business  and  profession,  and  with  no  material  advant- 
age to  the  people  to  compensate  for  the  serious  loss  to  the  national  revenue 
from  the  remission  of  the  said  tax. 
Resolved,  That  a  special  Committee  on  National  Legislation,  to  consist  of 
three  members,  be  appointed  with  authority  to  act  independently,  or  in  co-op- 
eration with  such  similar  committees  as  may  be  appointed  b}'  other  pharma- 
ceutical associations,  in  behalf  of  measures  promotive  of  the  interests  of  legiti- 
mate pharmacy  and  the  retail  drug  trade  as  said  interests  may  be  affected  by 
national  legislation,  including  specifically  the  said  law  relating  to  alcohol  taxa- 
tion, the  laws  concerning  trade-marks,  copyrights  and  patents  as  related  to 
medicinal  preparations,  and  the  law  imposing  an  annual  tax  on  druggists  as 
retail  liquor  dealers. 
