Whenever a new substance is identified by the research of chemists, whenever a new force is developed through the investigations of the physicists, whenever a philosopher propounds some new concept in the field of thought or mental activity, an inspired charlatan or promoter is likely to seize on the substance, the device or the idea and exploit it for the cure of disease as a means of personal gain. The history of medicine is replete with records to substantiate this statement. Gold cures, electric cures, magnetic cures, radium cures, and cures by all sorts of means of reenforcing the power of suggestion, have been collected by the hundreds and their names carefully indexed in the files of the Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association.
Not many years have passed since the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, basing its decision on the then available evidence, admitted to New and