This volume contains several reports of rejection, the forthright and vigorous language of which reveals the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry in its capacity of champion for honesty, decency and rationality in medicine. The concise and fearless exposure of the several preparations dealt with in the report "Drugs for Obesity" recalls the effectiveness of the early articles in "Propaganda for Reform" which, under the direction of Dr. Arthur Cramp, castigated the quackeries of those days. The reports on pyogen,® "containing ineffective dilutions of well known anti-infective agents," on ointments containing estrogens, promoted for use in cosmetics, and allergasol,® an ingeniously promoted preparation of epinephrine, are equally effective and emphasize that there is still a job to be done in protecting physicians and the public.
Two of the reports deal with the work of the Council's Therapeutic Trials Committee, one giving basic information on the Committee's work of encouraging and supporting