The ultimate fate of this article, which perished along with several associated ventures, did not prove a deterrent to another and still more glaring fraud of a similar character which has been advertised during the past year, _i. e._ a brand of coffee called “Digesto Coffee” which claims to be as harmless as the well-known cereal substitutes for this agreeable beverage by virtue of the fact that the poisonous (?) caffeine and poisonous (?) tannic acid have both been removed. I need scarcely say that such claims are without the slightest foundation in fact, and an analysis recently made by me of the contents of a package of the article showed a slightly higher percentage of caffeine than the average in coffee, and no perceptible diminution in the amount of tannic acid. I refer to both of these instances specifically, as under all previous laws it was impossible to proceed against either of these firms, while under the new law they are both amenable to the section on misbranding. As regards the subject of drugs, the work of Samuel Hopkins Adams in _Collier’s Magazine_, together with the assistance of Mr. Bok in the _Ladies’ Home Journal_, is too well-known to require repetition, and yet I fear that the force of these arguments is lost upon many persons who look upon them as the fulminations of yellow journalism. Nothing could be further from the truth. The half has never been told and the real truth will probably never be known by the public concerning the numerous changes which have been made in many well-known preparations which must now declare the presence of certain constituents which are enumerated in the body of the law. Among the better known of these substances may be mentioned alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, chloroform, chloral hydrate, cannabis indica and acetanilide. Many proprietors of nostrums which have been entirely dependent upon their alcoholic strength for their medicinal and remedial effect, have changed the formulas so as to be less liable to criticism, still retaining enough of the original features, however, to make them objectionable to those who see through the subterfuge. The number of persons in the community who are really able to judge such preparations is wofully small and it will require a constant campaign of education for many years to bring the every-day consumer of preparations of this class to a sense of his personal responsibility in such matters. Even the medical profession has suffered by this gigantic bunco game.