If Dioviburnia will cure specific vaginitis, anemia, etc., so will a cobblestone make excellent soup. All that is necessary in the former case is to add certain potent drugs that might be indicated in the pathologic conditions mentioned and, in the latter case, to combine suitable amounts of beef, chicken, green turtle or vegetables, with herbs and other seasoning. Germiletum Germiletum is a member of the large class of alkaline antiseptic solutions with excessively complex formulas. In this case not only is the formula complex but also the Dios Chemical Company finds it impossible even to assign a constant composition to it--at least the “formulas” which appear on the different styles of Germiletum labels and advertising circulars vary greatly. The company says: “We appeal only to the Doctor’s judgment of his estimation of the formula.” “Doctor you will readily determine from the formula the class of cases in which you have a right to expect satisfactory results.” Yet the “formulas” given present so great a variety and such confusion that it is not clear even to a chemist just what the Dios Company wants the medical profession to regard as the composition of Germiletum. The following statements of “composition” have appeared at various times: 1. In an advertising circular sent out some time ago: “[HBF_{4} + BOH (OC_{6}H_{4}COOH)_{2} + BOH (OC_{6}H_{3}COOH)_{2} + C_{3}H_{5}BO_{3} + CH_{2}O + C_{10}H_{14}O + C_{10}H_{20}O + C_{24}H_{28}N_{3}Cl.]” 2. In advertising circulars which have been received of late, being wrapped with a sample package and with the “large size” trade package: “[C_{7}H_{6}O_{2} + H_{3}BO_{3} + C_{3}H_{5}BO_{3} + (CH_{2}O)_{3} + C_{10}H_{20}O + C_{10}H_{14}O + C_{2}H_{6}O]” 3. In another advertising circular: “Germiletum is a slightly alkaline chemical solution of Borohydrofluoric Acid, Borosalylbenzoic Acid, Boroglycerine, Formaldehyde with Menthol, Thymol and Antiseptic Aromatics.” 4. On the label of a sample package sent through the mails during 1914, and on the label of a “small size” trade package purchased in 1914: “FORMULA.--Borohydrofluoric Acid, Borosalylbenzoic Acid, Boroglycerine, Formaldehyde with Menthol, Thymol, Amyl Acetate and other Antiseptic Aromatics.” 5. In the circular which was wrapped around the sample package referred to above, and around the “large size” trade package purchased at the same time that the “small size” package was bought: “Germiletum is a slightly alkaline chemical solution of Borobenzoic Acid, Boroglycerine Formaldehyde, with Menthol, Thymol and other Antiseptec [_sic_] Aromatics.” 6. On the sample package, on the “small size” trade package and on the wrappers of the “large size” trade package: “Alcohol 18 per cent.; Formalin 3/4 M. per oz.; Amyl Acetate 1/3 M. per oz.” (also written “Acetate Amyl.”)