This is simply one illustration of the fact noted above. Some physicians have been and are prescribing nostrums originated, manufactured and advertised by laymen who are not in the legitimate pharmacy business. In addition, such physicians have been accepting the statements of laymen, not only as to the composition of the nostrums, but as to their use. In every state the practice of pharmacy is regulated by law: before assuming the responsibility of compounding medicines a druggist must have studied and passed an examination in pharmacy. Public safety demands and the law requires it. There are some doctors, however, who will allow laymen who are not chemists, pharmacists or physicians to formulate and compound a prescription and tell them what it is good for and how to use it. The Dios Chemical Company is not an isolated instance: we have already referred to some; we shall take occasion to refer to others in the future. That such concerns flourish is a reflection not so much on the shrewd laymen who exploit the medical profession--and through it the public--as it is on the physicians who cast their scientific training to the winds and permit themselves to be thus exploited.]--(_From The Journal A. M. A., Jan. 9, 1915._) OXYCHLORINE Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The following report on Oxychlorine has been submitted to the Council by the subcommittee to which it was assigned: _To the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry_:--Your subcommittee submits the following report: The Oxychlorine Chemical Company, 1326 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, states in its advertising literature that: “Chemically, Oxychlorine is the tetraborate of sodium and potassium combined with oxychlorid of boron, thus: 6 (NaKB_{4}O_{7}) BOCl_{3}.” Analysis of Oxychlorine showed: Potassium 12.26 per cent. Sodium 8.20 per cent. Chloric acid--CLO_{3} 25.32 per cent. Nitric acid--NO_{3} 21.70 per cent. Boric acid anhydrid--B_{2}O_{3} 18.63 per cent. Water, calculated 13.29 per cent. Thus, Oxychlorine is not a definite chemical substance of the composition claimed, but instead is a mixture of alkali chlorate and nitrate with boric acid. Assuming that the chlorate is present as potassium chlorate and the nitrate as sodium nitrate, the analysis above quoted corresponds to a mixture approximately as follows: Potassium chlorat 37.19 Sodium nitrate 29.76 Sodium and potassium tetraborate 2.18 Boric acid 30.52 Undetermined 0.35 ------ 100.00 Your committee recommends that Oxychlorine be not approved and that this report be published.