“It causes a natural flow of bile which checks fermentation, prevents the absorption of toxines and causes the food elements to be emulsified and thus rendered easy of assimilation. All this conduces to a natural movement of the bowels. Digestion is at once improved and the epigastric pain, nervous symptoms and headache disappear.” “Veracolate with Iron, Quinine and Strychnine” is said to be indicated in: “Hepatic Torpor accompanied by Anemia, Chlorosis, Debility, Neurasthenia and Neuroses.” And the physician is asked to believe that it will: “... give gratifying results in all _nervous, anemic_, and ‘run down’ conditions in which the liver function is usually subnormal.” The objections to “Veracolate (plain)” are that it is semi-secret in composition, unscientific in combination and exploited under unwarranted claims. The same criticisms hold with reference to “Veracolate with Pancreatin and Pepsin” and “Veracolate with Iron, Quinine and Strychnine.” These products are discreditable to the medical and pharmaceutical profession alike and their use is against the public good. The Council therefore refused recognition to Veracolate and its preparations.--(_From The Journal A. M. A., April 24, 1915._) HAYDEN’S VIBURNUM COMPOUND[AN] Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry [AN] See also report on Dioviburnia, p. 141, and article on Viburnum Compound and Other Nostrums, p. 409. The following report on Hayden’s Viburnum Compound was prepared by a member of the Council’s Committee on Therapeutics. The Council held the preparation in conflict with its rules and authorized publication of the referee’s report. W. A. Puckner, Secretary. Hayden’s Viburnum Compound, according to the advertising circulars, was first compounded in 1860 by W. R. Hayden. The medical profession is told that W. R. Hayden “... found by his experiments that a combination of the active principles of _Viburnum Opulus, Dioscorea Villosa_, combined with aromatics, proved a valuable remedy for _Spasmodic Dysmenorrhea_.” As in 1860 W. R. Hayden was not a physician (he received a diploma from the Eclectic Medical College, New York, in 1867), and, so far as we can learn, he was not a pharmacist or chemist, one wonders what kind of “experiments” he made. Hayden’s Viburnum Compound is put on the market by the New York Pharmaceutical Company of Bedford Springs, Mass. The name of this concern may sound imposing, until it is realized that it is merely a trade name adopted by Hayden in exploiting his nostrum.