_Chionanthus virginica_ has never been shown to have the slightest pharmacologic activity and no evidence is presented that its offspring, Chionia, has any therapeutic value whatever in any disturbance of the liver. The promoters themselves indicate a lack of faith in their own preparation, for they advise the use of old and efficient forms of treatment along with Chionia--heart tonics and laxatives in passive congestion of the liver, mercurial purge or podophyllin and sodium phosphate in “biliousness,” and quinin in malaria. Finally, with delightful English and elaborate insouciance, they advise in the treatment of eclampsia: “In all cases the uterus should be emptied as quick as possible. (Version of Cæsarian Section.)” The physician who prescribes Chionia promotes a fraud. The Council held Chionia ineligible for admission to N. N. R. [Editorial Comment: In Peacock’s Bromides and Chionia the Peacock Chemical Company has, for a third of a century, been foisting on the medical profession nostrums composed of drugs that are easily combined in any proportion that the physician may want to prescribe. The company has been inflicting on the unthinking physician pseudo-scientific rubbish in the form of advertising literature that should long ago have been regarded as an insult to the intelligence of the medical profession. The following medical journals are carrying advertisements of Peacock’s Bromides and Chionia: _Alienist and Neurologist_ _American Journal of Surgery_ _American Medicine_ _Archives of Pediatrics_ _Atlanta Journal-Record of Medicine_ _Buffalo Medical Journal_ _Charlotte Medical Journal_ _Chicago Medical Recorder_ _Denver Medical Times and Utah Medical Journal_ _Eclectic Medical Journal_ _Ellingwood’s Therapeutist_ _Indianapolis Medical Journal_ _International Journal of Surgery_ _Lancet-Clinic_ _Louisville Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery_ _Maryland Medical Journal_ _Medical Brief_ _Medical Fortnightly_ _Medical Herald_ _Medical Record_ _Medical Review of Reviews_ _Medical Sentinel_ _Medical Standard_ _Medical Summary_ _Medical Times_ _Medical World_ _Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery_ _New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal_ _New York Medical Journal_ _Pacific Medical Journal_ _Southern Practitioner_ _Texas Medical Journal_ _Texas Medical News_ _Therapeutic Gazette_ _Wisconsin Medical Recorder_ _Woman’s Medical Journal_] --(_From The Journal A. M. A., April 3, 1915._) BROMIDIA Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The following report was submitted to the Council by a member of its Committee on Therapeutics, with the recommendation that publication be authorized. This recommendation was adopted. W. A. Puckner, Secretary.