Not one of the eulogistic reporters and exploiters seems to have considered it worth while to determine by the simplest control experiments whether the drug possesses any bactericidal or antiseptic powers whatever. It is therefore not very strange that discriminating physicians have failed to show much enthusiasm. One of the warmest endorsers of echinacea, C. S. Chamberlain (who later became the president of the Eusoma Pharmaceutical Company), complains that he has been unable to interest regular physicians in the remedy. He reviews the statements of previous authors and reports eight cases of infection, only two being acute or extensive, in which he used it with asserted success. In view of the lack of any scientific scrutiny of the claims made for it, echinacea is deemed unworthy of further consideration until more reliable evidence is presented in its favor. REFERENCES Meyer, H. F. C.: _Eclectic Med. Jour._, 1887; Goss: _Chicago Med. Times_, 1888; Hages: _Eclectic Med. Jour._, 1888; Shelly: _Medical Gleaner_, 1894; Lloyd, C. G.: _Eclectic Med. Jour._, 1897; Lloyd, J. U.: _Eclectic Med. Jour._, 1897; Lloyd, J. U.: _Pharm. Review_, xxii, 9-14; Schnitz, Elsie M.: _Wis. Med. Recorder_, 1898, ii, 202; White, J. N.: _Texas Med. News_, 1898, viii, 110-113; Stinson, J. C.: Therap. _Gazette_, 1900; Hale, E.: _Lancet-Clinic_, March, 1901; Thielen, B. F.: Echafolta, Its Uses in Dental Surgery, _Dental Reg._, 1903, vii, 462-465; Gorse, C. A.: _New Albany Med. Herald_, 1903-4, xxii, 384; Chamberlain, C. S.: _Louisville Monthly Jour. Med. & Surg._, 1904-5, xi, 219-223; _Lancet-Clinic_, 1905, M. S., liv, 279-283; Ellingwood, F.: _Therap. Gazette_, 1905, 3, S., xxi, 298-300; French, J. M.: _Med. Brief_, 1905, xxxiii, 537; Mathews, A. B.: _Georgia Pract._, 1905, i, 137-140.--(_From The Journal A. M. A., Nov. 27, 1909._) ECHTISIA, ECTHOL AND ECHITONE Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry