Vitamins: Their Distribution 561 The William A. Webster Co. and the Direct Pharmaceutical Co. 564 Yeast 566 Briefer Paragraphs 570 THE PROPAGANDA FOR REFORM IN PROPRIETARY MEDICINES PART I REPORTS OF THE COUNCIL ON PHARMACY AND CHEMISTRY FOREWORD THE COUNCIL ON PHARMACY AND CHEMISTRY The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry was established by the American Medical Association primarily for the purpose of gathering and disseminating such information as would protect the medical profession--and thus the public--in the prescribing of proprietary medicinal articles. The Council consists of sixteen members, fifteen appointed for a term of five years without pay, and the sixteenth, a secretary, who is also the director of the Chemical Laboratory of the American Medical Association (see Part II). At the present time (1921) the membership is: C. L. Alsberg, A.M., M.D., Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. C. W. Edmunds, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor. R. A. Hatcher, Ph.G., M.D., Professor of Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College, New York City. A. W. Hewlett, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Leland Stanford Junior University School of Medicine, San Francisco. John Howland, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University Medical Department, Baltimore. Reid Hunt, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School, Harvard University, Boston. W. T. Longcope, A.B., M.D., New York. G. W. McCoy, M.D., Director of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. Lafayette B. Mendel, Ph.D., Sc.D., Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, New Haven. F. G. Novy, Sc.D., M.D., Professor of Bacteriology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor. W. W. Palmer, B.S., M.D., Bard Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. W. A. Puckner, Phar.D., Secretary of the Council, Director of the Chemical Laboratory of the American Medical Association, Chicago. L. G. Rowntree, M.D., Sc.D., Professor of Medicine, Mayo Foundation, Rochester. G. H. Simmons, M.D., LL.D., Chairman of the Council, Editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago. Torald Sollmann, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Materia Medica, Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland. Julius Stieglitz, Ph.D., Sc.D., Chem.D., Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Vice-Chairman of the Council, Chicago.