[Editorial Note..--With one exception, this product does not appear to be advertised in medical journals. We find, however, in the gallery of nostrums that grace the advertising pages of the _International Journal of Surgery_, that Sulfuryl Monal has its place. According to an advertisement that has been running some months in this publication, “affections of the throat and respiratory organs respond promptly” to Sulfuryl Monal whose “effects are rapid and certain” even in “incipient tuberculosis.” This preposterous pronouncement is no worse than many others appearing in the same journal, but it is bad enough to indicate how uncritical must be the physicians who support--by subscription or contribution--publications that are still debasing scientific medicine.]--(_From The Journal A. M A., Sept. 16, 1916._) MARK WHITE GOITER SERUM AND MARK WHITE IODINIZED OIL Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The “Mark White Goiter Serum Laboratories” of Chicago asked the Council to consider its products “Mark White Goiter Serum” and “Mark White Iodinized Oil.” The “serum” was claimed to be an “antibody blood serum from a goat with thyroidosis” while the “Iodinized Oil” was said to contain “about 4 grains of iodin” to “each c.c.” The therapeutic indications for the treatment were given as: “Simple or Exophthalmic Goiter, Hyperthyroidism-dosis, Thyrosis, Thyroidosis, Thyrotoxicosis, Dementia.” An ampule (2 c.c.) of the “serum” is to be injected into the thyroid to be followed one week later by an ampule (2 c.c.) of the “Iodinized Oil.” Repetition of this “treatment” once or twice a month is advised. The Council asked for more specific information as to the composition of the remedies, particularly as to the preparation and nature of the serum; it also asked for evidence of the therapeutic value of the preparations. In reply, Mark White wrote: “All that I can say regarding the serum is that it is made from the blood of goats with thyroid affection, and it has been found that the serum from these goats has antibodies which control, or has curative effect upon thyroid affections when injected into thyroid glands of either humans or animals. As to the iodinised oil, it is only an adjunct or side treatment which is not always used or indicated, and will only be furnished to the physician for use in case in his judgment his patient needs it. We shall also advise the use of quinin ... when indicated....” The Council was referred for further information to a paper by Rachel Watkins, M.D., published in the _Illinois Medical Journal_. It is to be noted, incidentally, that the letterheads used by White in his correspondence bore in one corner the notation “Rachel Watkins, M.D., Practice Limited to Goiter and Other Disorders of the Thyroid Glands,” and in the other, “Mark White, Goiter Research.”