The innuendo that the Council discriminates in favor of certain manufacturers, is itself a confession of weakness. In publishing this correspondence the Council’s sole object is to put the medical profession in possession of the exact facts of the case. These may fairly be summed up as follows: 1. Secretogen was originally marketed as a preparation containing secretin. None was found in it. 2. Notwithstanding proof of this fact, the G. W. Carnrick Company retain the original name of the product, knowing that, by its association with their former erroneous assertions concerning Secretogen, this name must inevitably convey to a physician using the product the impression that he is administering secretin. In the advertising literature no hint is given that this original statement was erroneous. 3. The product called “Secretogen” has not been shown, either experimentally and by sound clinical evidence, to possess useful therapeutic properties. Under these circumstances the Council reaffirms its decision.--(_From Reports of Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 1916, p. 72._) IRON CITRATE GREEN Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry H. K. Mulford Company and E. R. Squibb and Sons submitted to the Council ampules containing solutions of iron citrate green. It thus became necessary to consider the eligibility of iron citrate green itself for admission to New and Nonofficial Remedies. As the rules of the Council provide that nonessential modifications of official or nonproprietary preparations will not be recognized, the above named firms were asked to state what advantages, if any, the so-called iron citrate green had over the official iron and ammonium citrate. In reply the H. K. Mulford Company wrote that it had come to the conclusion that iron citrate green and ampules thereof would undoubtedly be considered by the Council as a nonessential modification of an official product, adding: “It seems to differ from the official ferric citrate so far as essentials go only in color, but custom, which is exceedingly hard to change in South America, demands that this green variety of ampules be used in place of the official product.” In reply to a similar letter of inquiry E. R. Squibb and Sons wrote: “Iron citrate green (iron and ammonium citrate green) differs from the U. S. P. iron and ammonium citrate in that it contains less iron and more citric acid and more ammonium citrate than does the latter. It is of course a modification of the official salt and is supplied to meet a real demand. Its reaction is quite decidedly acid and our present stock contains Fe slightly below the U. S. P. requirements for iron, assaying 15.74 per cent. instead of 16 per cent. Fe. The tests used to control its quality are those for the official product except as before indicated, it is always acid instead of neutral, as the U. S. P. requires for that salt.”