“Therefore, additional emphasis on the necessity for the proper selection of cases is essential in order that this useful preparation may not be unjustly discredited.” How these cases of sterility, abortions, etc., are to be selected is not revealed. In other words, the restriction is no more than a convenient device by which every improvement is to be attributed to the medicine, and every failure to the physician. The referee recommends that Corpora Lutea (Soluble Extract), Parke, Davis & Co., be held ineligible to N. N. R., because it is a secret preparation advertised under extravagant claims. [Editorial Comment.--Was it not in Weir Mitchell’s “Adventures of François” that the itinerant promised to pull teeth without any pain, _if the patient would hold absolutely still_? And, _mirabile dictu_, the ones who suffered were those who had not held absolutely still!]--(_From The Journal A. M. A., April 7, 1917._) WHEELER’S TISSUE PHOSPHATES Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The Council held that the contribution from the A. M. A. Chemical Laboratory, “Wheeler’s Tissue Phosphates,” demonstrates that this is a semisecret, complex and irrational preparation, sold with misleading claims concerning its medicinal constituents and therapeutic properties. The Council directed that the report be included with the Annual Council Reports and declared Wheeler’s Tissue Phosphates in conflict with Rules 1, 6, 8 and 10. W. A. Puckner, Secretary. WHEELER’S TISSUE PHOSPHATES L. E. Warren, Ph.C., B.S. “Wheeler’s Tissue Phosphates,” known also as “Compound Elixir of Phosphates and Calisaya,” is advertised as a nerve food and a nutritive tonic. The label states that it contains calcium, iron, sodium trihydrogen phosphates, alkaloids of Peruvian bark with 12-1/2 per cent. of alcohol. The preparation is sold by the T. B. Wheeler, M. D. Co., of Rouses Point, New York. According to the manufacturer, Wheeler’s Tissue Phosphates “... is an _inorganic_ combination of the phosphates of iron and calcium and hydrogen (phosphoric acid) together with hydrochloric acid, hydrocyanic acid, and quinine, cheerful coloring, and a delicious, cordial-like flavoring.” “... The iron is the green, inorganic phosphate and the calcium the simple white phosphate of your early student days....” The preparation is a red liquid, having an acid reaction, a sweet-bitter taste and the odor of wild cherry. Qualitative tests indicated the presence of calcium, iron, a phosphate, a chlorid, a sulphate, quinin or cinchona alkaloids, alcohol, sodium, cochineal coloring and invert sugar. Ammonium salts, glycerol, citrates or lactates were not found. From the quantitative values obtained the preparation may be taken to represent: