The foregoing citations are obviously intended largely for the public, and make it plain that “K-Y” Jelly is not in the class of nonmedical and harmless external applications; on the contrary, these claims tend to create the impression that the spread of measles and scarlet fever can be _prevented_ in the stage of desquamation. To place such statements in the hands of the patient supported by the tacit endorsement of a prescription is to create a false and dangerous sense of security and to lead to a failure to observe other and more important means of preventing dissemination of these diseases. The Council held K-Y Lubricating Jelly in conflict with Rules 1, 4, 6 and 10, and authorized publication of this report.--(_From The Journal A. M. A., Sept. 29, 1917._) ZIRATOL Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry Ziratol (Bristol-Myers Company, New York), in compliance with the federal “insecticide law,” is declared to contain 32 per cent. water and 30 per cent. glycerin as inert constituents. Regarding its active constituents the manufacturer makes the following and meaningless statement: “Ziratol is prepared from Phenols of the Naphthalene series and consists of a solution of such Phenols in a mixture of soap, water and glycerin.” In response to inquiry, the A. M. A. Chemical Laboratory examined Ziratol and reported that its essential constituent appears to be alpha-napthol,[120] and that it has, essentially, the following composition by weight: Alpha-napthol 18 per cent., soap 20 per cent., glycerin and water sufficient to make 100 per cent. [120] Alpha-napthol was also found to be the basis of the nostrum Benetol. See The Journal, April 15, 1911, p. 1128. A Ziratol advertising circular gives a tabulated report of germicidal tests, said to have been made according to the method of the Hygienic Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service. When this work was done is not stated. According to these tests Ziratol possesses a phenol-coefficient of 13.66. The claim that Ziratol is ten times more efficient than carbolic acid (phenol) is evidently based on this report. These claims of high germicidal value are contradicted by an examination made for the Council. A specimen purchased in the open market was examined independently by two operators, to determine the Hygienic Laboratory phenol-coefficient. One observer found the phenol coefficient to be 2.54. The other reported it to be 3.09. Evidently the germicidal value of Ziratol is greatly exaggerated in the advertising claims and, in fact, does not exceed that of the official compound solution of cresol (Liquor Cresolis Compositus, U. S. P.) for which a phenol-coefficient of about three has been established. (See New and Nonofficial Remedies, 1917, p. 82.) The claim that Ziratol is “the Universal Antiseptic and Germicide” is manifestly an unwarranted exaggeration.