“Exceptionally useful in atonic indigestion, malnutrition, convalescence from the acute diseases, and all digestive disorders characterized by deranged or depressed functions.” (_Woman’s Medical Journal_, July, 1914.) According to the label, Seng is indicated in “indigestion,” “malassimilation,” “malnutrition” and “wasting diseases.” It is also stated--though the preparation is admitted to contain 18 per cent. of alcohol--that to give babies “ten to fifteen drops in water or milk during feeding” is a proper procedure and that “For Colic, Flatulency, etc., the dose for an adult or child may be repeated every half hour until relieved.” The following are some of the exaggerated therapeutic claims made for this preparation of a worthless drug: “As a result of its administration the gastro-intestinal secretions are augmented, the digestion of food is substantially increased, and fermentative processes are promptly overcome.” “Seng will specifically encourage the secretion of the juices in the entire alimentary tract ...” The formula furnished for Seng is non-quantitative and therefore meaningless. The preparation is exploited in a manner to encourage its ill-advised use by the public, and exaggerated and unwarranted therapeutic claims are made for it. The use of an inefficient or worthless drug like ginseng, moreover, is detrimental to rational therapeutics. The Council therefore voted that Seng be refused recognition for conflict with Rules 1, 4, 6 and 10.--(_From Reports of Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 1915, p. 129._) FROSST’S BLAUD CAPSULES Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry Frosst’s Blaud Capsules and Frosst’s Blaud, Arsenic and Strychnine Capsules were submitted to the Council by C. E. Frosst & Co., Montreal, Canada. This firm claims, on the authority of the report of a firm of analytical chemists, that: “... of three leading Blaud preparations bought by us on the open market, the iron in Frosst’s Blaud Capsules showed the highest percentage of _Ferrous_ carbonate.” The Chemical Laboratory of the American Medical Association found this claim unjustified. The laboratory reported that there was no especial difference in the ferrous iron content of the various Blaud pills found on the market, and that among ten specimens examined, the total iron content was the lowest in the Frosst specimen. In view of this the Council refused recognition to Frosst’s Blaud Capsules and Frosst’s Blaud, Arsenic and Strychnine Capsules.--(_From Reports of Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 1915, p. 164._) TYREE’S ELIXIR OF BUCHU AND HYOSCYAMUS COMPOUND Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry Each dessertspoonful of this preparation is said to represent