can often be relieved and overcome by PRUNOIDS when all other measures have been "tried and found wanting." Prunoids act by stimulating natural functions, and in consequence, are notably free from the drawbacks of usual cathartics. Samples on request. DIRECTIONS-One or two at bedtime. SULTAN DRUG CO., St. Louis, Mo. When you write to advertisers, please mention The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette Vapo-resolene, for Whooping Cough, Spasmodic Croup, Bronchitis, Broncho Pneumonia, Asthma, Sore Throat, and the bronchial complications incident to Scarlet Fever and Measles. Vaporized Cresolene is destructive to Diphtheria bacilli and may be Let us send you our descriptive and test booklet which gives liberal sample offer. THE VAPO-CRESOLENE CO., Leeming-Miles Building, Montreal, Canada Used While You Sleep uis EIKE New Chelses SPECIFY THE BRAND! Every now and then one is forcibly reminded of the fact that the pharmaceutical market of to-day contains many so-called therapeutic agents of doubtful medicinal value-agents of indefinite and varying potency. The point was well brought out, not so very long ago, by a certain chemist who purchased in the open market ten samples of tincture of opium in which the content of morphine varied from 2.7 to 22.8 per cent. Of three tinctures of aconite which he examined, one was found to contain 9 per cent. more of aconite than the standard required, and another 20 per cent. less. Two specimens of fluid extract of the same drug contained 18.5 per cent. and 25.5 per cent. more, respectively, of the alkaloid than is officially required. Samples of belladonna showed 11.5 per cent. less of mydriatic alkaloids in the fluid extract of the root, and 17 per cent. more in the tincture of the leaves. Some tinctures and fluid extracts of nux vomica revealed an excess of strychnine-in one case of 19 per cent. The foregoing facts are called to mind. by an announcement which is appearing in medical journals over the signature of Parke, Davis & Co., bearing the title, "Fluid Extracts and Tinctures of Definite Potency," and opening with this significant therapeutic result that you hope for and expect?" It is well known that Parke, Davis & Co. are authoritative upon the subject of standardization, chemical and physiological, and it may be confidently asserted that the practitioner of medicine who reads and ponders what is said in the announcement re ferred to will find that his time has been well expended. The physician's obligation to his patient, it should be remembered, does not cease with the writing of a prescription. There remains the further duty to assure himself that trustworthy products are used in compounding that prescription. 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