Bernard Fantus

THE PHYSICIAN AND PROHIBITION

The question now before us is not whether prohibition of the use of intoxicating liquors as beverages is right or wrong—though most of us are convinced that it is one of the most beneficent acts ever passed by a legislature—but, it being the law of the land, how we can aid in its enforcement not merely passively, by obeying the rules and regulations formulated by the authorities, but actively as well by devising ways and means of making easier the establishment of the new order. As the medical and pharmaceutic uses of alcohol offer, at present, some of the most perplexing problems in the administration of prohibition, it behooves us to formulate principles for guidance in our use of alcoholic liquids, most especially to determine to what extent we can dispense with the use of wine, whisky and brandy: for although alcohol prescribed under any other name is just as

List of Drugs fir State Board Examinations

To the Editor:— We have noted with interest and pleasure the publication (The Journal, Oct. 8, 1910, p. 1302) of the list of drugs recommended for state board examinations. While we consider this list a good one, and hope to see it adopted by the various state boards, we wish to submit to you a list that might be interesting for various reasons. In the first place, it is of interest because of priority both in its conception and in its adoption. It was devised by the Committee on Pharmacology of the Chicago Medical Society in the winter of 1908, and has since been adopted by the Illinois State Board of Health to serve as a guide in the elaboration of its examination questions in materia medica and therapeutics. Secondly, it is of interest because of the similarity of the two lists, compiled originally by two entirely different bodies. These lists have later been compared and certain minor changes have been made in both in consequence. Thirdly, the therapeutic classification shows the reason for the choice of the agents included in the list, the aim having been to choose at least one typical member of each therapeutic group. Certain useful agents, such as syrup and glycerin, have been omitted because a fair knowledgeof their nature likely to form subjects of examination questions.