ABSTRACT
An examination showed a bad solution of nutmeg in alcohol, easily detected by taste, smell, and vision. Acetic acid has been successfully used as a substitute for alcohol in the extraction of the active principle of drugs in the laboratory of the pharmaceutical chemist. The only safeguard is to exclude from the market all patent medicines containing all drugs harmful to health or dangerous to life, especially of the narcotic class. Every state ought to secure the enactment of laws that would protect society against secret and pernicious nostrums or patent medicines, and charlatanism in any form, and especially nostrums or specifics for the so-called cure of alcoholism and the opium habit or other forms of narcomania. Adjunct societies made up of the medical representatives of all institutions, state or private, that either wholly or in part devote themselves to the cure of inebriety and kindred diseases.
