THE STANDARDIZATION OF CARDIAC REMEDIES.

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Within the past two or three years there has been a great revival of interest in problems connected with the use of drugs in the treatment of disease, and several factors are responsible for this change of attitude. The appearance of the new Pharmacopeia, causing as it did many discussions in regard to the admission of new remedies and the changing of the standards of some of the older preparations, could not fail to awaken a more or less widespread interest. Another important influence has been the warfare begun by the Ladies' Home Journal and Collier's Weekly against the sale and use of all forms of nostrums and quack remedies. The crusade has been taken up by several other lay papers and by a very few medical publications, most prominent among the latter being The Journal of the American Medical Association. This Association has also played an important part in