Petroleum Internally Not Endorsed by American Therapeutic Society.

Abstract

[The Journalhas received for publication the following copy of a letter.—Ed.] Washington, D. C., July 20, 1904. Hillside Chemical Company, Newburgh, N. Y. Gentlemen: —At the regular annual meeting of the American Therapeutic Society, held in New York City in June, 1904, the society determined to call your attention, as well as that of the profession, through the columns ofThe Journalof the American Medical Association, to the error you make in your advertising literature. To quote from leaflet Petroleum Internally: Its Action; Already, at the second annual meeting of the American Therapeutic Society, held at Washington in May, 1900, it was decided (as a result of laboratory and clinical experience extending 'over fifty selected cases') to advocate the following; to wit: (1) that 'refined purified petroleum should be more extensively employed as a therapeutic agent,' and (2) that 'the reasons for its use should be more