Queries and Minor Notes.
Thomas F. Harrington · JAMA · 1904
society determined to call your attention, as well as that of the profession, through the columns of The Journal of 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 Thera- peutic Society, held at Washington in May, 1900, it was de- cided (as a result of laboratory and clinical experience ex- tending '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 widely communicated to the profession at large.'"The society has never in any manner endorsed a remedy.There may have been individual opinions expressed, but these could be regarded only as coming from the individual and not from the society, as the above quotation would indicate.In this particular instance, however, the quotation is at direct variance with the papers and records of the society, as will be shown by the paper read at the 1900 meeting by Dr. Reyburn on the "Inertness of Petroleum Compounds When Given Medic- inally."N. P. Barnes, Secretary American Therapeutic Society.