Show hi ns in Lax Laxatives ti Change g gR e R Rapidly I Ii the new revision ot of othe the he United States r Dr Horatio C. C Wood jr a of Phi Phi- 11 F hia fa makes in the Medical Rec- Rec ese remarks as to some laneS inno- inno s that have appeared In our aH standard is supposed to have ret re- re limon t there was nothing new he the sun and the present fashion tives is an illustration a of his Some thirty years ago andolph a of Philadelphia in tha the I I. I d the use of petrolatum ent eat o of chronic constipation He Hea te a number of followers in inT ie T i and for a short time the drug I d d considerable popularity and we all forgot about t it until Sir ot ot Lane the introduced he use of ot quId guld uld petrolatum or as s it Is called mineral oil for for the same se it is interesting to note fashion in laxatives as in change for no apparent reason except the whims of the medical public When the Committee on Revision began it its it work agar-agar agar was enjoying its brief period of as the ne plus ultra for the mitigation of sluggish colons just as to-day to does liquid petrolatum This like cellulose-like extract a of Japanese seaweeds acts because like petrolatum petrola petrola- tum turn it is entirely unaffected by the tha digestive juices and passes through the intestinal tract unabsorbed So fleeting are fashions are fashions however that this drug which was in the zenita o of ot its popularity at the beginning o of the work of revision had almost passed from notice before the Pharmacopoeia I 1 appeared While speaking on the subject subject sub suh- jE-ct jE of laxatives I may call your a attention at at- to the fact that tha- tha loin lein which had long been considered in the appendix of the Pharmacopoeia a only as a test for has bas now been moved to the body of the book because of its popularity as s a cathar cathar- tic w I |