Appropriate

Last week, the University of Chicago acknowledged the receipt of a new medical research foundation. Some $800,000 in securities had already been turned over, with a promise of $200,000 more in short order, by one Mr. Douglas Smith of Chicago. Mr. Smith is not a doctor, nor is he an invalid to whom the advancement of medicine would have had a special and intimate interest. A hale, hearty, portly man, much given to golf, a familiar in North Shore society, Mr. Smith is by profession a promoter. Yet it was a most appropriate thing for Mr. Smith to contribute to the cause of medical research. At present engaged in the accretion of wealth by promoting "Pepsodent," a dentifrice, Mr. Smith long ago made his fortune from a most beneficent bactericide which he called "Liquozone." This latter, a potion for internal consumption, consisted largely of a weak aqueous solution of sulphuric acid (about 9/10 of 1%) and sulphurous acid (3/10 of 1%). It was exploited as a cure for 26 specific diseases of the widest pos- sible range, as well as for "all diseases that begin with fever--all inflammations --all catarrh--all contagious diseases-- all the results of impure or poisoned blood." The public--and Mr. Smith--were deprived of this omnipotent fluid by the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.