TAUROCOL
Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
The Paul Plessner Company, Detroit, places on the market Taurocol Tablets and Taurocol Compound Tablets. The company makes a pretense of giving the formula—minus any quantities—thus:
“Taurocol is a combination of bile salts, extracts of cascara sagrada, phenolphthalein and aromatics.”
The “formula” given for Taurocol Compound Tablets is:
“Taurocol (Bile Salts) | Gramme | .1296 |
Pepsin 1-3000 | " | .0324 |
Pancreatic Ext | " | .0324 |
Extract Nux Vomica (1⁄8 gr.) | " | .0081 |
Aromatics | Q. S.” | |
A comparison of these two “formulas” with those furnished for Veracolate and Veracolate with Pancreatin and Pepsin shows that they are nearly the same.
The claims made for the Taurocol preparations are essentially those made for Veracolate preparations, as instance the following, which appears on a physician’s sample of Taurocol:
“For Hepatic Insufficiency, Intestinal Putrefaction, Habitual Constipation.”
Likewise the following, found on a Taurocol circular, duplicates claims made for Veracolate:
“... Directly stimulates the liver cells, producing an abundant flow of bile rich in cholates, solvent of cholesterin and a biliary antiseptic.”
Taurocol is objectionable for the reasons that apply to Veracolate, and Taurocol Compound Tablets are subject to the objections that apply to Veracolate with Pepsin and Pancreatin. (See p. [216].) The Council therefore refused recognition to Taurocol and its preparations.—(From The Journal A. M. A., April 24, 1915.)