Dr. F’s experience is similar. The testimonial credited to him reads:
“I have prescribed Neurilla in nervous disorders with good results.”
Dr. F now writes:
“I don’t remember of ever having prescribed ‘Neurilla’ or of having given a testimonial for it or any other patent medicine if I knew it to be so.”
SUMMARY
In the booklet from which the foregoing are taken, there are forty testimonials. Those which we quote are merely samples. To sum up the results of this analysis: Of the testimonials some are said to be unauthorized; a number were written with so little thought that the writers had since forgotten their very existence; the conclusions expressed in most are not in fact justified by the writers’ mature judgment and experience. A number of writers admit that their experience is insufficient to determine whether the supposed good results were due to the medicine used or to other influences. Of course such evidence is unworthy of credit and happily, very little is now being furnished by doctors; even our courts refuse to admit it.
In short, the published formula shows that Neurilla is nothing more than a preparation of discredited drugs; it is exploited largely by means of carelessly formed and thoughtlessly expressed opinions of physicians. It is recommended that this report be published as an illustration of such methods and as a protest against them.
[Editorial Comment.—Neurilla is advertised in the following publications:
| Archives of Pediatrics, | Medical Sentinel, |
| Atlanta Journal Record of Medicine, | Medical Standard, |
| Charlotte Medical Journal, | Pacific Medical Journal, |
| Indianapolis Medical Journal, | Southern Practitioner, |
| International Journal of Surgery, | Texas Medical Journal, |
| Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, | Woman’s Medical Journal, |
| Medical Herald, | Eclectic Medical Journal, |
| New York Medical Record, | Ellingwood’s Therapeutist, |
| Medical Review of Reviews, | Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.] |
| —(From The Journal A. M. A., March 27, 1914.) | |