Here is another claim made for this nostrum:
“Two or three rectal injections of a one or two per cent. solution of Oxychlorine and ten grain doses given six to eight times per day is the best and most reliable treatment for typhoid fever.”
If 80 grains of Oxychlorine contain 30 grains of potassium chlorate, three rectal injections each consisting of 1 pint of 2 per cent. solution, would contain approximately 160 grains of potassium chlorate. Such an injection might prove decidedly dangerous, especially when used by one ignorant of its true composition. However, the physician, not the promoters, bears the responsibility.
Oxychlorine sells at $3.50 a pound; the ingredients can be obtained for about 44 cents a pound. Perhaps the margin of profit is intended as a reward due the promoters for the profound physiologic discoveries announced in their reading matter.—(From The Journal A. M. A., July 6, 1909.)
PAM-ALA, ANOTHER WORTHLESS QUININ SUBSTITUTE
Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
The following report of a referee on Pam-ala, an asserted malaria specific, was adopted by the Council and its publication authorized.
W. A. Puckner, Secretary.
Soon after publication of the Council’s report on Sinkina, an alleged malaria specific proved worthless, the referee’s attention was called to Pam-ala, which is sold under very similar claims.