Editorial Note: In view of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry’s findings, viz., that chinosol is a powerful antiseptic but a feeble germicide and considering that Pix Cresol contains but 21 per cent. oxyquinolin sulphate, the absurdity of the following claims made for Pix Cresol require no further comment:
“Pix Cresol is an Absolutely Sure and Yet Perfectly Safe, Never Failing Destroyer of Pus (Staph. Pyogenes Aureus.)”
“It is germicidal, bactericidal, bacillicidal. It is certain as a micro-organism destroyer. It destroys absolutely.”
“Ridding the blood of germs, it aids in rendering it replete with oxygen——.”
“It kills the germs.”
“No organism that is causative of morbid processes can withstand it.”
“It destroys micro-organisms of all kinds. It destroys them absolutely.”
“The germ’s tenacity of life does not avail against its action as germicide.”
“It destroys the spores and toxins utterly.”
A further estimate of the pseudo-chemical company, bearing the name of this “strongest, safest, least expensive medical antiseptic, disinfectant and deodorizer known” may be gained by a cursory glance at some of its “specialties”: