LABORATORY REPORT
“The specimen examined was a white powder, and from the odor, thymol, eucalyptol, camphor and oil of wintergreen could be recognized. Qualitatively sodium, chlorid and borate were found. Zinc, benzoate, phenolsulphonate and sulphate could not be found. The solution was alkaline to litmus. Gravimetric determination of chlorid as silver chlorid and titration of borax by Thompson’s method indicated sodium chlorid (NaCl) 47.2 per cent., sodium borate (Na2B4O7+10H2O) 50.1 per cent.
“It thus appears that Mu-col is a mixture of ordinary salt and borax in equal parts with the addition of a small amount of aromatic substances.”
Mu-col will do just what a solution of salt and borax will do—no more, no less. And yet, it is claimed:
“Mu-col has been successfully used since the year 1900 by more than 50,000 physicians, which has proven it to be the most Efficient, Economical and acceptable, preparation in its field.”—(From The Journal A. M. A., Feb. 7, 1914.)
NARKINE
The Intangible Product of the Tilden Laboratory
A little book, published by the Druggists Circular, and called “Modern Materia Medica,” gives in dictionary form the information regarding new remedies which that journal publishes in its monthly issues. Such information is not always acceptable to the manufacturers of various preparations of doubtful value. A case in point is brought to notice with reference to a remedy called Narkine, put out by the Tilden Company of St. Louis. In this little book the following appears: