This is manufactured by Sharp and Dohme, Baltimore. The manufacturers’ statement of composition is:
“Each fluidounce represents Nux Vomica 8 grains, Damiana 64 grains, combined with Glycerophosphates of Calcium and Sodium.”
“Alcohol 20 per cent.”
Sharp and Dohme call this mixture a “Reconstructive Nerve Stimulant, Aphrodisiac,” and claim that:
“Phosphorus in elemental form has long been prescribed under the title of Elixir Phosphorus, Nux Vomica and Damiana, but due to the rapidity of chemical change occurring in preparations containing this form of Phosphorus, much of the Physiologic action is lost. The Glycerophosphates present Phosphorus in its most available form—the form in which it exists in the brain and nervous system. They powerfully stimulate the functions of nutrition and are rapidly assimilated by the system.
“Nux Vomica is a general Nerve Tonic. Damiana exerts a stimulant effect upon the sexual appetite and function.”
The claim that the glycerophosphates may be substituted for elementary phosphorus is, at least, novel.
The elixir is an unscientific semisecret combination.