GARDNER’S SYRUP OF AMMONIUM HYPOPHOSPHITE OMITTED FROM N. N. R.
Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
In recognition of the considerable revision of the therapeutic claims made by the manufacturer, Gardner’s Syrup of Ammonium Hypophosphite was retained in New and Nonofficial Remedies, 1916, and the proprietor advised of this provisional retention.
In the most recent advertising for this ammonium hypophosphite syrup the claim is made:
“Besides being an active expectorant Syrup of Ammonium Hypophosphite (Gardner) is useful as an alterative and resolvent and by virtue of its phosphorus element, which is in the form of a hypophosphite, PH2O2, has a tonic value.”
As detailed in the report of the Council “The Hypophosphite Fallacy” (The Journal, A. M. A., Sept. 2, 1916, p. 760) careful studies show that the hypophosphites are devoid of the “alterative” and “tonic” actions claimed by the manufacturer of Gardner’s Syrup of Ammonium Hypophosphite. Accordingly the Council voted to omit Gardner’s Syrup of Ammonium Hypophosphite from New and Nonofficial Remedies and authorized publication of this report.—(From Reports of Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 1916, p. 55.)