HEMO-THERAPIN
Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
The following report on Hemo-Therapin has been adopted by the Council, and its publication authorized.
W. A. Puckner, Secretary.
According to the Hemo-Therapin Laboratories of New York City:
“Hemo-Therapin is a combination of highly refined creosols and phenols (which have been detoxicated by special processes) with salts of iron, potassium, sodium, phosphorus and calcium in minute but physiologic proportions—the solution as a whole being designed to approximately closely in various fundamental details the chemistry of the blood.”
No statement is made as to the quantities of the several ingredients, nor is any information given as to the identity of the “creosols” and “phenols,” nor the nature of the processes whereby these are “detoxicated.” It is further claimed that it is:
“... The composite character of Hemo-Therapin, the relative proportion and balance of its several ingredients, and the action of the compound as a whole, to which its potency is due.”
And it is suggested that:
“It will be apparent that the ingredients which enter into the composition of Hemo-Therapin, a remedy used intravenously exclusively, have been selected with the utmost care with the object of assuring not only maximum therapeutic potency but also absolute safety and freedom from all dangers of toxic or other unpleasant or harmful action.” [Italics in the original.]