An innocuous, non-irritant remedy for anal, rectal and vaginal inflammatory affections, especially for Hemorrhoids!

The local medicinal treatment of hemo­rrhoid­al and other inflammatory ano-rectal conditions has always been un­satis­factory. The usual media cannot be applied in effective concentration without producing intense inflammatory reactions; they are either ineffective or intolerable....

Anusol suppositories are absolutely free from narcotic, caustic or other injurious in­gredi­ents and may unhesitatingly be used by both sexes, at any age and under all conditions.

Medeol Suppositories

An innocuous, Non-irritant, Efficient Anti­phlogistic for use in inflammatory diseases of the rectum, anus and vagina especially in Hemorrhoids.

Hitherto most of the local remedies used in these conditions have either been too irri­ta­ting to be employed in sufficient con­cen­tra­tion to be efficient or they have lacked efficiency per se....

Medeol suppositories do not contain any narcotic or any caustic or other constituent having violent action; their blandness permits of their use in either sex and at all ages.

The claims made for these preparations—as for instance “that surgical treatment ... should rarely be undertaken until Medeol Suppositories have been given a thorough trial”—are misleading in that they create the inference that the limitations in the palliative treatment of piles have been overcome. It is altogether untrue that these mixtures can be expected to “relieve the most obstinate cases,” as stated in a Medeol circular. This, from an Anusol circular, is equally misleading:

“If dietetic and other requirements are complied with, even the most obstinate chronic cases will frequently readily yield to treatment with Anusol Suppositories.”

The Council declared Medeol Suppositories inadmissible to New and Non­official Remedies because their composition is secret (Rules 1 and 2); because unwarranted therapeutic claims are made for these (Rule 6); because the name is objectionable (Rule 8), and because the combination is unscientific (Rule 10).