APPENDIX
The following letter from the Secretary of the Council was sent to Parke, Davis & Company, March 20, 1917. No reply to it has been received:
The referee of the Council who is conducting an investigation of silver preparations asked me to inquire if you are willing to submit your evidence for the following claims which are made in your circulars for Silvol:
1. How it is possible for the solution to be astringent, and at the same time nonirritant and noncoagulant?
2. That intestinal irrigation with a Silvol solution containing 10 to 15 grains to the pint is sufficiently bactericidal to “be used in the abortive treatment of such infectious processes as dysentery, cholera infantum, and colitis.”
3. What evidence have you as to the degree of antiseptic and germicidal power of Silvol solutions?
4. What evidence have you as to the degree of antiseptic and germicidal power of 5 per cent. Silvol Ointment?
A reply to the above questions and any other information in regard to Silvol will receive careful consideration.—(From The Journal A. M. A., July 13, 1918.)