The following is the recommendation of the Reference Committee to which the Report of the Board of Trustees was referred: “A perusal of the Trustees’ Report, ‘Cooperation of the Pharmaceutical Houses’, is well worth the time of every member of the profession, and your committee would emphasize the statement of the Trustees: ‘The Council, constituted of scientific men, working without remuneration in the interest of scientific medicine and the medical profession expects—and rightfully—the cooperation and support of the members of that profession. What is needed, therefore, is the active sympathetic cooperation of physicians; the cooperation of pharmaceutical houses will follow as a matter of course.’
“Your committee would go still further and move that a vote of thanks of the House be extended to those scientific men who have devoted so much valuable time to the welfare of the Association.”
(J. A. M. A., 74:1322 [May 8] 1920; from Reports of Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 1920, p. 56).
W. A. Puckner, Secretary.
BUDWELL’S EMULSION OF COD-LIVER OIL,
NOS. 1 AND 2
Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
The Budwell Pharmacal Company, Lynchburg, Virginia, which markets these preparations, claims that “No. 1” contains cod liver oil, “Iodide of Arsenic,” “Iodide of Calcium,” and “Iodide of Manganese.” “No. 2” is said to contain in addition to the ingredients of No. 1, creosote carbonate and guaiacol.
It is known that arsenous iodid is decomposed by contact with water. It is recognized that creosote carbonate is unstable and prone to liberate creosote. Iodide of manganese not being official, the supply on the market is not controlled in any way: Tests of purity are not prescribed by the Pharmacopeia, the National Formulary, New and Nonofficial Remedies or other books of standards. Therefore doubt must be expressed as to the accuracy of the formulas as given. The Council cannot accept such statements of composition without further evidence.