The reports which appear below were sent to the Dawson Pharmacal Company for comment before publication. In reply the company offered to revise its claims for the preparations. The Council replied that the report sent explained that both preparations are irrational mixtures, and hence a revision of the claims would not make them eligible for New and Nonofficial Remedies. It advised that publication of the report would be withheld sixty days and that it would be revised if new information or evidence was submitted permitting such revision. After expiration of the stipulated postponement, the Dawson Pharmacal Company wrote that no new advertising matter had been prepared, but that the old circulars were not being sent out.
As these irrational preparations were still sold and advertised to the medical profession and presumably used by some physicians, the Council directed publication of its report with this explanation.
W. A. Puckner, Secretary.
Iodinized Emulsion (Scott)
The label for Iodinized Emulsion (Scott) declares:
“Each fluidram contains: Alcohol, m. 43⁄4; Rectified Ol. of Turpentine, m. 31⁄2; Iodin, gr. 1⁄8; Phenol, gr. 1⁄2; Glycerine and Elixir Lactated Pepsin with Aromatic Oils in the form of a perfect emulsion.”
A circular which gives what is asserted to be the composition of Iodinized Emulsion, declares that, among other ingredients, each fluidram contains “one and three quarters m. Tincture of Iodine.” Both the statement on the label that the preparation contains “iodin” and the one in the circular that tincture of iodin is present in the product are incorrect, for the A. M. A. Chemical Laboratory reports that no free iodin could be detected in the preparation, and that it responded to tests for iodid instead.
An advertising circular for Iodinized Emulsion (Scott) makes unwarranted claims for the therapeutic properties of the constituents. For example:
“... the great usefulness of Turpentine in diseases, especially of the Intestinal Infection, such as the Meteorism and Tympanites of Typhoid.”
And this absurdity: