“Chlorine gas is prepared in the usual way and purified and passed into water until a saturated solution is made.
“Water to the extent of three times the volume of the chlorine solution is used to dissolve the necessary amount of calcium chloride, and the two solutions are mixed.
“The necessary amounts of Lithium and Mercurous Chloride are then intimately mixed and made into solution. This solution is then added to the above and the whole is agitated for some minutes.”
A specimen of Chloron was examined in the A. M. A. Chemical laboratory and the chemists reported:
Qualitatively the presence of the following constituents was confirmed: calcium, mercury, lithium, chlorid, free chlorin. The solution was alkaline. Of course, the declaration that Chloron contains mercurous chlorid (calomel) is obviously incorrect, as mercurous chlorid cannot exist in a solution containing active (free) chlorin, but is oxidized to mercuric chlorid (corrosive sublimate). As the solution was alkaline in reaction, it seemed unlikely that all the active chlorin was present in the free state, as declared on the label. Quantitative determination of free chlorin and of total active (“available”) chlorin gave: free chlorin, 0.036 gm. per hundred c.c.; total “available” chlorin, 0.330 gm. per hundred c.c., or 165 per cent. of the claimed amount.
A comparison of the information sent to the Council with the analytic findings leads to the conclusion that Chloron is not of reliable composition.
As evidence of the therapeutic value of Chloron, the following “case reports” were submitted:
“In a case of second degree burn involving the most of one leg from the middle of the calf down, Chloron was the only dressing used. The burn was a bad one and the patient in a rundown anaemic condition, at no time was there any appearance of pus, the surface looked clean and bright and the healing was accomplished with practically no scar whatever. The burn was kept wet with the solution by hourly applications day and night. The skin which has grown on the wound is clear, healthy and firm.
In another case of Varicose veins of long standing, the result was surprising. The patient told of two years vibrating from Hospital to Hospital and getting no real relief. Each leg had large open running sores, the only dressing used was wet compresses of this solution. The pus disappeared at once, the wound began to cicatrise from the edges and in two weeks the man was discharged from the hospital practically cured.”
“Chloron was recently tried at the —— and —— Hospital on cases presenting ulcers and other sores which did not readily yield to other methods, with good results, in fact were of an indolent type. In these cases Chloron proved very valuable.”