“I believe that in this case Chlorax undoubtedly prolonged life.”
No mention is made of the dietary or other measures used. The wide variation in diabetes and its response to proper diet is so well known that the noncommittal statement concerning the beneficial effects of Chlorax amounts to no evidence at all in favor of the preparation.
The other “case reports” furnished by the Chlorine Products Company, Inc., which concern the treatment of gastric ulcers, acute alcoholic gastritis, tonsillitis, etc., are equally unconvincing. In fact, no satisfactory evidence for the clinical value of Chlorax has been presented.
The following from the advertising for Chlorax is unwarranted and absurd:
“Mercurous chloride (calomel) is perhaps the most widely used internal antiseptic and alterative and has established itself in the therapy of constipation, cholera, dysentery, cardiac dropsy, pleurisy, malignant fever, malaria, syphilis, worms, infectious diseases, gout and rheumatism; lithium chloride is particularly efficacious in acute and chronic parenchymatous nephritis and in various lithemic conditions; while Opium has no rival as an anodyne and can be used to stabilize and conserve the alkaline reserve of the body against the acidosing influence of infections.”
Further, on page 14 we find:
“In chills and fever malaria and other blood dicrasias, Chlorax is indicated as an internal antiseptic and it exerts a beneficial effect on the course of these diseases.”
The claims made for Chlorax are exaggerated and misleading.
Number “3”
According to the label, Number “3” is “A STABLE CHLORINE remedy for the purification of the blood,” with the composition: