“Sulphurated methylarsinate is an arsenical preparation devoid of all toxicity on account of the intimate joining of its composing parts.”
And that
“Filudine can never be contraindicated.”
A statement of composition in a later number of “Treatment,” however, says that biliary extracts are components, in addition to the liver and spleen extracts. Moreover, thiarféine, the “new salt discovered by M. Chatelain,” is no longer “thiomethylarsinate,” but “thiocinnamate of caffein”; and a new formula is furnished for it.
We are told that
“Methyl-arsinate cannot be used in cases where fever is present....”
“M. Chatelain at first studied the action of thiomethylarsinate; clinical and physiological experimentation led him, however, to adopt thiocinnamate of caffein, of greater activity and with no contraindications.”
Nevertheless the same absence of contraindications was urged in favor of Filudine when it was said to contain the now discarded thiomethylarsinate of caffein.
The following are some of the unwarranted and even absurd claims:
“Filudine restores the liver’s functions. It is to the liver what digitalis is to the heart; it overcomes the insufficiency and stimulates the debilitated organ.”