The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association

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Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

Title

The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2

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RM: Medicine: Therapeutics, Pharmacology

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Patent medicines

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47766

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December 24, 2014

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE PROPAGANDA FOR REFORM —IN— Proprietary Medicines
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.PART I COUNCIL REPORTS — ACETANILID MIXTURES [A] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — AGAR-LAC — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — ANASARCIN AND ANEDEMIN — Reports of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and Comments Thereon — Anasarcin — Anedemin — MAIGNEN ANTISEPTIC POWDER — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — TYREE’S ANTISEPTIC POWDER [E] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry with Comments — Discrepancies Between Facts and Claims—Unfortunate Attempts of Mr. Tyree at Explanation — APERGOLS [F] — Abstract of Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — ASEPTIKONS — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — BETUL-OL [G] — Abstract of Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — PEACOCK’S BROMIDES AND CHIONIA — Reports of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — BROMIDIA — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry [H] — Cactus Grandiflorus — CALCREOSE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — CAMPHO-PHENIQUE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and Some Comments Thereon — Campho-Phenique — CELERINA, ALETRIS CORDIAL AND KENNEDY’S PINUS CANADENSIS, LIGHT AND DARK — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — Celerina — Aletris Cordial — Kennedy’s Pinus Canadensis, Light and Dark (Abican and Darpin) — CINERARIA MARITIMA — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — HAGEE’S CORDIAL OF THE EXTRACT OF COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND [I] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — WAMPOLE’S PERFECTED AND TASTELESS PREPARATION OF AN EXTRACT OF COD LIVER [J] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — WATERBURY’S METABOLIZED COD-LIVER OIL COMPOUND [K] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and Laboratory Contribution on Which It Is Based — Waterbury’s Metabolized Cod-Liver Oil Compound — Declared Misbranded — WATERBURY’S COMPOUND — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — COLCHI-SAL — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — CYPRIDOL CAPSULES — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — CYSTOGEN, CYSTOGEN APERIENT AND CYSTOGEN-LITHIA [L] — Abstract of Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — CYSTO-SEDATIVE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — TAKA-DIASTASE AND LIQUID TAKA-DIASTASE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — DIGALEN OMITTED FROM N. N. R. — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — Referee’s Report on Digalen — DIORADIN REFUSED RECOGNITION — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — ECHINACEA — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — Echinacea — ECHTISIA, ECTHOL AND ECHITONE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — ERGOAPIOL [N] — Abstract of Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — ERPIOL (DR. SCHRADER) — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — Erpiol — FALSE UNICORN (HELONIAS) — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — False Unicorn-Helonias — FORMUROL — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — GASTROGEN TABLETS — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — GLYCO-HEROIN, SMITH — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — GLYCO-THYMOLINE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — GLYCOZONE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, with Comments — GARDNER’S SYRUP OF HYDRIODIC ACID — Report to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — HYPEROL — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — INGLUVIN — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — INTESTINAL ANTISEPTIC W-A — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — BANNERMAN’S INTRAVENOUS SOLUTION — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — IODALIA [O] — Abstract of Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — IODEX — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — IODIA — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — BURNHAM’S SOLUBLE IODINE [P] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — IODOTONE [Q] — Abstract of Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — IOSALINE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — NOURRY WINE [R] [S] — Abstract of Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — LABORDINE — A Report by the Council and Some Pertinent Comments Added Thereto — LACTOBACILLINE OMITTED FROM N. N. R. — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — REEXAMINATION OF LACTOPEPTINE [T] — Report to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — MEAT AND BEEF JUICES [U] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — VALENTINE’S MEAT JUICE [V] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — MEDICINAL FOODS — MIGRAININ — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — NEURILLA — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — NEUROSINE, DIOVIBURNIA, GERMILETUM AND PALPEBRINE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — Neurosine — Dioviburnia [W] — Germiletum — Palpebrine — OXYCHLORINE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — PAM-ALA, ANOTHER WORTHLESS QUININ SUBSTITUTE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — PAPAYANS BELL [X] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — PASSIFLORA AND DANIEL’S CONCENTRATED TINCTURE OF PASSIFLORA [Y] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — Passiflora — LIQUID COMBINATIONS CONTAINING PEPSIN AND PANCREATIN [Z] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association — PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE) — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — LIQUID PETROLATUM OR “RUSSIAN MINERAL OIL” [AA] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WITH LIQUID PARAFFIN (LIQUID PETROLATUM) [AB] — A Comparative Investigation Made Under the Auspices of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry [AC] — W. A. Bastedo, M.D., New York — ANGIER’S EMULSION [AD] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — PHECOLATES, PHECOLAX, PHECOZYMES AND PHECOTONES — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — PHENOL SODIQUE — Report of Examination by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and Comments — PHYTIN AND FORTOSSAN — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — PRUNOIDS — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — SAL HEPATICA — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — SANMETTO — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — SECRETOGEN — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — SINKINA — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — SOMNOS — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — The Pharmacology of Somnos — SUCCUS ALTERANS — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — SULPHO-LYTHIN — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — TAUROCOL — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — TRI-IODIDES, THREE CHLORIDES AND MAIZO-LITHIUM — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — Tri-Iodides (Henry) — Three Chlorides (Henry) — Maizo-Lithium — THIALION — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — UNGUENTUM SELENIO VANADIC (V. ROEMER) — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — UNICORN ROOT, WILD YAM AND WILD INDIGO — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — Unicorn Root—Aletris Farinosa — Wild Yam—Dioscorea Villosa — Wild Indigo—Baptisia Tinctoria — PROPRIETARY VANADIUM PREPARATIONS — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry on Products of Vanadium Chemical Co.: Vanadiol, Vanadioseptol, Phospho-Vanadiol, Vanadoforme, etc. — VENARSEN — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — VENODINE — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — VERACOLATE [AE] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — HAYDEN’S VIBURNUM COMPOUND [AF] — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry — VIN MARIANI — Report by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry—With Comments Thereon — VIROL — Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
5. 5.PART II CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY — ANUSOL HEMORRHOIDAL SUPPOSITORIES [AG] — W. A. Puckner and L. E. Warren — AROMATIC DIGESTIVE TABLETS — W. A. Puckner and L. E. Warren — BURNHAM’S SOLUBLE IODIN [AH] — W. A. Puckner and A. H. Clark — “HYDROCYANATE OF IRON—TILDEN” — W. A. Puckner and W. S. Hilpert — HYMOSA — W. A. Puckner and W. S. Hilpert — MICAJAH’S MEDICATED UTERINE WAFERS — W. A. Puckner and W. S. Hilpert — The Firm Replies — NOITOL AND ANADOL — W. A. Puckner and L. E. Warren — Noitol — Anadol — Anadol Declared Misbranded — PIX CRESOL — W. A. Puckner and W. S. Hilpert — SALIODIN — W. A. Puckner and A. H. Clark — THEOBROMIN SODIUM SALICYLATE VERSUS “DIURETIN”: THE ECONOMICAL ASPECT — W. A. Puckner and Paul N. Leech — UNGUENTINE — W. A. Puckner and A. H. Clark — URICEDIN — W. A. Puckner and A. H. Clark — URISEPTIN — W. A. Puckner and W. S. Hilpert — ZEMACOL — W. A. Puckner and W. S. Hilpert — ZYME-OID — W. A. Puckner and W. S. Hilpert
6. 6.PART III CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE JOURNAL: NOSTRUMS — ALLEOTONE — The Commercial Value of Adverse Criticism — BAUME ANALGESIQUE BENGUE — ANTIDIABETICUM—BAUER — ANTIKAMNIA — The Nostrum and Its Method of Exploitation — “Antikamnia and Quinin” — Adding Insult to Injury — Still Further Duplicity — Samples, Form Letters and “Prescriptions” Sent to the Laity — Antikamnia in America and Great Britain — Again, Antikamnia — ANUSOL SUPPOSITORIES — ANUSOL SUPPOSITORIES — ASPIRO-LITHINE — BELL-ANS (PA-PAY-ANS, BELL) [AI] — Another “Patent Medicine” Foisted on the Public Through the Medical Profession — BIOSOL — BROMIN-IODIN COMPOUND — The Life-History of a Nostrum — CALMINE — New Names for Old Drugs — CAMPHENOL — CHOLOGEN — HAGEE’S CORDIAL OF COD-LIVER OIL [AJ] — Fraud and Deception Connected with So-Called Cod-Liver Oil Preparations — Hagee’s Cordial of Cod-Liver Oil — WATERBURY’S COMPOUND ONCE MORE [AK] — COLLYRIUM-WYETH — DIATUSSIN — ENTERONOL — The “Greatest Germicide Known to Science!” — An Invitation to The Journal to Humbug the Profession — EXPURGO (SANOL) ANTI-DIABETES — One More Fraudulent Nostrum for Diabetes — FORMAMINT — The Profession to Be Worked Again — The So-Called Germ-Killing Throat Tablet — GOMENOL — HEADACHE CURES [AL] — Harmful Effects of Acetanilid, Antipyrin and Acetphenetidin — Sanatoriums and the Acetanilid Habit — HECTINE — HYDRONAPHTHOL — HYDROZONE — HYPOQUINIDOL — IODONUCLEOID — An Iodin Product Under a Misleading Name — IRIDIUM — IRON TROPON — KUTNOW’S POWDER — Which Is It, a “Proprietary” or a “Patent Medicine”? — LYMPH COMPOUND R-H AND ORCHITIC FLUID TABLETS — LYSOL-THE EVOLUTION OF A PROPRIETARY — THOMPSON’S MALTED FOOD COMPANY — And Its Blood, Nerve and Tissue Builder, “Hemo” — MANOLA — Physicians as Unpaid Pedlers of Nostrums — The Composition of Manola — MERCOL — The Component Parts and the Finished Product — MIDOL AND NURITO — Pyramidon Entering the Patent-Medicine Field — MU-COL — Salt and Borax as Wonder-Workers — NARKINE — The Intangible Product of the Tilden Laboratory — PAPINE — A Disguised Morphin Solution — PASADYNE [AM] — PAS-AVENA — How Its Formula Evades the Food and Drugs Act — Proprietary House Insolvent—and Physicians Lose? — PERTUSSIN — PHENALGIN—A TYPICAL EXAMPLE [AN] — A Pharmaceutical Secret Which Should Not Be Lost — An Ethical (?) Proprietary Exploited Under Fraudulent and Lying Claims — PHENO-BROMATE — PHENOLPHTHALEIN — MIXED VACCINE AND PHYLACOGENS [AO] — THE DANGER IN PROTONUCLEIN, A PREPARATION CONTAINING THYROID — PURGEN — PYO-ATOXIN — RESINOL — RESOR-BISNOL — ROBINOL AND SEVETOL — Revamping Discarded Theories for Commercial Purposes — Robinol — Sevetol — SALACETIN — SAL-CODEIA—BELL — SANATOGEN — Cottage Cheese—The New Elixir of Life [AP] — The Bauer Chemical Company’s “Reply” — The Sanatogen “Grand Prix” — A Restatement of the Case — SANATOGEN: A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF ITS ALLEGED ACTION ON THE RECUPERATING POWERS OF THE BLOOD — Report of Professor Carlson — Conclusion — As to Sanatogen — THE FEEDING VALUE OF SANATOGEN COMPARED WITH COMMERCIAL CASEIN WITH RESPECT TO MAINTENANCE AND GROWTH — John Phillips Street, M.S. — POEHL’S SPERMIN IN ARTERIOSCLEROSIS — SYRUP OF COCILLANA COMPOUND — “A Cough Syrup with a History” — AUBERGIER’S SYRUP OF LACTUCARIUM — A Protest and a Reply — TARTARLITHINE — THOXOS — TRYPSOGEN — TYREE’S ANTISEPTIC POWDER [AQ] — Now Advertised Direct to the Public as the “Best Preventative Known” — VAPO-CRESOLENE — VASOGEN AND IODOVASOGEN — Another Case in Which Independent Analyses and Manufacturers’ Labels Disagree — VIBURNUM COMPOUND—AND OTHER NOSTRUMS — WHEELER’S NERVE VITALIZER — ZYMOTOID — A Fraud of the Liquozone-Oxytonic-Septicide Type
7. 7.PART IV CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE JOURNAL: MISCELLANEOUS MATTER — ACETPHENETIDIN AND PHENACETIN—THEIR RELATIVE PURITY — Acetphenetidin and Phenacetin — CLEAN ADVERTISING — LIPPINCOTT’S MAGAZINE — Its Advertising—a Protest and an Excuse — MEDICAL JOURNAL ADVERTISING — And Methods of Obtaining Paid-Up Subscribers — A Physician Places the Responsibility for Fraudulent Advertising Where It Belongs — MEDICAL JOURNALS AND THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD — How the Medical Times Aids and Abets Quackery, with the Moral Support of Members of the Medical Profession — Two Physicians Express Themselves on the Ethics of Medical Journalism — The Responsibility of Physicians — Medical Journals and Sanatogen [AR] — THE ARMY AND NAVY MEDICAL RECORD — A Fraudulent Publication Whose Editorial Opinions Are for Sale — TWO LETTERS — THE ARMY AND NAVY MAGAZINE — ADVERTISEMENTS AS EDITORIALS — THE MEDICAL TIMES ADVERTISEMENTS — In Which Are Discussed Some “Oversights” and the Ethics of Journalism — CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM — A Clean Medical Journal—the South Texas Medical Record — THE COMPARATIVE NUTRIENT VALUE OF COD LIVER OIL AND COD LIVER OIL CORDIALS [AS] — John Phillips Street, M.S. — DIABETIC FOODS OFFERED FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES — A Preliminary Report — John Phillips Street, M.S. — THE JIREH DIABETIC FOOD COMPANY — The Company Rises to Explain in a Brief Note of One Thousand Words — THE NAME “EPINEPHRIN” VERSUS THE NAME “ADRENALIN” [AT] — THE HORD SANITARIUM — THE GERMAN PROPAGANDA FOR REFORM — Appreciation by a German Lay Publication — THE GERMAN COUNCIL ON PHARMACY AND CHEMISTRY — GRAND PRIX AND GOLD MEDALS FOR SALE — Max Kaiser Offers to Procure “Awards of Merit” at Various International Exhibitions—​Price, Four Hundred Dollars — THE HYPOPHOSPHITE FALLACY — An Example of the Perpetuation of a False Theory by Advertising — BUFFALO LITHIA WATER — Contains One-Fifth as Much Lithium as Potomac River Water — MEAT EXTRACTS AND MEAT JUICES [AU] — Their Composition and Relative Values — PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURERS AND THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD — DOWD’S PHOSPHATOMETER — AMORPHOUS PHOSPHORUS [AV] — A Practically Inert Substance Introduced as a Valuable Therapeutic Agent — Dr. Nascher’s Reply to The Journal’s Article—Comments
8. 8.INDEX — (Including References to Articles Not Contained in This Book) — FOOTNOTES:

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