Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . ompany now is known as the Ascatco Labora-tory and the advertising matter carefully omits the previousclaims of Ascatco being an Austrian product. Its compositionseems to be changing. When analyzedby tin chemists employed by Colliersit was found to be a strong solutionof arsenious oxid. An analysis bythe Kansas state chemists practicallyconfirmed the earlier findings. In abulletin issued by the United StatesDepartment of Agricultur
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . ompany now is known as the Ascatco Labora-tory and the advertising matter carefully omits the previousclaims of Ascatco being an Austrian product. Its compositionseems to be changing. When analyzedby tin chemists employed by Colliersit was found to be a strong solutionof arsenious oxid. An analysis bythe Kansas state chemists practicallyconfirmed the earlier findings. In abulletin issued by the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture entitledHabit-Forming Agents, Ascatco isdescribed as an opium-arsenic prepara-tion. A cursory examination made inthe Associations laboratory, disclosedthe fact that the stuff containedbenzoic acid apparently in combinationwith potassium; this, of course, in ad-dition to the opium it contained. Ascat-co also contains 13 per cent, of amount of opium in this Austrianprescription is gradually diminishing. Two or three yearsa<ro the labels declared the presence of grains of opium tothe ounce, later the presence of but two grains to the ounce. mmtmmmm One of the laterlabels around a pack-age of Ascatco. AS I II !/ I VI /./ S 125 was admitted while some of the specimens recently purchasedgive a -i ill smaller opium content. The claims made for Ascatcothai it is non injurious to the system, that if leaves no afterill-effects, and further, that it acts only on the respirator}organs, arc three clear cut and unequivocal falsehoods. Infact, Ascatco is one ol the mosl impudent frauds of its class.(From The Journ il I. .1/. . June 8, 1912.) HAYES ASTHMA CURE The Hayes asthma remedies, exploited bj P. Harold Hayes,Buffalo, N. were analyzed in the pharmaceutical instituteof the University of Berlin by J. Kochs, and. according tot he Arbeiten aus dem Pharmazeutischen Institut der I ni-versitdt, Berlin, vol. iv. p. 122. with the following of the seven rem
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