The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)
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The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2
Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)
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“From the above account it will be seen that the local and general
reactions which follow the injection of these preparations are
by no means pleasant. In the case of Intramine the pain is
undiluted torture and lasts so for two or three days. One of us had
previously treated four cases with Intramine and the same local
reaction occurred in these. In two of them abscesses have burst
outwardly, one of which is still discharging necrotic débris, ten
weeks after the injection, and will take many more weeks to close.
In those cases where no abscess has yet burst it is easy to feel
by the gap in the muscles that considerable necrosis has occurred.
None of these effects can be ascribed to sepsis, as most rigid
aseptic precautions were taken. Further, particular care was taken
to make the injections strictly intramuscular. The constitutional
symptoms which follow immediately upon the injection of Ferrivine
are distinctly alarming, and such as would cause one to hesitate
before injecting this remedy into any but robust patients.”
Harrison and Mills estimate the therapeutic effects of these drugs thus:
“1. That Ferrivine entirely failed to cause _S. pallida_ to
disappear from the lesions of three well-marked cases of secondary
syphilis.
“2. After the failure of Ferrivine to cause the disappearance of
_Spirochaeta pallida_ from a mucous patch a single dose of 0.3 gm.
salvarsan effected this in 18 hours, and the patch, which had
hitherto been uninfluenced, had healed within 48 hours.
“3. Clinically we were unable to detect any influence of either
or both these compounds on syphilitic lesions, although each of
them was of the variety which heals in a week or ten days under
salvarsan treatment.
“4. Further syphilitic lesions appeared immediately after the
treatment in one of the two cases treated with both Ferrivine and
Intramine. A mucous patch appeared on one tonsil as well as further
syphilitic papules from which spirochetes were obtained. The other
case developed nephritis, with albumin and epithelial casts; which
was not present prior to the injections.”
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