Unwarranted therapeutic claims are made for Iodum-Miller; incorrect statements are made with regard to its composition and that of Iod-Izd-Oil (Miller’s); and the application of a trade name to both of these products is unjustifiable, since neither is original. It is therefore recommended that Iodum-Miller and Iod-Izd-Oil (Miller’s) be held ineligible for New and Nonofficial Remedies--(_Abstracted in The Journal A. M. A., Oct. 2, 1915._) ELIXIR IODO-BROMIDE OF CALCIUM COMP. “WITHOUT MERCURY” AND “WITH MERCURY” Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The Tilden Company, New Lebanon, N. Y., and St. Louis, Mo., sells “Elixir Iodo-Bromide of Calcium Comp. without Mercury” and “Elixir Iodo-Bromide of Calcium Comp. with Mercury.” The latter is said to contain, in addition to the ingredients of the former, 1/100 grain mercuric chlorid in each fluidram. According to the label the formula of the elixir “without mercury” is: “_Formula_--Salts of Iodine, Bromine, Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Magnesium with Stillingia, Sarsaparilla, Rumex, Dulcamara, Lappa, Taraxacum, Menispermum.” A recent circular declares that the elixir contains: “... a number of the most powerful alteratives of the pharmacopeia such as chemically pure iodin, magnesium, potassium with sarsaparilla, stillingia, prickly ash, burdock, taraxacum, etc. ... Each fluidounce contains seventy-two grains of the combined salts.” The same circular also alleges that each dram of the preparation contains: “... the equivalent of one and one-half grains of the combined iodids, potassium and calcium ...” It will be observed that, (1) the two statements quoted from the circular make no reference to bromids; (2) the statement that each dram contains “the equivalent” of 1-1/2 grains of the combined iodids, potassium and calcium, accounts for but 12 of the 72 grains of “the combined salts” per fluidounce declared in the preceding quotation; (3) the circular mentions the presence of a drug--prickly ash--not declared on the label and, finally (4) none of the “formulas” gives the quantities of all of the several constituents. It is evident from these “formulas” that the Tilden Company continues its policy of concealment and mystification as exemplified in the cases of Hydrocyanate of Iron, Tilden (discussed in The Journal, June 19, 1909, p. 2008), Febrisol (The Journal, June 29, 1912, p. 2043) and Respirazone (The Journal, June 14, 1913, p. 1899). In the circular just quoted (“The Conquest of Syphilis”), all hope for the syphilitic is declared to rest in mercury and iodin, and it is implied that only through Elixir Iodo-Bromide of Calcium Comp. is it possible to obtain the greatest good from these drugs. “Were the cleansing influences of these two drugs [mercury and iodin] unavailable to the luetic patient, he, truly, would be as pitiable an object as the leper ...