This volume, published annually, gives in full the reasons for the Council's rejection of medical preparations which it has found unacceptable for inclusion in its book, New and Nonofficial Remedies, during the preceding year. Included also are any special reports made by the Council. These may be (1) preliminary reports on new medicinal preparations not yet past the experimental stage, (2) inquiries into the present status of any particular form of drug therapy, or (3) reports on any matter concerned with the advance of rational drug therapy.
In the present volume, among the reports on products that have been denied admission to New and Nonofficial Remedies are those on Sanarthrit and Telatuten, two preparations of animal tissue, of indefinite composition, proposed for use in arthritis and arteriosclerosis, respectively; on Clauden, a combination of lipoids and undefined proteins, proposed for use as a hemostatic; on Hart's Alimentary Elixir of Beef, a