A mixture of the carbonates of various constituents of creosote, chiefly guaiacol and cresol.
Similarly the carbonate ofguaiacol may be given in doses even as large as a drachm.
All of this is directly contradicted in authoritative modern publications on pharmacology, which hold that the excretion of guaiacol by the lungs is infinitesimal and its action on bacilli is nil.
Hence Guaiodine appears to be an iodized fatty oil to which a small amount of guaiacol or some guaiacol-like substance has been added.
The latter preparation used to be known as “Iodinized Emulsion (Scott) with Hypophosphites, Guaiacol and Creosote.
For instance, the circular praises the action of guaiacol as eliminated directly by the lungs, thus exerting a beneficial local effect and causing bacilli to diminish in numbers or to disappear.
The preparations made in the laboratory were as satisfactory, or better than the Biniodol, and the presence or absence of the guaiacol was of no consequence.
The volatile matter was concluded to consist, in the main, of guaiacol or some guaiacol-like body, and the nonvolatile matter to be an iodized fatty oil.
The sulphonic acid was prepared by heating guaiacol with concentrated sulphuric acid, the resulting water-soluble product possessing a light, brownish-green colour.
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