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to four weeks’ administration of haemogallol (0.3 grammes 
were taken three times per day). The profession of Russia, 
Germany and Austria has decided favorably in regard to 
the action of haemogallol—by means of an interrogatory cir¬ 
cular which has been sent abroad. 
There is no reason, therefore, for the practitioner to be 
skeptical. Even in case of a weakened condition of the 
digestive tract haemogallol may be prescribed, since no dele¬ 
terious action in the sense of the older iron proportions ever 
occurred. 
H^MOL AND ZINC IDEMOL. 
For haemol results have been obtained on animals show¬ 
ing that even direct intravenous application did not produce 
any symptoms of disease. 
Haemogallol, as well as haemol, are therefore the two iron 
compounds par excellence which are of no detrimental action 
whatever, and which allow successful application even in the 
gravest forms of anaemia. 
The haemogallol is, so far, preferred, since it is the more 
tasteless one of the two preparations. 
Robert did not stop there. He prepared compounds of 
haemol with the heavy metals, iron, copper, mercury, and 1 
with the haloids, iodin and bromin. Even a mercur-iodo-haemol 
has been prepared. 
The non-corrosive copper compounds just begin to attract 
attention in regard to their action in case of chlorosis, which 
Cervello has described. Copper haemol is indicated in prefer¬ 
ence to the other proportions, which are still more or less 
caustic. 
Professor Koch has performed experiments with copper 
haemol on lupus patients. The lupous infiltrations were re¬ 
duced and the skin returned partly to normal appearance. 
In France these experiments are just now studied further. 
The mercuro-iodo-haemol and brom-haemol are to be rec¬ 
ommended for the double action of blood reconstructors and 
specifics. The iodo-mercuro-haemol is positively to be consid¬ 
ered at present as the most suitable specific against syphilis. 
