It is a colloidal, rather than crystalline, yellowish white powder-that is insoluble in a 1% muriatic acid solution. When that acid is present in the stomach there can be no gastric disturbance.

A-f-sal should be used in doses of ten to thirty grains. In chronic cases, requiring from six months to a year of treatment the number of doses should yield the daily amounts of from 90 to 120 grains. In acute cases, the number of doses should be increased so as to yield from 300 to 360 grains per day.

Its chologogue property at times demands the use of an astringent in conjunction. Use equal amounts of bismuth subgallate with the a-f-sal; or reduce the dosage of a-f-sal to the point of toleration -which soon permits increased amounts to be used in comfort.

"The fact was made plain that the consensus of opinion of medical writers representing the teaching of medcine, was to the effect that salicylate of sodium and other salicylates do not influence the duration of acute articular rheumatism. This was illustrated by a quotation from the works of one universally recognized and highly respected authority, Osler's 'Practice,' page 277:

'Salicyl compounds, which were regarded so long as specific in the disease, are now known to act chiefly by relieving pain. R. P. Howard's elaborate analyses show that they do not influence the duration of the disease.'

"In evidence that it is not the pain relieving or analgetic properties of the acetylmethylene-disalicylic acid that cause the rapid subsidence of the swelling and fever and the consequent abatement of the pain, but that the duration of the attack of acute inflammatory rheumatism could be curtailed, and that the recovery would not have occurred just as promptly without medical aid, I submitted in evidence the clinical report on three cases, two of whom presented a most positive history of joint rheumatism from past generations.

"During every year of the past ten they had both been most persistently subjected to severe recurrent attacks of articular rheumatism, in the acute form, averaging a duration of four weeks and an interval of recurrence of every three or four months. * * Those patients, and another one almost exactly similar in character, have not had one recurrent attack during the past year! Two of them did have the suggestion of an approaching attack, but the prompt use of full doses of acetyl-methylene-disalicylic acid prevented any recurrence.

"It is the importance of this fact in so pronouncedly increasing the interval between attacks that proves the reliability of my statement that in the chemical composition of acetyl-methylene-disalicylic acid we have a veritable antitoxin especially destructive to the rheumatic poison."-Abstract from the New York Medical Journal, Jan. 13, 1912.

"It used to be said that the cure of acute or inflammatory rheumatism is 'six weeks.' To-day it can be said that the cure is in the destruction of the micro-organism or specific materies morbi, circulating in the fluids of the body-which causes the morbid processes.

* In my hands, a-f-sal has been found more efficacious than salicylate of sodium; while at the same time it is better borne by the stomach and far more tolerated by the heart. It being a urinary antiseptic caused me to use it in the treatment of gonorrhoea and gleet. I find that old cases of gleet are benefited better than acute cases. There was an absence of cordee."-See Medical Council, Sept., 1910.

"In cases of inflammatory rheumatism, where the patients were treated by the free use of the a-f-sal, to the point of free purgation during the first day, it usually caused a subsidence of the inflammatory swellings on the following day."-See Medical Review of Reviews, June, 1912.

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