Neosalvarsan

Sir,?We would thank you to publish the following lines as a warning to the medical profession in India. Certain unscrupulous importers are at present flooding the market with cheap Neosalvarsan. These spurious stocks, originally manufactured in the M.L.B. plant in Hoechst, are coming from various European countries where they were recognised as unfit on account of their old age and discarded by order of legal authorities. We were in a position to trace the source of some of them and found:? (t) all packings bearing the number G-81754 were seized during the French occupation of Hoechst in November, 1923; these packings are at least 6 years old and unfit; (it) all packings bearing the number H-31782 were sold in 1925 to London and there lost sight of; (iii) all packings bearing the numbers H-94333 and 94334 were sold several years back in bulk and lost sight of; and (iv) all packings bearing the number 81369 without a capital letter in front are at least 10 years old. All these stocks were imported by unlicensed traders who were not in a position to ,dispose of them in other countries. They were ordered to be destroyed as their