Letters to the Editor
Allan B. Coleman M.D.
The idea of incorporating an emetic into aspirin tablets is neither "whacky" nor new. Of course, the concept of the self-correcting poison appeals.
Previous attempts at such combinations have been poorly accepted and seem impractical. Those of us old enough to remember the symptomatic treatment of pertussis with syrup of ipecac in drop doses for infants, remember the rather individual dose-juggling required to stay at a "subemetic" nauseant expectorant level. I seem to recall a self-antidoting sedative plus analeptic tablet a few years ago which has faded into the limbo of useless drugs.
