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Robert W. Blair, M.D.
3761 Stocker St. Los Angeles 8, Calif.

Arch Dermatol. 1961;83(4):664.

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To the Editor:—

As many of your readers must know, the Winthrop Laboratories has stopped coating its chloroquine tablets, marketed under the name ``Aralen.'' As a result, there are numerous complaints from lupus patients regarding the sickening taste of the new, uncoated form presently being manufactured.

A representative of the company has explained that the coated tablets were discontinued because of the danger to children, the theory being that a child would not eat many of the bitter, uncoated tablets.

I find this policy beyond rational comprehension. Because a child might be made sick by eating certain pills is certainly no reason to subject sick people to having to swallow a medication so sickening in taste that it would gag a maggot. It certainly is not advisable for a small child to drink a bottle of gin either, but no sane man would suggest that asafetida be added to gin . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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