Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . LAUDANUM FOR BABY Laudanum is no more dangerous than many of the preparationssold as soothing syrups; it has the saving grace of the poisonlabel. (By courtesy of the Committee on Interstate and ForeignCommerce.) We have once more, then, a verification of the oft-declaredfact that the patent medicine business is inherently fraud-ulent and dangerous and will remain just as fraudulent andjust as dangerous as the public will perm
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . LAUDANUM FOR BABY Laudanum is no more dangerous than many of the preparationssold as soothing syrups; it has the saving grace of the poisonlabel. (By courtesy of the Committee on Interstate and ForeignCommerce.) We have once more, then, a verification of the oft-declaredfact that the patent medicine business is inherently fraud-ulent and dangerous and will remain just as fraudulent andjust as dangerous as the public will permit. An amendmentto the Food and Drills Act, extending the list of drugs whosepresence must be declared on the label and requiring further,that patent medicines containing such drugs shall be labeledpoison, would materially strengthen the pure food law andwould do much to protect the public. Incidentally it woulddo much to decrease the sale of dangerous and habit-formingpatent medicines. (From The Journal A. M. A., May IS,J.)/.?.) How Winslows Soothes! Dr. G. M. Cummins, Hamilton, Ohio, reported a case ofpoisoning from Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup in a child,aged 3V2 months.—Tiik
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