Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . is fallacy, all of the urinepassed in any given 24 hours should be saved and a portionof this tested. The vieiousness of selling drugs, or combina-tion of drugs, that are irritant to the kidneys, as cures fora disease that in itself irritates these organs, needs no demon-stration. Diabetol, then, differs not at all from other nostrums of itsclass. The mysterious secret herb, the absurdly broad claims,the worthless testimonials, the
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association . is fallacy, all of the urinepassed in any given 24 hours should be saved and a portionof this tested. The vieiousness of selling drugs, or combina-tion of drugs, that are irritant to the kidneys, as cures fora disease that in itself irritates these organs, needs no demon-stration. Diabetol, then, differs not at all from other nostrums of itsclass. The mysterious secret herb, the absurdly broad claims,the worthless testimonials, the exploiter without medicalknowledge—all these elements enter into so many of thewidely advertised sure cures that one would think thatthe very lack of originality would make their sale there is no- limit to the credulity of the hopelessly illand on this weakness the great American fraud thrives.(Modified from The Journal 1. 1/. . July 9, 1910.) TWO BRITISH ANALYSESAccording to the British Medical Journal, Dec. 26, 1908, notmany preparations are advertised for the cure of nostrums of this type were analyzed and, as is usual in. such cases, were found to be mixtures of well-known ingredi-ents, none of which can be supposed to produce the wonderfulresults claimed in the advertisements. Dl \i:i 11 8 CI RES n;:: Vin Urane Pesquis (Pesquis Uranium Wine)This nostrum proved to be a very ordinary Bordeaux wineeach 30 (1 fluidounce) of which contained uranium equiv-alent to gm. (1/12 grain) of the nitrate. Alt!the manufacturers claim that pepsin is added to the wine, nodigestive power whatever on egg albumin could be detected. Dills Diabetic Mixture Analysis of this preparation yielded results indicating formula: sodium bicarbonate, : extract of hy-drastis, ; resin, resinoid and other extractives. ; alcohol,35; water to 100. According to the advertisements this mix-ture is the only known remedy for this deadly disease. T
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