Identifier: nostrumsquackery01ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from The Journal of the American Medical Association
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: American Medical Association Cramp, Arthur Joseph) 1872-
Subjects: Medicines, Patent, proprietary, etc Quacks and quackery
Publisher: Chicago American Medical Association Press
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ledge is greater. The British Pharmacy BABY KILLERS i:;:; Act recognizes the lark of technical knowledge in those personswho purchase patent medicines and requires all preparationsof this kind thai contain any drugs scheduled in the acl aspoisons to be labeled POISON. Winslows Soothing Syrup,as sold in Great Britain, had to have tlie following statementprinted oh the label: ••This preparation, containing, among1 other valuable ingreclients a small amount of morphin is in accordance with thePharmacy Acl herewith labeled POISON. Even the most ignorant know the meaning of the wordpoison. It carries with it a warning that is understood amithat holds attention. The poison label has doubtless been themeans of savin:; the lives of many infants and. as a naturalcorollary, has been responsible for a much smaller sale of thenostrum than it would otherwise have enjoyed. Doubtless,the Anglo-American Drug Company, which sells WinslowsSoothing Syrup, has been forced to recognize the fact that a
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Some people are afraid of preparations sold as soothing syrups,but imagine that the old-fashioned paregoric can do no harm. Herea.e smne of ihe governments exhibits of dangerous paregoric prepa-rations, designated by Dr. Kebler, Polite Soothing Syrups. (Bycourtesy of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce ) nostrum cannot have a large sale so long as it has to carrythe word POISON on its label. At any rate. WinslowsSoothing Sydfro. as now sold in Great Britain, contains nomorphin, pjJ^smm bromid having been substituted for theOpiate. Recently analyzed by the chemist of the British Med-ical Association, the product on the British market wasreported to have the following composition: Potassium bromid 2.0 per cent. Aicohn) 4.3 per cent, by measure Essential oil (anise) about 0.1 per cent. Sugar 56.5 per cent. •434 XOfiTlU 1/n *n spite of this radical and essential change in the formula,the manufacturers still publish the statement that appeared on the label before the change

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