i feel as if my brain was going to explode i can't think of one more idea for the life of me get out yes but stole that from now maybe i'll think of something tomorrow suggestions that you son didn't seem to think much of the whole no wonder i got a lot of term paper on health education and all the brain here can think of is a report on the natural superiority of women  fascinating well his name is of aloka cozumel and he comes from of those tiny remote islands in the south seas oh it must be a heavenly place he showed us color slides of it this evening larry can you imagine mr karr homeowners people scarcely know the meaning of the word sick sounds incredible business sure does i must remember not to go there when i become a doctor they maintain perfect health through the use of just one mother so that's what this is the secret of health all the way from the south seas how much for fifty the care you can expect mom a quack is the choir whether it comes from the south seas or lives right here in the city all he's interested in is taking money from people now larry you know that i haven't been feeling very well lately and according to mr carville marlo this tea is just what i need a man if you're not feeling well go see dr evans he's a licensed m d you can about him as a matter of fact i understand doctor there there's nothing you can do unless my mother asks you these quakes once you get to a patient anything can happen proper treatment can be delayed often until it's too late many people would go to a doctor earlier if they didn't trust some wacko who is doing nothing for them that's what thinks of quick so dangerous but isn't there anything you can do about them oh yes yes is a federal food drug and cosmetic act that's in force by the f d a the food and then there's a federal trade commission they check on the false advertising of health products then the post office department they crack down on the sale of fake medicines and devices by mail on a number of the state  i have to do a paper for my health that course doctor and it it just occurred to me that this would make a good topic quacks enough terms of very good topic and important to maybe i can give you some leads it would help but certainly i would first go to the food and drug administration show them some of this i'm sure they'd be interested doctor the result can be fatal this is absolutely worthless as a cure for any known illness but about testimonials now this guy showed my mother some pretty convincing letters well as with a quick use for ba they're just as phony as the medicine now some quacks write their own others buy them and some people write testimonials in good faith when they think they've been cured or will be cured one investigation by the american medical association show that some of the people wrote the testimonials died before their letters appeared in print of the diseases they thought were cured and we have had the same experience investigating these quick treatments well this cartoon manas making false claims and peddling phony medicine why don't you arrest him well first we have to prove that the stuff has been sold across state lines if it isn't then we turn the case over the state authorities to handle but if it is and we prepare a case against him for violation of the food drug and cosmetic  and then we turn all this information over the united states attorney's presentation in the federal court then they take on i didn't realize there was so much to it as a result of all this i'm doing a paper on quacks nostrums and i'm just beginning to see the amount of work that goes into protecting people from them well where only one agency that protects the public if it would help i'd be glad to show you around evaded might give you an idea what we're doing if you've got time to be great well fits into a pattern of what of course you must live with the end point is to make that ignore and your body parallel with the magnetic field and even a little compass was included in this deal the thing suppose to pick up magnetic forces that's right supposed to do all sorts of wonderful things for you and people actually bought it just as fast as this guy could make them the only trouble was the crack would bring that up made the mistake of sending literature about it to the mail customer complain to the post office  stops mail from being delivered to him and cuts off his revenue they can also consider the possibility of criminal prosecution medical investigation and post office cases handled by our bureau of medicine can anyone make a complaint absolutely if it's in writing and the person who discovers one of these fake health schemes and reports is doing a real service i'm not depends on what the claims are actually made for a product doesn't it and now you're getting into labeling mislabeling almost branding is a very serious offense we keep a file of drug labels now labels on drugs are very important which is a state what the medicine is recommended for the dosage i was an attempt at and for how long whether it's recommended for children and when it should not be taken now according to the food and drug and cosmetic act national formulary drugs described in these official blocks are known as official drugs and they don't need a list of ingredients on the label but they do have to contain the exact ingredients specified in the official in strange quality of purity the label has to say so now we are examined thousands of products samples each year concentrating on those manufacturers whose products we have learned from experience do not always meet the required standards what about drugs that you get by prescription while nowadays are many powerful drugs that are not safe to take without a doctor's supervision and under federal law they cannot be sold without a prescription and these drugs are not label the same as those consumers can buy in their own but you can rely upon your doctor and your pharmacist they're both professionally trained men a druggist must have received training at an accredited college now drugstores have an important place in our health service and they can be very useful if you just remember to follow your doctor's advice not expect the drugs to prescribe for you your labels carefully and he might escape to go about anything that claims to be a cure all or is advertised to do more than the label says it will and i'm sure that those government people are experts at their work but ever since i've been taking mystic our humanity i found simply wonderful i never knew that a remedy could be self active i haven't been having my usual attacks at all now why well you've got to admit that your mother's been looking and feeling wonderful and you started taking the t harry maybe those government people don't really know i mean i know they can see and all that that i have you can see the difference pete's sake i just don't get it after everytime i ask her how she's feeling it's fine just fine and yet the f d a said the stuff is absolutely no good and she does seem to be feeling better the past few weeks it just doesn't make sense to me it's possible there that your mother wasn't really sick at all many of the people that quacks claimed to have cured weren't sick in the first place sometimes of course harmless which is something to be thankful for we just have to wait to see if your mother's symptoms return how the investigation coming on what about quacks enough to opine dr i had no idea we were such suckers about our health and i didn't know so much was being done to protect us against quacks and fake medicine because these pamphlets the better business bureau sent me yes they do a fine job too i found out that they have over one hundred offices handling all kinds of complain clearinghouse for information of that kind well what's next on the agenda the federal trade commission tomorrow afternoon i've learned that it's easy to get reliable information about health products and services but i'd like to know about health information that comes to us from advertising that's what we call commercial health information that's a mighty big business millions of dollars are there advertise health products vitamin pills nerve pills and all kinds of kills another medicines for all kinds of aches and pains is see sometimes the advertising and be deceptive and if the product is sold or advertised in interstate commerce that's where the federal trade commission comes in in some cases if you have retiring in an accurate things like cosmetics dealer and some hair tonics and so forth people might use the product in ways that could injure their health in accurate or are they actually lying where some ads don't really make any claims at all they just seem too tricky wording is what does some advertising  deal and littering generalities others use a plain folks live approach and there's this flashy bandwagon type of ad but many d l and out and out false claims what action do you take when you find that faults or deceptive advertising has been used well the commission issues a complaint against them and if the charge is approved o and i think of all the men and women who could be seriously ill going to a man like a man who's only interested in their money can't be sorry that he's going to jail people who should go to a doctor could go on believing i and