Daily Republican., 1885-03-06
EDITION,
The Patent medicine nm.

An adjourned meeting OF the drug
yists WAS held Thursday afternoon, ~
which II. r.. Bringhurst presided, and
John M. Harvey acted ~ Secretary.
The Cooper bill, relating to proprietary
med icines, reported against its adop
ton, as il IL not con sidered n wise or
judicious measure, or one that would
be benefit to the people or the physi-
clans of this State. The com mittee re
ported that they had not yet finished
the consideration Of the Morgan bill,
and IL was agreed 10 hold another
meeting on Monday afternoon at three
O'Clock.
The full text Of the Cooper bill is M
follows
SECTION I. That on and after the
nrst day Of October, 1855, 1t shall not
be lawful for any ,psrson in this state
to sell or offer for sale any proprietary
medicine or any article whatever, pn,
up az remedy uc cure for any or all
disc Asses of man or beas,, without the
exact formula and proportions u each
ingredient of such proprietary medicine
or curelor remedy appearing by printing
)or writing on each bottle or package, So
that IL can be seeu and read openly,
and every person so offending, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and
shall upon conviction thereof by indict.
ment, I've fined not less than nifty nor
more than q hundred dollars tor thr
6rst ofiense, aud for every subsequent
offsnse, --doilars and imprisonment
for thirty days.
Section 2. Any person who shall
knowingly sell or oiirr for sale, any
bottle or package OF any proprietor =
IN dc ne, cure Or remedy, which SHAH
hav, printed or written on the Label
any form ula or statement OF any in-
STeoit OTIS which shall not be exactly
rue, and shall differ in any way from
tue exact statement of the contents oil
said bottle or package, every such pet
son 40 offending, rhhll b deemed guilty
lof misdemeanoT, ami shall, upon
Icon viction thereof, he iiu~d not lost
than tive bundled doilals for each ant
levery offense.
There is a genera feeling among tn
idTuggis;B ~ Tins city against this hill
, az II Iot only reInites tho formula, an'
n list Of ingredients ~ be printed o.
the iahels, hut also Imposes a hue of no
less than $50, or more Than 800, upp
/, druggists selling proprietary medicines
the labels of " hicn do not contain til
formula.
A prominent druggist said this morr
iug thst he constituted ne entire III
!, Al outrage, and one that would wor
e 10 the uisadvautaRo OF lundr, DIS of pr
-o..s ia this State, without ebecting an
= benefit to anyone. Thi, gentleman nj.
N id thai there are three kinds Of pr
g prietary med icines, the first OF whiC
" are What il known Ms the popular vari
:, ~, such a. Jayne's Expectoraht, Wa
6 ncI Safe Cure aud others of like ID
fure. the formula OF which IL lucknow
TO any Tut tho proPrietors.
L The next are known rs ply sician
Il proprietary medicines and are man
iaetured by firms III the large cite
hut the formula of which is ~, mt To 4
iphysi"iaus, consequently when TIN
write prescription ordering any
these remedies, they know exact
what proportion Of each drug there
In dos, These medicines are pure
ased by the druggist in pound pac
= ages and the ply stefan writ. d his pl
scFiption for one or more ounces AZ /
case may be, and prescribes the ii
I IT, and the time " beu, he doses are
, be taken.
The last class is composed Of pills q
other articles that are prepared
, druggists and physicians use, the I
n. mu!a of which liz generally printed
- tbs labels OF the original packages.
X great many of these remedies are p
ocribed / Y the physicians who are fl
aware of the ingred tents Of which u
are composed The bill is by most p
SONS considered as very mischievous
is ted ncies, and OF no practical
Whatever.