Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-03-17
THE BROOKS BILL.
Full Text OF the Itinerant Vendor Bill
Now Before the House.
1t is Designed to Relieve the People of TIT
"Kickapoo Indian Medicine" Odium.
[From the Iowa Capitol

IRWIN 'hS ioNh Sufito''I
One of the most important measures befor
the present General Assembly is the Brooks
bill, which is designed to revolutionize, in sever
al respects, the manner in which itinerant ven
ders carry on their business under the presen
law.
When DIR. A. l.. Brooks, representative from
Audubon county, introduced this bill, it precpi
tated considerable discussion in medical and
pharmacy circles. Unfair press criticisms Great
cd prejudice against the bill, and before its In.
tent and purposes were understood an effort
was made by physicians and apothecaries to kill
ii in the committee room through the medium
circumstances.
Since the purposes of the measure have be-
come known, however, the circumstances
against it have been withdrawn; the committee
amendments introduced by Dr. Brooks, eliml-
mating the chief objection of the pharmacy COM
mission, having been endorsed by the commit
tee and now the bill or substitute will 20 before
the house without opposition. The substitute is
rs follows:
BILL.
For an act TO amend chapter one hundred and
four of the acts of the Twenty-frst General AS
sembly relating to the practice of medicine, and
and to repeal section 10, chapter 10 OF the acts Of
the Eighteenth General Assembly as amended
and to enact a substitute therefor
BE 1t enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Iowa
Section l. That chapter one hundred and
four of the acts of the Twenty-frst General AS
sembly be and the same is hereby amended by
striking out all Of section eleven and inserting
the following In lieu thereof
Sec. . Every itncrant vendor within this
state, OF any drug, ointment, nostrum, or appl-
ance of any kind, intended for the treatment or
cure OF any disease, injury or deformity; or any
itinerant person who shall by writing, printing
or any other method or device profess to cure
or treat any disease, injury or dofqrnity by any
drug, ointment or nOstrum, or who shall
diagnose or pretend to diagnose or contract to
treat or cure disease, injury, dcformity or in
iirmty, either as principal or assistant, or agent
shall pay the sum Of one hundred dollars per
month TO the treasurer of the state board of
medical examiners ana upon proper application
therefor and the payment of such sum, II shall
be ;asfal for said board of medical examiners
to Issue certificate to that effect, signed by the
president Of said board and attested by the sec
Rotary thereof with the seal OF said board and
such certificate shall be conclusive as 10 the
rights and privileges Of the lawful holder there
of under this section. Said board may refuse
such certiRcase or revoke the same when grant
ed, whenever il Is deemed by majority of said
board, to be In the interest of the public good.
Every such itinerate vendor who shalt sell, or
offer for sale either by himself, agent or empOye
any drug, ointment, nOstrum or appliance or any
itinerate person, who shall profess to treat or
cure any disease, injury or deformity, or any
itinerate person who shall diagnose or pretend
10 diagnose, or contract to treat o. cure any dis
ease injury or defOrmity as set forth III this sec
ton without having procured such certificate,
shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any
sum not less than one hundred $500 dollars or
more than five hundred $500 dollars for each
and every Ofense to be recovered by said board
in the name of the state before any court of COM
petcnt jurisdiction. All moneys received by
said board under the provisions of this section
shall be paid into the state treasury"
Sec. 3. Sec. 10, chapter 20, acts Of the Egh.
teenth General Assembly as amended, is hereby
repealed and the following enacted in lieu
thereof.
''Sec. 10. The SUN of 3, 600 per annum, or so
much thereof as may be necessary is hereby ap-
propriated to pay the contingent expenses of the
commissioners OF pharmacy, warrants to be
issued for the same by the state auditor upon
the presentation Of the proper vouchers"
See. 4. This act being deemed OF immediate
importance shall take effect and be in force OIL
and after its publication in the Iowa State Reg
lister and DeS MOnes Leader, newspapers pub,
iished at Des Moines.
DIR. j. A. Harrison, OF Davenport, one of the
members of the Pharmacy commission in n let.
ter TO DIR. Brooks, endorses the substitute
among other things saying:
j am glad to note the unanmity with which
your committee endorsed your amended bill
and agree with you that the pharmacists should
support the substitute for file No. 2e5, when of.
fered. this am sure will DE done. Let us now
physicians and pharmacists and their friends
unite TO defend the new bill df defense shall be
necessary and 10 favor Its enactment.
The following from the Davenport Democrat,
clipped from the Dubuque Telegraph, shows
how the bill is now viewed by those who first
criticised 1t:
Pharmacy Commissioner j. n. Harrison, who
returned yesterday from Dies NOnes, states that
he and Messfs. TOrbett, Of Dubuque, Mitchell of
Bloomfield, and Lichty of Des MoneS, had Il
very pleasant and satisfactory interview with
DIR. Brooks. chairman OF the committee on Med
icine and Pharmacy and author of the Brooks
bill, amendatOry Of the pharmacy law. The
druggists were much pleased with the doctor
and, convinced of his good intention and SINGER
fly they promptly consented Ia some changes in
the bill proposed by him, and II is quite certain
his amended or substitute bill will have no OPP
position from the pharmacists.
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