The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-27
ON IMPURE MEDICINE
Important Address by John
A. Patten i'm Ten
neSee.

Bon Aqua Springs. Tenn, July 27.-
Before The twentieth annual convection
Of the yeanassce sude rhaunac. aical
nssocis, here > A. Pateh. of the
chatis Medicine c9mpany spcte
as frater, Representative from the
Proprietary association II Amer and
gave attention to trc recent attacks up n
tho proprietary medicine business. Mr..
Patten's position. as one OF the leading
business men of the state. gave etnphas-
Is to his retNari which had careful at
tenlson and were received nv tho drug
aists uritb r.,-,ct- =
After cNteading tratenai greetings and
referring 10 tho rciatiens ot the manu-
fsrturpr ard tire r~tancr1 erd srvef al
timely trade topics Mr Patton said
that ne felt mc;ired to speok few
words ab ut the sA@alled patent medi-
cine cures inasnuch as we hnve re-
Gently had unusually severe and reF
sssient attacks upon the nltrufsctu'e~ e~s
OF proprietary me ii'ines from int'ten
iiai publications. and pr uineut MEDICAL
organizations lie said one widely ctr
cuiated paper had gone 30 far as to
state that these manufacturers aud the
newspapers were in criminal con
spiracy to defraud and poison the pub
iic 70 which copsI irtcy 90 Ga 're IS ouef
each retailer is Of coarse. a Darty
We first observe that it Is not from
the pubic. the great mass Of people VINO
uss rnedicines. ttau these criticisms
arise. Note the source frur, which hey
come. and the sclf-spp oinrd guardians
appear for competent peo. le who lave
not asked for such protection
u must also be admitted BY fair-rlind-
ed people that every sclf-intercN of the
manufacturer ,rotnp,s him to put out q
remedy which Is not only meritonous,
bat safs However INSCRIPTIONS he
may be at heert. common sense teaches
him that only -. ae produces an article
thai viii repeat" (which win aoet me
needs Of the people who buy it-can he
reach success.
First AdulSerstion In Ne ieire.
Admitting tnat there aie fakes in
medicine as In every other inc OF tr'dc
Is Il not true that the leading propiie-
tarv medicines that haze stood the test
Of time are Of known % er peutic valle
are they not prepared in laboratories Of
the highest g 1de uEdcr th" care oi
skilled ph,rnaoisN md nuie from "p
proved formulas which in many In
saancss lave been tl.e especill pride ami
specific Of some successful physician OF
chemist Have they not been tried in
.he crucible Of public opinion ird been
fclnd setisfeclofy is she peNple2 For
Otherwise would not the people Hiscon
iinue using them Are they not gener-
ally obtained at "a mere Fraction OF the
cost of the same lass o. m -li tics when
ohiaintd thru rh a prysiriars advice
and prrserirfiop@ Aud are lot the 'nil
lions of people WHO isr tfsri s1iisfcd
Bun IL has been said thai 10 IS adver-
tisiag and no, merit of product which
FcIis our goods and that nnly by the
strongest kind of adverusing the proprio-
tary medicine mar forces the people 20
use pis goods Is not this also np over
statement The most that Advertising
can do is 20 make people ty it 80 "dy
but an imbecile would continue to take
a medicine if IL failed 20 benefit him.
Merit - Medicine.
As a sample proof that Z is nos the
ad, ertislng alo,e that sells medicines
need only % rradai sou of ihe fact tLat
are wilipg 10 o "a good 1cal more than
ne price of one p,clne Of treir medi
cine for each inquiry or first sale whicr
they get through advertising Mmrfdc-
turers pay for inquiries regnrdng theh
medicine selling Il si ns nigh as s. 10
s. cash They know that "a fair tria
Of good remedy win show benehti ia
results. and 3hpt a customer once made
IN this way viii probably use 'he medi-
cine cWunwlN ntA satisfactory ol
permanent results are obtained Ais
that - D icased customer viii Induce 9th
crs 90 buy.
BDt We hear much about the baucu
effects Of The use - these medicines
Are not many people killed every veal
by using proprietary medicines? cn th'
contrary with small Amy OF enemies
constnty on the alert re Vly 10 sciz'
lsp o aud naguify every uuiavzorabl'
circumstance. how few are the cases OF
accident or iajury nom the use ~ FRO
.Hietary meiicipss complaints Ia re-
gard 10 the use of sgch remedies, ThN
not unlOnown. are exceedingly rare nnt
utterly insignificant n comparison viii
the amount solo aud The millions sf pco
pie Who avail themselves OF these 'ne
dies. And yeu 40 not need 20 1e remind
cd ih'a pnvsi,ilns are some times 5c
cused of malpractice and druggists rav
been knQwA 20 make mistakes on ore
scripuons
Alcohol and oppm
Agaln, there is the alcohol and opium
argument Users of mcdic'ncs are ali
20 become alcoholic So "a law is sug
gested forcing the proTrctor to 'ebs
bis bottle "rhi- bottle con,eins over
Ter cent alcohol / claim TO 'e sin
core advocate OF temperance. but y3'
genuenen knov aud I know what
i1sc ATTEMPT has been made ir This CD
recHon TO play on the preiudices of th
isnnrnt You know ,hat 'nD avcmr
doctors prescription co~mlls fully u
large 70 pcr eniare OF lc,h-l as ih
average proprietary The reput1bl
medicine proprietor puts NOT one drol
fnore Of alcohol it pis pro'ucis thm O.
ne dei 20 aet as B., solvent or prescraUv