Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-10-20
THE DANGEROUS FRAUDS IN PAT.
EMIT MEDICINES.

All OF the recent exposures and
undertaking" articles have, SAYS the
Literary Digest, evoked more or less
newspaper comment. But upon the
series Oh articles in Golfers Weekly
NY Mr. Samuel Hopkins Adams. law
ing Dare the swindle and quackery of
most patent medicines, the press has
Deen absolutely silent. The Literary
Digest, accustomed to present news.
paper comment to it's readers. must in
this instance point to the singular
scarcity OF that commodity. The rea-
SUI lor mat, we are told, is that the
manufacturers OF the nostrums by
means OF their enormous advertising
contracts, have succeeded in keeping
the newspapers muzzled.
L take it," says Mr.. Mark Sullivan
IN an article in Golfers Weekly. 81
take II IL any man should assert that
there is one subject on which the
newspapers of the United States. act.
ing Ill concert and as unit. will denv
lull and tree discussion, he would he
smiled at as an Incorporate fanatic
Inc thing Is too Incredible" And VET
IL is shown with documentary proofs
IN the Golfers series that contracts
Ior advertising made by patent medi.
Tines WIN newspapers carry what is
hhoWn as the red clause" which in
the case OF the Cheney Medical com.
pany, makers of Halls Catarrh Cure.
reaus like this: 1T is mutually agreed
tnat tnls contract is void If any law
is enacted by your state restricting or
prohibiting the manufacture or sale of
proprietary medicines. This is print.
cd In heavy red type across the face
OF The contract. The j. c. Aver COM
pany, makers of Ayers Sarsaparilla
mas provision against printing in
the newspapers anything detrimental
~, ~ j. Y. aver company's interests"
inese are some of the ways in which
the press is muzzled against the great
fraud which Mr.. Samuel Hopkins
ADAMS mas been exposing in Golfers.
The danger in this article of com.
merce, the patent medicine, is that its
fraud is not merely an imposition on
the purse of the purchaser, but that
usually 1t is a deadly poison, like the
cocaln and morphine of the so-called
.catarrh-cures," ''sothing-syrups," and
'cough-remedies," or mixture largely
alcoholic, as the "bitters," "sarsapa-
rillas," and "tonics." BY means of
these medicines, many people who be-
lieve themselves to be leading temper
ate and exemplary lives are becoming
drug-fields and alcoholics without
knowing it,
In this article we can only touch
the high places Of Mr.. Adams able
series. We can only mention the bet
ter known remedies" the widely adj
vertised. The alcoholic stimulants
known as Peruna, Paine's Celery Com
pound, Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky
come in this category. Peruna, out |
side of an insignificant quantity of
certain drugs Qess than one-half of 1
per cent? is made up of alcohol and
water, in the proportion of one to
three. The cost is about Is to IS cents |
a bottle, which sells for 81. A we'll |
known authority on drug addictions
writes Mr.. Adams as follows:
"A number Of physicians have call |
ed my attention to the use of Peruna,
both preceding and following alcohol |
and drug addictions. Lydia Pinkham's |
Compound is another drug used |
largely by drinkers; Paine's Celery
also. l have in the last |
two years met four cases of persons
who drank Peruna in large quantities
to intoxication. This was given to
them originally as a tonic They were