The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-03
PURE MEDICINES.
Remarks Before the Committee on
Public Health of the Massachusetts
Legislature, at Public Hearing,
Feb. a. 1906, by Mr.. @. n. Taylor,
Secretary of C. |. Hood Company.


Feb. 27, 1906, by Mr.. q. II. Taylor,
Secretary of C. |. Hood Company.
Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the
| Committees
| | appear here as n representative OF
G. |. Hood Co, manufacturing chemists,
and proprietors of Hoods Sarsaparilla,
Hoods pills, and other preparations. I
am secretary of the company and come
! in place of Mr.. c. I. Hood. the president
| OF the company, who is unable to be here.
| Our laboratory is in Lowell, where we
| have been located and have been max
| ing these medicines for more than thirty
| years.
C. |. Hood Co. will welcome any and
| all legislation in the interests of pure
foods and pure drugs. We certainly will
| not oppose the passage of any law that
will stop or restrict the sale OF secret
nostrums that contain poisons or other
| ingredients compounded as to be In
| furious to health. We do not wish to be
| even suspected of believing that the
| commonwealth of Massachusetts, Is to
adopt any legislation that can do any
harm to our business and any legislation
for the public good most surely has our
unqualified support
If the state deems II wise to requrs
publication of the percentage of alco-
ho or names of ingredients entering Into
medicines, we Will al once cheerfully COM
ply The amount of alcohol we use is the
smallest quantity possible to extract and
preserve in liquid form and to convey to
the patient the remedial values of the
ingredients we use. Hoods Sarsaparilla Is
so strongly medicinal that no person
could possibly attain anything like the
effect of intoxication from II for the rea-
son that no stomach could retain a guam
tity large enough.
A. 10 ba In uua no oh
lection to a law compelling the manu-
facturers OF proprietary articles to pub-
lish upon their packages the names OF
the ingredients contained therein. Such
legislation will be harmful TO fraudulent
concerns. When such legislation IL passed.
1t should be impossible for dishonest men
TO successfully sell any ineffcaclous or
possibly misunderstanding drugs under
the name of medicines, and reputable
manufacturers of proprietary remedies OF
true medicinal value will berhe gamers.
We have never hesitated to tell any
person who asked what the ingredients
of Hoods Sarsaparilla are. In fact we
publish the names of the ingredients
used. For obvious reasons we have not
considered 1t advisable to publish our
working formula. One of these reasons 10
stated briefly is that our experience and
our facilities and the care we exercise
enable us to compound and put up our
remedy perfectly; and only the man who
wishes to initiate or substitute would
have any real use for II. limitations which
might be made would be of inferior
quality. No imitator wishes to produce
the best: his only object being to get
money he would make the cheapest pos
sible mixture. We are willing to submit
our working formula II desired to any
competent board of experts and we re-
gard the Massachusetts state Board Of
Pharmacy as being such a board. and we
wish to say here that our formulas are
Just as they have been for many years
not changed nor adapted to meet the ext
gencles of the present situation.
Our business was started with one
preparation. Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
had its origin in a physicians prescrip-
ton about 1873. and II was prescribed for
years by the best physicians in Lowell
under the name OF Mist. Alter. Comp
meaning compound Alternative mixture. II
continues to be prescribed by physicians
all over the country. AS Hoods Sarsa-
parilla gained the public confidence and
as new avenues were opened, we have
introduced several other preparations all
OF which represent vast amount of
research and experiment. Our laboratory
Is under the personal supervision of Mr..
C. l. Hood whom you probably all know
as a thoroughly educated pharmacist. and
he Is assisted by regular graduate OF
the Massachusetts, College OF Pharmacy.
Our interests In the matter of legisla-
ton for the benefit of pure drugs and
honest medicines are Identical with the
interests OF the commonwealth. Thirty
years OF constant effort to produce the
best medicines naturally commits VI "a
this position.