The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-01

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tFrom Wednesdays Advertiser,

| trOm wednesdays Advertiser)
Liquozone had a bad day with the
Board of Health yesterday. Dubbed q
poison by the Board and defended by
attorneys Wilmington and Harrison
who represent the Liquozone manufac.
turers and who declared that even un.
der the Hawaiian statute the medicine
could not be so designated, a lively
technical setto ensued All this was
at special meeting of the Board held
| at O'Clock in the afternoon.
| The Board at the conclusion of the
meeting had not changed it's mind.
Mr.. Wilmington, after discussing the
| authority of the Board of Health to
put poison label on a patent medi-
cine. turned the matter over to Mr..
Harrison, as he had an engagement
which required his attendance else
! where. Mr.. Harrison was somewhat
lame as an authority on medical and
| chemical matters and was quite un-
able to answer questions put to him
| by the members of the Board. In
| other words the Board practically
played horse" with Harrison.
Before leaving. Mr.. wilmington
threw out the suggestion that If the
| Board required Poison" labels put on
Liquozone bottles before they could be
sold from drug stores, the only re-
course the company he represented
would have, was to sue the members
of the Board, individually. Any alarm
this statement may have caused, Mr.
Wilmington aliayed however, by say
Ing that this would be an extremely
undesirable method. He stated that
he did not wish to be understood as
meaning that the Liquozone company
contemplated bringing any such pro-
ceedings. but the only remedy, so far
as he knew, lay in this course of ac-
ton.
President Pinkham presided, and in
attendance were members Dr. Judd,
DR.. Wayson, f. C. Smith, A. Fernan-
dez, Secretary Charlock, Territorial
Chemist r. A. Duncan, Deputy Attor-
ney General Fleming and attorneys
Wilmington and Harrison.
Mr.. Wilmington in opening said he
had been requested by Mr.. Stratton of
San Francisco, attorney for the Lii
quozone Company on the Pacific Coast,
to appear before the Board of Health
here for the same company. He had
some documents from the Liquozone
people which he would read and pre-
sent. He said he was somewhat fa-
miliar with the Pure Food Act having
introduced it into the California legis-
lature and put it through and also he
had prosecuted some cases under the
Act. 1t requires that goods or sub
stances containing anything deleteri-
Gus to health shall be covered with
labels containing a description of the
substances. AS far as he had been
able to ascertain there Is no provision
in the law here which is similar to
that elsewhere. There was no provi-
sion for labelling a drug Poison un-
der the Pure Food Act. What the
Board had directed here is to place
a Poison" label on each package and
that is what the Board had decided to
stand by, he added.
He called attention to the law of the
Territory, Section 1851. This provides
that no person shall sell or deliver any
deadly poison" unless so labelled. In
other words said Mr. wilmington, Lii
quozone If labelled under the direction
of the Board must be labelled only
ne lltll Cdlleu TO
the regulation of the Board on page
60 of its booklet, in which a list of
drugs styled as poisons was printed,
including arsenic, belladona, cyanide,
carbolic acid, chloroform, sulphuric
acid etc.
The Board of Health" said Mr. |
Wilmington, cannot enlarge the signif
icance of this act and the phrase
deadly poison"
The attorney said that Liquozone
was sold in every state i'm the Union,
unprohibited. He said he had been
given to understand that the action
here was taken because of similar ac-
tion in San Francisco Mr. Withing-
ton protested against the Boards order
as unjust, not only to the proprietors ,
but to the people, because it desired |
to label an article as Poison" when |
1t does not come within the definition
of poison. He said the action of the |
Board has caused the Liquozone COM |
pany much trouble because it's action
was heralded all over the country and
was even used in Porto Rico by COM
petitors of the Liquozone company.
Mr.. Harrison then presented and
read affidavts from Messrs. Dewitt, |
Schoen and Cunningham. Schoen stat
ed that he was a consulting chemist
in Chicago and in his capacity had
served many corporations. He stated |
that he was now consulting chemist |
for the Liquozone people Lquozone, |
he swore, was derived from gases pro-
duced from various chemicals and |
by processes requiring large |
apparatus and from substances which |
contained no alcohol, opium, morphine
or cocaine, The product had been Civ
en- to animals for test purposes without
any injury to them, II could be taken |
in reasonable quantities by humans
without any ill-results and would kill
germs In the system,
But that affidavit does not state
that IL does human being any good.
does it9" inquired Mr., Fleming
"oh, yes, It does" replied Mr., with
ington,
The afiidaylt of Mr., Dewitt set forth |
that he was an analytical chemist and
a consulting chemist ana Liquozone