The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-30


ed TO reply what the virtues of Liquo-
zone were when Mr. Wilmington in
terrupted He said that if it was q
question Of adulteration there was GER
tainly no reason for the Board labelling
Liquozone a poison" Mr.. Harrison
said the Board had exceeded its power
in making any regulation above what
the statute names as poisons.
You mean to say that Sulphuric acid
is not a deadly poison inquired DR..
Wayson.
We'll. it depends upon the size of
the dose" answered Mr.. Harrison.
You can dilute a drug down to
nothing. but do you mean to say that
the drug therein is not a deadly poi
son." rejoined DR.. Wayson.
We'll, when it is diluted down, the
preparation cannot be called a deadly
poison" replied Mr. Harrison. IF
there is enough sulphuric acid to make
it a deadly poison that is different"
President Pinkham at this point
stated that the arguments We're a lit
tie off. The revised statutes define
drugs ininical to life as poisons. If
the Liquozone people had chosen to
put their analysis on label on the
bottle he would have nothing to say.
But they did not do this and Chemist
Duncan calls their attention to the
fact that it does contain substances
inimical to life and the Liquozone peo-
pie have been given the privilege OF
ceasing to sell the article or mark the
bottles in the way ordered by the
Board.
IF it is necessary for US to prove
that it is inimicaI to health 1 think
we can do it, said the president
quietly.
A few bottles of Liquozone We're on
the table and from one of these the
president removed the book of direc-
lions accompanying the bottle and read
a passage from it as follows:
mo man knows and no man can
discover all of the properties which
give to this product its unique ana
remarkable power
President Pinkham said that the en-
ployes of the Liquozone company are
making a great bluff in their affi-
daVits. He then proceeded to put q
number of technical questions to Mr.
Harrison. but the latter sidetracked by
stating that he was not a medical man
and adding that LiquoZone does no
harm and frequently does good" and
that he had no analysis from the COM
pany.
do you know anything about
germs, Mr. Harrfson?'' asked DR.. Way
son.
No answered Mr. Harrison, ''be-
cause I am not medical man."
well, then said the doctor, f'the
admission that Liquozone will kill
germs is an admission that it is strong
enough to kill human tissues"
We'll, what about whisky" asked
Harrison.
well, some day we will take look
at your stomach and decide that
point was the medico's retort. Glow
ever, [ think that Liquozone should be
labeled Poison
Mr.. Duncan said that druggists have
told him they consider Liquozone a
fraud and they would just as lief label
It Poison as not.
At this point Mr.. Fleming asked |
he could have the affidavits. |
Mr.. Harrison said he could have copies, |
rs these were originals. Mr.. Fleming |
glanced over one and remarked that it |
vas not even typewriter copy, that |
t was printed in imitation of type
writer type, and only the signatures |
we're original. Such afhdavits were |
printed and issued by the |
gross.
Mr.. Pinkham put the following argu-
nents before the Board: rs it con-
'istent for the Board of Health to |
disregard its own positive official in
ormation and accept mere unsupport-
d assurances, especially of interested |
,arties? If the statement made by the
1iquozone people that No man knows
md no man can discover the proper
les which give to this product its
Unique and remarkable power is prop
Tly summed up has it not. to say the
east, the appearance on the part of
cur company of an attempt to i'm
cse upon the credulfty of the Board
f Health?"
Chemist Duncan's analysis of Liquo-
one shows that in a half pint bottle
here are the following substances:
Oil of vitriol (sulp. acid, 0.S7S per
emit. equal to 90 grains; sulphur di-
xide, 0.2S2 per cent, equal to grains.
he matter has been taken under adj
isenient by the Board and report
hay be made at an early meeting.