The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-09
FIGHT The DRUGS.
State Beard of Health Issues
Warning.
Takes Direct Slap at a Medical
Company.
BORIC ACID POISON.
Large Quantities Found in Al
legged "COmpOund.'
More Investigations Will Be
Made.

| and is Sendlng out reports or their
harmful prescriptions. Everything from
their tonics to canning compounds is
| being torn into shreds and displayed
! before the public eye
Probably the most important drug
one that will interest every housewife
in Kansas is the report from the Kan
sas state laboratory on the condition
| of a package of alleged canning COM
pound" The board of health has is
sued a state wide warning against the
use of this compound.
The report, by H. Louis Jackson,
which covers the field in a complete
manner and tells of the injurious sub
stances of this compound reads as fol-
lows:
This 'antiseptic preparation sold
through the mail by the Price Com
pound Co. of Minneapolis, Mimi, and
labeled Mrs. Prices Canning Com
pound is nothing but commercial boric
acid which could be bought at any
drug store in the country for from
twenty-five to fifty cents pound &C
cording to local conditions. The Price
Compound Co. charges one dollar and
sixty cents pound in small quantities
and about one dollar pound when one
buys fifteen packages of the preserVa-
tive at one time.
Health Tempered With.
This is the first and great reason
why it is sold by them and why they
do not sell it under its true name. But
it is not the worst part of the transact
ton. One may allow his pocketbook to
be injured somewhat without too great
concern. 1t should be matter of seri-
Gus consideration when ones health is
to be tempered with.
"On the package of Mrs. Prices Can
ming Compound it is stated May be
used in canning. all kinds of fruits, and
is especially valuable for corn, beans,
peas, asparagus, tomatoes, etc. May
also be used in making catsup, sweet
pickles, or anything that is liable to
ferment. 1t saves money, time, labor,
worry and insures the best results. See
book of directions for instruction in
using the compound, and how to do all
kinds of canning.
The contents of this package is suf-
ficient for four quarts
There is no doubt that it would |
make vegetables 'catsup, sweet |
pickles. canned fruit and anything I
that is liable to ferment,' keep, for the |
package contains thirty grams, about |
all of it is to be added to one quart.
Think of it! The national government
is allowing not to exceed one-tenth of
one per cent of sodium benzoate in
few food products when its presence is
stated on the label and this firm in
1uces the public to put seven to eight
times as much in all canned products
and does not let 1t be known what it
health. provided some firm can make
money.
Housewife Should Look Further.
Let the housewife look further. Con-
ents of one package to four quarts,
seven and a half grams to one quart.
suppose eight persons are served from
me quart of corn or beans or peas, ETC.,
hen each would receive nearly one |
sram Of boric acid at a single meal.
suppose the catsup and some sweet |
PICKLE or fruit is put up in the same
way. A person could easily receive
me to two grams of boric acid at a |
Jingle meal. The. United States de-
)artment of agriculture in its expert
nentS to determine the effect of boric |
tcid in food on healthy young men sell
Iom gave as much as five grams in a
whole day to one person. In a few
instances four grams per day per per-
on was given but usually only one.
wo. or three grams per person per day
vas administered and was considered
large dose. If the directions of the
'rice Compound company were follow
cry probably consume one to three
rams of boric acid per day and that,
month after month
I'm the department of agriculture
experiments above mentioned it was
ound that, on the whole, the results
how that one-half gram per day is too
ouch for the normal man to receive
egularly.' Then what VIII one say
n regard to children and old people
T those in poor health living in a
ousehold where everything liable to
is preserved with three-quar-
ers of 1 per cent of boric acid?
1.-The above experiment also showed
hat about so per cent of the boric acid
eliminated through the kidneys. Do
eople wish any more burden put on
he kidneys than they already bear?
THE same experiments showed a
slight but perfectly distinct loss in
ody weight in those taking boric acid
4 their food.
Women Warned Against Personalities.
They showed that all persons can
OF stand the same amount of borie
cid without signs of discomfort. Even
mong healthy young men some were
lade sick smaller amounts of pre-
ervative than others. The signs of
iscomfort in such cases are diminish
ng appetite. feeling of fullness and
neasiness in the stomach which in
ONE cases results in nausea with a
cry general tendency to produce a
ense of fullness in the head, which is
ften manifested as dull and per-
lstant headache. Sometimes sharp
nd well-located pains are noticed
hich however are not persistent
Every woman should be warned
gainSt using any kind of a canning
no matter what its name
r claims. Firms are putting them on
ne market under new names or labels
nd in new forms but be assured they
re never new and can not be new
hey are merely one or more of the
anne old sulfites. borax, boric acid.
odium benzoate. salicylic acid. formal
ehyde. or a number Of other less com
lonly used chemicals. They are sold
a higher price than they could be
ought for at the local drug store and
lerely induce people to drug their
ocies instead of cooking their fruits
nd vegetables when they are canned"
Go to Burghart's and buy your