Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-11-27
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are more defrauded in this respect than are the
we'll to do,
The housewife of the working man who must
make her every penny count tries to procure
warm clothes for her children and gets COM
mercial wool or worse. often largely cotton or
cotton flashed with wool upon the surface. soon
the wool is worn away and the child is unpro-
tected from Indictment weather. Is it right or
should we as citizens interested in the welfar re
of all our people demand that the truth shou Id
be known. demand that laws should be enacted
requiring that each and every product put up
on the market which contains two or more
ingredients. or in the case of goods that con.
tain shoddy or filters or other added material
should know what ingredients are used and the
amounts of the same. Such laws can only be
enasted when pubic sentiment demands them
and public sentiment will only come when
aggressive aud live bodies like the Federation
of woman's clubs and their co-workers through
out the country arise and demand the enact
ment of such laws for the protection of our
people and this without excluding any of the
cheaper articles, but let it be once known what
these products are and the prices which they
now command will become more nearly that of
their true value.
Then the public Can intellisently select the
character of the goods which they may choose
to purchase for their families This does not
mean that a single article of commerce . will be
driven from the market, but it would be I'M
masked and shown to the public in its true
light.
PATENT MEDICINES
1t is a disgrace that England and America
should be so far behind other civilized countries
with regard to the control of patent medicines
i and the practice of Quack doctors. Germany
. has an efficient patent medicine law. Australia
and New leland have what might in many re
spects be termed a model law yet in u. S. aud
England the worst fakes that are perpetrated
are those upon suffering humanity, often thru
correspondence and thus not easily reached
under the provisions of the state food law.
Quack doctors ply their trade from town to town
or through correspondence lead their victims to
| their own private hospitals or give them home
treatment hichiS often worse than worthless
because the treatment received is of no benefit
and not infreQuently results in the drug habit.
| have previously stated thatin my Judgment
more than IS per cent of the patent medicines
found upon the shelves of the average drug
store are fakes, In that they contain nothing
of real medicinal value for the treatment of the
disease that is claimed, or they contain HARM
full ingredients that may lead to injury or the
drug habit. How ma1.y mothers innocent of
any intentional wrong doing, have fed soothing
syrup to their children which has been either
directly or Indirectly the cause of death. How
many thousands of our people have been led to
form fhn rpcaipa ar ronrphina hahit from the
use of some patent preparation for the cure of
catarrh, asthama, dyspepsia the alcoholic habit,
and scores of other ailnent only to find later on
that cocaine, morphine, or some of their
derivatives we're the ingredient employed.
Even the soft drinks that are supplied at the
soda fountains or other places have been found
to bemedicated containing cocaine, ~caffaine etc.
Too often do we find those addicted to this class
of medicated drinks, little KIN " ing that they
are gradually being drawn into the use of one of
the most insiduous and habit forming drugs at
present known. ~
Today strenuous efforts are being put forth,
to prevent the sale of this class of products
and yet in many states there are no laws to
regulate the character of the products which
are sold to the people
Asthma cures are sold containing from l to s
grains of choral hydrate, others containing CO.
caine, morphine or opiu m. The same ingred-
tents are used in catarrh cures. for the opium
habit, and in the cure of alcoholic disease. OF
late We have heard a great deal and read con.
siderable in the papers concerning Hamiltons
| Obesity Bath Powders for the reduction of
flesh and we note the prosecutions brought by
tn. government against these charlatans of
Denver,
OF what is this product composed? Our
analysis shows it to be Sc per cent common
salt, A per cent washing soda, colored pink with
a coal tar dye. The use of this product is
guaranteed to remove super1ous flesh, to sgive
one a beautiful form and to make life a pleasure
The opposite of this is sargal and we find that
not a few of our own people in North Dakota
are users of this preparation, a product which
it is claimed, will add flesh, build up the thin
and emaciated by putting on flesh rounding out
the figure, correcting errors of indigestion.
Ten days treatment for S1.00.
Our analysis showsnothing that could warrant
such claims. In fact 1t may be pointed out
that our own analysis compared with other
American analysis and analysis made in Great
Britain indicate that the product is far from
uniform. Approximately one half of the sam.
pie analysed by US was mineral matter con.
tanning very little of protein together with
phosphates. Hypo phospto starch and a small
amount of sugar as the principal Ingredients.
While another analysis initead of showing
80 per cent of mineral matter shows less than
4 per cent of mineral matter and the English
analysis, instead of showing 2 per cent Of
protein shows a very high amount and also
shows the presence of zinc phosphide, while the
sample examined by us shows an absence o.
zinc, There is nothing that would warrant the
conclusion that this article has any special value
in the production of flesh producing plum pness
and soundness that is claimed for it.
Sanitogen is another product being cxtensiv
ely advertised and pushed by manufacturers
who have recently informed the public of thu
t grand prize which they have received for al
} exhibit in London,
r To one who is familiar with the method b.
| which these grand prizes are won. This viii
! make no impression but let one consider VIVA
: DR.. Folin of Harvard Medical School a ~scientis
l whom no one can question has to say with re
l gard to this preparation,
5 For myself or for any one who would ask m
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