Evening star., 1913-05-22
ADVISED TO WAGE WAR
ON MEDICINE FRAUDS
Proprietary Association Is Ad-
dressed by Charles C. Green
of Philadelphia.

Advice that the honest proprietary med
icine manufacturers come out into the
open and assist in the warfare on frauds
Proprietary Association Of America at the
New Willard Hotel today by Charles c.
Green Of Philadelphia. Mr.. Green spoke
to the manufacturers from the newspaper
standpoint. telling why there is distrust
OF patent medicine advertising.
Mr.. Green argued that there is a place
for honest patent medicines. and that 1t
is proper to advertise them, providing
nothing more than the truth is told and
no extravagant claims are made. But he
said that the time for the "cure-alls' is
past, and the time for narcotics in large
quantities in medicines is past. He
congratulated the Proprietary Associ-
alton on it's attitude toward narcotics
and medicine frauds"
Advised As to Acion.
He advised the proprietary medicine
manufacturers to go to the editorial
heads Of the great newspapers. and ex-
plain the difference between their meth
ods and the methods Of the ordinary
fakes" Until this is done. he said. there
will continue disposition on the part of
newspapers and the public to class all
patent medicines together.
The delegates to the convention lis
tened to q report Of it's committee on
stock remedy interests made by j. T..
Conkey of Cleveland. this morning. a
number of other matters also were
discussed. George l.. Douglas. general
counsel OF the association, was sched-
uled to make an address this afternoon.
after which new officers were to be
alacted IT is expected that the con-
vention will come to close late this
afternoon.
Narcotics a Banuet Topic.
The harm in dispensing cocaine, opium
or other narcotics in proprietary medi-
cines or in any other way was discussed
by most OF the speakers at the annual
banouet of the association at the New
Willard Hotel last night. Representatives
of the wholesale and retail drug trade.
the Department of Agriculture and Of the
Proprietary Association agreed on this
point.
John c. Wallace. president of the Allied
Drug Trade Conference. who was the first
sneaker introduced the subject by say
ing that he believed that the subject Of
no rcntics is the foremost one to be con-
sidered by all druggists at the present
time. He said he was convinced that
there SlOulu DE d. lcucIdl duti-Iidi lotlC
DR. L. F. Kebler OF the Department OF
Agriculture declared that at present
there are a great number of nostrums on
the market which are doing a great deal
az harm to physicians and to all decent
nronrietary medicine manufacturers He
citad one .'cure for the opium habit"
which he said contains f1fty-two grains
OF morphine sulphate to the ounce.
Patent Medicines Of Ancient Origin.
Albert Plaut. president Of the National
wholesale Druggists Association. traced
the history Of ''cure-alls" from the
earliest times. to show that patent med
ic,nes are not modern inventions. He
showed how they were used by the
Creeks before the Christian era. In all
aaas. he said, there has been great re-
oerd for ready-made medicines. He pre-
dicted that If proprietary medicines keep
abreast of science and progress the busi-
moss OF manufacturing them is sure to
grow.
F.. c. Cheney. president of the associa-
tion. introduced w. H. Cove of Lynn,
Mass, as toastmaster. Other speakers
were David Watson, president OF the
Proprietary Trade Articles Association of
Canada, and Harry Merritt, president Of
the Nat ational Association Of Retail Drug
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