New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-19
PATENT MEDICINES TALK
RECEIVES AN ANESIHE IL
DIR. GoIdwater's Associate, DIR. Oscar Lesser
Invited to Speak at Rochester, Didn't Ad-
dress the Main Gathering De-
partment Bulletin Asked Why
Rochester Papers (and Patent Medi-
cine Mem Conspicuously Silent.
BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS.

~ nt Of Health were shipped to the week Of
September distribution the members OF inc American t
thousand copies Of The Weekly Buen'ose same five thousand
shipped back New days later undoud behino a' SIN
n Rochester with the aid of friends the local newspapers W."
able protect itself against exposure by prominent p %
lecturer a representative the New York City Department Oh Il
'hr'uf" 49, a,idn n,bo was chairman of the
t-ee having the arrangements charge That the illustrated uu'
90 tho natent medicine evil wholly squeched due 70 the
." w 80 - pfosor F A Winsow director Of the Bureau of
Publicity and the New York State Department Oh
who saved the @@nGn ny With the American Public
ISOLATION opening proceedings day earlier than the pP
body function, meeting OF the
- % yr state Health Officers held P H. A. had
yened that Dr. patent medicine address were egao
after having shifted the programme WITH tne
s, leading TO this situation undstributed weekly
Ruetjn" dealt 1t remained undrbued through any ascertain
able influence but because there seemed
be no place or gathering convention where could with prope
s given out Hence many perhaps majority, Of the two thousand
visitors at with only vague notion th some
stenn roube had been wholly the fact
that the patent gained their point under the very noses
Of BODY of the against them as constituting
menace to the public health Of Rochester know much
more about it, their practice suppressed
all mention of the their reports OF the address,
A. tbe outset it must be understood Rochester proceedings
were participated by distinct organizations joining in certain
or+s Of the programme Public Health Association Is
M nationaI ORGANIZATION of public Federal and city,
public health sanitary and includes IN its active
membership the most distinguished medical scientists America and
canada M convention opened Tuesday September The previous
% marked the opening of the conference York State Health
Joined later the New York State sanitary
0@or' Association The triple meeting designed each
body opportunity hearing addresses technical and educational value
Of September g. und
all u +b Now Work State Sanitary officers Association.
oscar Lesser Of the New York City Department of Health invited
by Professor Wnow of that association present before their
- bic Illustrated lecture on The Patent Medicine He
cpted Now Montgomery E. Leary Of Rochester Dr.
eary of the local committee on arrangements anu
also president the Sanitary Officers Association IN
him as propaganda Of and quiet the subject OF
Dr. Lsers proposed raised feelings of discomfort and apprehn
sion So he wrote York Health Department asking whether
av Of the locally articles treated by Dr. Lesser IN his talk ana
expressing ms 5 m manufactured in Rochester The most no.
NOrka Kputuc
They
WARMERS SAFE REMEDY LIVER
II would be quite possible THE Patent Medicine Fraud
without these 1t would also be possible to play Hamlet
Nth the Prince of Denmark Possible but difficult in both in
stances To Learys truly extraordinary suggestion that the local
fraud industry received satisfactory reply wereupn
he wrote again proerg the unusual that Dr. Lesser furnish
an outline of list of the articles touched upon
of patent medicine headquarters in
sympathy for them we have no desire
to which would be of no good and Of considerable
harm"
Lesser aned giving Theeupon he dropped
from programme September Dr. Leary writing however that
tb talk value and ought find place and
saving that while programme his hands he would be glad
to find place paper could be done 1t then proposed to
shift the troublesome smoker for the convention
Thursday evening" September seemed for time to be salts
factory the smoker local hospitality supported by
from local citizens 1t would be impossible to shoot into
any group of prominent without killing lot of of
patent decided that Dr. Lees
consideration Of the fact that local men had
deay expenses the OCCASION and the nom
posture quietly dropped smoker Immunity cheap
Rochester!
Godwater, New York City Commissioner of
health had pretty well stirred the slight put upon one Of
aeward
Weekly Bulletin" pubca-
s follows:
DR. EXPLAIN?
Medicines BE
al the
DR. Z.
Montgomery f.
Public
Rochester, y. Y.
Ny
viii clear up some doubts that are my mind apTo
Of the Of the American Public Health
ton? ami interested the a member Of the
a Commissioner Of Health Of New York
City u.--,-.. ., 49,.
Dr. Lesser Of he
badb made Dr. Lesser talk the Rochester
the patent medicine fraud with lantern slides In this
DR. Wins low wrote
Dr. and he DR. ~
mrable Ian 70