New-York tribune., 1917-08-19
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the claims and made his analysis Ai'
White inquired:
an old man young"
"The tonics." q,
How strong is it in tonics"
"Well. there's quite kick in u"
please point out just which SUD-
stances will do what is claimed.
IL guess we better pass thAV' sal"
"yery good. Now, what agency here
will perform the digestive operations
SPepsin. Pepsin's one Of the
best -
Undoubtedly. But there's only a
trace of pepsin. Do you claim that thlS
amount win digest full meal ! -,
an cut that out Of the claims, SAID
Mr.. Brewer, sadly.
"Now, as to odmsking"
"That's the iron"
"And you're prepared to guarantee
that this small amount of iron,
LET it co." hastily replied the dis,
pirited Mr.. Brewer. 81 guess viva
wouldn't be live article in Cleyeland
anyway. What about this otherT
Out of his entire list Mr.. Brewer got
one preparation on the market. But
not until he had altered the claims IN
the accompanying literature.
Against the competition of the medl-
cine man who seeks TO sell his wares
direct TO the public the health authori-
ties adequately protect the loca! drug
trade. An itinerant Quack dealing IN
Pizaro's Cactus Juice and PiZaro's Min
eral Salts hired a vacant store on
prominent street and blond demon
stratress and proceeded 10 do business.
One of the people he did business with
though he didn't know IL at the time,
was representative of the Health De-
partment, who bought package OF the
salts, la elled "The Great Catarrh
Remedy. 1t consisted of soda, borax
and table salt. The determination OF
this interesting fact was made at 4:3O.
At 1880 a large sign, "Closed by Or
der of the Board Of Health" was
tackled up across the place OF business.
Mr. Pizaros representative has not
been locally heard Of since.
That the example of Cleveland is
spreading through the drug trade Is
shown by the. experience OF a Health
Department representative who asked
at a drug store in one Of the suburbs
for a bottle of Swamp Root.
"Don't keep it," said the druggist
"Why not?"
"The Cleveland Health Department
has declared it fraudulent and mis-
branded" =,
"But you're outside their authority
That's all right" said the druggist,
"but the Cleveland drug stores won't
sell it, and if it's too bad for them It's
too bad for me-"
After the local drug trade had
dropped this nostrum Mays depart
ment store continued to sell 1t, accord
ing to information received by the
/ committee. Word was sent to Secre..
tary Weissenburger Of the Cleveland
Advertising Clubs better business COM
mittee. who mas decided ideas on patent
medicine fakes. Mays has been one OF
the better business committees most
loyal adherents. Mr.. Weissenburger
called up the department store man
"Misbranded? said he. "You say it's
been officially banned? Hadn't heard
! of il. Wait a minute 1hen,
after a pause, "If you or any one else
can buy a bottle of Swamp Root in this
store from now on I'll drink it and
eat the bottle"
II is such instances as the foregoing
that alarmed the nostrum interests
But their representatives found little
/ encouragement in Cleveland.
"Supppose we do fight the Health De-
partment on their BAN" one OF them
reported back. "The drug stores won't
/ carry il anyway over the embargo, in
which they concur. So how would we
be better off ?"
Among the nostrums other than
those mentioned above thus far banned
by the concerted action OF the drug
trade and the Division Of Health are
the following, together with the as
signed reason for the embargo:
Lung Germine: "A fake and mis-
! branded"
DR.. D. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy:
"Claims false and fraudulent and ap-
Our Standard Remedy: Statements
regarding therapeutic effects false and
/ fraudulent"
Tuttle's Family Elixir: Dangerous
! DR.. Kaufman's Sulphur Bitters
! Claims false and fraudulent and ap
piled to said article knowingly and in
reckless and wanton disregard Of theiI
! falsity."
Hilton's Specific No. 8: "Misbranded.
Also Plant Life, Q-Ban, Varlex, Meh'
kitarin and others.
! Up TO date none Of them has exhib'
/ tied any eagerness to take up the
gauntlet which the Cleveland drug and
health combination has thrown down.
However, if the fraud-medicines won't
/ fight openly they'll always find time
! one to uphold their interests. In this
/ instance their fsg-bearer is Mr.. Henry
r. Strong, editor of the National Drug
gist. AS Mr.. Strong gets his revenue
from such arrant quackeries as Car
dui," Jayne's Family Medicines" con-
tanning opium; Nuxated Iron, Psbst's
Okay Specific, q "sure cure" for gon-
orrhea; 0rrine, secret liquor habit
"cure"; Peruna, Swamp Root, Dufy's