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108 TRANSACTIONS OF TIIE health through the great amount of opium, cocaine and alcohol that they contain, and thus often induce or encourage dangerous habits. I think you will be astonished to learn the percentage of alcohol contained in some of these so-called medicines. I have seen it stated that Hood's Sarsaparilla contains 18 per cent, Brown's Iron Bitters 19 per cent, Paine's Celery Compound 21 per cent, Ayer's Sarsaparilla 24 per cent, Ilostetter's Stomach Bitters 44 per cent. Many million dollars worth of these alcoholics are sold every year and many individuals are ignorantly and secretly turned into drunkards. Beer contains 2 to 5 per cent alcohol. These bitters are stronger than claret, champagne, port, sherry and often whiskey, yet they are allowed almost free sale and a crusade against beer is continued. Alcohol causes at least one-half of the criminals, insane and dependents that our State has to support. What proportion of these result from imbibing patent medicines no one can estimate, but the number is large. Then, too, our ignorant classes pay high prices for these so-called medicines', and they are not only worthless as remedies, but injurious to health. Ordinary whiskey as sold in the saloon is not as strong in alcohol as some of these medicines which are recommended for the treatment of the alcoholic habit. Some nerve nostrums contain more opium than is contained in paregoric, and are recommended for the cure of the morphine habit and allowed free sale. I believe the temperance societies would do a great good if they would organize a vigorous crusade against the sale of these so-called medicines. The life insurance companies seem to be the first to recognize the great danger of patent medicines, and it is with pleasure that I note one company requires the examiner to ask the applicant what patent medicine he has used in the last five years. The Journal of the American Medical Association says this is a step in the right direction, for any one who will take a department store pill for the liver is not a fit subject for life insurance. Physi-
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1903 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-050 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 50 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 108 |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1903 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-050-0118 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Filename | transactionsofme50medi_0118.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 50 |
Page Number | 108 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 108 TRANSACTIONS OF TIIE health through the great amount of opium, cocaine and alcohol that they contain, and thus often induce or encourage dangerous habits. I think you will be astonished to learn the percentage of alcohol contained in some of these so-called medicines. I have seen it stated that Hood's Sarsaparilla contains 18 per cent, Brown's Iron Bitters 19 per cent, Paine's Celery Compound 21 per cent, Ayer's Sarsaparilla 24 per cent, Ilostetter's Stomach Bitters 44 per cent. Many million dollars worth of these alcoholics are sold every year and many individuals are ignorantly and secretly turned into drunkards. Beer contains 2 to 5 per cent alcohol. These bitters are stronger than claret, champagne, port, sherry and often whiskey, yet they are allowed almost free sale and a crusade against beer is continued. Alcohol causes at least one-half of the criminals, insane and dependents that our State has to support. What proportion of these result from imbibing patent medicines no one can estimate, but the number is large. Then, too, our ignorant classes pay high prices for these so-called medicines', and they are not only worthless as remedies, but injurious to health. Ordinary whiskey as sold in the saloon is not as strong in alcohol as some of these medicines which are recommended for the treatment of the alcoholic habit. Some nerve nostrums contain more opium than is contained in paregoric, and are recommended for the cure of the morphine habit and allowed free sale. I believe the temperance societies would do a great good if they would organize a vigorous crusade against the sale of these so-called medicines. The life insurance companies seem to be the first to recognize the great danger of patent medicines, and it is with pleasure that I note one company requires the examiner to ask the applicant what patent medicine he has used in the last five years. The Journal of the American Medical Association says this is a step in the right direction, for any one who will take a department store pill for the liver is not a fit subject for life insurance. Physi- |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
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Article Title | Annual Oration�The Causation of Disease |
Article Author | Graham, Joseph |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-16-050 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-16 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983307 |
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