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J jg BROWN-REPORT ON MEDICAL JURISDR^JDENCE. That is the problem. Along this line we m»y add that many degenerates are supposed to owe their degeneracy to drunkenness, having been begotten by chronic inebriates or during a drunken debauchery. How can we eliminate this evil? Let us encourage all such noble associations as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, ard let us be more caretul than ever to prescribe alcoholics only when they are unmistakably demanded—only when there is nothing else like strychnine or ammonia or some sedative that would do as well or better. If we would do this, I believe we would not prescribe one ounce of alcohol where we now prescribe ten, and we would wash our hands of hundreds of doctor-made drunkards and their degenerate descendants. The iniquity of the patent medicine business is so patent that there is hardly need of comment; but there is great need of legislative action restricting the evil. Let every bottle of patent medicine bear a label naming all the ingredients and the amounts of each ingredient in each dose. Let the state chemist collect and analyze samples from time to time, and whenever there is material variation from the printed formula, let the medicine be prohibrted from the state, and let the responsible party be fined in proportion to the magnitude of the offense. Otherwise, socalled harmless soothing syrups will still go unpunished for numberless atrocious infanticides, and Dr. Blank-ety Blank's liver and kidney cure will still parley with the army of the credulous till disease and death have taken a ruthless grip on the thousands of simple victims. Patent medicine of the baser sort personified, with all its greed and irresponsibility and frequent immorality is seen in the quack. Our state protects is sovereign subjects in some measure against these im-posters. But, alas! their tempting license fees too often blind the officers of the law. They reap a harvest from the people and pay toll to the public treasury. But it is very hard to make the officers see that the frauds these imposters perpetrate and the robberies they commit on the public health and the people's pocketbooks ten times outweigh the paltry returns they get in the shape of a shameless license fee. The prescribing druggist, too, with his infallible wisdom carefully culled from quacks and patent medicine advertise-
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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 | 1898 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-045 |
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. |
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Volume Number | 45 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 118 |
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 | 1898 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-045-0162 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article; report/review |
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. |
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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 | 45 |
Page Number | 118 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | J jg BROWN-REPORT ON MEDICAL JURISDR^JDENCE. That is the problem. Along this line we m»y add that many degenerates are supposed to owe their degeneracy to drunkenness, having been begotten by chronic inebriates or during a drunken debauchery. How can we eliminate this evil? Let us encourage all such noble associations as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, ard let us be more caretul than ever to prescribe alcoholics only when they are unmistakably demanded—only when there is nothing else like strychnine or ammonia or some sedative that would do as well or better. If we would do this, I believe we would not prescribe one ounce of alcohol where we now prescribe ten, and we would wash our hands of hundreds of doctor-made drunkards and their degenerate descendants. The iniquity of the patent medicine business is so patent that there is hardly need of comment; but there is great need of legislative action restricting the evil. Let every bottle of patent medicine bear a label naming all the ingredients and the amounts of each ingredient in each dose. Let the state chemist collect and analyze samples from time to time, and whenever there is material variation from the printed formula, let the medicine be prohibrted from the state, and let the responsible party be fined in proportion to the magnitude of the offense. Otherwise, socalled harmless soothing syrups will still go unpunished for numberless atrocious infanticides, and Dr. Blank-ety Blank's liver and kidney cure will still parley with the army of the credulous till disease and death have taken a ruthless grip on the thousands of simple victims. Patent medicine of the baser sort personified, with all its greed and irresponsibility and frequent immorality is seen in the quack. Our state protects is sovereign subjects in some measure against these im-posters. But, alas! their tempting license fees too often blind the officers of the law. They reap a harvest from the people and pay toll to the public treasury. But it is very hard to make the officers see that the frauds these imposters perpetrate and the robberies they commit on the public health and the people's pocketbooks ten times outweigh the paltry returns they get in the shape of a shameless license fee. The prescribing druggist, too, with his infallible wisdom carefully culled from quacks and patent medicine advertise- |
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Article Title | Report Of Chairman Of Section On Medical Jurisprudence And State Medicine |
Article Author | J. Steven Brown |
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