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' MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND STATE MEDICINE. 85 will solicit it under such a name as Peruna, and they not only solicit, but elders, deacons, wardens, stewards, and pillars of the church—yes, even the ministers—write testimonials stating, not in so many words certainly, yet nevertheless as emphatically, that they do not care for their whiskey straight, but prefer a few barks and herbs mixed with it and to pay about ten prices for the poor adulterated brand received. Why and wherefore are patent medicines? Are they on the market for suffering humanity? Yes—for those cases which are like a drowning man grasping at a straw. The secret in all is some drug that is either a stimulant or a narcotic, and which, of course, is habit-forming, so that one bottle calls for another, and thereby the coffers of the self-styled philanthropists are filled. Were it possible for the shades of Ananias and Sapphira to return to earth and read some of these patent medicine advertisements in the religious press I am sure they would again fall down and give up the ghost, for the shock would be too great for even a shade to withstand. They would see that they were far surpassed and had lost all claim to the title for which they had thought themselves famous. Here, then, is the past and the present recruiting station for the drug habitues, and will be the future unless something is done to stop it. The religious press, I do not think, means to be bad, but, on the other hand, it does not intend that the filthy lucre to be had from these advertisements shall slip through its fingers. The leading papers and periodicals of the secular press of today refuse to accept, not only patent medicine, but all fake advertising, and why not the religious press? Here, then, are our causes, and here, also, are the results of these causes clamoring for their drug or demanding some relief from the severe suffering consequential to its withdrawal. Some are even criminal or become so in their effort to get their dope. What are you going to do with it? That's the question. My answer is, I do not know, unless you send them to the county roads and give them humane treatment. Dr. G. T. Sikes, Grissom: Mr. President and members of the society, I do not expect to add anything new to what has been said in these papers, but I am exceedingly happy to mark the advancing information that is coming to the medical profession of North Carolina upon the subject of drugs. I see a very marked change since I have been a member of this society in the nature of the papers on this subject, and I might say more than that, but I will not. We are very glad that this information is coming to the medical profession. But it is necessary that it go farther than this. The fact that we know these things is a source of very
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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 | 1915 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-062 |
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 | 62 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 85 |
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 | 1915 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-062-0121 |
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. |
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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 | 62 |
Page Number | 85 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | ' MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND STATE MEDICINE. 85 will solicit it under such a name as Peruna, and they not only solicit, but elders, deacons, wardens, stewards, and pillars of the church—yes, even the ministers—write testimonials stating, not in so many words certainly, yet nevertheless as emphatically, that they do not care for their whiskey straight, but prefer a few barks and herbs mixed with it and to pay about ten prices for the poor adulterated brand received. Why and wherefore are patent medicines? Are they on the market for suffering humanity? Yes—for those cases which are like a drowning man grasping at a straw. The secret in all is some drug that is either a stimulant or a narcotic, and which, of course, is habit-forming, so that one bottle calls for another, and thereby the coffers of the self-styled philanthropists are filled. Were it possible for the shades of Ananias and Sapphira to return to earth and read some of these patent medicine advertisements in the religious press I am sure they would again fall down and give up the ghost, for the shock would be too great for even a shade to withstand. They would see that they were far surpassed and had lost all claim to the title for which they had thought themselves famous. Here, then, is the past and the present recruiting station for the drug habitues, and will be the future unless something is done to stop it. The religious press, I do not think, means to be bad, but, on the other hand, it does not intend that the filthy lucre to be had from these advertisements shall slip through its fingers. The leading papers and periodicals of the secular press of today refuse to accept, not only patent medicine, but all fake advertising, and why not the religious press? Here, then, are our causes, and here, also, are the results of these causes clamoring for their drug or demanding some relief from the severe suffering consequential to its withdrawal. Some are even criminal or become so in their effort to get their dope. What are you going to do with it? That's the question. My answer is, I do not know, unless you send them to the county roads and give them humane treatment. Dr. G. T. Sikes, Grissom: Mr. President and members of the society, I do not expect to add anything new to what has been said in these papers, but I am exceedingly happy to mark the advancing information that is coming to the medical profession of North Carolina upon the subject of drugs. I see a very marked change since I have been a member of this society in the nature of the papers on this subject, and I might say more than that, but I will not. We are very glad that this information is coming to the medical profession. But it is necessary that it go farther than this. The fact that we know these things is a source of very |
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Article Title | Should North Carolina Send Her Drug Habitues To The Chain-Gang Or Give Them Humane Treatment ? |
Article Author | William M. Jones |
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