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()G BULLETIN X. C. BOARD OF HEALTH. slightest dauger attached to their use. They actually do find in theui some degree of comfort and a momentary support to their strained nerves. This accentuates their delusive hopes and keeps them using these drugs until they become moral and physical wrecks. As the seller of these remedies the druggist is in part responsible— very slightly though the part may be—to the public for any untoward consequences that might result from their excessive use or from the accidental taking of an overdose, and with absolutely no knowledge of their composition lie is in a sad plight when called upon to administer an antidote or restorative. A worthy article is able to stand upon its own merits and courts the light Every package of a secret medicine containing a narcotic poison should carry a label bearing the word 'TOISON" in large, red letters with a skull and cross-bones. When druggists sell these same poisons in any other form than that of a secret medicine they are compelled to label them in this manner and take the name and address of the buyer in a poison-book. There is no reason why the pharmacists should be compelled to do this with ordinary retail sales of such goods and not be compelled to do it with nostrums. When temperance people have succeeded in rescuing a drunkard from the thraldom of strong drink how terrible is the end when some alcohol-charged secret medicine lures him back again to his old habit. Who can tell how many such relapses are due to this very cause? The temperance war against proprietaries is not so much because they contain alcohol as because of the deception which is practiced upon the users in leading them to believe that they are not usiug alcohol. It is this ignorance of the taker that makes the putting of alcohol into proprietary medicines, when undeclared, a crime. ARGUMENTS TERSELY PRESENTED. There is wholesome truth in this statement from the Journal of the American Medical Association: Whatever is secret is suspicious, and this axiom applies especially to medicines that are secret in character. One reason for the success of secret nostrums lies in the fact that extravagant claims are made for them, which on their face would be ridiculous in the extreme if their true composition were known, iiemove the mystery surrounding these preparations and their wonderful virtues would vanish. In a prize essay ])ublished by the Colorado State Medical Society these soinul reasons why a person should not dose himself are set forth : It would be well if all ])eople were as slow to be dosing themselves as are physicians. The value of medical treatment lies not so much in drugs as in the man whose training and judgment enable him to select the proper drug if one is needed.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-03: Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1905-1906 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-020 |
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 | 20 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 124 |
Document Title | Bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health [1886-1913] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Published: 1886-1913. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Wilmington, N.C. : Secretary of the Board, 1886-1913. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1906 |
Identifier | NCHH-03-020-0130 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; editorial; organizational news |
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 | 20 |
Issue Number | 11 |
Page Number | 124 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | ()G BULLETIN X. C. BOARD OF HEALTH. slightest dauger attached to their use. They actually do find in theui some degree of comfort and a momentary support to their strained nerves. This accentuates their delusive hopes and keeps them using these drugs until they become moral and physical wrecks. As the seller of these remedies the druggist is in part responsible— very slightly though the part may be—to the public for any untoward consequences that might result from their excessive use or from the accidental taking of an overdose, and with absolutely no knowledge of their composition lie is in a sad plight when called upon to administer an antidote or restorative. A worthy article is able to stand upon its own merits and courts the light Every package of a secret medicine containing a narcotic poison should carry a label bearing the word 'TOISON" in large, red letters with a skull and cross-bones. When druggists sell these same poisons in any other form than that of a secret medicine they are compelled to label them in this manner and take the name and address of the buyer in a poison-book. There is no reason why the pharmacists should be compelled to do this with ordinary retail sales of such goods and not be compelled to do it with nostrums. When temperance people have succeeded in rescuing a drunkard from the thraldom of strong drink how terrible is the end when some alcohol-charged secret medicine lures him back again to his old habit. Who can tell how many such relapses are due to this very cause? The temperance war against proprietaries is not so much because they contain alcohol as because of the deception which is practiced upon the users in leading them to believe that they are not usiug alcohol. It is this ignorance of the taker that makes the putting of alcohol into proprietary medicines, when undeclared, a crime. ARGUMENTS TERSELY PRESENTED. There is wholesome truth in this statement from the Journal of the American Medical Association: Whatever is secret is suspicious, and this axiom applies especially to medicines that are secret in character. One reason for the success of secret nostrums lies in the fact that extravagant claims are made for them, which on their face would be ridiculous in the extreme if their true composition were known, iiemove the mystery surrounding these preparations and their wonderful virtues would vanish. In a prize essay ])ublished by the Colorado State Medical Society these soinul reasons why a person should not dose himself are set forth : It would be well if all ])eople were as slow to be dosing themselves as are physicians. The value of medical treatment lies not so much in drugs as in the man whose training and judgment enable him to select the proper drug if one is needed. |
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Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-03/nchh-03-020.pdf |
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Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-03-020 |
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