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52 THE HEALTH BULLETIN 289^ Pharmaceutical Association, the American Medical Association, and the medical schools. This Pharmocopoeia is revised every ten years. Everything known about the preparations which it contains is published; nothing is kept from the public. It contains between 900 and 1,000 preparations. OFFICIAL REMEDIES ARE NOT SECRET REMEDIES. The Pig in the Poke The secret remedy or medicine is one of unpublished and, except to the manufacturer, unknown composition. The name and amounts of its ingredients are purposely and obstinately denied the user. People who take secret remedies of niikuowii composition have no way of knowing what they are taking, either qualitatively or quantitatively, or w^hat are to be the effects of the unknown drugs when taken in varying doses and for variable periods of time. The patent medicine users act, not upon their intelligence, but upon their faith in manufacturers of drugs concerning whom they have no reliable information and whose principal object is to sell their products. As to whether the reputation of patent medicine manufacturers, as a class, entitles them to this confidence, the reader is referred to those sections of this article entitled ''Examples of Secret Remedies" and "Tricks of the Trade." Secret remedies are NOT patent medicines. Unlike patent medicines, which are patent and open as to composition, they are secret as to composition. Patent medicines are based upon originality that expresses itself in invention or discovery; secret remedies are based not upon any originality that takes the form of any invention or discovery that the Patent Office has or would recognize for one in a hundred. THE SECRET REMEDY IS NOTHING MORE THAN AN ORDINARY PRESCRIPTION, FOR WHICH A TRADE-MARK HAS BEEN SECURED AND WHICH IS COxMPOUND-ED AND SOLD IN ENORMOUS QUANTITIES THROUGH EXTENSIVE ADVERTISING. Registering trade-marks and securing patent rights are very different accomplishments; one is easy, the other difficult. Another interesting but minor difference between the open, patent remedy and the secret remedy is this: When a formula for a patent medicine is filed with the Patent Office, the manufacturer must continue to manufacture the medicine in exact accord with th formula as filed; the manufacturer of a secret remedy can substitute from time to time, as his commercial interests dictate, a cheaper for a more expensive ingredient. See "Tricks of the Trade," page 58, paragraph 5. EXA3rPLES OF SECRET BE3IEDIES Introducing the Witness In discussing this phase of the secret remedy business it is almost essential, in view of the great differences of opinion that exist and in view of the opposition of large financial interests (estimated at $300,000,000) engaged in the secret remedy business, that we state no fundamental fact that cannot be successfully defended, and that we quote from none but the highest authorities, especially non-partisan authorities, that is, authorities representing neither the secret remedy bus-mess nor the medical profession. :\Iost fortunately for us, the British House of Commons, probably the greatest legislative body in the world, appointed a committee of thirteen of its own members on the 10th of June, 1914, to investigate and report upon this question. This committee held thirty-three public sittings and examined forty-two witnesses put forward by the secret remedy manufacturers, the British Medical Association, and the
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1916-1917 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-031 |
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 | 31 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 52 |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1916-1917 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-031-0058 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; 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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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 | 31 |
Issue Number | 4 |
Page Number | 52 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 52 THE HEALTH BULLETIN 289^ Pharmaceutical Association, the American Medical Association, and the medical schools. This Pharmocopoeia is revised every ten years. Everything known about the preparations which it contains is published; nothing is kept from the public. It contains between 900 and 1,000 preparations. OFFICIAL REMEDIES ARE NOT SECRET REMEDIES. The Pig in the Poke The secret remedy or medicine is one of unpublished and, except to the manufacturer, unknown composition. The name and amounts of its ingredients are purposely and obstinately denied the user. People who take secret remedies of niikuowii composition have no way of knowing what they are taking, either qualitatively or quantitatively, or w^hat are to be the effects of the unknown drugs when taken in varying doses and for variable periods of time. The patent medicine users act, not upon their intelligence, but upon their faith in manufacturers of drugs concerning whom they have no reliable information and whose principal object is to sell their products. As to whether the reputation of patent medicine manufacturers, as a class, entitles them to this confidence, the reader is referred to those sections of this article entitled ''Examples of Secret Remedies" and "Tricks of the Trade." Secret remedies are NOT patent medicines. Unlike patent medicines, which are patent and open as to composition, they are secret as to composition. Patent medicines are based upon originality that expresses itself in invention or discovery; secret remedies are based not upon any originality that takes the form of any invention or discovery that the Patent Office has or would recognize for one in a hundred. THE SECRET REMEDY IS NOTHING MORE THAN AN ORDINARY PRESCRIPTION, FOR WHICH A TRADE-MARK HAS BEEN SECURED AND WHICH IS COxMPOUND-ED AND SOLD IN ENORMOUS QUANTITIES THROUGH EXTENSIVE ADVERTISING. Registering trade-marks and securing patent rights are very different accomplishments; one is easy, the other difficult. Another interesting but minor difference between the open, patent remedy and the secret remedy is this: When a formula for a patent medicine is filed with the Patent Office, the manufacturer must continue to manufacture the medicine in exact accord with th formula as filed; the manufacturer of a secret remedy can substitute from time to time, as his commercial interests dictate, a cheaper for a more expensive ingredient. See "Tricks of the Trade" page 58, paragraph 5. EXA3rPLES OF SECRET BE3IEDIES Introducing the Witness In discussing this phase of the secret remedy business it is almost essential, in view of the great differences of opinion that exist and in view of the opposition of large financial interests (estimated at $300,000,000) engaged in the secret remedy business, that we state no fundamental fact that cannot be successfully defended, and that we quote from none but the highest authorities, especially non-partisan authorities, that is, authorities representing neither the secret remedy bus-mess nor the medical profession. :\Iost fortunately for us, the British House of Commons, probably the greatest legislative body in the world, appointed a committee of thirteen of its own members on the 10th of June, 1914, to investigate and report upon this question. This committee held thirty-three public sittings and examined forty-two witnesses put forward by the secret remedy manufacturers, the British Medical Association, and the |
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