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THE HEALTH BUULLETIN 69- Tanlac is found to have a large number of the secret remedy characteristics, known and treated elsewhere in this bulletin as "Tricks of the Trade." Tanlac is a typical secret medicine, first, in that its composition is secret. Neither the names nor the amounts of its ingredients are published on the package. Second, it claims a very extraordinary origin. One of its advertising sheets carries the picture of an icy mountain-side clad in fir trees, with the reading, "The Alps—Tanlac elements come from remote sections of the Globe." Again, its own advertisements claim for it: It "is not what is called a medicine; it is more than a medicine, being the liquid maximum strength of medicinal properties of a plant discovered by Cooper's uncle, a celebrated scientist, which plant properties, together with other ingredients, obtained their high efficiency under the personal direction of tue itfitc or M.c. ff f > T fficnoKj I vwjm« 1 OHfSWI^^C^l 50' Of utiuoA m tmc &Mr£ - ALbO <JPOKt eecj?, allow/WO 0(»<LY i or ni^kcy AHO ^-eBOTTLe^OF TO Of^C MAN cve.ar rwo WfCKJ 0wT STwe *i.t 0 » off" 5VCH QOI AS ^f. 'T/^NL AC Qo^e. 9y tme ffvYttS POt,H£TOOOK . Who Said Prohibition Prohibits ? Herr Jos. Von Trimbach, a native German chemist of note in charge of the Cooper laboratory.'' Third, Tanlac has an invented name. It is not found in the dictionary, the encyclopedia, or in any medical or botanical works. Its ingredients may never be known through its name. Fourth, Tanlac is a new name, but it is a product of the Cooper Medicine Company of Dayton, Ohio, that operated ten years ago. " 'Cooper's New Discovery' contained 17 per cent alcohol and was sold as a *tonic and system purifier/ Tanlac contains 17 per cent alcohol and is sold as a 'tonic and system purifier.' " See Trick No. 3, p. 57. The following is the chemist's report of an examination made of Tan- lac by the American Medical Association, June 15, 1915: • '*One original bottle of Tanlac, manufactured by the Cooper Medicine Company, Dayton. Ohio, was submitted to the Chemical Laboratory for examination. The bottle contained 8 ounces of a brown liquid having a wine-like odor, and also an odor somewhat resembling wild cherry. The taste was bitter, resembling gentian. The specific gravity of the liquid at 15.6 C. was 1.0205. Qualitatively, tests disclosed the presence of alkaloids, berberin being isolated and identified. Other alkaloids besides berberin were present, but not identified. Hy-drastin and the commoner alkaloids were not found. Tests for emodin were positive. Acid caused precipitation, the precipitate having an odor of licorice. After purification, and treatment with ammonia, the ammonium salt of glycyrrhizic acid was detected, A relatively large proportion of glycerin was present. A small amount of tartaric acid was detected, which would indicate a wine. The residue, which w^eighed 11.1 per cent, was largely glycerin. The ash was 0.25 per cent. The amount of alcohol was found to be 15.70 per cent of absolute alcohol by volume. The weight of the alkaloids was 0.017 per cent. - *'From the examination, it is concluded that Tanlac is probably a vinous extract containing essentially a bitter drug (such as gentian), an emodin-bearing drug (such as buckthorn, rhubarb, or cascara), a ber-berin-bearing drug (in which hydras-tin is not present, such as berberis aquifolium). glycyrrhizic acid (from licorice), flavored with wild cherry, and to which has been added a relatively large proportion of glycerin." A later report given of Tanlac by the Journal of the American Medical Association, February 26, 1916, is: we still have a good many inquiries regarding Tanlac, it seems worth while to reprint the report of Food Commissioner Helme of Michigan on the product. The findings of the Michigan chemists agree essentially with those of the Association's; chemical laboratory. Here, in part, is the Michigan report: "A new panacea for the cure of 'all ailments of the stomach, kidneys, and liver, catarrhal affections of the mu-
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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. |
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Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
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Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
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Volume Number | 31 |
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Health Discipline | Medicine |
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THE HEALTH BUULLETIN
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Tanlac is found to have a large number of the secret remedy characteristics, known and treated elsewhere in this bulletin as "Tricks of the Trade."
Tanlac is a typical secret medicine, first, in that its composition is secret. Neither the names nor the amounts of its ingredients are published on the package. Second, it claims a very extraordinary origin. One of its advertising sheets carries the picture of an icy mountain-side clad in fir trees, with the reading, "The Alps—Tanlac elements come from remote sections of the Globe." Again, its own advertisements claim for it: It "is not what is called a medicine; it is more than a medicine, being the liquid maximum strength of medicinal properties of a plant discovered by Cooper's uncle, a celebrated scientist, which plant properties, together with other ingredients, obtained their high efficiency under the personal direction of
tue itfitc or M.c.
ff f > T fficnoKj I vwjm« 1 OHfSWI^^C^l 50' Of utiuoA m tmc &Mr£ -
ALbO |
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