Show tuberculosis readies Rem dies that are worthless washington D 0 april 10 after investigating under alio food and drugs act a arge number of preparations aa consumption cures the department of agriculture has not been ablo to discover any eliat cin in any sense be re girded a cures for tuberculosis some contain drugs eliat ma it times afford bogue temp onry relief from the distressing symptoms of the di biase but this 13 all benoe alio of federal legislation prohibiting the shipment in inter beato commerce of medicinal ationo for which false and fraudulent cladma are made there ins been a milked tendency to label these remedies instead of curc curci i or curca as aed to ho called in man cases however aliey can not even be regarded as remedies A balsam for dimple ei mple for the cure of consumption and of the lungs which it was would strike at the very root of the dis eabe was found on analysis to be nothing but a solution in water aud alcohol of opium augir avde ailta and coloring matter it contained no cherry bark extract or balsam A dioro ch borato cure consist of five different diff trent preparations which the credulous patient aas to take separately rhese were first the medicine proper ahe essential in of which were found to be morphine acid and arsenic not a very bate mixture to tike second a tonic which waa supposed to contain iron but did not third a cough mixture made up of alcohol chloro form and codeine which is a derivative of opium or morphine fourth a mixture which contained some quinine and a fco lution of water and alcohol and fifth codeine tablets uen the strongest constitution could hardly stand a prolonged course of such treatment in the marketing of such preparations considerable ingenuity is frequently babonn one of the main is to persuade the patient that he is receiving at a comparatively low price the individual attention of a trained specialist for this purpose symptom blanks are employed these contain a number of questions about alip patients symptoms the number varying from a doen or ao to as many as 70 or 80 the is led to believe that the information which he fur gislie in reply to these questions will be carefully considered before any medicine is prescribed for lam though evcic knows that an accurate gnosis cannot possibly be made in this way As a matter of fact none is attempted and the degree of attention which these individual reports receive can be meas by the fact thit cases have come under observation of the department part ment in which mail order con terns doing a business busi nesa of this kind have received as many as letters a day after the patient ins submitted his diagnosis report lie is urged to purchase a supply of alie medicine if ho does ao he is alien urged to purchase more if he states thit he ins experienced no beneficial he is told that he has not taken enough and tins process 13 likely to continue until tho limits of ins credulity leave been readied if on the other hand he decides at the not to the medicine it is likely to bo offered to him at successively loner prices until lie is at last induced to believe that he cannot afford to ignore such a bargain this is carried to such an extent that a treatment ment the original price of which la 25 may be offered at the end of sit months for 2 oo 00 As a matter offart the successful treatment 0 requires much more than the mere giving of medicine and mor coter what will help one cape will not help another claims eliat are absolutely sol unwarranted are no longer permitted on thel abela of medicines shipped in intestate commerce but the w may be such as to convey a impression without the ue of absolute statements thus these preparations continue to find a bale despite the fact that a little trouble on the pirt of the prospective purchaser nil their |