Show people demand protection patent medicines what are theat As a general thing they are prescriptions proscriptions ions having been used with great success by old and well read physicians thousands of invalids have been unexpectedly cured by their use and they are the wonder and dread of physicians and medical colleges in the united states so much so that physicians graduating at medical colleges are required to discountenance proprietary medicines as through them the country doctor loses his most profitable practice As a manufacturer of proprietary medicines dr G G green of woodbury N J advocates most cordially in order to prevent the risk that the sick and afflicted aro liable to bialy by the use of patent medicines put out by inexperienced persons for aggrandizement only and the employing of inexperienced and incompetent doctors by which almost every village and town is cursed and men claiming to be doctors who had better ba undertakers experimenting with their patients and robbing them of their money and health for the good of the afflicted that our government protect its people by making laws to regulate tho practice of medicine by better experienced and more thoroughly educated physicians and thereby keep up the hon or and credit of the profession also form laws for the recording of recipes of proprietary medicines under examination and decision of experienced chemists and physicians appointed for that purpose by the government ern ment before they are licensed for general use he would most freely place the recipe of Bos chees german syrup and greens august flower under such laws had he the proper protection and thereby save the prejudice of the people and avoid the competition and imitation of worthless medicines copied from the chicago mail aug 3 87 |