Show PATENT In recent years we have had many exposures of the patent me- dicine We have learned that most of the popular patent the so-called were nothing more than diluted alcohol with certain bitter drugs so as to make them taste Physicians have seen alcohol habits formed as a consequence of freely imbibing these alcoholic Some of them are meant particularly for women's and the consequence has been a feminine nipping at alcoholic products that has worked serious harm to the women of the We have also found that the headache powders so commonly advertised were composed of drugs when taken as freely as was advised on the labels many of these were seriously We have not a few but many deaths as a consequence of The soothing syrups for children mostly contained opium and were seriously injuring the growing child at an important period in its and adding to the number of nervous wrecks with tendencies to drug addictions in after life that we have had in this For a time after these exposures the patent medicine swindlers were very In many cases their disappeared from their usual Now they are gaining courage The American people have proverbially a very short memory for such The patent medicine people dread very much the organization of a national department of because this will sadly interfere with their now happy prospect of reviving their business and fattening their purses at the cost of the health of our This is one element in the organized for |