Show LAW URGED DV SCLFSEEKERS Real Animus of Movement Against Remedies Deservedly Popular An adroit but plaualllo scheme by which It Is hoped to prejudice the salo of proprietary medicines Is the proposition propo-sition to prohibit tho sale of any remedy rem-edy which contains poison unless each package or bottle ts expressly labeled la-beled Poison Such bills are also well designed to Impose upon men who have no familiarity with the subject matter The pretense of protecting the public health put forth In support of such bills is generally the merest subterfuge and whenever you hear a demand for a law of this kind It originates with those who havo a direct pecuniary Interest to servo > y destroying the sale of proprietary remedies rem-edies I Somo of the best and most widely used remedies In the world contain some one ingredient which If taken In sufficient quantities might be poisonous poi-sonous and yet the preparation as a whole is not poisonous at all Opium for Instance Is used in small quantities quanti-ties In many of the best cures for coughs colic diarrhea etc In toothache tooth-ache drops and In almost liniments To require such medicines to be falsely false-ly labeled poison would bo merely a cunning device to alarm tho public and thus bring about the destruction of the sale of those remedies and indirectly In-directly to compel people to procure tho medicine they want by tho more expensive method of consulting a physician phy-sician and getting his prescrIption In other words it is an effort to prevent them from getting cheaply the remedies reme-dies which they and their fathers before be-fore them have used for many years Medical exchange |