Show REMEDIES USED BY MILLIONS truth about the popular proprietary medicine eik the recent campaign against the use ot of proprietary medicines conducted lit tho the columns ot of the ladles ladies rome home journal and colliers weekly has evoked an answer from the committee on legislation ot of the proprietary association the committee says in considering the question raised by recent attacks upon proprietary medicines every reasonable man III I 1 dmit admit that there Is a vilde bide and legitimate held field for the manufacture and sale ot of medicines already prepared tor for general use and easily obtainable at all times and everywhere As a matter of fact these medicines are not patented at all and tho the popular use of the word patent in connection filth them Is a misnomer any pharmacist will tell ou on that practically the only patent medIc medicines nes in ID use today to day are those which are manufactured either by foreign or domestic pharmaceutical houses and which are now almost exclusively dispensed by physicians or designated by thorn them in their prescriptions ions the medicines which are now the su subject abject of wholesale attack by mr bole bok and editor hapgood are the old fashioned family remedies properly described as proprietary medicines they are the favorite remedies among millions of people all ia over the country and notwithstanding the con stant effort of some fomo physicians to ere cre ato ate prejudice against them no one ever yet heard of any of the millions of users of such remedies asking for legislation or other action adverse to them |