Show FANCY NAMES FOR POISONS danger dancer lurks lurk to in many of the go 80 called headache remedies Romed leB indis in his quarterly report on the health of the borough of chorley linca lancashire shire dr J A harris the medical officer tor for the district calls attention to the indiscriminate sale eale and purchase of the various so called headache powders he states that under his direction the county police obtained six or seven samples from different shops in the town and had them submitted to analysis in every case the quantity of the active ingredient was found to be in excess of the maximum dose of tha drug allowed in the british pharmacopoeia copo eia these remedies belong to the e class of the analgesics the members meld of the group in common use for or this purpose being acetanilide or phenyl phana zone and or para acet their properties were fully considered in the section of pharmacology and therapeutics at the meeting at edinburgh where professor stockman glasgow opened a discussion on the therapeutic value of recent synthetic amalge their benefits and attendant risks 11 there was a general expression of opinion that these drugs required to be handled bandied with the greatest care and that a slight error of judgment with regard to dosage might be followed by disastrous results all these substances depress the hearts action and in toxic doses diminish the force of the respiratory act the danger Is not obviated by selling aboia a poisonous drug under a fanciful name |