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Show LAW URGED DY SELF-SEEKERS. Real Animus of Movement Agalnit Remeiles Deservedly Popular. An adroit Imt platulMo scheme by which It In honed to prejudice the nale of proprietary nidlclnen Is the propo-Bttion propo-Bttion to prohibit the mile of any remedy rem-edy whlrlr "conmlim polon" linlcM onch package or liottls Is expremly la-lieleil la-lieleil "I'oli'oii." Sitch vlKs are nlno well deilgued to Impose upon men who h:ir no rcttnlllnrlty with the subject matter The pretrnse of protecting the public health put forth In support of Mich hills s (jenerslly the merest subterfuge; and whenever jou henr a dctnatul for u law of this kind It oriKlnntes with thos' who hnve n direct pecuniary Interest to sere '' drstroliiK the sale of proprietary rem-edlci rem-edlci Some of tho brt and most widely used remedies In tho world contain sumo one Ingredient which, If taken In Hitlllcleut quantities, might b? poisonous, poi-sonous, and jet the preparation as a whole is not polKonous lit till. Opium, for instance, Is used In small quantities quanti-ties In many of tho best cures for coughs, colic, diarrhea, etc.. In toothache tooth-ache drops and In almost all liniments. To require such medicines to be falsely false-ly labeled "poison" would bo merely a cunnlni; device to nlarm tho public nnd thus brltiK about tho destruction of the sale of thoso remedies, and Indirectly In-directly to compel people to procuro tho medicine they want by tho moro expensive method of consulting a phj--slclaii and Retting his proscription. In other words. It Is an effort to prevent them from getting cheaply tho remedies reme-dies which they and their fnthcrs bo-foro bo-foro thorn hate used for many years. Medical exchange |