Volume 2

Report from the Select Committee on Patent Medicines : together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, and appendices.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Patent Medicines.
Date:
1914
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    Report, 1912—continued. Canada.—no Formula disclosure required, Woodward 9566 Labelling of Food Stuffs and drugs, regulations, App. V.c—Labels and advertisements used for Steedman’s Powders sent to, essentially the same as those used in this country, South 9879——Labels of Woodward’s Gripe Water comply with law, Woodward 9560——Law with regard to patent and proprietary medicines considered most satisfactory, Woodward 9633, 9763——Mother Siegel’s Syrup sold: in, Ratcliffe 6441—— Steady increase in sales of Woodward’s Gripe Water entirely without being pushed or advertised, Woodward 9560. Cancer.—Advertisements claiming to cure, undesirable and suppression advocated, Cox 1940-2—— Harrison 3031, 3235, 3469, Walker 5187, 5173, 5298, Beecham 9008, Umney 6275, 7496-503, Waring 8709, 8851, 8856, Parry 11242-4, 11308, 11749-80, 11828-31, 11889-904, Allen 12499, 12501, Norris 14212——Case of woman treated with Holloway’s Ointment with fatal result, Sewell 4593-5 Cases clearing up without remedy rare, Cox 1664-5——_no Cure known, Cox 1662——Curable by operation in early stages, but if left incurable, Cow 1768-9 Delay in proper medical treatment adds enormously to income of profession, Cow 1725-6 Glycothymoline advertised for, Waring 8433——Injury caused by treatment by patent medicines purporting to cure, and instance, Cow 1539, 1765, 2060, 2233-4—-—Many tumours. mistaken for, Cox 1663—-—Treatment by medical herbalism, question re, Watmore 11564-76 — Uncontrolled use of arsenic may lead to, and instance, Walker 5057-60, 5117, 5147-8, 5288-44, 5309-14——Wallace’s Specific guaranteed cure for every form, Harrison 2957. Cancer of the Skin.—Useless remedies advertised for, and danger, Morris 4853-4. Cancerous Ulcers.—Clark’s Blood Mixture guaranteed to cure, Harrison 2949-52. Capsicum.—tIngredient of Box’s Pills, Harrison 3601——Stated to be ingredient of Mother Siegel’s. Syrup, by analysts, Ratcliffe 6493, 6497, 6655, 6939. | Capsicum Resin.—-Trace reported by Government analyst in Woodward's Gripe Water, Harrison. 12116—21. Caputine—Contains acetanilide and danger of taking more than prescribed dose, Dixon 6000. Carbolic acid.—Attempts to place on Poisons Schedule and now only partially restricted, Allen. 12390, 12441——Fatalities, Allen 12390, 12441—5. Carbolic Smoke Ball case, Kirby 4873-6, 4877. Carbonate of iron, Saccharated—Employed to give pink tint to Kaputine, Harrison 2965. Carbonate of magnesia.—Found in Temperanica treatment, Harrison 2964. Carbuncles.—Claims of Resinol, Waring 8442. Cardinal Manufacturing Company, Dr. Shower’s Radium Valve—Use of letter from secretary of — Hospital for Diseases of Skin as start of advertising campaign, Paternoster 5349-66. Carter, Horatio. Alias of American named Skinner, Paternoster 5405. Cascara.—Has no definite chemical principle by which it can be determined, Umney 7365-9 Detection difficult, but not impossible, Simmonds 12845-50——Falsely stated to be ingredient. of Keen’s Cold Cure, Harrison 2959-60——Identification difficult, Harrison 3294-9—— Regulin compound of agar-agar and, Cow 2067-91, Harrison 3117. Cartilage Company.—Alias of Neale and Adkin, Paternoster 5415. “Oassell’s Saturday Journal.”—Advertisements re sexual matters, Crosse 3810. Cataract.—Wallace’s Specific recommended for, Harrison 2957-8. Cataracts, Films, and White Specks—Article made in Wisbech put forward as cure for, Harrison 2953. . Cavendish, Lord John.—Budget speech, 1783, referred to, Highmore 3. : Celery. —Wincarnis put up in combination with, but not advertised and sale limited, Rwdderham 10413-9., Celsus.— Reference, Harrison 2928. Chameleon Oil—Variations in, Harrison 12100 Channel, Justice—Reference, Parry 11224. Chase's, Dv., Chemical Company.—Instanced because in America clergymen looked upon as: particularly favourable means of introducing new remedies, Paternoster 5341. Champagne.—Percentage of alcohol, Sturge 3650-1. Chapman’s Dinner Pills—TInstance of popular name being attached tc formula in Codex, Waring 8688. Chemical Society.—no Protection against persons claiming by use cf letters to be a member of the: society, Harrison 3588-9, 83630-5——Purely scientific body, Harrison 3630. a “Chemist and Druggist.’—Acetanilide quoted in market report, Lawson 10937-8, 10939 Apothecaries Company v. Shepperley reported in, Kirby 4882——-Papers sent by editor to: show that Warburg’s tincture was a proprietary article, Parry p. 621, 1168793, 11710 Quotation, Harrison 12257. “The Chemist and Druggist of Australiu.”—Quoted, Norris 13881-3, 14139, Chemists: