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

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    ANA | AUN AE Sa ips Analysis—continued. every case, Dobbie 12828 Statement that identification of small proportions of many substances becomes. practically impossible agreed with, Simmonds 12841-60——Suflicient. determination of presence of poisonous or other deleterious ingredients possible, Parry 11820-1——Therapeutic action in many drugs cannot be accounted for, by present knowledge,. Simmonds 12861—4, Harrison 122638-86, 12303—40. Use of senses: not so Accurate as other methods, Dobbie 12700-5——Branch not highly developed and very little known, Dobbie 12746-7—-—Detection of a substance depends. ultimately upon, Dobbie 12585-600——Human limitations, Dobbie 12748-52——Keenness and accuracy tend to disappear with increasing age, Dobbie 12684—90, 12696-8, 12703—— Matter of special training, Dobbie 12665-7, 12695——Quantitative determination question, Dobbie 12658-67, 12743-4—_Sometimes only possible method, and then valuable, Dobbie 12673—4, 12742—4 Special instruments, question re, Dobbie 12745——Subordinate to use of other methods in Government Laboratory, Dobbie 12690, 12709--—Variation in powers of individuals, Dobbie 12663-4, 12674-5, 12749. Use of spectroscope, stereoscopic examination, polarised light, miscroscope and physiological tests, Dobbie 12609-10. of Vegetable drugs: Can only give approximate results, Harrison 3283———Certain, incapable of absolute analysis, and question, Harrison 8001-5, 3121-6, 3285-374, 3460-6, 3592-613, 3615 —LExperience required to present accurate, of vegetable compounds, and question ve degree of accuracy, Umney 7251-2, 7259-64, 7288-96, 7297-818, 7319-20, 7407-12, 7419, 7332-8, 7426-83, 7438-41, 7633-48, 7713-22——_Large majority of vegetable compounds would be discovered by, Harrison 3467——-Many important medical preparations having no definite principle by which they can be determined, Umney 7304, 7335, 7363-4, 7364-9. Analysts—Adulterating firms abroad get services of qualified chemists to trick, Parry 11896-400: ——Competency and methods, Harrison 12217-23. Public: not Always consulted as to what things shall be sampled, MacFadden 13455-8—— Appointment and qualifications subject to control of Local Government Board, MacFaddew p. 712, 713-4—Authorities empowered to appoint, under Sale ot Food and Drugs Acts, MacFadden p. 712, 713-6——Certain procedure necessary to be closely followed if prosecution is to be rendered possible after adverse report from, MacKadden p. 712, 13385———Certificate: in respect of each sample required to declare result of analysis, and to be sent to person sending sample for analysis, MacFadden p. 712-——Certificates, question as to whether they are subjected to severe discussion, MacFadden 13447-50——Fee payable by local authority of place where sample is procured, of samples taken by Local Government Board, MacKadden . 714——Power conferred on certain officers of local authorities to obtain (cn payment): samples of food or drugs, and to subm it same to be analysed by, MacFadden p. 712——Purchase of patent medicines and submission to, suggested in scheme for facilitating institution of prosecutions, Stephenson 13651-7, 13698——-Reports tabulated by Local Government Board, MacFadden p. 714——Required to make quarterlv reports to authorities of number of samples. analysed and results, Mackadden p. 714--—1n Some cases whole-time salaried officers; in most cases paid per sample analysed, at rates which vary considerably in different districts, MacKadden p. 712, 18417-9——Various local authorities which do not appoint analysts, empowered under Sale of Food and Drugs Act to take samples and send them to, MacFadden p. 712. Qualifications, Umney 73856-8——Question as to class of, giving reports, and nothing to prevent anyone calling themselves analysts and giving reports, Harrison 3588-91——Term “ deter- mined ” used of definite chemical principles taken to mean determined quantitatively, Harrison 12072, 12076. Anderson's Scott’s Pills—Inmitated in Pharmacopeeia, Parry 11226-9, 11700. Anewrisms.—W allace’s specific guaranteed cure, Harrison 2957-8. Angier's Emulsion.— Advertised in “British Medical Journal,” and question re, Cow 2047-54, 9287-2323 Analysis, Cox 2295, 2313-4--__Example of proprietary medicine ordered on doctor’s prescription, Waring 8412, 8737-9——Imitated in Pharmaceutical Codex, Ummney 6236——_Proprietary rights secured by use of firm’s name, Harrison 2889. Anodyne colloid —tiIn Pharmaceutical Codex, an imitation of a proprietary preparation, Ummey 6236 Antidipso—Advertised for cure of drunkenness, and particulars, Paternoster 5412. Anti-fat nostrwms.—Bladderwrack basis of most, Parry 11362. Antikamnia.—Advertised in medical press, Lawson 10997-9, 11132-5—-—Built up in this country by medical men prescribing, although ignorant of nature, Parry 11926-33, 11936——Common. method of advertising by means of letters and samples, Lawson 11011———Contents of that soldin U.S.A. different from that sold in England, Cushny 5679-95——-under Dispensing exemption provision unstamped, but liable to duty, Kirby 4920-2, 4925, 4935-8, 4972-3, 4975, 4992,. 5021-2 Never advertised direct to public in England, but trade built up on medical recommendaticns and prescriptions, Lawson 10988-11000—-Secret remedy prescribed regularly by doctors, Parry 11271—-—Term suggests one substance, but mixture of three old ones, Cushny 5697——Use of acetanilide dropped because of American law, but law not escaped because phenacetin declarable, Lawson 10984-991. 0.68. B Antimonial: