Report of Committee on Social BettermentPresident's homes commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... advertised cures for consumption . No reputable physician ever adver- tises his skill , and persons unable to pay for medical services will always find competent men at the dispensaries . PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS . The facts presented ...
... advertised cures for consumption . No reputable physician ever adver- tises his skill , and persons unable to pay for medical services will always find competent men at the dispensaries . PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS . The facts presented ...
Page 126
... and mental wrecks produced by mountebanks , such harmful matter would not be tolerated in their advertising columns . It seems difficult to con- vince the average layman that a reputable physician never advertises 126.
... and mental wrecks produced by mountebanks , such harmful matter would not be tolerated in their advertising columns . It seems difficult to con- vince the average layman that a reputable physician never advertises 126.
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... advertises his skill , and those who do are often men without any medical education whatever , While it is true that by far the majority of victims of quacks belong to the more ignorant classes , the frequent complaints which reached ...
... advertises his skill , and those who do are often men without any medical education whatever , While it is true that by far the majority of victims of quacks belong to the more ignorant classes , the frequent complaints which reached ...
Page 133
... advertised by Bradford & Co. , Cincinnati , for sexual weakness , premature old age , etc. The " Cactus Products , " exploited by the Cactus Product Company , Philadelphia . " Calthos , " the world's greatest remedy for the treatment of ...
... advertised by Bradford & Co. , Cincinnati , for sexual weakness , premature old age , etc. The " Cactus Products , " exploited by the Cactus Product Company , Philadelphia . " Calthos , " the world's greatest remedy for the treatment of ...
Page 150
... of caution is necessary to impress upon the victims of sexual diseases the utter uselessness of securing treatment with various advertised cures . As very properly said by Mr. Samuel Adams Hopkins in " Collier's Weekly , " September 22 150.
... of caution is necessary to impress upon the victims of sexual diseases the utter uselessness of securing treatment with various advertised cures . As very properly said by Mr. Samuel Adams Hopkins in " Collier's Weekly , " September 22 150.
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Page 184 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 242 - Such register shall be open for inspection to the said commissioners, their officers and agents, on every day, except Sundays and legal holidays, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 183 - ... legal restrictions governing the practice of medicine; or to dispense, or promote the use of, secret medicines, for if such nostrums are of real efficacy, any concealment regarding them is inconsistent with beneficence and professional liberality; and, if mystery alone can give them public notoriety, such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance or fraudulent avarice. It is highly reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of secret medicines, or other substances...
Page 114 - An ordinance to revise, consolidate, and amend the ordinances of the board of health, to declare what shall be deemed nuisances injurious to health and to provide for the removal thereof...
Page 107 - His computations clearly indicate that where one death from typhoid fever has been avoided by the use of a better water, a certain number of deaths, probably two or three, from other causes have been avoided.
Page 172 - From and after the passage of this act no pharmacist, druggist, apothecary, or other person shall refill, more than once, prescriptions containing opium or morphine or preparations of either in which the dose of opium shall exceed one-fourth grain or morphine one-twentieth grain, except with the verbal or written order of a physician.
Page 53 - In diseases like smallpox and scarlet fever, in which the infectious agent is given off from the entire surface of the body, occasional ablutions with Labarraque's Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended.
Page 245 - It shall be entitled to charge and receive upon each loan made by it without the actual delivery to it of the property pledged or mortgaged...
Page 250 - ... and said corporation, or before the right of redemption is foreclosed, on the payment of the loan and interest at the time of the offer to redeem. No loan of more than one thousand dollars shall be made to any one person. The rate of interest upon any loan made by said corporation shall not exceed two per cent a month. No dividend shall be paid in excess of six per cent per annum. MARYLAND. An act of the Maryland legislature of 1902, regulating the loaning ot money when, as security for such...
Page 154 - Government for maintenance and costs in the courts, almshouses, and prisons no less than $1,250,000 — in other words, just a fraction under $1,500 each. It would probably be difficult to find a more remarkable example than this of the evil effects of the drink habit and the transmission of hereditary defects.