handled; cleanliness of the employees, including their health; and the cooling and storing of the milk. Speaking of the tuberculin test, he said that when farmers clearly understood its true value they would want this test made. When they were shown by demonstration that which they failed to understand, they were anxious to have this test. Very many milk producers were honest, and anxious to do what was right; they needed instruction. A campaign of education had been begun; it needed support. Every milk producer should have the opportunity to know the latest concerning his business, then many of them. would make the desired improvements in their dairies, and the realization of ideal dairying would go hand in hand with the necessity of enforcing laws. FREE DISTRIBUTION OF HARMFUL DRUGS. In order to protect children and others from harm resulting from eating proprietary preparations of injurious drugs put in their way through house-to-house distribution of free samples, the Legislature of 1907 passed the following law (chapter 180): SECTION 1. No person shall distribute, deliver or give away in any public street or highway or from house to house or place to place, any bottle, box, envelope or package containing any liquid, medicine, pill, powder, tablet or other article which is composed of any drug, poison or other ingredient or substance which may be in any way injurious or harmful to any child or other person who may taste, eat, drink or otherwise use the same. SECTION 2. Whoever violates the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. [Approved March 8, 1907. Among the drugs which the promoters of this bill had in mind, and perhaps more than any other, was acetanilid, the ignorant use of which. has resulted in many cases of serious illness and not a few deaths. The first prosecutions under the act occurred on November 15, when Herbert A. Whittier, William A. Caldwell, John Barrett and John Kumlin were arrested by the police and charged before the East Boston District Court with distributing, on the streets and from house to house, free samples of "Hill's Cascara Quinine Bromide for Colds and La Grippe," each tablet of which contained one and a half grains of acetanilid. Each of the defendants pleaded "guilty," and paid a fine of $50. In framing this law, the possibility of free distribution of samples in other public places, such as exhibition halls, appears not to have sug gested itself, and hence the persons concerned in the following transaction were guilty of no offence known to the law, although the tablets. distributed contained the same drug as did the above, but in larger amount. At the "Food Fair," held in Mechanics' Building, in Boston, during the month of October, there was a booth devoted to advertising a preparation known as "Celero Headache Lozenge," put up in attractive and palatable form, and containing two grains of acetanilid to the lozenge. Samples were given away in envelopes, upon which was printed in large letters, "EAT IT LIKE CANDY - NO WATER NEEDED;" and in smaller type, "A safe and convenient remedy for all forms of HEADACHE and NEURALGIA." They were also given away by the handful from a large uncovered glass dish, the person in charge (sometimes a boy about sixteen years old) calling out, from time to time, "The only harmless preparation on the market. Nothing injurious about it whatever. Will positively cure your headache." On the booth were large display cards emphasizing the statement that the lozenges could be eaten like candy. The envelopes given out contained, besides the samples, copies of a circular which still further emphasized this alleged advantage thus: The whole list of Headache remedies now in existence require the use of Water in administering; Celero Headache Lozenge can be eaten like candy at any time, before or after meals, in any place or under any conditions. The method is easy, the effect is almost instantaneous, and the patient can feel the utmost confidence that the preparation is perfectly Harmless, and will engender no Drug Habit, as do so many unreliable preparations." 66 ACETANILID PREPARATIONS. The following proprietary preparations containing acetanilid have been examined during 1906 and 1907 in the laboratory of the Board: Az-Ma-Syde, Asthma Remedy and Manufacturing Company, Boston. Laxative Bromo-quinine, Paris Medicine Company. Hammond's Instant Headache Cure, Hanson Company, Taunton. Hawthorn's Cold Powders. Headache Powder, F. H. Putnam Company, Boston. Headache Powders, Wm. L. Sweet, Boston. Klein's Kold Kapsules. Woodward's Laxative Cold Cure. Dr. Holbrook's Kola Powders, Holbrook Kola Company, Boston, Mass. Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer. Hill's Cascara Quinine Bromide. Quimby's Headache Powders, The Quimby Pharmacy, Palmer, Mass. Week's Break-up-a-Cold Tablets, D. Weeks & Co., Des Moines, Ia., St. Thomas, Ont. Wilcox's Headache Powders, Wilcox's Pharmacy, Bridgewater, Mass. SHAC, Stearns' Headache Cure, Stearns & Curtius (Inc.), 5 Platt Street, New York. Celero Headache Lozenge. COCAINE PREPARATIONS ADVERTISED AS UNSALABLE. During the month of November the following proprietary preparations containing cocaine were examined in the laboratory of the Board and added to the list of unsalable articles: Opal Catarrh Powder, Standard Remedy Company, Boston. "Opal Catarrh Powder" is manufactured in Boston, by the same persons whose "I. C. R. Instant Catarrh Relief" and "Standard Catarrh Powder" have already been advertised, and it appears to be the successor of these preparations. "Quina Laroche" bears a label upon which the following is distributed, some horizontally, some perpendicularly: EXPO INTERN de PHARcie VIENNE 1883 Gde MED D'OR EXPO INTER PARIS 1879 et NICE 1885 MEDles D'OR Récompense de 16,600 francs accordée par l'état à T. LAROCHE, Pharmacien pour travaux scientifiques et industriels Paris 1811. QUINA LAROCHE ÉLIXIR VINEUX, RECONSTITUANT & FÉBRIFUGE EXTRAIT COMPLET des 3 QUINQUINAS Par un procédé dont M: LAROCHE est lauteur, le "Quina Laroche" tient en dissolution l'extrait complet des trois quinquinas, rouge, jaune et gris, c'est-àdire la totalité des principes de ces précieuses écorces. Cette préparation est souveraine contre les Affections des Voies Digestives, l'Epuisement, le Manque d' Appétit, les Convalescences paresseuses, les Fièvres, même les plus tenaces. 1 à 2 mesures par jour avant ou après le repas. Prix en France: LE FLACON 5 fr. le 1⁄2 Flacon 3 fr. DÉPÔT GÉNÉRAL A PARIS Anciennement 22, 20 & 19, Rue Drouot Actuellement: 20, Rue des Fossés St. Jacques. SE TROUVE dans toutes les bonnes Pharmacies de France et de l'Etranger. TONIC WINE AND STRENGTHENING FEBRIFUGE (A complete Extract of the three kinds of Bark) By means of a process of which M. LAROCHE is the inventor, the "Quina Laroche" holds in solution the complete extract of the three Kinds of Cinchona Bark, red, yellow and gray, that is the whole of its valuable properties. This preparation is the best remedy against Difficult Digestion, Debility, Loss of Appetite, Slow Convalescence and the most obstinate cases of Fever. NEW-YORK: E. FOUGERA & CO. and at all Chemists and Druggists. EXPO DE PARIS 1879. SYDNEY 1879. VIENNE 1883. BATAVIA 1893. Un Godet Mesure en verre blanc accompagne chaque flacon. Chaque flacon porte sous la capsule une bande signee T. LAROCHE pour éviter la contrefaçon et les imitations. Conserver a la Chaleur en Hiver. T. Laroche. Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. No. 1495. One of the requirements of the National Pure Food and Drug Law is a statement of the amount of alcohol present in any preparation; and another provides "that the term ' misbranded,' as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular, and to any food or drug product which is falsely branded as to the state, territory or country in which it is manufactured or produced" (section 8). Regulation 18 of the rules and regulations provided for under the act says: "The name of the manufacturer or producer, or the place where manufactured, except in case of m xtures and compounds having a distinctive name, need not be given up on the label, but if given, must be the true name and the true place." Whether the phraseology of the above labels, printed in a foreign tongue; whether stating the price in France per bottle to be 5 francs and per half bottle to be 3 francs; whether giving the directions for use in a foreign language, and whether the care observed in giving the old as well as the present address of Mr. T. Laroche's main office in Paris may be held to be "misleading in any particular," can be ruled upon only by the national authorities; and whether or not any ruling concerning this preparation has been made does not appear; but, whatever the facts may be, a small supplementary label on the back of the bottle is interesting, in that it reads: Quina Laroche Manufactured in New York At the American Branch of F. Comar & Son & Co. (of Paris) |