SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 



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at the drugstore. 1 presume if nobody calls 

 for it tlie druggist is nothing' out of pocket. 

 If one does call for it, the price is to be 

 what the druggist charged me. I am not 

 reflecting on the druggist, mind you, unless 

 it be that he should refuse to become a 

 " tool " in the hands of such people. You 

 see, after the expensive medicine is deposited 

 at the drugstore these booklets are by some 

 means scattered all over the land; and dif- 

 ferent people, as a matter of course, get 

 hold of them and pass them out to deaf 

 people. Our druggist informs me that he 

 has quite a number of calls for it. In this 

 official bulletin, about 70 similar remedies 

 are mentioned, and sold, probably, like en- 

 serol. Read the following, clipped from the 

 bulletin : 



BUREAU OF DRUGS. 



W. R. HowEB, Chief Drug laspector. 



what's in a name? 



Many drug preparations which are composed of 

 common low-priced ingredients are sold in Ohio un- 

 der distinctive names. For the benefit of the drug 

 trade and the general public the Drug Bureau of 

 this Commission has taken up and analyzed the fol- 

 lowing preparations : 



Maya-Tone — Composed of M borax and % epsom 

 salts, pea-fumed and colored. Selling price 75 cents. 

 Approximate cost 2 cents. 



Sartoin. — A pink-colored powder consisting of Vn 

 boric acid and % Epsom salts. Selling price 50 cts. 

 Approximate cost 1 cent. 



Citrox. — Composed of granulated sodium hyposul- 

 phite. Selling price 75 cts. Approximate cost V2 ct. 



Parnotis. — Composed of common baking-soda and 

 dried glaubers salts. Selling price 50 cents. Ap- 

 proximate cost % cent. 



Amarol. — Composed of 1-10 borax and 9-10 Epsom 

 salts. Selling price 75 cents. Approximate cost M 

 cent. 



Cerol. — Consists of borax and stearic acid, per- 

 fumed. Selling price 75 cents. Approximate cost 2 

 cents. 



Sanatogen. — Composed essentially of dried and 

 powdered skim milk, known as casein, 80 per cent, 

 and sodium glycerophosphate, 5 per cent. 



The above preparations are fair samples of the 

 class they represent. The manufacturer selects some 

 very common drug or combination of drugs and gives 

 it some fancy coined name. The drug laws of this 

 State prohibit any statement, design, or device on a 

 label that is false or misleading; and a close study 

 of these packages or cartons will show that the man- 

 ufacturer has in almost all instances successfully 

 avoided any conflict with the law by failing to make 

 any statement beyond the name of the article, the 

 manufacturer's name, and directions for its use. 



Gross misrepresentations are made in the news- 

 paper advertising as to the articles' medicinal value, 

 and very few of them have a value of over a few 

 cents. 



On the last page of this bulletin I extract 

 once more as follows : 



STOP I LOOK! LISTEN! 



ADVERTISING FRAUDS TO BE EXPOSED. 



Director Thorne, of the State Experiment Station, 

 recently received a letter from a citizen of Ohio, 

 asking that something be done to expose fraudulent 

 advertising in some of the farm papers. 



If any farm paper is advertising fraudulent wares 

 or products, it is undoubtedly unaware of the fraud. 

 If any frauds are being advertised, both the public 

 and the editors of the papers ought to know it. 



The Official Bulletin will publish any reliable evi- 

 dence of fraud that may be furnished to the Agricul- 

 tural Commission, Division of Agriculture, Colum- 

 bus, Ohio. 



Now will our people of Ohio " get busy " 

 and report promptly any fraud they see 

 advertised in our farm papers? I have had 

 quite a little to say about the new remedy 

 called sanatogen. Please note that this is 

 included in the above bulletin.* I do not 

 particularly mind, friends, the money I in- 

 vested ; but think of the pains I have taken, 

 night and morning, for two weeks past, to 

 go through with that make-believe wom- 

 an's(?) instructions. 



I have interviewed our druggist, who says 

 boric acid is 5 cents an ounce, while fluid 

 enserol is $1.25 an ounce. Furthermore, he 

 says there are doctors, quite a lot of them, 

 who do most of their doctoring by giving 

 their jjatients some of the 70 new-fangled 

 romedies I have mentioned above. He has 

 tlie same quartei'ly from which I have made 

 some extracts. In fact, the State of Ohio 

 has taken pains to put it in the hands of all 

 druggists, so they may not be innocent in 

 regard to what they are giving sick people. 

 My good friends, there has been a lot said 

 about the high cost of living; and a good 

 brother has called our attention to "the high 

 cost of dying." Shall we not also consider 

 the high cost of getting sick? I might add 

 that I am told that boric acid is a very good 

 remedy for the eyes and ears; and so my 

 treatment that cost ten times what it was 

 worth will probably do no harm, even if it 

 does no good. 



REPELLENTS FOR PROTECTING ANIMALS FROM 

 THE ATTACKS OP FLIES. 



The above is the heading of a leaflet just 

 received from the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. With the crusade against the common 

 house-fly, I think we have succeeded in es- 

 tablishing quite a victory over them already. 

 In fact, we have had fewer flies this sum- 

 mer in our home, and even in the office, than 

 1 have ever known before. With this in 

 view it seems quite proper that we should 

 try to relieve the poor suffering horses and 

 cattle, not only for humane reasons, but 

 because it will pay in dollars and cents. We 

 liave used spraying solutions on our own 

 horses and cattle quite a little already. There 

 are two objections. The first is, that the 

 virtues of the spray are soon gone. The 

 second reason is, that the liquids on the 



* While we are about it I want to say that tlie 

 poultry remedies, at least the greater part of them, 

 that are advei'tised and sold in immense quantities, 

 are about on a par with the above report. You pay 

 25 or 50 cents for two or three cents' worth of med- 

 icine, and many times you do not get the medicine 

 even then — that is, what is advertised as a remedy 

 is little or no remedy f-t all. It is just " electro- 

 poise " and " oxydonor " over again. 



