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exists  no  specific  medicine  for  the  treatment  of  pulmonary  tuber- 
culosis, and  that  no  cure  can  be  expected  from  any  kind  of  adver- 
tised medicine  or  method,  but  only  from  a  sufficient  supply  of  pure 
air,  nourishing  food,  needed  rest,  attention  to  the  hygiene  of  the 
skin,  and  such  medicine  as  appears  from  time  to  time  required,  in 
the  judgment  of  a  physician." 
To  give  still  more  authority  to  this  part  of  the  argument,  I 
wish  to  make  one  quotation  from  the  Journal  of  the  American 
Medical  Association.  It  is  as  follows:  "  The  patient  had  wasted 
nearly  eight  months  of  precious  time,  closely  housed  and  depending 
on  the  restorative  virtues  of  Manola,  instead  of  consulting  a  physi- 
cian at  a  time  when  a  properly  regulated  out-of-door  life  might 
have  saved  him." 
I  therefore  hope  that  the  time  is  at  hand  when  no  druggist 
worthy  of  the  name  will  sell,  even  when  asked  to  do  so,  a  so-called 
consumption  cure.  Probably  in  no  other  way  would  the  physician 
have  a  better  means  of  judging  of  the  professional  character  of 
the  druggist  than  by  his  attitude  on  this  question,  and  probably  in 
no  other  way  could  the  druggist  show  to  better  advantage  those 
positive  principles  which  should  actuate  him  than  by  refusing  to 
sell  these  remedies. 
I  have  ascertained  that  there  are  at  the  present  time  about 
one  hundred  patent  or  proprietary  consumption  cures  on  the  mar- 
ket, and  some  of  them  are  advertised  with  remarkable  ingeniousness 
and  effrontery,  their  proprietors  taking  advantage  of  nearly  all 
the  arguments  known  to  science  and  ethics.  As  if  to  steer  clear 
of  all  objections  that  might  come  from  an  authoritative  source, 
one  of  these  concerns  distinctly  states  in  their  circular  that  their 
remedy  contains  none  of  the  drugs  required  to  be  mentioned  on  the 
label  under  the  Section  on  Misbranding  of  the  Food  and  Drugs 
Act,  such  as  morphine,  cocaine,  and  acetanilide,  and  no  coal-tar 
derivative  or  any  poisonous  drug;  and  then  goes  on  to  state  that 
it  is  "  guaranteed  by  the  makers  to  conform  to  all  the  provisions 
of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  June  30,  1906,  No.  1242."  There 
are  one  or  two  features  about  these  statements  which  show  the 
degree  of  advancement  to  which  this  firm  has  attained.  In  the 
first  instance  it  may  be  mentioned  that  coal-tar  derivatives  do  not 
find  favor  with  therapeutists  in  the  treatment  of  tuberculosis,  and 
therefore  this  firm  has  found  it  desirable  to  state  that  their  prepara- 
tion does  not  contain  them.    Again,  as  another  evidence  of  their 
