Examples of patent medicine

• And as the report stated, this provision was intended to serve as much as a control on foreign firms as on domestic patent medicine manufacturers.

• This is not to deny the importance of the organized pharmaceutical industry and patent medicine associations in shaping the legislation and (perhaps) its administrative implementation.

• Patent medicine makers commonly advertised their drugs as a means of avoiding the expense and personal intrusion occasioned by a visit to the doctor.

• Second, and most important, for every consumer trying to reduce morbidity and/or mortality by consuming a noncurative patent medicine, valuable medical treatment was forfeited.

• The illiterate and less educated were more easily misled by patent medicine promoters and sellers, and they were less aware of more legitimized health treatments.

• If we were to ban all patent medicine advertising the problem would be solved, exactly as with the undertakers or moneylenders.

• Consider this sardonic extract to show the exploitation of patriotic appeal by advertising in the patent medicine business.

• He says it is nonsense to say that patent medicine manufacturers are making great profits.

• Of these, 30 were pasta products and a further 36 were toiletries and patent medicine.

• So it is no good offering another patent medicine with a differently shaped bottle or a different label.

• The performance of a machine is a matter of fact; but the performance of a patent medicine is a matter on which doctors often differ.

• It is nonsense to say that patent medicine manufacturers are making great profits.

• He says that each patent medicine has its formula on the bottle.

• Under this arrangement there will be a difference between the chemist's price for a patent medicine and that of the village grocer.

• Clause 5 states that the alcoholic contents of a patent medicine must be given on the label.