0 a medicine, usually not a very powerful one, that you can buy without the written permission of a doctor
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.
