Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1887 — People Demand Protection.--Patent Medicines. [ARTICLE]

People Demand Protection.--Pat-ent Medicines.

What are they ? As a general tiling they are preset ipticns having been used with great success by old and well-read Physicians. Thousands of invalids have been unexpectedly cured by their use, and hey are the wonder and dread of Physicians a d Medical Colleges in the U. S., so much so, that Physicians graduating at Medical Colleges are required to discountenance Proprietary Medicines, a* through them the country doctoloses his most profitable practice. As a manufacturer of Proprietary Medicines, Dr. G. C. Green of

Woodbury, N. J., advocates most cordially,—in order to prevent the risk t at the sick and afflicted are liable to almost daily by the use of Patent Medicines put out by inexperienced persons for aggrandizement only, and the employing of inexperienced and incompetent doctors by which almost every village and town is cursed; and men claiming to oe doctors who had i etter b undertakers, experimenting with their patients and robbing them of their money and health,—for the good of the afflicted that our govern tn* nt protect its people by making laws o regulate the practice of medicine by better experienced and more thoroughly educated Physicians, and thereby keep up the honor and credit of the profession, also form law’s for the recording o" recipes of Proprietary Medicines, under examin tion and decision of experienced Ch -m----ists and Physicians appointed for that purpose Ly the Government, before they are licensed for general use. He would most freely pl ce the recipe of Boschee’s German Syrup and Green’s August Flower under such laws, had he the proper protection, and thereby save the prejudice of the people, and avoid the competition and imitation of worthless medicines. - Copied from the Chicago Mail, Aug. 3, ’B7.