PATENT MEDICINES
DOCTORS’ PRESCRIPTIONS DUN EDI N PERCENT AC! E (Purlininentnry Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. An inventory of doctors’ prescriptions taken recently by an official ol the Otago University showed that patent medicines had been prescribed in an unexpectedly high proportion, according to Dr. D. G. McMillan (Lab., Dunedin West), who spoke on, the Pharmacy Bill in the House of Representatives.
He said the inventory had been made in most of the leading chemists’ shops iii Dunedin. It could only be regarded as evidence of the deterioration in medical standards. The day seemed to have passed when medical men made a close study of pharmacology, for many of them were now prescribing patent medicines without knowing the exact contents of those medicines. This was a regrettable feature of the trend in modern medi- ( cal practice.
The number of prescriptions made out for patent medicines had been truly surprising in the inventory taken in Dunedin.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 14
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