PATENT MEDICINES.
The members of the medical profession have such an aversion to common-place advertising themselves that they will not allow a member of their profession to have his name printed at the head of a race programme. Advertising to them is scarcely less heinous than the manufacture of patent medicines, says the Lyttelton Times. But while they are denouncing the pillmakers and the newspavers with admiraple frankness they do not make any serious effort to stop their wicked machinations. If there is a patent medicine that is doing all the harm that is attributed to it by the doctors, they should take the responsibility of warning the public against its use. They, at least, should point out to the newspapers the enormity of their offence. The respectable journals have done their best to purge their columns of undesirable advertisements, but they cannot be expected to refuse legitimate business simply because the .members of the medical profession say it is unwise to take medicine that has not been prescribed by one of themselves.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 452, 4 March 1909, Page 2
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173PATENT MEDICINES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 452, 4 March 1909, Page 2
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