HORRIBLE RUMOUR
("Post" Special Commissioner.)
USE OF TAPEWORM IN OERTAXN OBESITY TABLETS
Wellington, Friday. In the House to-day, Mr. W. E. Jarnard (Napier) asked the Minister ;1' Health (Hon. J. A. Young) whehcr he would take immediate steps .0 stop the sale of certain ohesity re7ucing tablets if, as was alleged, an clive ingredient in each tablet was 1 segment of the live tapeworm rhieh, when swallowed, developed into - full sized tapeworm. The desire for a youthful figure in.uced many people to resort to sundry 0 ms of treatment, drugless and therwise, and if an unserupulous peron or finn was catering for public re(uirements in that direction by tho crrible means sug-gested, urgent and rustic action was called for. The Minister denied that there was ;ny such ingredient in the preparaion mentioned. Instructions had been ;iven that such ipreparations should ie marked "Danger." This prepara--ion should not be used except under n 'dical advice. Mr. Barnard: I am glad to hear it.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 336, 24 September 1932, Page 5
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