THE QUACKERY BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 October 1907, Page 2

THE QUACKERY BILL.

Giving evidence be,fore the Parliamentary Committee on the Quacks and Quackery Bill, Dr. Cahill furnished some lntoiniation as to n worthless class of patent medicine. This was a remedv for obesity. It was retailed at Os. The intrinsic value was 2d. An anti-fat cure w-aa the same. A kidney cure cost a shilling. Jhe real value was a penny and the pilules consisted of ordinary white sugar. A certain make of pills were, he said, sold wholesalelo chemists at £1 7s a dozen boxes, containing about two and a half gross of pills, They ore made for Is Cd a gross. They are sold readily, said Dr Cahill, at 2s (id per box, and the unfortunate poor girls, who suffer most from anaemia and are employed in shops, are deluded by the advertisements in newspapers to purchase these pills at an exorbitant price. What is sold wholesale at 27s could be sold over the counter at 2s Gd a gross, with a very fair profit. As to drugs which are absolutely harmful, Dr. Cahill stated that they are mostly liquids, and tV enle depends largely upon the aifiounL of alcohol they contain.