Labelling of Patent Medicines

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1160, 2 December 1904, Page 2

Labelling of Patent Medicines

CoNCKBMNOthe regulations dealing with this matter, tho New Zealand Times says: —lt is doubtful whoiher tho regulations gazetted last woek aro not ' ultra vires,' Thoysook tc compel the owners of pro. priotary medicines to disclose the component parts of each preparation. Now, tho Slate has graived.p itimi right to many of these people, who havo been at groat

oxpciisj to protect themselves n»niiist piracy; .vol under ilicho regulations they would bn obliged to reveal their trade storots, ihi's onabliii" competitors lo compound the sitnio preparation mid porlmps sell it at a much cheaper ptico. A purl from tlio legal aspect of tlie iimitcr, tho lnoritl'.v of this proceeding is rxtrrinrly doubtful, It is simply ridiculous to suggest tli'it tho public lienhh is injured by ovor-imluig"nce in patent medicines. Fii'lrod, ihp vi«ry opposim isihocaso. Hoilownynnd Cockle, fir instiiiee iiro tho country settler's bosom friends mid stomach comforters, so to speak ; and Steam's headache curc.'Miru ut boon ami a blessing to thousands, Tim now ivtjul uious will prohibit many such in"dicincs being «>nl im n the colony, mid ihi, eolony's womankind | nnd mankind win Iji- distinctly the losorn. 1 I Even where the medicine is no moro eDicftciosi.s iluin cold water, yet tho faith in it works miracles; Imt tlio nost effort may be kouio kind ul legislation or reguifttiou to 1 prohibit 1 ovoti faith,