Quacks, false remedies and the public health / [David Walsh].

  • Walsh, David
Date:
1909
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    Another journal that has made an honourable stand against quack remedies is the Australian Traveller, the organ of the Commercial Travellers’ Association of Australia. It is published by a body of business men representing all btanches of commerce, and it deliber- ately refuses to make money out of quack remedies or drugs that “debauch and deprave.” They announce prominently :— WE REFUSE THEM. IMPORTANT NOTICE. This paper will NOT advertise any MEDICINE (or the proprietors of) Claiming to CURE:— CANCER, CONSUMPTION, or other ORGANIC DISEASE, DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, BLOOD DISORDERS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, NERVOUS DEBILITY. Finally, when the time comes that the prosecution of irregular practitioners and of fraudulent remedies is systematically conducted by some responsible official, the risk to newspaper editors of being indicted for assisting in a criminal transaction, will, in all probability, speedily cleanse the British Press of this blot upon its escutcheon. THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE CLEAN NEWSPAPER. The aggregate influence of the médical profession is enormous. If its members gave their united support to the clean newspapers, and denied it to those who inserted objectionable advertisements, there is little doubt they could make or mar the fortunes of many a journal. With this end in view, it would be, perhaps, feasible for the medical journals, ot the British Medical Association, to publish a kind of index expurgatorius, marking the newspapers that medical