Secret drugs, cures and foods - Report of the Royal Commission on

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Australia. Royal Commission on Secret Drugs, Cures, and Foods
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[Chapter heading not available] 1
Secret Drugs, Cures, and Foods REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON. (VOLUME I.) 7
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 9
AUTHORITIES. 13
REPORT. 15
ROYAL COMMISSION ON SECRET DRUGS AND CURES. 15
DIVISION I. PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION, AND FOETICIDE. (“REGULATION OF FAMILIES.”) * Spermatocidal Preparations. 23
Facts of Heredity. 25
An Unpublished Report. 28
Foeticide, and injury or death to pregnant women from the use of Proprietary Abortifacients. 28
Some reputed Abortifacients. 29
Lead-poisoning to procure Miscarriage. 30
“Sin that is a Reproach to any People.” 35
Examples of the Sale of Abortifacients. 36
An Abortional Drug manufactured in America. 37
Some results of the “Regulation of Families.” 39
Chivalry to the Unborn. 40
Organised Depravation. 42
Newspapers and Organised Homicide. 43
Church and Racial Decay. 45
How “the Law” regards Foeticide by Drugs. 46
Course of National Suicide. 48
Compare with our Neighbours. 49
example of France 50
Census of France. 51
late Mr. W. E. Gladstone and the Defeat of the Sacred Cause. 52
Social Felo-de-se. 52
Mr. Sydney Webb and the Decline in Vitality. 54
Rapid Spread of the National Carcinoma—Nostrum for its Cure. 55
Anglo-Saxon Decline in America. 56
Racial Decline in England and Wales. 57
Letter from Mr. John B. Trivett. 59
Relation of Abortion to Cancer of the Womb. 59
Another Letter from Mr. J. B. Trivett. 67
Correspondence with the Commonwealth Statistician. 67
Extracts from the Report of the New South Wales Royal Commission upon the Decline of the Birth-rate.* 74
Is Insanity Increasing? 88
DEATH BY DRUGS. 91
DIVISION II. INFANTICIDE AND INFANTILE MORTALITY 91
Systematic Drugging of Children. 94
Carminatives. 98
Child Murder on system. 101
Acetanilide for Babies. 103
Australian Citizens at fl each. 103
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. 104
Mrs. Jackson’s Handbill. (See page 32.) 105
Death from Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. 106
Indecencies of the Daily Press. 106
DIVISION III. INJURY AND DEATH TO THE ADOLESCENT. 109
More Injury and Death from Acetanilid (or Acetanilide). 119
How the finest Home Journal of the World upholds the National Life. 121
His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada on Quack Medicines. 123
Dominion of Canada, and Exposure of Dangerous Frauds. 125
Deaths from “Harmless” Headache Powders. 133
Mortal Danger of a London Surgeon. 133
How to Drug the Public and Dodge the Revenue. 134
Lightning Changes of the Drug-packer. 134
Antikamnia—Changes in Secret Drugs—The Honour of Drug-packers. 135
Danger and Death from Analgesic Drugs. 137
Causes of Headache. 140
Deaths from Mixing of Drugs. 141
Poisoning by Exalgine, or Methylacetanilide. 141
Poisoning by Hypnotic Drugs. 142
“ Collier’s Magazine ” on Liquozone and other Frauds. 143
Deaths from Liquozone. 147
Liquozone. 147
Systematic Treachery. 147
Injury to Health and Morals.—lnsanity and Death from Causes C, D, and E. 149
Drug Habit in Children. 151
Herbalists. 151
Sale of Poisons in London. 151
Great Drug Laboratories of America. 153
DIVISION IV. INJURY AND DEATH TO ADULTS. 157
“ Collier’s Magazine ” on the Great American Fraud. 158
Injury and Death from Hypnotics 162
Injury and Death from various Nostrums. 164
Poisonous Hair-Dyes. 164
Probability of Discovery of Poisoning. 165
Skin Tonic (Ruppert’s). 166
Another Skin Nostrum. 167
From the Klosowski Case. 167
Infatuation for Quackery. 169
Sale of Secret Nostrums in the United States of America. 169
Bureau of Chemistry at Washington. 171
Control by the Custom House. 173
Frauds Denounced by the Washington Bureau of Chemistry. 173
Consumption Cures. 174
Nostrums and Fraudulent Methods of Exploitation. 174
Lost Manhood Restorers. Nervous Debility Cures. 180
Bust Developers. 182
What is done in the dry tree. 182
What is done in the green tree. 182
International Exchange of Knowledge. 184
"Oil of Bitter Almonds”—a Poisonous Flavouring. 186
Poisoning by Aniline Dyes. 186
Cancer Pastes. 187
DRINKS AND DRINK-CURES. 187
“Drink Cures” of White Spirit. 188
Keeley “Gold-cure” for Drink Habit. 189
Drink-Cure Philanthropist. 192
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. 195
Injury and Death from Aloes and other Vegetable Purgatives. 202
Danger and Death from “Gout Pills." 203
Potassium Bromide. 203
Formula and Analyses of Secret Drugs (Potter's “ Materia Medica.”) 204
What the advertisements say of this nostrum. 204
From the New South Wales Royal Commission. 206
Supposed Active Ingredients of Popular “Patent Medicines.” 208
Analyses of Secret Nostrums by Dr. Robert Hutchison. 209
Bile Beans and Dr. Astbury’s Pure Herbal Pills. 211
Bile Beans in British Courts. 212
How the Press “Educates the Masses.” 215
Extract from the “Bile Beans” Pamphlet, just issued in Australia. 217
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, Bile Beans, and their Subsidiary Frauds. 219
Genesis of Bile Beans. 220
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills in Court and Parliament. 228
How to Milk the Great Milch Cow. “Dr. Williams” (that never existed) and the Australian Public. 229
Pink Pills and the Pharmacy Board. 229
Proprietary Cosmetics. 237
Pair of Hair-raising Romancers. 240
Clarke’s Blood Mixture. 246
Mercury and Lead. 246
Injury and Death from Pills with Insoluble Coatings. 249
Methyl Alcohol in Secret Preparations. 250
An Apology for Quackery. 251
Animal Extracts—The Drugs of the Future. 252
Negative Quackery. 252
Cocaine and Morphine Habits. 254
To Show How Little we Know. 254
Cocaine Habit. 255
Morphine Habit. 255
Drug Habit. 256
Authoritative Statements upon the Drug Habit. 257
Drugs of the Future and their Dangers. Potter, “ Materia Medica,” page 127, et seq. 258
Letter from Dr. R. E. Doolittle, relating to certain frauds in Foods. 264
DIVISION V. ADVERTISEMENTS. « Advertising Fraudulent, Dangerous, and Homicidal Preparations. 267
How Blackmail is Levied. 268
Epilepsy Remedies. 271
Advertising and Professional Homicide. 272
Filthy Advertisements. 272
Press and the Secret Drug Trade. 274
Antipodes and Patent Medicines. 277
Pressure upon Parliaments. 277
Puffing of Quackery and Secret Drugs. 278
Efflorescent Quackery. 279
Cat and Dog Worship. 280
Quacks and the Healing Professions. 280
Death of a Hero. 282
“Medicine and the Public.” 284
Oxien, a Cure for Heart-disease, 286
“The Transatlantic Quack.” 286
Expert Opinion upon Quack Medicines. 290
Some Effects of Unrestrained Advertising. 292
Acme of Audacity. 304
Physician and the Nostrum. 310
Queer Advertisements. 315
To Catch Women. 315
Dr. Alabone’s Consumption Cure, The Keeley Gold Cure, and Mr. Stead’s “ Review of Reviews.” 317
Seeking whom They May Devour. 318
Antinomy of Manchesterism. 331
“Doctor” McLaughlin’s Electric Belts. 331
Alcoholic Drugs and Epilepsy. 332
Another Paltry Swindle. 334
Predigested Foods for Infants and Invalids. 334
Fig-packing in Smyrna. 335
Press and Proprietaries. 336
DIVISION VI. LEGISLATION. The Claims of the Drug-packers. 341
Secret-Drug Trade in England. 344
Monopoly of Curative Agents. 345
Secret-Drug Trade in England. 345
Deception as a Working Principle in Commerce. 347
“Patent Medicines" in Great Britain. 347
“Not Only Fraud, but Dangerous Substitution.” 348
Drug Packers and the London Chamber of Commerce upon Australian Legislation. 350
“The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia.” 353
Comments of the “Lancet.” 356
Views of a Prominent Drug-Packer. 356
Ignorance as a Defence. 359
Secret Drug Trade Law. 363
Worst must not be told. 365
Fiscalism and Racial Decline. 366
Harness’ Belts Case. 367
House of Commons and Quack Medicines. 367
Medical Prescriptions. 368
Springs of Action in the United States of America. 369
American Pure Food Act. 370
Extract from the Report of the Medical Officer of Health, City of London, Dr, Wm. Coliingridge.—Year 1904. 374
Inside the Drug Trade. 375
Swindles in Ordinary Trade Alcohols. 376
Other Fakes and Frauds against Public Health. 377
Physicians and Parents deluded by Patent Foods. 378
Synopsis of the legal position of Quack Cures (commonly called “Patent” or Proprietary Medicines or Secret Remedies) in various countries of Europe. 378
British Legislation. 379
Details of the state of the law in Great Britain. 380
Definition of Poison. 382
Munyon’s Kidney Cure. 383
Tax on Medicines. 383
First and Only Prosecution by the British Treasury. 385
Canada. 388
Free Play of Natural Forces. 389
Legislation of the German Empire. 392
Legislation of the Kingdom of Saxony. 406
LEGISLATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE KINGDOM OF SAXONY. 407
BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-MEDICO-POLITICAL COMMITTEE. 413
APPENDIX TO DIVISION VI. STATUTES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 417
Parliament and the Restraint of Immorality. 442
Letter of Doctor Burnett Ham, Queensland Health Commissioner, addressed to the Honourable the Home Secretary, 29th October, 1906. 443
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. CONCLUSIONS. 446
RECOMMENDATIONS. 448
INDEX OF SUBJECTS, 453
INDEX OF NAMES. 464
INDEX OF DRUGS AND NOSTRUMS. 471

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