DEADLY DRUGS

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 7

DEADLY DRUGS

A BLACK SPOT ON PKOGItESS Prince George opened, the British Homoeopathic Congress in London, 'odd in conjunction with the annual assembly oi the British Homoeopathic Society, >and about 2o() Anierican homoeopathic doctors are present.

Dr Dishingtou,. who gave his presidential address on “The Teaching of . Homoeopathy,” said that 'big pharmaceutical chemists filled their post hags with screeds of attractive literature about new drugs whose recommendation was that {hey were the result or much, scientific research. Tbje lineal descendant of {he old apothecary was still the dictator in medicine. The medical man who knew no principle m the art of healing was vacillating and “panicky” in tile lace of distress. “Something must be done,” was the demand, and there cam© to liis hand the alluring advertisement which met his need and gave him the assurance that he was scientific and up to date. There were more deadly drugs taken per head of tile population to-day {hail ever before in the world’s history. Five hundred toms of aspirin were consumed in one year in our country, and to judge from the amount- of expensive advertising of other drugs, this sapping of the vitality of race was a more than ordinarily profitable business. Deaths were common from overdoses or from errors in dispensing, yet we were complacent. Today we were living in a dark flour, and this drug consuming was the dark spo{ on the fair page of t'ventiCTn century progress.