MEDICINE FAKES IN INDIA
OIL FOR INSULIN. BOMBAY June 24. An extraordinary craze among the people of India for patent medicines has led to equally extraordinary activities in the underworld of the medicine market. Faked substitutes of all kinds are being discovered. Chcaji oil. for instance, has been sold as insulin, and tartaric acid masquerades as fruit salts. Imitations of English lace cream appear on the maiket at the rate id' one every six weeks.
The insulin fraud was discovered just In time to prevent serious consequences for a patient suffering from diabetes. A doctor was about to give an injection from a phial hearing an insulin label and the name of a leading London firm. Not liking the look of the liquid, however, he refused to use it. On tost It proved to he common oil.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1935, Page 10
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