ALLEGED MISDESCRIPTION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 29 May 1915, Page 5

ALLEGED MISDESCRIPTION

PATENT MEDICINE SELLERS. . PROCEEDED AGAINST.

3T CABI.B—PTiBSg ABSOC.TA.riON— (X>PTKIftH£. (Pveceived Moy 29, 9.20 a.m.> SYDAEX, May 29. The Crown Prosecutor under tfea Pure Food Act proceeded against Elliott Bros. on. tue ground of alleged. misdescription of a -patent mwliSno known as Vitadatio. The Crown Prosecutor relied on a statement in. -». printed pamphlet sold with the mtrt£ cine, seating that it cured Brigbtf* disease, 'hydatids, stricture, osnW consumption, and ringworm ■* Amongst the expert evidence was an analysis by Dr Cooksey, which snowed that Vitadatio contained 2.S per cwt of proof spirit; also salicylic add tannm, gentian sarsaparilla, ami senna or rhubi h '

ai TiP^Lnf al«-' Government medical officer, declared that acbbS nS- « ?> ?nal ysis Vitadatio would not cure Bright's disease, hydatids cancer or consumption. He hSi that, wfth-the XepSg £ c^^uybody merCUr- y ' »° ~ re?a?d cL do+? orr SUpported Dr Pa&ier *W?£ *H dlsea «* mentioned. *or the defence evidence was eiraa Al^^OTt of cures effected i^lySwf dat^J^ 61"' * c Pr°prieto? of VlSt Sr& hls evidenc« said he was at tor fourteen years in New Zoria^l fad had been treated C dysnS* liver and Bright', disease a^SeS" Subsequently an oneroH™ „+ t^" cargill showed he was^nSVhyda^ and^tnmors and a doctor tcfiteJ"' tian a 5 T?i? a ' andS:' the names o£ GertaiAlSs'&&-«?*,., said, had cost him flomft.™S*,i to Pay £6, with-£lO .CMta*" ttffla '