THE LEVELLING UP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LV, Issue 8607, 15 November 1906, Page 7

THE LEVELLING UP.

A Probable Effect of the Commerce Bill.

While, on the one hand, there are people who too readily accept any nostrum offered them, there are, on the other, many who go to the extreme of tabooing every advertised remedy, to be "on the safe side." The interests of the community and the interests of those proprietary remedies which are worthy of a place in the household medicine chest are alike defended by the Commerce BUI.

When the measure becomes law the most significant effect will probably be not the disappearance from the Australian market of so many well-known patent medicines as oi the imitations thereof. Genuine medical preparations have hitherto been the most unfortunate of commodities at the hands of the imitator, who, having no reputation to make or lose, may with impunity, do injury not only by filching legitimate custom but by casting unmerited stigma on every product which the imitation claims to be the equivalent of.

Many proprietary remedies already furnish particulars of their composition ; prominent among these is California Syrup of Figs. This most desirable and muchimitated modern medicine has not been guilty of empirical claims, or ever made a secret of its ingredients. Doctors the world over have always been furnished with the correct formula on request, and, in every case where such information has been supplied, the result has been increased recommendation of the remedy. California Syrup of Figs contains no podophyllin or other drug of a debilitating character. In fact, its action is so gentle and pleasant that it is largely prescribed for ladies and children.

The excellence of California Syrup of Figs is due, not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known only to the California Fig Syrup Companyprocesses which ensure the qualitative purity and quantitative uniformity essential in a laxative as in all other medicines.