Packaged bees

✍ Scribed by C.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1932
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 214
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(32)90785-6

✦ Synopsis

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B & M Remedy.--A trial which lasted more than three weeks at the Baltimore U. S. District Court terminated by upholding the Federal Food and Drug Administration's allegations regarding the falsity and fraudulency in the labeling of " B & M External Remedy" product of a Boston firm, "B & M External Remedy," a liniment composed essentially of water, turpentine, ammonia, and eggs, was labeled with remedial claims for such serious diseases as tuberculosis, rheumatism, influenza, bronchitis, and pneumonia.

The manufacturer claimed that, although the constituents of his preparation were not at all uncommon, when combined in the particular formula employed, they took on some " mysterious power." He brought to the stand some 20 witnesses who claimed to have been cured or benefited by using the liniment in the treatment of tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza, bronchitis, and other diseases. In return, the prosecution subsequently proved some of the witnesses still to be suffering from the diseases which they claimed the liniment had cured. The Government introduced as witnesses several leading medical authorities, all of whom testified that, according to the consensus of reliable medical opinion, such a product could not possibly have any value in the treatment of the maladies.

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