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Dodge City, Kan., April 23, 1907. TO THE EDITOR: —Will you permit a suggestion with regard to the fight against the nostrum industry? Much good has been done by Mr. Bok and Mr. Adams by their exposure of the conscienceless exploitation, by nostrum vendors, of human suffering. It is to be hoped that much reformation has been accomplished in medical ranks by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and by medical writers on nostrums and the sins of physicians in prescribing nostrums. But in my opinion the keynote to success in the antinostrum fight has not been sounded. So long as we cling to the habit of prescribing something, whether the patient needs any drug or not, for the sake of holding his business, so long are we encouraging the delusion that the real value of the physician lies in the drugs that he gives, regardless of the fact that |
