Abstract

Elsewhere we have quoted the views of the<i>British Medical Journal</i>in regard to "the plague of circulars," and the usurpation of therapeutic teaching by the makers of drugs. It is not a little astonishing, however, to find in the advertising pages of the same issue of that publication the advertisement of the firm and the identical article whose circular drew forth the eloquent comment of our contemporary. Further investigation of its advertising pages suggests that the British Medical Association's journal is not ready to join in the movement to suppress the present evil features of the proprietary trade. In its advertising pages appear advertisements of several products that we are sure would not bear critical investigation. While objecting to the flood of circulars from American pharmacists, our contemporary clearly has no evident objection to the influence of American cash in payment for the advertising of American proprietary remedies, some

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