Abstract
PROPRIETARY MEDICINES. A proprietary medicine is a preparation that is owned or controlled by an individual or individuals. This control is held either by a copyright or trade name, or by a patent. Proprietary preparations controlled by copyright or trade names are generally mixtures, and are often secret or semi-secret in character. It is the name of the article that protects it. There is no objection to proprietary medicines per se , if we are to recognize the commercial rights of those who supply us with medicines. The commercializing of the literature relating to our materia medica, however, —which seems to be necessarily associated with proprietary interests—is against a true scientific spirit and is demoralizing, both to pharmacy and to medicine. The ideal proprietaries are those that are made so by the manufacturers attaching their own and not a fanciful name to the preparation. For instance, Squibb's ergot is a proprietary
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