of the laws which the secret nostrum manufacturers are now
endeavoring to prostitute for their own advantage, and the
teaching of the public what these laws were enacted for.

"The secret nostrum business in some of its phases has
assiduously found its way into the medical arts, and physicians,
pharmacists, and manufacturing houses, seem to have forgotten,
to a certain extent, the obligations which they owe to the
public. Medicine, in all its departments, must be practiced in
accord with scientific, and professional requirement, or it will
sink to the level of a commercial business. _The end of medical
practice is service to suffering humanity, not the acquisition
of money._ Money making is a necessary part of the practice of
medical arts, not, however, its chief object. This fact must be
kept in view always. Once lost sight of, and trade competition
substituted for competition in serving the interests of the
sick, medical and pharmacal practice will become an ignoble
scrabble for wealth, in which the sick become victims of
avarice and greed. Better set free a pack of ravening wolves in
a community than to change the end of medical practice to a
commercial one, for physicians and pharmacists would soon
degenerate into quacks and charlatans, and take shameful
advantage of the community for gain."

Where Dr. Stewart speaks of murder he probably refers to the sale of
_abortofacients_.

Dr. Roe Bradner, of Philadelphia, in his report upon alleged cures for
drunkenness before the Society for the Study of Inebriety several years
ago, said:--

"There is a certain other class of so-called remedies, prepared
sometimes by physicians and pharmacists, that do a great deal of
harm. I allude to the 'non-secret proprietaries' that claim to
publish their formulas, _but do not_. One in particular has made
thousands, and likely tens of thousands, of _chloral drunkards_,
dethroned the reason of as many more, besides having killed
outright very many. It is impossible for any one to estimate the
mischief that is being done by such remedies, and the physicians
who recommend them."

Advertising is still the great hindrance in protecting the people from
medical imposters. Professor E. W. Ladd, Pure Food Commissioner of North
Dakota, says on this point:--

"These patent medicines, some of which are of merit, and o